SECT. VII.
IN the next place, before I leave * 1.1 This Subject, I desire all my Coun∣try-men diligently to hearken unto the Church Her self in her publick Apologies about These Matters, in the Book so established; which, because so few do observe in Their Common-Prayer-Books; I will here present them with,
The Preface of our Governours concer∣ning the Alterations made in the publick Service.
It hath been the Wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first * 1.2 compiling of her publick Liturgy, to keep a mean between the Two Extreams, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it. For, as on the one side common experience sheweth, that