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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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3. Method, phrase and order of speech devised by men, was judged an unlawful invention by Paul, when such wisdom of words in preaching become not the simplicity of the Gospel, 1 Cor. 2. therefore it cannot be said, that method, phrase and order of speech devised by man, was never judged an unlawful invention; and surely method, phrase, order of speech devised, and prescribed by one Congregation to another in prayer, doth as little beseem liberty and purity of the Gospel, as the other in preaching did ill become the simplicity of the Gospel.
3. Method, phrase and order of speech devised by men, was judged an unlawfull invention by Paul, when such wisdom of words in preaching become not the simplicity of the Gospel, 1 Cor. 2. therefore it cannot be said, that method, phrase and order of speech devised by man, was never judged an unlawfull invention; and surely method, phrase, order of speech devised, and prescribed by one Congregation to another in prayer, doth as little beseem liberty and purity of the Gospel, as the other in preaching did ill become the simplicity of the Gospel.
Disc. Set prayer is no strange manner of worship, because in it all things required to the nature of true prayer may be observed.
Answ. This hath been answered before; more goeth to the lawfulness of a prayer then the nature of true prayer; defect in any circumstance, though but in external form, maketh a prayer unlawful.
Answ. This hath been answered before; more goeth to the lawfulnesse of a prayer then the nature of true prayer; defect in any circumstance, though but in externall form, maketh a prayer unlawfull.