(38 5 ) fe& goodnefs is fuch as leaves no need of a variety hi kind,) yet is it meet that Minif}ers fhould have a gratefull variety of .Manner, to keep up delight and defire in their people. A fick flotnack cannot take fill the fame Phyfick, nor the fame difh, I know that an ancient prudent man, efpecially the Learned Pallor himfelf, that better comprehendeth what a formofwords contains, can make a much better ufe of forms, then younger Chrillians can do. But I think with all, I am Cure with the generality, (towhom we muff have refpcc°) a conílant form is a certain way to bring die Soul to a cold infenfible formal wor fhip. And on the other fide,ifa form be Conßastly dïfofed,and peo- plc have not fometimes a recitall of the fame, again and again , it may tend to breed a childifh levity, and giddynefs in Religion ; as if it were not the matter, but weer Novelty and variety that did pleafe ; And fo it may alto eafily makeHypo- crites, who flail delude themfelves wich conceits that they delight in God and in his word, when it is but in thefe novelties and varieties of exprefiìon, that they are tickled and delighted ; and their itching ears beingplea fed, they think it proves a work offaving grace on the heart. And therefore to fix Chriflians and make them found, that they grownot wanton in Religion, and be not as children carryed upand down with variety of dourines or ofmodes, I think it would be ufeful to have a moderate lea- fonable ufe of fome forms as to the manner, as well as often to inculcate the fame matter ; Avoiding ílill that conflancy that tends todull their appetites, and make themweary or formal in the work. Reaf. 3. The conßaat ufe of a ßinted Eturgy, or form of Prayer, doth much tend to the remifnefsandnegligence ofthe .Auini- /Pry. When they know that the duty requireth no exercife oftheir invention, and that before the Church they may as well perform it with an unprepared as with a prepared mind, it will firongly tempt them (and prevail too commonly)to negle& the furring upof their gifts, and the preparing of their minds.When they know that before men they may (in Reading a Prayer) come off as well without any regard to their hearts, as with the greatell feriou-fnefs ofdevotiota,we muff expert that moil fhould do accordingly :For we fee that Miniílers are men,and too many Ddd are
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