A53684:70
A discourse concerning liturgies, and their imposition
London : s.n., 1662
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Rejecting out of the Offices before in use, such things as were directly contrary to the Articles of Faith protested in the Reformation in hand, translating of what remained into English, with such supplies and alterations as the rejection of those things before mentioned made necessary: The Book mentioned in some haste, and with some other disadvantages for such a Work, was by our first Reformers compiled. And indeed somewhat there was in this case not much unlike that insisted on in the entrance of this Discourse, between the believing Jews and Gentiles. Many of the Jews who were willing to receive Christs Reformation in point of Faith and Obedience, yet pertinaciously adhered to their old Ceremonious Worship; violently setting themselves against any that durst speak a word against its Continuance. That there might not be an endless contest and strife about the matter, and so the progress of the Gospel be hindered amongst the one sort and the other the Apostles taking in hand the old Worship, as to the Gentile Worshippers whose case above came then under consideration, they reject and declare, abrogate all such Ceremonies whose necessary observation had an inconsistency with the Doctrine ⟨p. 37⟩of the Gospel, proposing only some few things to be observed, which occasioned the greatest difference between the Parties at variance.
Rejecting out of the Offices before in use, such things as were directly contrary to the Articles of Faith protested in the Reformation in hand, translating of what remained into English, with such supplies and alterations as the rejection of those things before mentioned made necessary: The Book mentioned in some haste, and with some other disadvantages for such a Work, was by our first Reformers compiled. And indeed somewhat there was in this case not much unlike that insisted on in the entrance of this Discourse, between the believing Jews and Gentiles. Many of the Jews who were willing to receive Christs Reformation in point of Faith and Obedience, yet pertinaciously adhered to their old Ceremonious Worship; violently setting themselves against any that durst speak a word against its Continuance. That there might not be an endless contest and strife about the matter, and so the progress of the Gospel be hindred amongst the one sort and the other the Apostles taking in hand the old Worship, as to the Gentile Worshippers whose case above came then under consideration, they reject and declare, abrogate all such Ceremonies whose necessary observation had an inconsistency with the Doctrine