184 ofe.,ercifingour onGifts. Minders do it. Abundance of " ung Miniflers are trained up under aged experienced Divines; what if one of thcfe íhould fotnetimes make ufe pf the fame words of prayer , which the aged Minifler ufed the day before ; as finding them fitter than any that he could devife himfelf. Muft he forbear to do better, becaufe he cannör dò fo well, by the ufe ofhis own gifts alone And in Come Ordinances as Baptifm and the Lords fupper, &c. the fame things mull be daily prayed for : And he that thinketh he mu l not frequently (peak the fame things, will quite cor- upt the Ordinance ofChriíf. And he that will imagine that he mull have always newwcrds will at lati have new things, or worfe than nothing. If -then it be meet to ufe often°the fame words , why may not a weak Minder ufe the better cords ofO- thers, when he hath none mealy of hisown that are fofit? Nay is it not the Dutyof fuch to do it ? Every man is bound to do Gods fervice in the bell man- ner that he can (Curfed be the deceiver that bath better inhisflock, and' lringeth that rxhich h cor- rupt ) But to utter prayers and praife to God, in a full, methodicall and congruous manner, and in words fuitable to the Majefly'of the vVor- fhip ofGod , is better ( to the people and to the honour of Religion ) then to do it in a more con- fofed diforderly, broken manner, with barrennéfs and incongruity of fpeech. But this /afl is the heft that many knell Miniflers can do by their own gifts, when t hey mnydo it in the former letter man- ger,bymaking deof the words and gifts of otkert. Th ref&re it is a duty for fuch reìt fafar to ufe o- th,grs
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