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.

Repl. We complain not that there are Generals, but that there is nothing but Generalls in so great a part of your Prayers and therefore they are very defective: And if really these Gene∣ralls suffice you, a few lines may serve instead of your whole Book, Instead of all your Confessions, it may serve to say (That we have greatly sinned) and no more: Instead of all your Let any or Deprecations it is enough to say (Deliver us from all evil) Instead of all your Petitions for Grace, Peace, Rain, Fair-weather, Health, &c. it is enough to say (Give us the Good we want) In∣deed the Lords Prayer hath general Requests, because it is the design of it, to be a Rule of Prayer, and so contain but the Heads to which all Prayers are to be reduced; But if therefore you will have no more particulars, why do you use any prayer but the Lords Prayer; We hope you do not think to supply any defects pretended to be found in its Generals, not to correct the order of it; If it be but because you would not on every particular oc∣casion be so long, as to say the whole, you may take that Head. which suiteth that occasion: And so (Give us this day our daily bread) may serve instead of all the Collects for temporal supplies: And all your Offices may be blotted out, and one of the petiti∣ons of the Lords prayer placed in the stead of each of them.