en.---._m_.w 8d of defeetive iìtsirgicr. difordered or defeóive form, I lhalI take it for myduty then to ufe it. Becaufe it is more to the Churches edification. In a word , God bath bound all h:s Miniflers to ufe all their gifts to the Churches greaten edification : But w ufe a more defeElive fcrm,with liberty toufe my belt gifts alfo, and toexercife my Miniftry publickly to all is more to the Chur- ches edification than to ufe my own gifts only a few dAys in a corner, and then to lie in pri- fon andufe them no more. Z hough no man mun of choife prefer the lefs congruous before the more congruous , when he is free ; ( which I confefs is a fin) yet it is a duty to prefer a lefr congrtioue order before none, or before a better for a day, with a reftraint of that and all our Mie. nifiery hereafter. For any part I have often truly profeffed, that'I look at many Liturgies which I have read as I do at the prayers of force honer men, who ufe little method, nor very meet words and often tofs Gods name through weaknefs; who put that lafi which íhould be firfl, & that firfl whichfhoutd be lafi,but yet thematter is bond' & good.I would not prefer filch a man in a Congregation, before an abler man, who will (peak more compofedly & agreeable to the matter : But yet I would not be fopeevilh,as utterly to refute to joyn with fuch a one. But as God dothnot rejeet his prayers notwithflanding all his weaknefs, no more would I. And I had rather have fuch prayers, than none atall. O that men would difcern what is the true worth of prayer ? and how little God is taken with the Oratory ofthem, in comparifon of the faith
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