Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BX5151 .B3 1659

( 365) Prop. 2. A Stinted Liturgy in fosse parts of publick holy fer- Prop, ze vice is ordinarily neceirtry. This Propoficion is to beproved by inilances,and the proof of the parts. The parts where a let form is ufually neceffary, T shall enumerate: de firing you by the way tounderhand, a. That I fpeak not of an Abfolute Neceffity ad finer, as if no other could be accepted ; but a Neceffity of Duty : it ought to be done, as the bell way. 2. That I fay but [ ordinarily J as excepting forne unufual cafes. I . The Communication or revealationof thewill of God to the Church by Reading of the Holy scriptures, is part of the publick fervice of God. As Mofes and the Prophets were read every Sabbath day, foby parity of reafon fhauld the Gofpel ;, and Paulrequired the publick reading of his Epift'es, Ad .13. 27. & 15 , 21.2 Cor. 3.15. Luk.1 6.29. c'ol.4.16. 1 Theft 5. 27. Rev.I.3. But this Reading of the Scriptures is the uing of a let form in pablikefervicc. For they are the fame words that we read from day to day, and dually Mull read. 2. The Publick Prayuìng of God by tingingof Palms, is a part of publick worfhip : and a moll excellent parr, not ufually to be omitted. But this part of worfhip is ordinarily to be ufed in a Hinted form : becaufe the gift ofcompoting PI:41ov ex tern- pore without a prepared form, is not ufual in the Church : and if it were fo toone, it is not to the refl that mull ufe this wer- fhip. Had we not Hinted formsof Pfalms, we fhould have ill - favoured work in the Church. 3. Baptifine is ufually to be adminiftred in a form of words : for Chrift hathprefcribed us a form, Matth. 28.19. [ Bapti- zing theniin the Nameof the Father, and of the Son, and of the Rely GGlofp ] I think few fober men will think it ordinarily meet todilute this form. 4. .Theufe of a form in the Confecration and A4minißratiota of the Lords Supper ( though not through the whole acTiion ) is ordinarily moll fit : for Chrift hath left us a form of words, Takeye, Eat ye, &c. ] which are moll exa6t, and fafe, and none can mend.. And Paul reciteth his form, a Cor. I a . Md fanall alterations in the very words of Baptifme, or Delivering the A a a 3 Lords

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