Chap. 2. the. 17. Diuision.
As these are diuers things more than ought to be conueniently, so want there some things in the prayers: there are prayers set forth to be sayd in the common calamities, & vniuersall scourges of the realme, as plague, famine, &c. And in deede so it ought to be, by the worde of God, ioyned with a publike faste cōmaunded, not only when we are in any calamitie, but also when any the churches rounde about vs, or in any countrie receyue any generall plague, or grieuous chastisement at the Lordes hand. But as such prayers are needefull whereby we begge release from our distresses, so there ought to be as necessarily prayers of thankes giuing, when we haue receyued those things, at the Lordes hande, which wee asked in our prayers. And thus much touching the matter of the* 1.1 prayers, eyther not altogither sounde, or else to much or to little.
If any thing lacke in the booke, that derogateth nothing from that which is good & godly in the same: neyther is it any cause why any man should depraue it or make such a stirre and schisme in the Churche for it.