Book of Common Prayer 1662 selections - The Parliament of England
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the preface it hath been the wisdom of the church of england ever since the first compiling of her public liturgy to keep the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in refusing and of too much easiness in omitting any variation from it for as on the one side common experience showeth that where a change hath been made of things advisedly established no evident necessity so requiring sundry inconveniences have thereupon ensued and those many times more and greater than the evils that were intended to be remedied by such change so on the other side the particular forms of divine worship and the rites and ceremonies appointed to be used therein being things in their own nature indifferent and alterable and so acknowledged
it is but reasonable that upon weighty and important considerations according to the various exigency of times and occasions such changes and alterations should be made therein as to those that are in place for authority should from time to time deem either necessary or expedient accordingly we find that in the reigns of several princes of blessed memory since the reformation the church upon just and weighty considerations her thereunto moving hath yielded to make such alterations in some particulars as in their responsive times were thought convenient yet so as that the main body and essentials of it as well as in the chiefest materials as in the frame and order thereof have still continued the same unto this day and do yet stand firm and unshaken notwithstanding all the vain attempts and impetuous assaults made against it by such men as are given to change and have always discovered a greater regard to their own private fancies and interests than to that duty they owe to the public
by what undue means and for what mischievous purposes the use of the liturgy though enjoined by the laws of the land and those laws never yet repealed came during the late unhappy confusions to be discontinued is too well known to the world and we are not willing here to remember but when upon his majesty's happy restoration it seemed probable that amongst other things the use of the liturgy also would return of course the same never having been legally abolished unless some timely means were used to prevent it those men who under the late usurped powers had made it a great part of their business to render the people disaffected thereunto saw themselves in point of reputation and interest concerned unless they would freely acknowledge themselves to have erred which such men are very hardly brought to do with their utmost endeavours to hinder the restitution thereof
in order whereunto divers pamphlets were published against the book of common prayer the old objections mustered up with the addition of some new ones more than formerly had been made to make the number swell in fine great importunities were used to his sacred majesty that the said book might be revised and such alterations therein and additions thereunto made as should be thought requisite for the ease of tender consciences whereunto his majesty out of his pious inclination to give satisfaction so far as could reasonably be expected to all his subjects of whatever persuasion soever did graciously condescend in which review we have endeavoured to observe the like moderation as we find to have been used in the like case in former times and therefore of the sundry alterations proposed unto us we have rejected all such as either were of dangerous consequence as secretly striking at some established doctrine or laudable practice of the church of england or indeed of the whole catholic church of christ
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