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The fifth DIALOGUE Answered. (Book 5)
SIR, Neither envying you that poor ap∣plause, which you vainly captate, from your Mock-Non. C. confessing himself to be by you much shaken in the matter of Bish∣ops, nor regarding the pitiful scorne, you would cast on us by making him, or your self rather, ridiculous in avowing a blind aversation, notwith∣standing of his professed conviction, I come to consi∣der his quarrel against the Bishops on the account of your Common-prayer-book, and what you answere.
Your N. C. alledges That this Common-prayer-book is a dead and formal Lyturgie, set up instead of the pure and Spiritual worship of God: In answere whereunto, pretending as vainly, that these are but big words, as I have already clearly proved, that the Government which we contend for, is the interest, and doth ap∣pertain to the Kingdom of Christ; and thereby mani∣festly shewed this your confidence to be meer ca∣lumny, you undertake to discover the fallacy, by telling us what it is to pray by the Spirit: And you say, [To Pray by the Spirit, is, when out of a deep sense of our misery and need, and firm confidence in God, we draw near to him, to offer up our prayers and praises to him, through Iesus Christ:] And you add, [That our hearts being moulded in this frame, we pray by the Spirit, use we words or not, the same or different; Nay, it will