Hifory ofthe Puritans, examinà'd. 281 Eai, or towards the Communion- Table; that call upon them to Rand up at Te-Deum, Bene- dicus, Magnificat, Gloria Patri, or at other times than at the Creed and the Golpel ; that re- ' fuie to give the Communion to any that will not come up, and receive at the Rails ; that never pray before their Sermons, but bid their People pray; or ufe any other new or voluntary Rite or Ceremony not warranted by Law : you are to pre- Pent them, by virtue of your Offices and Places.' Concerning the Parilhioners, the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Articles, relate to the prefenting Popifh Recufants ; the 13th, 18th, 19th, againft the Pro- fanation of the Lord's-Day ; i4th,for keeping holy the 5th of November. [penes me.] Neal, p. 497. Lord Clarendon is of opiîon, that the Parliament, in/lead of adjourning, f7ould have broken up and retuned home ;nce the principal Grievances in Church and State were redreffed, and the Conflitution fecur'd by the A7for Triennial Par- liaments. Not one of the late Innovations were abo lifhed by Law, nor was there any Alteration in the Li.urgy or Form of Church- Government. Mr. Neal fhows his great (kill in Antiquity, in calling the Form ofChurch Government then efta blithed, an Innovation. If perhaps my Calling be my Crime, (fays Bifhop Hall) it is no other than the molt holy Fathers of the Church in the primitive and fuc- ceeding Ages, ever fince the Apoftles (many of them alto bleffed Martyrs) have been guilty of ; ' it is no other than all the holy Donors of the ' Church, in all Generations ever fence have cele- brated, as moft Reverend, Sacred and Inviola- ble ; it is no other than all the whole Chriflian ö A Letter lately fent by a Reverend Bifliop from the Tower, to a Private Friend, and by him thought fit to be pubiifhed. London, publifh'd in the Year 1642. Penes me, World,
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