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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
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by His M… › Section
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[We know not what public prayers are wanting, nor do they tell 1us, the usual Complaint hath been, that there were too many: Neither do we conceive any want of public Thanksgivings there being in the Liturgy, Te Deum, Benedictus, Magnificat, Benedicite, Glory be to God on high, Therefore with Angels and Arch-Angels, The Doxology, Glory be to the Father, &c. All peculiar as they require, to Gospel worship, and fit to express our thanks and honour to God upon every particular occasion, and occasional Thanksgivings after the Litany, of the frequency whereof themselves elsewhere complain, who here complain of defect; If there he any forms wanting the Church will provide.]
[We know not what publick prayers are wanting, nor do they tell 1us, the usual Complaint hath been, that there were too many: Neither do we conceive any want of publick Thanksgivings there being in the Liturgy, Te Deum, Benedictus, Magnificat, Benedicite, Glory be to God on high, Therefore with Angels and Arch-Angels, The Doxology, Glory be to the Father, &c. All peculiar as they require, to Gospel worship, and fit to expresse our thanks and honour to God upon every particular occasion, and occasional Thanksgivings after the Letany, of the frequency whereof themselves elsewhere complain, who here complain of defect; If there he any forms wanting the Church will provide.]
- 1§. 7. Exc. 3.
Repl. We have showed you in the forms which we offered you, what we judge wanting, the Right Reverend Bishop of Exeter hath taken notice of the same want, and proposed a supply, those you name are either but general sentences, or extend but to some few particulars, as being suited to the persons and particular occasions of them, and none save the (Te Deum) designed to be the distinct praise of the Church for the benefits of Redemption, as the suitable and sufficient performance of this great part of the Liturgy; However it will do you no harm that your Brethren be gratified, with fuller expressions and variety. They that have complained of too many (because you shred your Petitions into almost as many Prayers, and so the Thanksgivings into such briefs) yet complained not of too much; But that too many (by the multitudes of Prefaces, and Epilogues) was the the cause of too little.