A69535:19
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
III. That the Repetitions and Responsals of the Clerk and People, and the alternate Reading of the Psalms and Hymns ⟨p. 4⟩with a confused murmur in the Congregation, whereby what is read is less intelligible, and therefore unedifying, may be omitted, the Minister being appointed for the People in all Public Services appertaining unto God, and the holy Scriptures both of the old and new Testament, intimating the peoples part in public Prayer, to be only with silence and reverence, to attend thereunto, and to declare their consent in the close, by saying, Amon.
III. That the Repetitions and Responsals of the Clerk and People, and the alternate Reading of the Psalms and Hymns ⟨p. 4⟩with a confused murmure in the Congregation, whereby what is read is less intelligible, and therefore unedifying, may be omitted, the Minister being appointed for the People in all Publick Services appertaining unto God, and the holy Scriptures both of the old and new Testament, intimating the peoples part in publick Prayer, to be only with silence and reverence, to attend thereunto, and to declare their consent in the close, by saying, Amon.
IV. That in regard the Litany (though otherwise containing in it many holy Petitions) is so framed, that the Petitions, for a great part, are uttered only by the People, which we think not to be so consonant to Scripture, which makes the Minister the Mouth of the People to God in Prayer, the particulars thereof may be composed into one solemn Prayer to be offered by the Minister unto God for the People.
IV. That in regard the Letany (though otherwise containing in it many holy Petitions) is so framed, that the Petitions, for a great part, are uttered onely by the People, which we think not to be so consonant to Scripture, which makes the Minister the Mouth of the People to God in Prayer, the particulars thereof may be composed into one solemn Prayer to be offered by the Minister unto God for the People.