A69535:428
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.
Reply. It tempteth men to think they should read in a singing tone: and to turn reading Scripture into Singing, hath the inconvenience of turning the edifying simplicity and plainness of Gods service into such affected unnatural strains and tones, as is used by the Mimical, and Ludicious, or such as feign themselves in raptures: and the highest things (such as words and modes that signify Raptures) are most loathsome, when forced, feigned, and hypocritically affected; and therefore not fit for Congregations, that cannot be supposed to be in such Raptures; this we apply also to the sententious mode of prayers.
Reply. It tempteth men to think they should read in a singing tone: and to turn reading Scripture into Singing, hath the inconvenience of turning the edifying simplicity and plainness of Gods service into such affected unnatural strains and tones, as is used by the Mimical, and Ludicious, or such as feign themselves in raptures: and the highest things (such as words and modes that signifie Raptures) are most loathsome, when forced, feigned, and hypocritically affected; and therefore not fit for Congregations, that cannot be supposed to be in such Raptures; this we apply also to the sententious mode of prayers.
Sect. 7. Benedicite. [This Hymn was used all the Church over, Conc. Tolet. Can. 13. and therefore should be continued still, as well as Te Deum, (Ruffin. Apol. cont. Hieron.) or Veni Creator, which they do not object against as Apocryphal.]