A69533:1217
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
Qu. Whether a stinted Liturgy, or form of Worship, be a desirable m… › Proposition 1
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Argum. 4. It is lawful to pray to God in the set words that we find in Scripture: 1but so to pray (in the set words of Scripture) is a form; therefore a form is Lawful.
- 1Argum. 4.
I do not here plead example, as in the last Argument, but the Lawfulness of praying in Scripture words. They that deny this, must be so singular and unreasonable, as that there is no need of my confutation for the manifesting of their error. And that it is to us a set form if we take it out of Scripture, as well as if we compose it, or take it out of another Book, is past all question. A multitude of the prayers of holy men are left on record in the Scripture, beside those that were the prescribed forms of those times: He that will but turn to his Concordance to the word [O Lord] and then to all the cited Texts, shall find many score, if not hundred Texts that recite the prayers of the Saints; which when we use, we use a form, which we there find written.
Argum. 5. Christ hath left us his Approbation of such forms: ⟨p. 364⟩1therefore we may use them.
- 1Argum. 5.