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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. XI.
Before I proceed to the remaining Proposals, I must take leave by the way to speak with an Objection or two of some folks, who are like to be troublesome. That Conceived Prayers in Public Assemblies, are unlawful, I never yet saw proved, and I believe never shall. Neither do I think it any such Novelty as some men imagine. There are several Passages in the Fathers that make it seem very probable, that they made use of Extemporate Conceptions. I will mention a few of them. Illuc suspicientes Christiani manibus expansis, quia innocuis, capite nudo, quia non erubescimus, denique sine monitore, quia de pectoreoramus, precantes sumus omnes. Tertullian in Apologetico, cap. 30. What Tertullian means by ⟨p. 83⟩praying without a Monitor, or Teacher, and by praying out of the heart, unless it be by a habit, by present Conceptions I understand not. Nor do I know how he that prays by a Form can be said to pray without a Teacher. We worship with Supplications according to our ability, [Greek or Hebrew], the One God, &c. Origen contra Celsum, l. 8. And in the same Book, [Greek or Hebrew], according to present given in Ability, which latter words expound the former, [Greek or Hebrew], and makes it appear that their Prayers were Extemporate. To this same sense some understand those words of Justin Martyr. The President as his Ability serves, [Greek or Hebrew], sends up Prayers and Thanksgivings, the People joyfully saying Amen. Apol. 2. cap. 39.
BEfore I proceed to the remaining Proposals, I must take leave by the way to speak with an Objection or two of some folks, who are like to be troublesome. That Conceived Prayers in Publick Assemblies, are unlawful, I never yet saw proved, and I believe never shall. Neither do I think it any such Novelty as some men imagine. There are several Passages in the Fathers that make it seem very probable, that they made use of Extemporate Conceptions. I will mention a few of them. Illuc suspicientes Christiani manibus expansis, quia innocuis, capite nudo, quia non erubescimus, denique sine monitore, quia de pectoreoramus, precantes sumus omnes. Tertullian in Apologetico, cap. 30. What Tertullian means by