Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

objeaions againfi impfed Forms. 2o1 Obj. But you (aid that it belonged to the PaJ1t . oice tó word his own Sermons and Prayers : There fore prefcribid forms de/troy the Poftors i f ce : And msy not content to fuck 'ufurpations by tyrannical. men. finfw. Fir(l, the Paffor is the mouth ofGod to the people, 84 of the people to God: And he doth word his own Sermons and Prayers; or elfe hit voice couldnot condu& you. Bat if he that is confcious of his own infirmity , do rake the belt of others in wording them, that doth not deftro) his office , but help him in the exercife of it. If a weak Minifler learn a prayer out of the writings of fore abler Divine andufe it in the Pulpit,thii' is no deftroying of his office. Secondly, and if they that fear the effe& of Miniflers weaknefs Ihall force them toufe the words of others, the fpeaker flill maketh theta his own VIordsbefore you joys with him. And if it did hinder the.free exercife of all his office, it dothnot deftroy it. Obj. But he Both it voluntarily , where& the raaknefs óf conceivedprayer is involuntary. An . It is withmore probability faid , that a man is involuntary, in doing that which another compelleth him to do, than that which no man but himfelf only is the author of: It is faid to him that readeth the Liturgy [Do this,or nothing] But no body faith'to an erring , weak, confufed iniller, [ Put inyour errours into your prayers, or pray diforderly or you (hallbe punifhed.] Every Se- paratift, Anabaptin and Antinomian loth too oil- Jingly put his errours into his prayers. Obj. But the Liturgy t i poled 04 the ableft os

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