Confideration of all Sorts of People at all Times; Whereunto is added a LETTER, proving, that the pub-- All intended for promoting Piety and the Confolation of ferious By THEOPHILUS LOBB, M. D. Search the Scriptures. John v. 39. LONDON: 101. e. 1035. I F (as (as alledged in the tenth Letter of this Book) the Public Reading the Holy Scriptures on the Lord's-Days in the Afssemblies of Christians, is an Ordinance of God's Appointment, for the spiritual Benefit of all Sorts of Hearers, and is a Part of the Public Worship He requires from his People; then it ought to be performed in every worshipping Affembly of Christians, on those Holy Days: And those Congregations, and their Ministers, who have not used this Ordinance ought no longer to neglect it. The following Queries are proposed to confideration. 1. As to those Ministers of Christ, who have not performed this Part of the Public Worship of God on the Lord's-Days, it is queried, Whether they are not guilty of diminishing from the Things, which the Lord hath commanded, and guilty of withholding from Him Part of the Public Worship which he requires; and guilty of withholding from ferious Christians an Ordinance appointed for their further Instruction, Edification, and Comfort; and guilty of withholding from the ignorant and ungodly Persons, who may come to the Public Worship of God, what he ordained, as a Means of Knowledge, Converfion, and Salvation to their Souls? 5 2. As |