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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 PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by his M… › Preface: PREFACE.
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or if you will not hear us, we beseech you hear the many Ministers in England, that never meddled against the Liturgy, and the many moderate Episcopal Divines, that have used it, and can do still, and yet would earnestly entreat you to alter it, partly because of what in it needs alteration, and partly in respect to the Commodity of others; Or at least we beseech you recant, and obliterate such passages as would hinder all your selves from any Act of Reformation hereabout, that if any man among you would find fault with some of the grosser things, which we laid open to you, (tenderly and sparingly) and would •eform them, he may not presently forfeit the reputation of being a Protestant. And astly, we beseech you deny not again the name of Protestants to the Pri•ate of Ireland, the Archbishop of York, and the many others that had divers meetings for the Reformation of the Liturgy, and who drew up that Catalogue of faults, or points that needed mending, which is yet to be seen in print; they took not advantage of their own unwarrantable Acts for the attempting of that alteration.
or if you will not hear us, we beseech you hear the many Ministers in England, that never medled against the Liturgy, and the many moderate Episcopal Divines, that have used it, and can do still, and yet would earnestly intreat you to alter it, partly because of what in it needs alteration, and partly in respect to the Commodity of others; Or at least we beseech you recant, and obliterate such passages as would hinder all your selves from any Act of Reformation hereabout, that if any man among you would find fault with some of the grosser things, which we laid open to you, (tenderly and sparingly) and would •eform them, he may not presently forfeit the reputation of being a Protestant. And astly, we beseech you deny not again the name of Protestants to the Pri•ate of Ireland, the Archbishop of York, and the many others that had divers meetings for the Reformation of the Liturgie, and who drew up that Catalogue of faults, or points that needed mending, which is yet to beseen in print; they took not advantage of their own unwarrantable Acts for the attempting of that alteration.