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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
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[…] Majesties feet, beseeching you to prosper such a blessed Resolution, till it attain success: We must needs believe, that when your Majesty took our Consent to a Liturgy to be a foundation that would infer our Concord, you meant not that we should have no Concord, but by consenting to this Liturgy, without any considerable Alterations.
〈…〉 Majesties feet, beseeching you to prosper such a blessed Resolution, till it attain success: We must needs beleeve, that when your Majesty took our Consent to a Lyturgy to be a foundation that would infer our Concord, you meant not that we should have no Concord, but by consenting to this Lyturgy, without any considerable Alterations.
And when you comforted us with your Resolutions to draw us together, by yielding on both sides in what we could, you meant not that we should be the boat to lay the banks that should not stir; and when your Majesty commanded us by Letters Patents to meet about such Alterations as are needful or expedient for giving satisfaction to tender Consciences, and the restoring and continuing of Peace and Unity, we rest assured, that it was not your sense that those tender consciences were to be forced to practice all which they judged unlawful, and not so much as a Ceremony abated them; or that our Treaty was only to convert either party to the Opinion of another; and that all our hopes of Concord and Liberty consisted only in disputing the Bishops into Non-conformity, or coming in every Ceremony to their minds.
And when you comforted us with your Resolutions to draw us together, by yeelding on both sides in what we could, you meant not that we should be the boat to lay the banks that should not stir; and when your Majesty commanded us by Letters Patents to meet about such Alterations as are needful or expedient for giving satisfaction to tender Consciences, and the restoring and continuing of Peace and Unity, we rest assured, that it was not your sense that those tender consciences were to be forced to practice all which they judged unlawful, and not so much as a Ceremony abated them; or that our Treaty was only to convert either party to the Opinion of another; and that all our hopes of Concord and Liberty consisted only in disputing the Bishops into Non-conformity, or coming in every Ceremony to their minds.