The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…

V. That there may be nothing in the Liturgy which may seem to countenance the observation of Lent, as a Religious Fast, the Example of Christ's fasting forty days and nights being no more imitable, nor intended for the imitation of Christians, than any other of his miraculous works were, or than Moses his forty days Fast was for the Jews, and the Act of Parliament 5 Eliz. forbidding abstinence from flesh to be observed upon any other than a politic Consideration, and punishing all those who by Preaching, Teaching, Writing, or open Speech shall notify, that the forbearing of flesh is of any necessity for the saving of the soul, or that it is the service of God otherwise than as other politic Laws are.

V. That there may be nothing in the Liturgy which may seem to countenance the observation of Lent, as a Religious Fast, the Example of Christ's fasting forty dayes and nights being no more imitable, nor intended for the imitation of Christians, than any other of his miraculous works were, or than Moses his forty dayes Fast was for the Jewes, and the Act of Parliament 5 Eliz. forbidding abstinence from flesh to be observed upon any other than a politick Consideration, and punishing all those who by Preaching, Teaching, Writing, or open Speech shall notifie, that the forbearing of flesh is of any necessity for the saving of the soul, or that it is the service of God otherwise than as other politick Laws are.

VI. That the Religious observation of Saints days appointed to be kept as holy days and the Vigils thereof, without any foundations (as we conceive) in Scripture, may be omitted, that if any be retained they may be called Festival, and not Holy days, nor made equal with the Lords day, nor have any peculiar Service appointed for them, nor that the People be upon such days enforced wholly to abstain from work; and that the names of all others not inserted in the Calendar, which are not in the first and second Books of Edward the Sixth, may be left out.

VI. That the Religious observation of Saints dayes appointed to be kept as holy dayes and the Vigils thereof, without any foundations (as we conceive) in Scripture, may be omitted, that if any be retained they may be called Festival, and not Holy dayes, nor made equal with the Lords day, nor have any peculiar Service appointed for them, nor that the People be upon such days enforced wholly to abstain from work; and that the names of all others not inserted in the Callendar, which are not in the first and second Books of Edward the Sixth, may be left out.