is made unto God in the holy assembly, according to the accustomed order of every church. Now the pastor’s duty is, as Paul also admonisheth in the 1 Tim. 2, and we in the last sermon before this have rehearsed, to gather together, instruct, and preserve the assemblies, in which supplications or common prayers are made. And they are greatly to be blamed, who are more negligent in this behalf than becometh them; neither are they indeed to be suffered, which seldom or never teach diligently, and are
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