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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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3ly. Or if he did foreknow them, and by a form of words imposed, all these infirmities might be prevented, his Worship secured, and better performed than now it can be without a form, 1then Christ was not faithful in his House as a Son; that would not provide for a thing necessary in his House. The limitation after a sort necessary, will not serve the turn, but it must reflect upon his honour.
- 1Heb. 3.6.
Could not he have commanded his Apostles to compose one Liturgy that should have served all the Churches in the world? So it had been one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, and one Liturgy, and then that trite, but pitiful reason from Uniformity had been answered; As if that unity Christ requires in his people and worship, could not be preserved, without Uniformity in words and syllables.
Could not he have commanded his Apostles to compose one Liturgy that should have served all the Churches in the world? So it had been one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, and one Liturgy, and then that trite, but pitiful reason from Ʋniformity had been answered; As if that unity Christ requires in his people and worship, could not be preserved, without Uniformity in words and syllables.
3ly. But there are some men, even of your Conformists a few, whose words when they have liberty to use their own gift, are so apt that the Devil himself cannot find a rude or slovenly expression, why must Forms be imposed upon such men?