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A Discourse Concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God. to Which Are Added, Two Admonitions to the Dissenting Inhabitants of the
A Discourse Concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God to Which Are Added Two Admonitions to the Dissenting Inhabitants of the Author:William King Title: A Discourse Concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God. to Which Are Added, Two Admonitions to the Dissenting Inhabitants of the Diocese of Derry, Concerning a Book Lately Published by ... J. Boyse General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origin... more »al. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 8ECT. II. THE PRACTICE OF OUR CHURCH IN READING AND PREACHING THE WORD. These are the rules and examples the scriptures propose to us for feeding the people with the word of life, and their hearing it in public. Let us in the second place compare the practice of our Church with them, and surely no copy can come nearer the original. 1. For first, our ministers are expressly obliged in their ordination, diligently to read all the canonical scriptures of the Old and New Testament unto the people assembled in the Church where they shall be appointed to serve. 2. Our Church has disposed the Holy Scriptures in a certain order, and has appointed four or more chapters to be read every day in the public congregations, by whichmeans all the most edifying parts of the Old Testament are ordered to be read once a year, and the New Testament (except the Revelations) twice in the same time; and some select chapters of the Revelations are appointed on extraordinary occasions. There are indeed some chapters (about one tenth) of the Old Testament, left out of this order. But then it is to be observed, that those which are left out, are either genealogies, names of persons or places, historical repetitions, or some obscure and mystical prophecies in Ezekiel, which are not so proper for an ordinary assembly (for which reason, some part of the Revelations is also left out) yet these are not excluded, thoug...« less