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Before I come to speak of prayers / I will treat of the faults that are committed almost throughout the whole Liturgy / & public service of the church of England. Whereof one is that / which is often objected by the authors of the admonition / that the form of it / is taken from the church of Antichrist / as the reading of the Epistles and Gospels so cut & mangled / as the most of the prayers / the manner of ministering the Sacraments / of Marriage / of Burial / Confirmation / translated as it were word for word / saving that the gross errors and manifest impieties be taken away. For although the forms & ceremonies which they used / were not unlawful / and that they contained nothing which is not agreeable to the word of God (which I would they did not) yet notwithstanding / neither the word of God / nor reason / nor the examples of the eldest churches both Jewish and christian / do permit us to use the same forms and ceremonies / being neither commanded of God / neither such / as there may not as good as they / and rather better be established.

BEfore I come to speake of prayers / I will treate of the faults that are committed almost thrughout the whole Leyturgy / & publike seruice of the church of England. Whereof one is that / which is often obiected by the authors of the admonition / that the forme of it / is taken from the church of Antichrist / as the reading of the Epistles and Gospels so cutte & mangled / as the most of the prayers / the maner of mynistring the Sacraments / of Mariage / of Buriall / Confirmation / translated as it were word for word / sauing that the grosse erroures and manifest impieties be taken away. For although the formes & ceremonies which they vsed / were not vnlawfull / and that they contayned nothing which is not agreeable to the word of God (which I would they dyd not) yet notwithstanding / neyther the worde of God / nor reason / nor the examples of the eldest churches both Iewishe and christian / doe permitte vs to vse the same formes and ceremonies / being neyther commaunded of God / neyther such / as there may not as good as they / and rather better be established.