Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Q. Do you call that a prayer, which of some is thought only a for me to direct our prayers by?
A. It is both a prayer, which we may and ought to use; and also a form of prayer, whereunto we are to conform, and by which we ought to square all our prayers by; and therefore as Christ biddeth us pray after this sort; so in Luke he biddeth us say, Our Father; &c.
Q. May there not, besides this prayer of the Lord, be now under the Gospel a set form of prayer in the Church?
A. Yes verily; and it is convenient it should be so, so that it be left to the liberty of the Church to alter it. ...
For more, see Thomas Cartwright on the use of the Lord’s Prayer and set forms of prayer.
A. It is both a prayer, which we may and ought to use; and also a form of prayer, whereunto we are to conform, and by which we ought to square all our prayers by; and therefore as Christ biddeth us pray after this sort; so in Luke he biddeth us say, Our Father; &c.
Q. May there not, besides this prayer of the Lord, be now under the Gospel a set form of prayer in the Church?
A. Yes verily; and it is convenient it should be so, so that it be left to the liberty of the Church to alter it. ...
For more, see Thomas Cartwright on the use of the Lord’s Prayer and set forms of prayer.