A69533:1330
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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Object. 9. But antiquity is for set forms, and therefore Novelty, must not be permitted to exclude them.1
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Answ. 1. Let Scripture be the Rule for deciding this, which is the chief witness of Antiquity: and let the oldest way prevail. 2. Forms were at first introduced in Variety, and not as necessary for the Churches Unity to Agree in one: And they were left to the Pastors Liberty, and none were forced to any forms of other mens composing. When Basil set up his New forms of Psalmody and other Worship, which the Church of Neocaesarea were so offended at, he did not for all that impose it on them, but was content to use it in his Church at Caesarea.
Answ. 1. Let Scripture be the Rule for deciding this, which is the chief witness of Antiquity: and let the oldest way prevail. 2. Forms were at first introduced in Variety, and not as necessary for the Churches Unity to Agree in one: And they were left to the Pastors Liberty, and none were forced to any forms of other mens composing. When Basil set up his New forms of Psalmodie and other Worship, which the Church of Neocaesarea were so offended at, he did not for all that impose it on them, but was content to use it in his Church at Caesarea.
Object. 10.1 No man can now say what is the worship of God among us, because there is no Liturgy, but its mutable as every person pleases.
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