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A63653 An apology for authorized and set forms of litvrgie against the pretence of the spirit 1. for ex tempore prayer : 2. formes of private composition. Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. 1649 (1649) Wing T289; ESTC R7631 60,949 100

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to the Directory be charged with unnecessary length yet we see that most of these men they that are most eminent or would be thought so make their Prayers longer and will not lose the benefits which their credit gets and they by their credit for making their Prayers Adde this that there is no promise in Scripture that sect. 141 he who prayes ex tempore shall be heard the better or that he shall be assisted at all to such purposes and therefore to innovate in so high a matter without a warrant to command us or a Promise to warrant us is no better then vanity in the thing and presumption in the person He therefore that considers that this way of Prayer is without all manner of precedent in the Primitive Church against the example of all famous Churches in all Christendome in the whole descent of XV Ages without all command or warrant of Scripture that it is unreasonable in the nature of the thing against prudence and the best wisdome of humanity because it is without Deliberation that it is innovation in a high degree without that authority which is truly and by inherent and Ancient right to command prescribe to us in external Formes of Worship that it is much to the disgrace of the first Reformers of our Religion that it gives encouragement to the Church of Rome to quarrell with some reason and more pretence against our Reformation as being by the Directory confessed to have been done in much blindnesse and therefore might erre in the excesse as well as in the defect throwing out too much as casting off too little which is the more likely because they wanted No Zeal to carry them far enough He that considers the universall difformity of publick Worship and the no means of Union no Symbol of publick Communion being publickly consigned that all Heresies may with the same authority be brought into our Prayers and offered to God in the behalf of the people with the same authority that any truth may all the particular matter of our Prayers being left to the choice of all men of all perswasions and then observes that actually there are in many places Heresie and Blasphemy and Impertinency and illiterate Rudenesses put into the Devotion of the most solemne Dayes and the most publick Meetings and then lastly that there are diverse parts of Lyturgie for which no provision at all is made in the Directory and the very administration of the Sacraments let so loosely that if there be any thing essentiall in the Formes of Sacraments the Sacrament may become ineffectuall for want of due Words and due Administration I say he that considers all these things and many more he may consider will finde that particular men are not fit to be intrusted to offer in Publike with their private Spirit to God for the people in such Solemnities in matters of so great concernment where the Honour of God the benefit of the People the interest of Kingdomes the being of a Church the unity of Mindes the conformity of Practise the truth of Perswasion and the salvation of Souls are so much concerned as they are in the publick Prayers of a whole nationall Church An unlearned man is not to be trusted and a Wise man dare not trust himselfe he that is ignorant cannot he that is knowing will not FINIS Quest 1. Isocrat in Panathen Eccles. 5. 2. Alex. ab Alex. l. 2. c. 14. Idem l. 4. c. 17. Ibidem In vita Proaeresii Ephes. 4. 12. Ephes. 2. 8. 1 Cor. 12. 9. 2 Cor. 4. 13. Epist. Iud v. 20 1 Tim. 4. 14. 2 Tim. 1. 6. So as that hereby they become not slothfull and negligent in stirring up the gifts of Christ in them But that each one by meditation by taking heed c. may be carefull to furnish his heart and tongue with further or other materials c. Preface to the Directory Rom. 8. 26. * Eph. 5. 18 19. * Col. 3. 16. Vid. Act. 19. 21. 16. 7 8 9 10. Etiam Veteres Prophetae disposuerunt se ad respondendum propheticè Et vaticinia admoto plectro aut hausto calice dederunt Gen. 44. 5. Scyphus quem furati estis ipse est in quo Dominus meus bibit in quo augurari solet Dixit Oeconomus Iosephi Et afferte psalterium Dixit Eliseus 2 Reg. 3. 15. Domi●●on interrogaturus Vid. Erasmi Epist. ad Jo. Eckium Epist. 1. 20. i Cor. 7. a Homil. 16. in Numer b Lib. 5. contr. eunom. c. penult c Lib. 8. in Lucā c. 16. Sunt ne mei sunt ne tui imo sunt gemitus Ecclesiae aliquando in me aliquando in te August eodem modo quo S. August dixit Deo Conqueror tibi Domine lachrymis Jesu Christi de quo dictum est Heb. 5. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} De extemporali dicendi facultate Quintil. l. 10. c. 7. Quest 2. 1 Cor. 12. 7. Quintil. dial de Oratorib Quintil 1 Cor. 14 18. Quintilian * Quale ect illud apud Tertull de privatìs Christianorum precibus non quidem ab alio dictatis sed à Scripturarum fontibus derivatis Illuc suspicientes Christiani manibus expansis quia innocui capite nudo quia non erubescimus denique sine monitore quia de pectore oramus pro omnibus Imperatoribas vitam illis prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum quaecunque hominis Caesaris vota sunt 1 Cor. 4. 1. Gen. 20. 7. Act● 6. 4. 2 Chron. 29. 30 * Mat. 5. 1. Mat. 6. 9. Luke 11. 2. Proaeres ap. Eunapium Gal. 3. 2. Vid. Scalig. de emend. tempor de Judaeor magn. Allelujah * Imò totus Canon consecrationis tam similis est ferè idem in verbis apud Graecos Latinos Arabas Armenios Syros Egyptios AEthiopas ut nisi à communi fonte qui nisi Apostolorum non est manare non potuerit Unde intelligi datur quia multum erat ut in Epistolâ totum illum agendi ordinem insinuaret quem Vniversa per orbem servat Ecclesia ab ipso ordinatum esse quod nulla morum diversitate variatur S. Aug. ep. 118. Greg. l. 7. cp. 63. Hier. lib. contr. Pelag. * Eligo in his verbis hoc intelligere quod omnis vel pene omnis frequentat Ecclesia ut precationes accipiamus dictas quos facimus in celebratione Sacramentorum antequam illud quod est in Domini mensâ incipiat benedici orationes cum benedicitur ad distribuendum comminuitur quam totam orationem pene omnis Ecclesia Dominica oratione concludit 8. Aug. cp. 59. q. 5. ad illud Pauli Obsecro primum omnium fieri obsecrationes Col. 3. 16. Epist. 119. c. 18. In theophrast. charact Ap. Euseb 1. 7. c. 24. Et Walafr Strab. c. 25. de reb. Eccles. Apoc. 15. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Hesych vide S. August ep. 59 q. 5. in hunc locum descripsi verba ad §. 86. ut quisque de Scripturis sanctis vel de proprio ingenio potest provocatur in medium Deo canere Tertull. Apolog 1 Cor. 14. Horat. Epist. l. 2. cp. 1. Epist. ad Antiochen memorantur etiam in 25 Canone Apostolorum * De proprio ingeuio de pectore sine monitore we finde once in Tertullian Altare Damas cenum S. Cyprian op. 27 1 Tim. 2. 5. Seneca l. 5. ep. 40 Quintil. lib. 10. cap. 7. Plin. Panegyr Trajan dictum Quintilian de extemporal facult. l. 10. c. 7. Quint l. 10. c. 7. Idem ibid. Lucian Rhetor praecept {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Quint l. 10. 7.