Lay not too rnvtch on the words of prayer. 175 be for them or againfl them. Owhat a wonder is it, that hey fo palpable a trick as th's, the Devil ould deceive fo many, and make fuch a ftir and diflurbance in the Church. I know that one party will cry up Order, & the other will cryup Spiritu- ality, andboth will fay that Godmaketh not light of the fmallef matters in religion, nor no more Mutt we : And in this general petition there is force truth. But if nothing could be faid for both their errours, theywould then be no deceits, nor be capable of doing any mifchief. Some things that you contend about , God hath left wholly undetermined and indifferent; And force things in which your brothererreth, his error is fo fmall a fault, as not at all to hinder his acceptance with God, nor with any man that judgeth as God doth. Had you ever underftood, Rom. 14 & 15. you would have underfood all this. It would make a knowingC:hriftian weep be tween indignationand compaffion, to fee in there times, what cenfures and worfe are ufed on both fides, about the wordingof our prayers to God How vile and unfufferable force account them, that will pray in any words which are not Britten dolxn for them? And how unlawful othersaccount it to pray in their impofed forms : fame becaufe they are forms, and force becaufe they ate filch forms ; and feme becaufe that Papifts have ufed them, and force becaufe they are impofed v when God hath given them nocommand, but topray in faith and fervency, according to the Rate of them- felves, and others, and in fuch order as is agree- able to the matter, and in fuch method as he hath given them a Rule and Pattern of But of all quarrels
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