And whereas divers Reverend Bishops and Doctors, in a Paper in print before these unhappy Wars began, yielded to the laying aside of the Cross, and the making many material alterations; you, after twenty years sad calamities and Divisions, seem unwilling to grant what they of their own accord then offered. You seem not to grant that the clause of the fourth Commandment in the Common-Prayer-Book, (The Lord blessed the seventh day) should be altered according to the Hebr. Exod. 20. The Lord blessed the Sabbath day. You will not change the word Sunday into the Lords Day, nor add any thing to make a difference between Holy-days that are of Humane Institution, and the Lords Day, that is questionless of Apostolical practice. You will not alter Deadly Sin in the Litany into Heinous Sin, though it hints to us that some sins are in their own nature Venial; nor that Answer in the Catech. of Two Sacraments only generally necessary to salvation, although it intimates that there are other New Testaments Sacraments, though Two only necessary to Salvation. You speak of singing Davids Psalms, allowed by Authority, by way of contempt, calling them Hopkins Psalms: And though singing of Psalms be an Ordinance of God, yet you call it one of our principal parts of Worship, as if it were disclaimed by you. And are so far from countenancing the use of conceived Prayer in the public Worship of God, (though we never intended thereby the excluding of set Forms) as that you seem to dislike the use of it even in the Pulpit, and heartily desire a total restraint of it in the Church. You will not allow the omission of the Benedicite, nor a Psalm to be read instead of it; nor so much as abate the reading of the Chapters out of the Old ⟨image 23⟩Testament and the Acts, for the Epistles: But rather then you will gratify us therein, you have found out a new Device, that the Minister shall say (for the Epistle) you will not so much as leave out in the Collect for Christmas-day these words (this day) though at least, it must be a great uncertainty, and cannot be true stylo veteri, & novo. In public Baptism you are so far from giving a Liberty to the Parent to answer for his own Child, (which seems most reasonable) as that you force him to the use of Sureties, and cause them to answer in the name of the Infant, that he doth believe, and repent, and forsake the Devil and all his works;
And whereas divers Reverend Bishops and Doctors, in a Paper in print before these unhappy Wars began, yeilded to the laying aside of the Cross, and the making many material alterations; you, after twenty years sad calamities and Divisions, seem unwilling to grant what they of their own accord then offered. You seem not to grant that the clause of the fourth Commandment in the Common-Prayer-Book, (The Lord blessed the seventh day) should be altered according to the Hebr. Exod. 20. The Lord blessed the Sabbath day. You will not change the word Sunday into the Lords Day, nor adde any thing to make a difference between Holy-days that are of Humane Institution, and the Lords Day, that is questionless of Apostolical practice. You will not alter Deadly Sin in the Letany into Heynous Sin, though it hints to us that some sins are in their own nature Venial; nor that Answer in the Catech. of Two Sacraments onely generally necessary to salvation, although it intimates that there are other New Testaments Sacraments, though Two onely necessary to Salvation. You speak of singing Davids Psalms, allowed by Authority, by way of contempt, calling them Hopkins Psalms: And though singing of Psalms be an Ordinance of God, yet you call it one of our principal parts of Worship, as if it were disclaimed by you. And are so far from countenancing the use of conceived Prayer in the publick Worship of God, (though we never intended thereby the excluding of set Forms) as that you seem to dislike the use of it even in the Pulpit, and heartily desire a total restraint of it in the Church. You will not allow the omission of the Benedicite, nor a Psalm to be read instead of it; nor so much as abate the reading of the Chapters out of the Old ⟨image 23⟩Testament and the Acts, for the Epistles: But rather then you will gratifie us therein, you have found out a new Device, that the Minister shall say (for the Epistle) you will not so much as leave out in the Collect for Christmas-day these words (this day) though at least, it must be a great uncertainty, and cannot be true stylo veteri, & novo. In publick Baptism you are so far from giving a Liberty to the Parent to answer for his own Child, (which seems most reasonable) as that you force him to the use of Sureties, and cause them to answer in the name of the Infant, that he doth believe, and repent, and forsake the Devil and all his works;
