The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: Together with the Psalter, Or Psalms of David

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The fame Church hath not only in her Preface, but likewife in her Articles and Homilies, ' declared the ne ceflity and expediency of occafional alterations and amendments in her Forms of Public Worflrip; and we find accordingly, that, fecking to] keep the happy mean between too much fiiaefs in refuting, and too much eafinefs' in admitting variations in things once advifedly efiablifhed, {he hath, in the reign of feveral Princes, ' fince the firft compiling of her Liturgy in the time of Edward the Sixth, upon juft and weighty con fiderations her the'reunto moving, yielded to make fuch alterations in fome particulars, as in. Their refpeé'tiv'e times were thought fconvenient yet fo as thatthe maill body and effentral parts of the fame (as well in the chiefefi materials; as in the frame and order thereof) have f'rill been continued firm and unfhaken.

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