OiPaioitt againft Forms. children , yet not up,n aged C'bri(fians. eAnf ;. Aged perfons have too manyof them` as much need of fuch forms .as children. Age maketh not the difference : Vie are fain to teach many aged perfons forms of Catechifm as well as children ; Why not therefore forms of pray er? Obj. But it is not lamrul to irnpefeforms pnblikely on ohale Congregations of Believers, 4nfo. All fe&s in the world do it. I never heard any Separatiff or Anabaptifl: Or any other publike Minifler, but he impofed a form of prayer i upon all the Congregation. Ne s void of coin mon fenfe that t:inketh that his extemporary prayer isnot as truly a form to all the people, as Zit had been written in a book, The order and words arenot of your own invention, but invented by another to your hand ; and impofed upon you to ufe For I hope you come together to prays and not to hear a prayer only. But the diffe- rence is, Firlh, that one impofeth every day a near form on you, and the other impofeth every day the fame : Secondly, And that one telleth you not what words you shall pray in, . before you hear them ; and the other writeth them down for you to knot/ r before hand. For my part I Won- der why written or unwritten, long-premedita- ted or fuddenly expreffed prayers fhould be ta- ken for unlawful. But however do not think the difference to lid where it doth not For doubt- tefs to the people, they are bothformes,' and both impofed, though impofedby the fame perfou and authority. Obj. Tait at .14 you have no prooffor impofing P 2 ft rrn 179
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