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

[The mischiefs that come by idle,¹ impertinent, ridiculous, sometimes seditious, impious, and blasphemous expressions, under pretence of the Gift, to the dishonour of God, and scorn of Religion, being far greater than the pretended good of exercising the Gift; it is fit that they who desire such liberty in public devotions, should first give the Church security, that no private opinions should be put into their Prayers, as is desired in the first proposal, and that nothing contrary to the Faith, should be uttered before God, or offered up to him in the Church.]

[The mischiefs that come by idle,¹ impertinent, ridiculous, sometimes seditious, impious, and blasphemous expressions, under pretence of the Gift, to the dishonour of God, and scorn of Religion, being far greater than the pretended good of exercising the Gift; it is fit that they who desire such liberty in publick devotions, should first give the Church security, that no private opinions should be put into their Prayers, as is desired in the first proposal, and that nothing contrary to the Faith, should be uttered before God, or offered up to him in the Church.]

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Repl. The mischiefs which you pretend,¹ are inconveniences attending humane imperfection, which you would cure with a mischief. Your Argument from the Abuse, against the Use, is a palpable fallacy, which cast out Physicians in some Countries, and rooted up Vines in others, and condemneth the reading of the Scriptures in a known tongue among the Papists. If the Apostles (that complained then so much of divisions, and Preaching false doctrine, and in envy, and strife) had thought the way of cure had been in sending Ministers about the world with a Prayer-book or Sermon book, and to have tied them only to read, either one or both of these, no doubt but they would have been so regardful of the Church, as