(42Z ) a multitude of Prayers confiflingbut of a fentence, or two at tnoft : And it feemeth to be tautologie and vain repetition to repeat over the fame word fo oft : and a taking of Gods name in vain, or too unreverently, to begin with bis Titles an4 ./Attributes, and end withhis name again, and the merits orfake of(hrift, and this at almoft every fentence : as ifwe had done withhim, andwere taking our leave, and had forgot-fomewhat that called us to begin again ; and thus we begin and end and begin and end again, it maybe twenty times together. 2. But the enforcing impofition ofthefePrayers, is molt to be condemn? ed ; ofwhich I have fpoken, in the former Difputation. But for my part, I cenfare none that nfe them, nor take them to be therefore men ofanother Religion or worfhip : It is but a modal difference in the fame worfhip. g. 64. TheEmperor Conftamine was very much for Liberty for Diffenters, and againft perfecutionof them, upon tolerable differences: yet he himfelfwas wont to write Prayers and Orati- ons or Sermons ofhis own making(Ersfeb. in vita Confiant. 1. 4. c. 55. & 32. cr 29.) and readeth fomecommon prayers him- felfto theCongregation in his houle, c. 17. (For he made his houle a Church, and preached in it ordinarily himfelf, though he was both a Lay -man, and unbaptized,; His fermon about Chriftianity to the Clergie is published by Eufebius; and he preached a funeral Oration about the Immortality of the foul in his ordinarypreaching place, a little before his death : Eufcb. ib. c. 55. & c. 29. &c. 17.) He giveth his foldiers a form of Prayer, ib. c. 2o. commanding them that were Chriflians to ob lerve the Lords Day, and fpend it in holyexercifes, and not to labour on that day, (ib. c. 18. 19.23.) and allo to honour the Holy dales confecrated to the Martyrs, (c. 23.) that is, to their memorial. Andcommanding the very Heathen foldiers to pray as they could, though not in the Church but in the fields: together. And innone of chis dare [condemn him. g- 65. The fumm of all that I have faid,is this ; that Man .essay determine of modes and circumftances of worfhip, Necifar) andCommanded in genere, but not determinedby God in. fpecie. Bat tomakenew. wor.lhip.ordinances, or inflitute Sacraments, or .Sacramentalfigns, er any thing elfe, for which in genere he hash .tocosmrmi ton, this islimply srnlawfoll. §,66
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