A26853:406
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 › Section 5
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[As they would have no Saints days observed by the Church,1 so no Apocryphal Chapter read in the Church; but upon such a reason as would exclude all Sermons, as well as Apocrypha, viz. because the holy Scriptures contain in them all things necessary, either in Doctrine to be believed, or in duty to be practised: If so, why so many unnecessary Sermons? why any more but reading of Scriptures? if notwithstanding their sufficiency, Sermons be necessary, there is no reason why these Apocryphal Chapters should not be as useful, most of them containing excellent Discourses, and Rules of morality; it is heartily to be wished that Sermons were as good: if their fear be, that by this means those Books may come to be of equal esteem with the Canon, they may be secured against that by the title which the Church hath put upon them, calling them Apocryphal; and it is the Churches Testimony which teacheth us this difference; and to leave them out, were to cross the Practise of the Church in former Ages.]
[As they would have no Saints dayes observed by the Church,1 so no Apocriphal Chapter read in the Church; but upon such a reason as would exclude all Sermons, as well as Apocripha, viz. because the holy Scriptures contain in them all things necessary, either in Doctrine to be believed, or in duty to be practised: If so, why so many unnecessary Sermons? why any more but reading of Scriptures? if notwithstanding their sufficiency, Sermons be necessary, there is no reason why these Apocriphal Chapters should not be as useful, most of them containing excellent Discourses, and Rules of morality; it is heartily to be wished that Sermons were as good: if their fear be, that by this means those Books may come to be of equal esteem with the Canon, they may be secured against that by the title which the Church hath put upon them, calling them Apocriphal; and it is the Churches Testimony which teacheth us this difference; and to leave them out, were to cross the Practise of the Church in former Ages.]
- 1N. 9. Ans.