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CONTENTS OF VOL. XV.

A DISCOURSE CONCERNING LITURGIES, AND THEIR IMPOSITION.

PREFATORY NOTE BY THE EDITOR

CHAPTER I.

The state of the Judaical church-The liberty given by Christ; 1. From the ar

bitrary impositions of men; 2. From the observances and rites instituted by

Moses-The continuance of their observation, in the patience and forbearance

of God-Difference about them stated-Legal righteousness and legal ceremo-

nies contended for together; the reason of it

CHAPTER II.

The disciples of Christ taken into his own disposal-General things to be observed

about gospel institutions Their number small—Excess of men's inventions-

Things instituted brought into a religious relation by the authority of Christ—

That authority is none other-Suitableness in the matter of institutions, to be

designed to their proper significancy-That discoverable only by infinite wis-

dom-Abilities given by Christ for the administration of all his institutions—

The way whereby it was done, Eph. iv. 7, 8-Several postulata laid down-The

sum of the whole-State of our question in general

CHAPTER III.

Of the Lord's prayer, and what may be concluded from thence as to the invention

and imposition of liturgies in the public worship of God-The liberty whereunto

Christ vindicated and wherein he left his disciples

CHAPTER IV.

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Of the worship of God by the apostles-No liturgies used by them, nor in the

churches of their plantation-Argument from their practice-Reasons pleaded

for the use of liturgies: disabilities of church-officers for gospel administration

to the edification of the church; uniformity in the worship of God-The prac-

tice of the apostles as to these pretences considered-Of other impositions-

The rule given by the apostles-Of the liturgies falsely ascribed unto some of

them

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CHAPTER V.

The practice of the churches in the first three centuries as to forms of public wor-

ship-No set forms of liturgies used by them-The silence of the first writers

concerning them-Some testimonies against them

VOL. XV.

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