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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.
Now if the question be of joining in prayer with, and when that whole Liturgy is used, or where that which is used, is read by an unable and ungodly Minister, we then see not how it can be lawful to join in prayer in such cases; For
Now if the question be of joyning in prayer with, and when that whole Liturgie is used, or where that which is used, is read by an unable and ungodly Minister, we then see not how it can be lawfull to joyne in prayer in such cases; For
1 The prayers of the Minister are not his private prayers, but the public prayers of the whole assembly, whose mouth he is to God. And when the prayers offered up by the Minister, as a living holy, and acceptable service to God, are not through humane frailty, but otherwise for matter and manner corrupt, we see not what warrant any one hath to join with such prayers, Mal. 1. 13, 14.
1 The prayers of the Minister are not his private prayers, but the publike prayers of the whole assembly, whose mouth he is to God. And when the prayers offered up by the Minister, as a living holy, and acceptable service to God, are not through humane frailty, but otherwise for matter and manner corrupt, wee see not what warrant any one hath to joyne with such prayers, Mal. 1. 13, 14.
2 When men join therein with an insufficient Ministry, they do not only countenance them in their place and office, whom the Lord hath rejected from being his Priests. Hos. 4. 6. but also set up those Idols and means of worship to edify themselves by, which God never appointed in his holy word Ezeck. 11. 17.