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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 That Public Worship may not be celebrated by any Minister that dare not wear a Surplice.
1 That Publick Worship may not bee celebrated by any Minister that dare not wear a Surpless.
2 That none may Baptize, nor be Baptized, without the transient image of the Cross, which hath at least the semblance of a Sacrament of Humane Institution, being used as an engaging sign in our first and solemn Covenanting with Christ, and the duties whereunto we are really obliged by Baptism, being more expressly fixed to that airy sign than to this holy Sacrament.
2 That none may Baptize, nor bee Baptized, without the transient image of the Cross, which hath at least the semblance of a Sacrament of Humane Institution, being used as an ingageing signe in our first and solemne Covenanting with Christ, and the duties whereunto wee are really obliged by Baptisme, being more expresly fixed to that airy sign than to this holy Sacrament.
3 That none may receive the Lords Supper that dare not kneel in the act of receiving; but the Minister must exclude all such from the Communion: although such kneeling not only differs from the practice of Christ and of his Apostles, but (at least on the Lords day) is contrary to the practice of the Catholic Church, for many hundred years after, and forbidden by the most Venerable Councils that ever were in the Christian world. All which Impositions, are made yet more grievous, by that subscription to their lawfulness, which the Canon exacts, and by the heavy punishment upon the non-observance of them which the Act of Uniformity inflicts.
3 That none may receive the Lords Supper that dare not kneel in the act of receiving; but the Minister must exclude all such from the Communion: although such kneeling not only differs from the practice of Christ and of his Apostles, but (at least on the Lords day) is contrary to the practice of the Catholick Church, for many hundred years after, and forbidden by the most Venerable Councils that ever were in the Christian world. All which Impositions, are made yet more grievous, by that subscription to their lawfulness, which the Canon exacts, and by the heavy punishment upon the non-observance of them which the Act of Uniformity inflicts.