Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

It may be left to the discretion of the Minister, to omit part of it, as occasion shall require: which liberty we find to be allowed even in the first Common Prayer Book of Edward 6. 8. That in regard of the many Defects which have been observed in that Version of the Scriptures, which is used throughout the Liturgy (manifold Instances whereof may be produced, as in the Epistle for the first Sunday after Epiphany, taken out of Romans 12. 1. Be ye changed in your shape; And the Epistle for the Sunday next before Easter, taken out of Philippians 2. 5. Found in his apparel as a man; as also the Epistle for the fourth Sunday in Lent, taken out of the fourth of the Galatians, Mount Sinai is Hagar in Arabia, and bordereth upon the City which is now called Jerusalem. The Epistle for St. Matthew's Day taken out of the second Epistle of Corinth. and the 4th. We go not out of Kind. The Gospel for the second Sunday after Epiphany, taken out of the second of John, When Men be drunk. The Gospel for the third Sunday in Lent, taken out of the 11th of Luke, One House doth fall upon another. The Gospel for the Annunciation, taken out of the first of Luke, This is the sixth Month which was called barren] and many other places) we therefore desire instead thereof the New Translation allowed by Authority may alone be used. 9. That inasmuch as the holy Scriptures are able to make us wise unto Salvation, to furnish us throughly unto all good Works, and contain in them all things necessary, either in Doctrine to be believed, or in Duty to be practised; whereas divers Chapters of the Apocryphal Books appointed to be read, are Charged to be in both respects, of dubious and uncertain credit: It is therefore desired, that nothing be read in the Church for Lessons, but the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. 10. That the Minister be not required to rehearse any part of the Liturgy at the Communion-Table, save only those parts which properly belong to the Lord's Supper; and that at such times only when the said holy Supper is administered. 11. That as the Word (Minister) and not Priest, or Curate, is used in the Absolution, and in divers other places; it may throughout the whole Book be so used instead of those two Words; and that instead of the Word Sunday, the Word Lord's-day, may be every where used. 12.

It may be left to the discretion of the Minister, to omit part of it, as occasion shall require: which liberty we find to be allowed even in the first Common Prayer Book of Edward 6. 8. That in regard of the many Defects which have been observed in that Version of the Scriptures, which is used throughout the Liturgy (manifold Instances whereof may be produced, as in the Epistle for the first Sunday after Epiphany, taken out of