A69535:34
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.
1. The Collects are generally short, many of them consisting but of one or two Sentences of petition, and those generally ushered in with a repeated mention of the Name and Attributes of God, and presently concluding with the Name and Merits of Christ whence are caused many unnecessary intercessions and abruptions, which when many Petitions are to be offered at the same time, are neither agreeable to scriptural example, nor suited to the gravity and seriousness of that Holy Duty.
1. The Collects are generally short, many of them consisting but of one or two Sentences of petition, and those generally usherd in with a repeated mention of the Name and Attributes of God, and presently concluding with the Name and Merits of Christ whence are caused many unnecessary intercessions and abruptions, which when many Petitions are to be offered at the same time, are neither agreeable to scripturall example, nor suted to the gravity and seriousness of that Holy Duty.
2. The Prefaces of many Collects have not any clear and special respect to the following Petitions; and particular petitions are put together, which have not any due order or evident connection one with another, nor suitable with the occasions upon which they are used, but seem to have fallen in rather casually, than from any orderly continuance.
2. The Prefaces of many Collects have not any clear and speciall respect to the following Petitions; and particular petitions are put together, which have not any due order or evident connexion one with another, nor suitable with the occasions upon which they are used, but seem to have fallen in rather casually, than from any orderly codtinuance.
It is desired that instead of these various Collects, there may be one Methodical and entire form of Prayer composed out of many of them.