The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…

VII. That the gift of Prayer being one special qualification for ⟨p. 5⟩the Work of the Ministry bestowed by Christ in order to the edification of his Church, and to be exercised for the profit and benefit thereof according to its various and emergent necessities.

VII. That the gift of Prayer being one special qualification for ⟨p. 5⟩the Work of the Ministery bestowed by Christ in order to the edification of his Church, and to be exercised for the profit and benefit thereof according to its various and emergent necessities.

It is desired that there may be no such Imposition of the Liturgy, as that the exercise of that gift be thereby totally excluded in any part of public worship; and further, that considering the great age of some Ministers, and the infirmities of others, and the variety of several services oft time occurring upon the same day, whereby it may be inexpedient to require every Minister at all times to read the whole; it may be left to the discretion of the Minister to omit it, as occasion shall require, which liberty we find to be allowed even in the first Common Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth.

It is desired that there may be no such Imposition of the Liturgy, as that the exercise of that gift be thereby totally excluded in any part of publick worship; and further, that considering the great age of some Ministers, and the infirmities of others, and the variety of several services oft time occurring upon the same day, whereby it may be inexpedient to require every Minister at all times to read the whole; it may be left to the discretion of the Minister to omit it, as occasion shall require, which liberty we find to be allowed even in the first Common Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth.