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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.
It is true, the people among us separate from our form of prayer or liturgy, but the reason hereof is because it is stinted, not because this or that or ours in particular.
It is true, the people among us separate from our forme of prayer or liturgy, but the reason hereof is because it is stinted, not because this or that or ours in particular.
You confess you want not some brethren among you who look at all set forms of Prayer invented by one of another age or congregation, and prescribed to their brethren, to be read out of a book for the prayers of the Church, as Images and Imaginations of man forbidden in the second Commandment, and that the lawfulness of Liturgies, and set forms is questioned and doubted of by many faithful servants of God such also as come over occasionally, who withdraw themselves from the Sacraments in the congregation, do it on this pretence, that a stinted Liturgy is a humane invention. And if we examine the reasons brought against stinted forms and Liturgies, we shall find them to strike at all forms and Liturgies though devised by men of the same age and congregation, and to be used but now and then, or but once on set purpose, and that either in public or in private, as elsewhere we may have occasion to show.
You confesse you want not some brethren among you who look at all set formes of Prayer invented by one of another age or congregation, and prescribed to their brethren, to be read out of a booke for the prayers of the Church, as Images and Imaginations of man forbidden in the second Commandement, and that the lawfulnesse of Liturgies, and set formes is questioned and doubted of by many faithfull servants of God such also as come over occasionally, who withdraw themselvs from the Sacraments in the congregation, doe it on this pretence, that a stinted Liturgie is a humane invention. And if we examine the reasons brought against stinted formes and Liturgies, we shall finde them to strike at all formes and Liturgies though devised by men of the same age and congregation, and to be used but now and then, or but once on set purpose, and that either in publike or in private, as elsewhere we may have occasion to shew.