A41330:197
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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Fr. Deb. p 96, 97. urgeth this argument, It is as lawful to use a Form of Prayer in prose, as in verse; but here you do not stick at it, when you can sing David's Psalms translated into English Meter, though the words be mean, uncouth, and the sense often mistaken.
Ans. Where lies the strength of your argument? if in the uncouth words, for this cause, and the sense changed, I have not used the Psalms by Hopkins and Sternbold many years. Others are used generally by the Nonconformists.
Ans. Where lyes the strength of your argument? if in the uncouth words, for this cause, and the sense changed, I have not used the Psalms by Hopkins and Sternbold many years. Others are used generally by the Nonconformists.
2ly, Prayer or praise offered to God in verse, require some art to make true Verse, and fit Rime, suitable to English ears; every one who hath the gift of Prayer, hath not the gift of Poetry.