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

Name: The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London printed : s.n., 1661

[8], 148 p. · 66k words · Wing B1278A · Wing E3841 · ESTC R7198

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THE EXCEPTIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN - Brethren, Against some passage… › Concerning Morning and Evening Prayer. › Of the order for the burial of the dead.THE EXCEPTIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN - Brethren, Against some passage… › Concerning Morning and Evening Prayer. › Of the order for the buriall of the dead.

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.

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We desire it may be expressed in the Rubric that the prayers and exhortations here are not for the benefit of the dead, but only for instruction and comfort of the living.

We desire it may be expressed in the Rubrick that the prayers and exhortations here are not for the benefit of the dead, but onely for instruction and comfort of the living.

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The Priest meeting the Cords at the Church-stile shall say or else ¹the Priest and Clerk shall sing, &c.

THe Priest meeting the Cords at the Church-stile shall say or else ¹the Priest and Clerk shall sing, &c.

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We desire that Ministers may be left to use their discretions in ¹these circumstances, and to perform the whole service in the Church, if they think fit for the preventing of those inconveniences, which many times both Minister and people are exposed unto standing in the open air.

We desire that Ministers may be left to use their discretions in ¹these circumstances, and to perform the whole service in the Church, if they think fit for the preventing of those inconveniencies, which many times both Minister and people are exposed unto standing in the open aire.

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

The first Prayer.

The last Prayer.

Of the thanksgiving of women after Child-birth commonly called the Churching of women.

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The first Prayer.

The last Prayer.

Of the thanksgiving of women after Child-birth commonly called the Churching of women.