...further into the matter, to reflect upon the following sentiment expressed in the very first paragraph, " Particular forms of Divine worship, and the rites and ceremonies appointed to be used therein, are in their own nature indifferent and alterable." What ! the manner in which God is to worshipped...

...England, in the preface to her liturgy, asserts the right of making alterations, by observing, that " the particular forms of divine worship, and the rites...exigency of times and occasions, such changes and alteration* should be made therein, as to those, that are in places of autho» rity, should, from time...

...refusing, and of too much easiness in admiting, any variation from it. The particular form of divin* worship, and the rites and ceremonies appointed to...important considerations, according to the various exigencies of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made therein, as to those,...

...Restoration. Plea VI. ' The preface to our Book of * Common Prayer declares, that " the parti-. " cular forms of divine worship, and the rites " and ceremonies appointed to be used therein, * Edwards's Gangr. Part I. p. 35. 6 3 " being " being things in their own nature indifferent " and...

...hand, as some changes have done more mischief than they were meant to cure, ' so on the other side the ' particular forms of Divine worship, and the...and ceremonies ' appointed to be used therein, being in their own nature in' different and alterable,and so acknowledged, it is but reasonable ' that such...

...was as follows; stronger setting forth the need of alterations from time to time; viz. " Whereas " the particular forms of divine worship, and the rites and ceremonies " appointed to be used therein, are things in their own nature indifferent "and alterable and so acknowledged; it is but reasonable...

...10,, to thirty divines, ten of whom were bishops, which was in the following words ': — " Whereas the particular forms of divine worship, and the rites...important considerations, according to the various exigencies of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made therein, as to those...

...Common Prayer, laid it down as a Rule, that " The Particular Forms of Divine Worship, and the Kites and Ceremonies appointed to be used therein, being...important considerations, according to the various exigencies of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made therein, as to those...

...commission which was established on this occasion was introduced in the following terms : * Whereas, the particular forms of divine worship, and the rites and ceremonies appointed to he used therein, being things in their own nature indifferent and alterable, and so acknowledged, il...

...care and protection, hath, in the Preface of her Book of Common Prayer, laid it down as a Rule, that " The Particular Forms of Divine Worship, and the Rites...important considerations, according to the various exigencies of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made therein, as to those...