This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...the sire. Remonst. In the famaritan chronicle Answ. As little do we esteem your famaritan trunv pery, of which people Christ himself testisies, Ye worship ye know not what. Remonst. They had their several songs. Answ. And so have we our several pfalms for several occasions, without gramercy to your liturgy. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...the sire. Remonst. In the famaritan chronicle Answ. As little do we esteem your famaritan trunv pery, of which people Christ himself testisies, Ye worship ye know not what. Remonst. They had their several songs. Answ. And so have we our several pfalms for several occasions, without gramercy to your liturgy. Remonst. Those forms which we have under the names of Saint James, &c, though they have some insertions which are plainly spurious, yet the substance of them cannot be taxed for other than holy and ancient. Answ. Setting aside the odd coinage of your phrase, which no mint-master of language would allow for sterling, that a thing should be taxed for no other than holy and ancient, let it be supposed the substance of them may favour of something holy or ancient, this is but the matter; the form, and the end of the thing may yet render it either superstitious, fruitless, or impious, and so worthy to be rejected. The garments of a strumpet are often the fame, materially, that clothe a chaste matron, and yet ignominious for her to wear: the substance of the tempters words to our Saviour were holy, but his drift nothing less. i. e. A, b, c. Remonst. Remonst. In what sense we hold the Roman a true church, is so cleared that the iron is too hot for their singers.. Anfw. Have a care it be not the iron to fear your own conscience. Remonst. You need not doubt but that the alteration of4 the liturgy will be considered by wiser heads than your own. Anfw, We doubt it not, because we know your head looks to be one. Remonst. Our liturgy symbolizeth not with popi mass, neither as mass nor as popish. Answ. A pretty slipskin conveyance to sift mass into no mass, and popish into not popish; yet faving this passing sine sophistical boulting hutch, so long as...
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