ABSTRACT

.abfolutely denied, and declared uThat.frat[ts •and thanicfeivings unto God in ' prayer.were only, that fthging which the Scripture requireth. This alfo the generality of the then Church metar bersdid witnefle. l ; : •> r Sol. i . :, Mr; Stucley was not prcfentac this meeting. .. . • . - :J ' • r. Thofe who made this motion yyerekil fome of them; very weak and erronious in their Judgment, v ... • • v ’’ • /■'' •o' . 3. ,7WHen this motion was made* vve were without fome of ’the ordinances, and fo' continued for fome yeares after this, And they .who made;this motion were of a very indifferent Spirit, as to the procureing them, tintill they had fetled themfelves in publique offices. This was fuch a burden unto mee, as that I was very much difl'atiffied*, when as they ^who needed fome to enforme their Iudgments j who made fo litle Reckoning.of the ordinances, ftiould yet bc fo forward after union in Iudgment:Iconceived the worke we had to doe, was to free our felves from that Conftifion in which we were, by getting officers and ordinances. ' ■ , ■* 1 >■ 4. As to Singing of Ffalmcs, It’s true, I did at that time queftionit; which doth admintfter matter of daily humiliation unto me,to confider and remember the darknes of my minde, that hath and continually doth, caufe mee to wander from the way of the ford to the right hand arid