A69533:1326
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 10
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1Object. 6. The public Prayers of the Church are they that we must own by our concurrence: His own conceived Prayers are but the Private Prayers of the Minister. Answ. The Minister is a public person, and his prayers publicly made for and in the Church, are as much the Public prayers of that Church as if they were read out of an imposed Book: But indeed when many Churches Agree in a form, that form may so far be called the Common Prayers of all those Churches: but its no more the Public Prayers of any one Church then sudden conceived prayer is. And when there is no form, yet the matter may be the Common Prayer of all Churches.
1Object. 6. The publick Prayers of the Church are they that we must own by our concurrence: His own conceived Prayers are but the Private Prayers of the Minister. Answ. The Minister is a publick person, and his prayers publickly made for and in the Church, are as much the Publick prayers of that Church as if they were read out of an imposed Book: But indeed when many Churches Agree in a form, that form may so far be called the Common Prayers of all those Churches: but its no more the Publick Prayers of any one Church then sudden conceived prayer is. And when there is no form, yet the matter may be the Common Prayer of all Churches.
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1Object. 7. But what confusion will it •ake in the Church if one Congregation shall have a Form, and another none, and every man shall be left to do what he list in Prayer?
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