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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
THE EXCEPTIONS Against the BOOK OF Common-Prayer. › Particularly.: Ularly.
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Particularly.
1. The Collects are generally short, many of them consisting but of one, or at most two sentences of Petition; and these generally ushered in with a repeated mention of the Name and Attributes of God, and presently concluding with the Name and Merits of Christ; whence are caused many unnecessary intercisions and abruptions, which when many Petitions are to be offered at the same time, are neither agreeable to Scriptural Examples, nor suited to the gravity and seriousness of that holy duty.
1. The Collects are generally short, many of them consisting but of one, or at most two sentences of Petition; and these generally ushered in with a repeated mention of the Name and Attributes of God, and presently concluding with the Name and Merits of Christ; whence are caused many unnecessary intercisions and abruptions, which when many Petitions are to bee offered at the same time, are neither agreeable to Scriptural Examples, nor suited to the gravity and seriousness of that holy duty.
2. The Prefaces of many Collects have not any clear and special respect to the following Petitions; and particular Petitions are put together, which have not any due order, nor evident connection one with another, nor suitableness with the occasions upon which they are used, but seem to have fallen in rather casually, than from an orderly contrivance.