A69533:1295
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 9
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.
1. It should impose no doubtful or unnecessary ceremonies, ⟨p. 381⟩(of which I shall speak by it self in the next Disputation.) 2. It should not restrain men needlessly in things indifferent, by determining of mutable circumstances, as time, place, gesture, vestures, words, &c. (Of which also in the next.) 3. It should not make those things to be of general indispensable immutable necessity, that are but sometimes necessary, or meet; but Pastors should have their Liberty to vary them as there is occasion. 4. Much less should any thing Materially dubious and uncertain be put in.
1. It should impose no doubtfull or unnecessary ceremonies, ⟨p. 381⟩(of which I shall speak by it self in the next Disputation.) 2. It should not restrain men needlesly in things indifferent, by determining of mutable circumstances, as time, place, gesture, vestures, words, &c. (Of which also in the next.) 3. It should not make those things to be of general indispensable immutable necessity, that are but sometimes necessary, or meet; but Pastors should have their Liberty to vary them as there is occasion. 4. Much less should any thing Materially dubious and uncertain be put in.