' of I M A.G 1 N AT I 0 N s. Prayers: firll, againll Saint Pauls Orabo. & me~te, in fetting the people to pray they wote not what; and fo makmg their tl.n1erftanding unfruitful!~ 1 Cor. 14. 14. And againe, againfl: our Sa11iour Chrifl sCaveat (Matth.6. 7 .) in fetting them to goeo'l'erwhole!J{_ofariesandPjalters, as if muchbab– li11g after the beatben mamter, 'lllere /lcceptable to Go o. So likewife, doe. others alfo among us, em: in theirimagi11ations, no leffe,and thateven a. gainltthc fame places. Firll,againfl: OraboJPiritu (1 Cor.14,15.) in the fame verfe, by finding fault with aJet Lithurgie(which they cal!ftinted pr'!)'~ ers) and giving themfelves to imagine prayersat the fame infl:ant: where.' 37 '"':: by it is plaine, they fo occ:upie their mindes, with dc:viiing llill what to fay next, their JPirit if unfruitfnll, no leffe than the others underftanding: Mar.1 3 .11; And both thefe, I theunderftandingof theminde, • and the affi8im of the JPirit are there neceffarily required. And againe, that in llead of 11(of4· ries and a number of prayers, they bring in the Phari[e's imagination of long prayers (that is) aprayer as long as awhole IJ{_ofarie. And this they take to beagreat part of holine./Je ; but indeed it is nothing but the former fuperllition drawne in backward. Jn which,who fo markes them,fhall find, they commit both faults; thatof thePharifoe, in tedioU5lengtb procuring many times nauftam JPiritU5, a dangerous paflion : and cbe other of the Heathen, in fond repetitions, tautologier, inconfequencer, and all the ab.: furdities that may fall into Tuch manner of fpeech. Saint Cyprian faith 1 1 It wM e'ller in CH R 1ST's Cburcb counted anabfurd thing (which fome count their glory) rventilari precer inconditis rvocibU5. The abfurditie whereof would better appeare, if (feeingunderpr'!)'ers here, P{almes,anrl JPirituall fangs are contained, both being parts of invocation) they would have noftinted Pfalmes, but conceive their fangs too,upo~ the prefent out of the Jfirit, andfofingthem. Fortofaytruth, thereisnomorereafon for the _one, than for the other. But GoDs Church hathever had, as a forme ~f doClrine,both of fait/, in the [reed, and of life, in theVecalogue i fo ofprayer too. Which, fromABs tp. the F~thers in all ages have calle~ aLithurgie,or fe~)l_ice of Goo~ · Thefe are: ofmany imaginations,fome (et up andmagnifiedbyforrie; and by others- adored and JIJorjhipped, under the names of the I Apoftle'~ VoClrine, 2 Go'l!ernment, >Sacraments, and 4 rprayers. Saint Steplmt telleth us (but of thefifth of Amos) that if wee doe thus make to our [elves, Tabernacles andfigur~s to 'lllorfhip them, our punifh~ ment fhall bee to bee carryed away beyond tBabylolf (ACls 7 ·43.) Andgood rea· fon; forthefe idle phanfies, are not from CIJYijl's Church,fromSim; bua from tBabylonthey came, and if we delight in them, thither !hall wee bc:e carryed. . . And fure, weare in agoodway thitherward : foxof :Babel 1 SaintAu:l --· - D dddd · - guflin~
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