Particularly.
1. The Collects are generally short, many of them consisting but of one, or at most two sentences of Petition; and these gene∣rally ushered in with a repeated mention of the Name and Attri∣butes of God, and presently concluding with the Name and Me∣rits of Christ; whence are caused many unnecessary intercisions and abruptions, which when many Petitions are to bee offered at the same time, are neither agreeable to Scriptural Examples, nor suited to the gravity and seriousness of that holy duty.
2. The Prefaces of many Collects have not any clear and spe∣cial respect to the following Petitions; and particular Petitions are put together, which have not any due order, nor evident con∣nection one with another, nor suitableness with the occasions up∣on which they are used, but seem to have fallen in rather casual∣ly, than from an orderly contrivance.
It is desired, that instead of those various Collects, there may bee one Methodical and intire form of Prayer composed out of many of them.
17. That whereas the Publick Liturgy of a Church should in reason comprehend the sum of all such sins as are ordinarily to bee confessed in prayer by the Church, and of such petitions and thanksgivings as are ordinarily by the Church to bee put up to God, and the Publick Catechisms, or Systems of Doctrine, should summarily comprehend all such Doctrines as are necessary to be beleeved, and these explicitly set down: The present Liturgy as to all these seems very defective.