IÍ E7oJ gregation could Join, in, without con fencing to things little fhort of Blafphe- my. Should any, Man have fo good an Opinion of himfelf, as to imagine that his-own private, or. extemporary Per- formances will be perfea; fuch an In- fiance of his Vanity will be no great Argument in favour of his Compofiti- ons. A ferious and peaceable Mind will not be offended; at thofe Failings which are unavoidable in the prefent State of things. 'Twas. Calvin's Advice to the Heads of the Englifh Reforma,- Calvin. Epift. tion in King Edward's Days, " As to ad Proteaor cc , kpi(t 8" a Form of Prayer, fays he, and Be- clefaflical Rites, I highly approve of " it, that there be a certain Form from cc which the Minifters be not allow'd to " vary or depart in the Difcharge. of " their Office. That forne Provifìon cc may be made to help the Simplicity " and Uaaskilfulnefi of fome. And c` that theContent and Harmony of the " Chur-eyes one with another may ap- pear. And laflly, that the defulto- ry Humour and Levity of fuch as Qmd ad formam precum 8t rituum Ecetefia(tiorum, valde probo ut certa illa extet, a qua Pafloribus difiedere in funelione fua non liceat , tam ut confulatur quorundam f:mpliçitati & imperitiæ, quam ut certius ita conftet om- nium inter fe Ecclefiarum Confenfus; poftremo etiam ut obviäm eatur defultoriæ quorundam levitati, qui novatio- nes quafdam affeóàant, cc affeft
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=