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A trial of the new-church way in New-England and in old ... by that…A tryall of the nevv-church vvay in New-England and in old ... by that…
A trial of the new-church way in New-England and in old ... by that learned and godly minister of Christ, John Ball of Whitmore ; penned a little before his death and sent over to the New England ministers, anno 1637, as a reply to an answer of theirs in justification of the said positions ... ; now published ... by William Rathband and Simeon Ash.A tryall of the nevv-church vvay in New-England and in old ... by that learned and godly minister of Christ, John Ball of Whitmore ; penned a little before his death and sent over to the New England ministers, anno 1637, as a reply to an answer of theirs in justification of the said positions ... ; now published ... by William Rathband and Simeon Ash.
London: printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons for Thomas Underhill, 1644
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.
2 By stinted and set, you mean such Prayers, as are so imposed upon the Churches and Ministers, as that they are limited to that very form of words expressed in the Book without addition, diminution, or alteration; for that Liturgy and form among you, is in this sense set and stinted.
2 By stinted and set, you mean such Prayers, as are so imposed upon the Churches and Ministers, as that they are limited to that very form of words expressed in the Book without addition, diminution, or alteration; for that Liturgy and forme among you, is in this sense set and stinted.
3 By unlawful, you mean that we looking at that form, as swerving from the Rule; neither dare first practice it our selves, not secondly approve the use of it by others.
3 By unlawfull, you mean that we looking at that form, as swerving from the Rule; neither dare first practice it our selves, not secondly approve the use of it by others.
This being the true state of the question, so far as it appears to us, from the letter. We answer, 1 For our own practice, the Churches here do not use any stinted form of Prayer and set Liturgy, for these and other such Reasons. 1 Because we find no necessity of any stinted Liturgy to be used among us, by virtue of any divine precept. And seeing the Commission of the Apostles limited them, to teach men to observe and do only what Christ did command them in matters of this nature, Math. 28. 20. Who are we and what are our Churches, that we should presume above this Commission? And, we hope, it will not be offensively taken by any godly Brethren, That we stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free in this, as well as in all other things.