The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
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The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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London printed :: [s.n.],
1661.
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Commission for the Review and Alteration of the Book of Common Prayer.
Church of England. -- Book of common prayer.
Church of England -- Liturgy.
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"The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69535.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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Sect. 11. Com. three times a Year.
[This desire to have the Parishioners at liberty, whether they will ever re∣ceive the Communion or not, savours of too much neglect, and coldness of affe∣ction towards the holy Sacrament: It is more fitting that order should be ta∣ken to bring it into more frequent use, as it was in the first, and best times; Our Rubr. is directly according to the ancient Council of Eliberis C. 81. Gratian. de Consecrat. no man is to be accounted a good Catholick Christian that does not receive three times in the year: The distempers which indispose men to it, must be corrected, not the receiving of the Sacrament therefore omitted: Itis a pitifull pretence to say, they are not fit, and make their sin their excuse; Formerly our Church was quarrelled at for not compelling men to the Commu∣nion, now for urging men; how should she please?