A69533:1184
Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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.
The Fourth DISPUTATION: Of a Form of LITURGY: How far it is Necessary, Desirable, or Warrantable; In order to a Peace between the Parties that differ herein, and too uncharitably prosecute their difference. By Richard Baxter.
LONDON, Printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in Kidderminster, Anno Dom. 1658.
LONDON, Printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in Kederminster, Anno Dom. 1658.
Qu. Whether a stinted Liturgy, or form of Worship, be a desirable means for the Peace of these Churches?
Unnecessary prolixity is not so acceptable to the Reader that loves both Truth and time, but that I may take it for granted that you desire me to leave out superfluities in this Dispute. 1. The Etymologists shall be better agreed among themselves of the derivation of [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], before I will trouble you with their judgements. But we are commonly agreed that [Greek or Hebrew] is oft used for any Ministration, but more strictly, and usually for a public Ministration, or any work of public office; and yet more strictly from the Septuagint, Ecclesiastic writers have almost confined it to Holy Ministration, or public service or Worship of God. The several uses of the word in Scripture, and profane and Ecclesiastic Writers, you may find in so many Lexicons at pleasure, that I shall pass by the rest. Bellarmine doth too grossly pretend that when its applied absolutely to holy things, the word is taken always in the New Testament, for a Ministration in