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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
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Sect. 5. Gloria Patri.
Answ. [This Doxology being a solemn Confession of the blessed Trinity, should not be thought a burden to any Christian Liturgy, especially being so short as it is: neither is the repetition of it, to be thought a vain repetition, more than [his mercy endureth for ever] so often repeated, Psal. 136. we cannot give God too much Glory, that being the end of our Creation, and should be the end of all our Services.]
Answ. [This Doxology being a solemn Confession of the blessed Trinity, should not be thought a burden to any Christian Lyturgy, especially being so short as it is: neither is the repetition of it, to be thought a vain repetition, more than [his mercy endureth for ever] so often repeated, Psal. 136. we cannot give God too much Glory, that being the end of our Creation, and should be the end of all our Services.]
Repl. Though we cannot give God too much Glory, we may too often repeat a form of words, wherein his Name and Glory is mentioned: There is great difference between a Psalm of Praise, and the praise in our ordinary prayers; more liberty of repetition may be taken in Psalms, and be an Ornament: And there's difference between that which is unusual (in one Psalm of 150) and that which is our daily course of Worship: When you have well proved that Christ's prohibition of battology extendeth not to this (