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Excerpt from An Apology for the Church of Englandin Reply to the Cavils and Objections of Those Who Dissent From Her Communion
Thirdly, I dissent from the Church of England, on account of her stated imposition of a Form of Prayer, not only because I can find no warrant in Scripture for the use of a Form of Public Devotion, but because I consider all Forms both unnecessary and pernicious. Moreover, I think that the Liturgy of the Church of England very closely resembles the Popish Mass Boole I also oifieet to the length of its Services, and to its division into short Collects instead of being one continued Prayer and Ideeidedly disapprove of the vain and unnecessary repetition in each Service of the Lord's Prayer, and to its numerous Responses, which are used in no other Protestant Church. I see no reason why the Apocryphal Books should be read publicly in her Churches, nor why the Psalms by a foolish custom should be recited alternately, and every month and I object to the daily recital of the Nine Canticles, especially because five of them are exceedingly exceptionable; the first, (te Deum) because selected verbatim from the Popish Missal, the second, Benedicite because not selected from the Canonical Scriptures, and the remaining three, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, and Benedietns) because I consider them too personal for any congreAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
