Chap. VI. 7he HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. 6r3· 2 o. In the chu,·ching qf 7VOmen the new rubric directs, that the woKing man, at the ufual time after her delivery, (ball _come into the c.hurch de- Cha1r~~~~I. cently apparelled, and there fhall kneel down m feme convement place, as has been accujlomed, or as the ordinary jhall direCI, and the cxvith or cxxviith pfalm lhall be read. Dr. Tenifon, afterwards archbi!hop of Canterbury, fays, " they made Compl.Hifl;. " about fix hunctred {mall alterations or additions; but then adds, if there P· 2 5 2 • m " was reafon for thefe changes, there was equal, if not greater reafon formarg_. " fome further improvements. If they had forefeen what is Gnce come· " to pafs, I charitably believe they would not have done all· they did, " and juft fo much and no more; and yet I alfo believe, if they· had ' " offered to move much further, a )lone would have been laid under · " their wheel, by a .ftcret but po7veiful hand; for the myftery of popery " did even then work." Bifhop Burnet confcfles, that no alterations were· made in favour of the prefbyterians, for it was refolved to gratify them in· nothing. But befides the alterations and amendments already mentioned, there·Otber adrli'-· were feveral additional forms of prayer, as for the thirtieth of Jamtary tiom. and the twenty ninth of May. Forms of prayer to be ufed at {ea; and Bur net. · a new office for the adminiftration of baptifm to grown perfons. Some correCtions were made in the kalendar. More new leifons were taken out of the Apocrypha, as the Jlory of Bell and the Dragon, &c. But it was agreed, that no apocryphal leffons fhould be read on Sundays. Thefe were all the conceflions th~:; convocation would admit; and this was all the fruit of the conference at the Savoy, by which, according to Mr. Baxter and bifl:lop Burnet, the common-prayer book was rendered more exceptionable, and the terms of conformity much harder than before tho civil war. The common prayer book thus altered and amended, was fent up to Lifurgy .a• the king and council, and from thence tranfmitted to the houfe of peers; mended fintt Feb. 24, with this meifage, that his maJ'efiy had duly confidered of the updto tbe kr,ngt · d · an counct , alteratiOns, an does wnh the advice of his council fully approve and and I-I. of allow the fame; and cloth recommend it to the houfe of peers, that Peers. the faid books of common-prayer, and of theforms qf ordination, and c()l?fe- Kennet cration of bijhops, priejls and deacons, with thoje additions a·nd alterations p. 631. ' ' tbat have been made, and prefented to his majejly by the convocation, be the book which in an~ ~y tb: intended aCl qfzmfformity, jha/1 be appointed to . be zifed by all that rjjiczate zn all cathedral and·collegiate churches and chapels, &c. and in all parijh churches of England and Wales, under (uch fonClions or penalties as the parliament jhall think fit; When the iords bad gone through_ the book, the lord chancellor Hyde, by order of:'the l:u:lufe,. gave the b1fhops. thanks March 1 5, for their care in this, bufi.:. nefs,;;
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