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A modest and clear answer to Mr. Ball's discourse of set forms of prayer.…A modest and cleer ansvver to Mr. Ball's discourse of set formes of prayer.…
A modest and clear answer to Mr. Ball's discourse of set forms of prayer. Written by the reverend and learned John Cotton, B.D. and teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in New-England. Published for the benefit of those who desire satisfaction in that pointA modest and cleer ansvver to Mr. Ball's discourse of set formes of prayer. Written by the reverend and learned John Cotton, B.D. and teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in New-England. Published for the benefit of those who desire satisfaction in that point
London: printed for H. Overton, 1642
ADVERTISEMENTS UPON The Discourse of set-forms of PRAYER. › Chapter 1: The State of the Question.
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2. We conceive it also to be unlawful to bring in ordinarily any other Books, into the public worship of God, in the Church, besides the Book of God, and therefore do see no more warrant to read out of a Prayer Book, the public Prayers of a Church: then out of a book of Homilies to ⟨p. 12⟩read the public Sermons of the Ministers of the Church.
2. We conceive it also to be unlawfull to bring in ordinarily any other Books, into the publique worship of God, in the Church, besides the Book of God, and therefore do see no more warrant to read out of a Prayer Book, the publique Prayers of a Church: then out of a book of Homilyes to ⟨p. 12⟩read the publique Sermons of the Ministers of the Church.
3. We account it alike (if not more unlawful) for Ancestors to prescribe or enjoin set forms of Prayers to their posterity, or for one Church to prescribe set forms of Prayer unto another.
3. We account it alike (if not more unlawfull) for Ancestors to prescribe or injoyn set forms of Prayers to their posterity, or for one Church to prescribe set forms of Prayer unto another.
4. We hold it in like manner unlawful, for one Church to receive such set forms of Prayer from another, and to use them for their own Prayers.
4. We hold it in like manner unlawfull, for one Church to receive such set forms of Prayer from another, and to use them for their own Prayers.