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The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in…
The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1700
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2 The two Evangelists in their Reciting that Prayer have not the same words. Whence we conclude that it was given only as a Platform or Directory for Prayer, and not as a Form which we may not vary from. In Luke there is no Amen concluding the Prayer nor any Doxology, besides the words both in the fourth and in the fifth Petition are not just the same words with those in Matthew. N•w if the meaning of Pray after this manner, and of when you pray, say, is, that we are in duty bound to use those words and syllables as a Form, whose Form must we follow? whether that of Matthew, which is part of Christ's Sermon on the Mount? or that in Luke which was taught the Disciples in another place, and on another occasion, near upon a year and half after the Former? Dr. Lightfoot (d)tells us that the Jews concluded their Prayers in Synagogues, and private Houses with saying Amen; but that they never said Amen in the Temple, but instead thereof, they concluded ⟨p. 121⟩with saying these Words, Blessed •e Name of the Glory of his Kingdom forever and ever. I remember a Jewish Rabbi says that those words were the usual Prayer of their Father Jacob, but the Doctor thinks that the Doxology is omitted in Luke, and added in Matthew, to instruct us that we should use this Form, both in Public and in Private. Yet this Answers not the Question, which of these Forms is to be used; which of them in Public, and which in Priva••? If we must kee• exactly to the Jewish mode of worship, the Form in Matthew must not be used in […] Cathedral which answers to the Temple, because it concludes with Amen. Nor must the ••rm in Luke, because it wants the […], which is peculiar to the Temple. The Gospel does not require nor approve o• Indai•ing in Christians.
2 The two Evangelists in their Reciting that Prayer have not the same words. Whence we conclude that it was given only as a Platform or Directory for Prayer, and not as a Form which we may not vary from. In Luke there is no Amen concluding the Prayer nor any Doxology, besides the words both in the fourth and in the fifth Petition are not just the same words with those in Matthew. Nw if the meaning of Pray after this manner, and of when you pray, say, is, that we are in duty bound to use those words and syllables as a Form, whose Form must we follow? whether that of Matthew, which is part of Christ's Sermon on the Mount? or that in Luke which was taught the Disciples in another place, and on another occasion, near upon a year and half after the Former? Dr. Lightfoot