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Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England…
Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England humbly presented to His Majesty by the Reverend ministers of the Presbyterian persuasion.Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England humbly presented to His Majesty by the Reverend ministers of the Presbyterian perswasion.
London : s.n., 1661
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Concerning the preamble of your Majesties Declaration, we presume only to tender these Requests.
Concerning the preamble of your Majesties Declaration, we presume onely to tender these Requests.
1. That we are persuaded it is not in your Majesties thoughts, to intimate that we are guilty of the Offences which your Majesty here reciteth; So we hope it will rather be a Motive to the hastening the Nations Cure, that our unity may prevent Man's temptations of that nature for the time to come.
1. That we are perswaded it is not in your Majesties thoughts, to intimate that we are guilty of the Offences which your Majesty here reciteth; So we hope it will rather be a Motive to the hastning the Nations Cure, that our unity may prevent Man's temptations of that nature for the time to come.
2. Though we have professed our willingness to submit to the Primitive Episcopacy and Reformed Liturgy, hoping it may prove an Expedient to an happy Union; yet have we expressed our dislike of the Prelacy and present Liturgy, while unreformed. And though Sacrilege and unjust Alienation of Church-lands, is a thing that we detest, yet whether in some cases of true Superfluity of Revenues, or true Necessity of the Church, there may not be an Alienation which is no Sacrilege? And whether the Kings and Parliaments have been guilty of this Crime that have made some Alienations, are Points of high concernment, of which we never had a Call to give our Judgment; And therefore humbly beseech your