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Excerpt from Fragmenta Liturgica; Documents, Illustrative of the Liturgy of the Church of England, Vol. 3 of 7: Exhibiting the Several Emendations of It, and Substitutions for It, That Have Been Proposed From Time to Time, and Partially Adopted, Whether at Home or Abroad; Whiston's Primitive Liturgy
IN order to demonstrate the authentic nature of the Aposto lical Constitutions, with their settlements; to recommend the reception of the same to all Christians, and particularly to the genuine members of the Church of England; and to pro vide a good, though imperfect, form of Christian Worship for sincere and pious persons in the mean time, till those more sacred and apostolical remains can be fully examined into, received, and put in practice by them; I do here, Christian Reader, present thee with the Liturgy of our Church, as reduced nearer to the primitive standard. I do not mean this so much of the present Liturgy, (whose modern language however newer translations and valuable improvements are hereinto admitted, as of that original and much better Liturgy which our pious Reformers, upon mature considera tion and consultation of the old books of our religion, drew up, and made use of in the first and best period of the Reformation, under King Edward VI. This noble Liturgy, which is for the main so undoubtedly supported by the most ancient records of Christianity, was indeed forced in a few.
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