The second and last part of Reasons for refusall of subscription to the Booke of common prayer vnder the hands of certaine ministers of Deuon. and Cornwall, as they were exhibited by them to the right Reuerend Father in God William Cotton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Exceter. As also an appendix, or compendious briefe of all other exceptions taken by others against the bookes of communion, homilies, and ordination, word for word, as it came to the hands of an honorable personage. VVith an ansvvere to both at seuerall times returned them in publike conference, and in diuerse sermons vpon occasion preached in the cathedrall church of Exceter by Thomas Hutton Bachiler of Diuinitie, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Oxon.

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The second and last part of Reasons for refusall of subscription to the Booke of common prayer vnder the hands of certaine ministers of Deuon. and Cornwall, as they were exhibited by them to the right Reuerend Father in God William Cotton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Exceter. As also an appendix, or compendious briefe of all other exceptions taken by others against the bookes of communion, homilies, and ordination, word for word, as it came to the hands of an honorable personage. VVith an ansvvere to both at seuerall times returned them in publike conference, and in diuerse sermons vpon occasion preached in the cathedrall church of Exceter by Thomas Hutton Bachiler of Diuinitie, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Oxon.
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Hutton, Thomas, 1566-1639.
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London :: Printed by Iohn Windet for the Companie of Stationers,
1606.
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Church of England. -- Book of common prayer -- Early works to 1800.
Church of England -- Customs and practices -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. English -- Versions -- Early works to 1800.
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"The second and last part of Reasons for refusall of subscription to the Booke of common prayer vnder the hands of certaine ministers of Deuon. and Cornwall, as they were exhibited by them to the right Reuerend Father in God William Cotton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Exceter. As also an appendix, or compendious briefe of all other exceptions taken by others against the bookes of communion, homilies, and ordination, word for word, as it came to the hands of an honorable personage. VVith an ansvvere to both at seuerall times returned them in publike conference, and in diuerse sermons vpon occasion preached in the cathedrall church of Exceter by Thomas Hutton Bachiler of Diuinitie, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Oxon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03928.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

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Ibid. Vers. 27. Giue thanks O Israell vnto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the hart, &c. For praise yee God in the assemblies and the Lord; yee that are of the fountaine of Israell.

In deede the lesser Bibles haue it thus: wherein as they follow some learned men, so the Communion booke hath di∣uerse, whom it followeth. There are (saith Master Caluin) that expound this of the heart, because we know that fained thanks, which sound onely in (or) from the lips are accursed. Of which doctrine he maketh this profitable vse, namely, that our thanksgiuing must be from the hart, hartie and vnfained, else they are an abhomination to the Lord. 2. The word it selfe signifying a Well or deepe ground (which we vse to dig vp) may haue reference to the heart which is a fountaine or deepe Well whence good or euill springeth: here in this place good because thanksgiuing from the ground of the hart. If

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any shall say the word heart is more then is in the originall, so is the supply which the lesser Bibles make, when they adde (yee that are.) For in the originall these words are not. But vsuall it is, neither can we otherwise choose in translating, but make supply for better explication of that, which else we could not make tolerable English: And the construction in this place so made ministreth not any doctrine, but what is holsome and good in the iudgement of godly well aduised.

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