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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
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Disc. Preaching is commanded of God; so is interpretation of Scripture, but phrase and method of Interpretation is of men: The matter of the Scripture is the immediate Word of God, but the Word and phrase, which are Vessels to convey this truth to us (I speak of Translations not of the Original Text) are humane and not of God, by immediate inspiration, God commandeth us to call upon him, both in public and private, but the words in which we express our desires, are our own, both in conceived and stinted Prayer.
Disc. Preaching is commanded of God; so is interpretation of Scripture, but phrase and method of Interpretation is of men: The matter of the Scripture is the immediate Word of God, but the Word and phrase, which are Vessels to convey this truth to us (I speak of Translations not of the Originall Text) are humane and not of God, by immediate inspiration, God commandeth us to call upon him, both in publique and private, but the words in which we expresse our desires, are our own, both in conceived and stinted Prayer.
Answ. It is true preaching of the Word and the Interpretation of the Word are of God, but the phrase and Method is of men, yet so of men as they have commandment and warrant from God, to preach and interpret the Word: and not in what phrase and Method please themselves: nor in such words as mans wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, 1 Cor. 2.13. Nor so from men as that the men of one Church may devise a set form thereof, and bind all men, as well of other Churches as ⟨p. 25⟩their own, to this or that manner of phrase, or Method, the like is to be said of prayer also.
Answ. It is true preaching of the Word and the Interpretation of the Word are of God, but the phrase and Method is of men, yet so of men as they have commandement and warrant from God, to preach and interpret the Word: and not in what phrase and Method please themselves: nor in such words as mans wisdome teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth,