Soo Fore-known Faults are not mine.' when l know before band by their, Common- `Prayer- Book,, what their erretsr in worfhip ù ï and yet joys in it, do 1not [tern to'ápprove it ? Anfw: Do not barely affirrn, but prove, that all fore-known faults of thePaítors wards inpray- er aremins , if I feparate not : How doth fore- knowing them make them mine. Take heed that thus you make not God the greateft finner and the worf being in all the world. For God fore- knowetb all mens fins ; and God is prefent'when they commit them ; and he giveth them all that life arid time and (irength and breath, by which they'do then : and he hath communion with all the prayers Of the faithful in the world, whit faults foever be in the gords or forms: he doth not reje& them for any fuck failings. Will you fay therefore that God approveth or confentet to all thefe`fins I know before hand (as is fail before)that eve- ry man will fin that prayeth ( either by defe& bfdefire, love, faith or fervency', ' or by wan- Bering thoughts, or difordered words, &c.) And know that every erroneousperfpri (commonly) doth rife to put' his errours into his prayers and reaching; But how doth all this make it mine? am bound to hold commúnion` with ill Gods people on 'earth as I have occafion"; not od they arefinners, but as they are Saints And I 'come as to the ,Communion of Saints: And though both they and I'do bring our fins to that 'commu- nion, and 1 fore-know them yet I lament both theirs and mine; and fofar am I from contenting, to them, that they are my griefand 1 beg forgive- 05' both for them and one, ®h}
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