UNDERDOWN. 265 Archbishop. I am so far from releasing you fromyour sus- pensions, that I declare it to have been orderly done ; and I approve and justify the same, and shall further proceed against you unless you subscribe. U. My lord, we have subscribed to the first and third articles, but desired respite for the second. And though we have used the Book of Common Prayer, so far as concerned our ministry, we cannot with a good conscience, subscribe to every particular in that book. A. If you use that to which you will not subscribe, you dissemble. And how much respite would you have, after the exercise of twenty-five years ? U. Every thing in the book doth not pertain to our ministry ; and in some things we are left to our liberty ; but this subscription bindeth us togive our full consent to the whole, and thus abridgeth us of the liberty which the book alloweth. A. What do you dislike in the Book of Common Prayer ? U. We do not say dislike, my lord; but there are many things doubtful, and about which we are not yet resolved. A. What, are the points doubtful, which you wish to have resolved ? I will endeavour to satisfy you, if you will be satisfied. U. We desire to know what book your lordship would have us to subscribe unto. For there aye many copies, which differ in many points of great weight ; and those which have been printed last, have most declined to super- stition. A. I mean the book which is now used for divine service and administration of the sacraments in the church of England. U. That is not the book established by law, according to I Eliz., but differeth in more points from the book of 5 Edward VI. than the law of the land alloweth. A. And what is the difference ? U. They differ in the following points and some others : The kalenders are not the same ; the first lessons on all saints' days are appointed out of theapocrypha : the kalender appoints the saints' eves to be observed by fasting : it putteth in the popish saints : it prescriheth a number of holy-days : and it omitteth the advertisement after the communion, to avoid the popish adoration in kneeling at the sacrament. A. The kalenders are not of the substance of the book. U. They form a principal part of the book, and have a
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