praying from a habit. ing fpokenof it at large elfewhere when I hid opportunity, Ì íhall nowonly anfvver the c®n -. trary extreme. Obj. Where bath God given any risenpower topre_ fcribe and impfe formsfor others?.or commanded others to obey them ? nfob Fiat , where ever he bath given any mower to teach their,inferiours to pray, who cannot do it in a better way. He hath given Parents this power where he bath bid them, Bring up their Children in the nurture, and admonition. of the Lord Ìs it not by the Law of nature, the Parents duty to reach their children to pray ? And is not the learning Ofthe words hrfi,proitable to their learn- ing of the fence ? lvf ay theynot teach theirChit. Aren the Lords Prayer or a Pfalna, though it be . Fort ? And why not then other words vwhich are agreeable to their State ? And he that taught his own Difciples a Form and Rule of Prayer, and telleth us that fo fohn taught his Difciple.t, and faith to his ApoflIes, As my FatherPent me, fo fend 1 you ;, by making themTeachers tohis Church, did allow them to, teach either by forms or without, as he caufe required. All the Scripture is . now to. Preachers, a form ofTeaching: And when we read a Chapter, we read a prefcribed form of DoEirine/ And it hall many forms of prayer and praife , and forms ofBaptizing & adminiJiring the Lords Supper" If you fay, that the Apofiles had an infallible. fpirit, .I anfwer,, True And that proveth that that their Dotrine was more infallible than other wens : but not that they only and not other met may teach by the way of forms. All theBooksof .erl.ons nowwritten are fpmany prfcribeAwords;,
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