( 367) they that.fcruple formsof Prayer,ufe conflantly forms of Praife of Reading, of Sacraments, &c. 3. The reft are proved fit,eft as aforefaid by the Apoftles generals Rules, r Cor. id.. 26, 40. Let all things be done to Edifying: and Let all thinsbe lane, de- cently and in order. Now in the cafes before mentioned, the Edi- fication of the Church (to fay nothingofOrder) rcquireth the ordinary ufe of forms. Prop. 3. T 11' tho/e parts of publick, worfhip where a firm is Prop. 3 net ofordinarynece f ty, but only Larnfoll, yet may it not only befubmirted to but defred, when the Peace ofthe Church doth accidentally require it. This Propofition needs no proof, but only explication. For he is far from the temper ofa Chriflian that fers fo light by the Peace of the Church, that he would not ufe a Lawful! means for the procurement df when Paul would become all things to a'I men to fave fo,fne,and would eat no flefh,while he livedrather then cft.:nd his weak brother. Put here you muff take there cautions,lefl youmifunderfland thisPropof Lion. I. The Peace ofthe whole Church muff be in our eye,before the peace of a part ; and of great and more confiderable part, rather then ofa frraBer, cateris paribus. 2. It is fùppofed that ( befides the limpie lawfulnefs of the thing) there be allo noother accidental incoñveniencies on the other fide ( that will follow the ufeof a form) that is ofPuff- cient moment to weighdown the argument from the Churches Peace. For when`a thing is only goodor evil, (f' meat,"neccf= firy or finfull,) by Accident, andnotin'it felf, mull confider which fidebath tl e ttzofi weight a act idents;and'acrordinglyma choofeor refit feit. 3.-It is not the fullfiifingofthe humours ofevery'unteafonable expo&ant, or every proud Magiflerial ufurper that is the Peace of the Church, that now we fpeak.of, rf. a few proud men will hold no P,ece with us,unlefs we will ferve God in their nnnecef: fary forms, as if none had wit enough-bit they,toknow in what words theChurches fhould ferve God t and all mutt fpeak but what
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