A short disputation by Baxter on how the use set prayers is a form of negligence.
Baxter’s disputation on whether it is lawful to use set forms of prayer
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- ReferenceGB 123 DWL/RB/1/79
- Former ReferenceGB 123 Treatises iii.61(a)
- Dates of Creation8 December 1653
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- Physical Descriptionff1-2, 330 x 250 mm.
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Note
This paper shows that the debate about the use of set ‘formes’ extended back a long way from John Owen and the 1680s. Baxter writes that using a set form of words in prayer may arise when men ‘disable themselves by negligence, worldlyness, carnall affections, gracelessness, not watching their hearts, and walking close with God, whereby they might obtain a holy skill, and have fresh matter, affection and occasions for prayer’
Other Finding Aids
Argent / Black ii.61(a); Thomas p.8