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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.
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We do therefore, most earnestly entreat the Right Reverend Fathers and Brethren, to whom these Papers are delivered, as they tender the glory of God, the honour of Religion, the Peace of the Church, the service of His Majesty in the accomplishment of that happy Union, which His Majesty hath so abundantly testified his desires of, to join with us in importuning his most excellent Majesty, that his most gracious indulgence, as to these Ceremonies granted in his Royal Declaration may be confirmed and continued to us and our posterities, and extended to such as do not yet enjoy the benefit thereof.
Wee do therefore, most earnestly entreat the Right Reverend Fathers and Brethren, to whom these Papers are delivered, as they tender the glory of God, the honour of Religion, the Peace of the Church, the service of His Majesty in the accomplishment of that happy Union, which His Majesty hath so abundantly testified his desires of, to joyn with us in importuning his most excellent Majesty, that his most gracious indulgence, as to these Ceremonies granted in his Royal Declaration may bee confirmed and continued to us and our posterities, and extended to such as do not yet enjoy the benefit thereof.
19. As to that Passage in His Majesties Commission, where we are authorized, and required to compare the present Liturgy, with the most ancient Liturgies which have been used in the Church, in the purest and most primitive times: We have in obedience to His Majesties Commission, made enquiry, but cannot find any Records of known credit, concerning any entire forms of Liturgy, within the first three hundred years which are confessed to be, as the most Primitive, so the purest ages of the Church: Nor any Imposition of Liturgies upon any National Church for some hundreds of years after: We find indeed some Liturgical forms Fathered upon St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, and St. Ambrose, but we have not seen any Copies of them, but such ⟨p. 11⟩as give us sufficient evidence to conclude them either wholly spurious, or so interpolated, that we cannot make a judgement which in them hath any Primitive Authority.