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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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If the Jews had Prayer Books of Humane Composure in our Saviours Time, (as our Liturgical men are persuaded) it is too much boldness to Conjecture that the Lord borrowed the Petitions in the Lords prayer from them. What though Grotius, (*)and others find Expressions like those, in Jews Prayer Books? It does not necessarily follow that they were taken from thence. Dr. Lightfoot ⟨p. 131⟩(n)chargeth the Jews with Fi••hing out of the Gospel, particularly that they have Stolen those words, Thy Kingdom come, and those, Lead us not into Temptation, and inserted them into their Liturgies This seem• more probable, then that the Lord should take […] Prayer out of their Service Books. It was counted Blasphemy in Celsus, when he affirmed that Christ borrowed many of his Divine Notions out of Plato Mr. Boise mentions an horrid Assertion of Dr. Comber's in his pretend•d Answer to Mr. Clarkson's unanswerable discourse of Liturgies, viz. That our Saviour was so afraid of Innovation as to take every Sentence of the Lords prayer out of the Jewish Forms then in use. In that degenerate Age was he afraid to teach any thing that would seem New to them! How then did some who heard him Preach, say, What new Doctrine is this? Mar. 1.27. Was the Lord who did so ofte• reprove them for their Formality in Worship, Afraid of Innovation if they should change their Vain Conversation received by Tradition from their Fathers? Was tha• admirable Directory for prayer which none but he who is the Wisdom o• G•d could be the Author of, all borrowed out of Jewish Common Prayer-Books, devised by no man knows who? Credat Judaeus Apella.
If the Jews had Prayer Books of Humane Composure in our Saviours Time, (as our Liturgical men are perswaded) it is too much boldness to Conjecture that the Lord borrowed the Petitions in the Lords prayer from them. What though Grotius,