The King's Commissioners Reply. 13. Feb.
[ LXV] OUR expressions in our Answer to your Lordships Demands concerning the Di∣rectory for publick Worship, import only what we as yet conceive concerning that matter; there having hitherto been no debate touching the same, or concerning the Common-Prayer-Book now established by Law, and thereby intended to be abolished. And therefore we did in that Paper, and do still desire to receive your Lordships* 1.1 Ob∣jections against the Book of Common-Prayer, and your Reasons for introducing the Di∣rectory. Neither can our Answer to the Propositions for Church-Government, annex∣ed to your first Paper, be otherwise taken, than as our desire to receive information how that Government should be constituted in particular, and what Jurisdiction should be established, by whom granted, and upon whom it should depend; which Queries were not satisfied by any Conference, your Lordships (as we conceive) having declared your selves, that the particular form or model of that Government, mentioned in those Propositions only in General, were not then particularly agreed on; and we have since desired and expect to receive it: and therefore your Lordships cannot conceive we have denied that which we have not yet seen, nor been informed of.