The PRIMATES judgment of the Use of a set Form of Prayer, heretofore declared, and now more fully enlarged, and confirmed; with the concurrence of the Votes of such eminent persons who are so esteemed by the contrary-minded.The PRIMATES judgment of the Vse of a set Form of Prayer, heretofore declared, and now more fully enlarged, and confirmed; with the concurrence of the Votes of such eminent persons who are so esteemed by the contrary-minded.
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The PRIMATES judgment of the Use of a set Form of Prayer, heretofore declared, and now more fully enlarged, and confirmed; with the concurrence of the Votes of such eminent persons who are so esteemed by the contrary-minded.
The PRIMATES judgment of the Vse of a set Form of Prayer, heretofore declared, and now more fully enlarged, and confirmed; with the concurrence of the Votes of such eminent persons who are so esteemed by the contrary-minded.
This Subject hath been so sufficiently discussed and determined by others, that no new thing can be expected from me, only you have here the Judgement and Approbation of this eminent Primate, which being of so great esteem with all ⟨p. 277⟩good men; 'tis possible now upon near an even scale of mens opinions in it, his may be of that weight, as to give satisfaction.
THis Subject hath been so sufficiently discussed and determined by others, that no new thing can be expected from me, onely you have here the Iudgement and Approbation of this eminent Primate, which being of so great esteem with all ⟨p. 277⟩good men; 'tis possible now upon near an even scale of mens opinions in it, his may be of that weight, as to give satisfaction.
First, that the Use of a set Form of Prayer, is not a setting up of any new doctrine, as the Athenians judged of Saint Paul, appears in that 'tis the practise of the Belgic Churches, for which ye have the determination of the Divines of Leiden, Polyander, Rivetus, Wala'us, Thysius; in theira Synopsis Theologiae: And the resolution of Mr. Aims our countryman (who lived and died a Professor of Divinity among them) in his cases of conscience, who saith, 'tis