(;6 ) thereforewe may fife them. His Approbation is proved , r. By his owning and citing Davids Pfalms, Luk.z0.42. & 24.44. &c. 2. By his ufir.g a Hymn with his Difciples at the Pafsover or Eucharill, which we have great reafon to think was a form that had been of ufe among theJews. But however, if Chrift had newly then com- poled ir, yet was it a form to his_Difciples. 3. By his thrice re- peating the fatire words in his own prayer. 4. By his teaching his Difciples a form, as ?ohn taught his. 5. By his never ex- prefling the leali difl ke of the old Jewifh_-, cuftom of ufing forms : nor doth Scripture anywhere repeal it or forbid it. 6. The Apoftlescommand the ufe of Pfalms and Hymns, which cannot be ordinary in the Church without forms. All this pro_ vetbChrifts Approbation. Argum. 6. Argum. 6. If it be lawfulfor the people to safe a filmed formof words in publike prayer, then is it in it felf lawfulfor the Paflors but it is lawful for the people : for the Pallors prayer ( which they mutt pray over with him, and not only hear it) is a hinted form to them, even as much as if he had learnt it out of aBook. They are to follow him inhis method and words, as if it werea Bookprayer. Argum. 7. Argum. 7. It is lawful to ufe a form in Preaching: therefore a 9inted Liturgy is lawful. 1. Becaufe preaching is a part of that Liturgy. 2. Because the reafon is the fame for prayer, as for that in the main. Now that ftudyed formed Sermons are lawful, is focommonly granted, that it shall fave me the labour of proving it (whichwere ease. ) Argum. 8. That which hath been the prat-lice of the Church in Scripture times, anddown to this day, and is yet the prat1ice of almoft all the Churches of Chri fl onearth, is not like to be unlaib- fial : but fuch is theAre .of f me ffinted forms of publicly, fervice therefore, &c. That it was fo in theJews Church, and approved by Chrifl, I have (hewed. That it hath been of antient ufe in theChurch finceChrih,and is at this day in ufe in Africk,sA[a, Europe, even among theReformed Churches in France, Holland, Geneva, &c. is fo well known, that I think I need not hand to prove it: yea thofe few that feem to difufe it, do yet ufe it, in Pfalms, and other parts of worship, ofwhich moreanon. Argum. 8. Prop,
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