Some remarks, on a pretended answer, to a discourse concerning the Common-Prayer worship. With…

Which Paper Subscribed by those Learned Episcopal Divines, contained five and Thirty Exceptions against several things in the Liturgy, and among others, against the Corrupt Translations of the Epistles, and Gospels, and Psalms, and against the Apocrypha enjoined to be Read in the Lessons, against Singing Service, against adding Gloria Patri to the Psalms, against Hymns taken out of the Mass-Book, against Priestly vestments, against the Sign of the Cross in Baptism, which they say might as well be omitted as the Oil which was heretofore its Concomitant. But our Answerer stands to justify all these things, which those Worthy Prelates and Doctors would have had Reformed. We have done with him.

Which Paper Subscribed by those Learned Episcopal Divines, contained five and Thirty Exceptions against several things in the Liturgy, and among others, against the Corrupt Translations of the Epistles, and Gospels, and Psalms, and against the Apochrypha injoyned to be Read in the Lessons, against Singing Service, against adding Gloria Patri to the Psalms, against Hymns taken out of the Mass-Book, against Priestly vestments, against the Sign of the Cross in Baptism, which they say might as well be omitted as the Oyl which was heretofore its Concomitant. But our Answerer stands to justify all these things, which those Worthy Prelates and Doctors would have had Reformed. We have done with him.

Boston March 4. 1701, 2.

AND now, O you Churches of Christ in New-England, Hold fast the Profession of your Faith without Wavering. Be steadfast in your Religion, both as to the Faith, and as to the Order of the Gospel. Buy the Truth, but Sell it not. Remember what it was ⟨p. 23⟩your Fathers came into this Wilderness to see. They did not (as Conformists now do) come into a fruitful Land to get Estates, but they ventured their own Lives and the Lives of their Children over a vast Ocean, to Encounter with the Straits and Difficulties of a Barren Howling Wilderness: An undertaking (as one truly speaks of it) hardly to be paralleled, except in that of their Father Abraham, out of Ur of the Chaldees, or of his Posterity out of Egypt. They Expected nothing but poverty and mean things whilst in this World. And all these Sufferings they very willingly were subject to, for no other reason, but that so they and their Posterity might be freed from the Superstitions of the Common-Prayer Book. An Ignorant Young Man, has the Confidence (I should have said the Impudence) to tell you in Print, that your Fathers did not come hither on any such account. He will also tell you, that your Vulgar Capacities, cannot distinguish between Truth & Falsehood, Like as the Papists, will not allow you to have a judgment of Discretion, and therefore you must Believe as the Church Believes. But if your Fathers did not come to New-England for their Nonconformity, what else was it for? There are many still living who can remember that their Fathers have often informed them, that it was their dissatisfaction with the