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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 › Section 2
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Sect. 2.
[The Collects are made short,1 as being best for Devotion, as we observed ⟨p. 61⟩before, and cannot be accounted faulty, for being like those short, but prevalent Prayers in Scripture; Lord be merciful to me a Sinner. Son of David, have mercy on us. Lord increase our Faith.]
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Repl. We do in common speech call that a Prayer, 1which containeth all the substance of what in that business, and address we have to say unto God: And that a Petition, which containeth one single request: usually a Prayer, hath many Petitions. Now if you intend in your address unto God, to do no more then speak a transient request, or Ejaculation (which we may do in the midst of other business) then indeed your instances are pertinent; but why then do you not give over when you seem to have done, but come again, and again, and offer as many Prayers almost as Petitions. This is to make the Prayer short, (as a Sermon is, that is cut into single sentences, every Sentence having an Exordium, and Epilogue as a Sermon) but it is to make the Prayers much longer, then is needful or suitable to the matter. Do you find this the way of the Saints in Scripture? indeed Abraham did so, when Gods Interlocution answering the first Prayer, called him to vary his request,