A Discourse Concerning Liturgies, and their Imposition

It deserves attention that this pamphlet, with its humble title, "ADiscourse concerning Liturgies," etc., and printed anonymously in 1662,contains the judgment of our author in regard to measures which gaverise to most important events in the ecclesiastical history of England.It is an argument against the liturgy, the imposition of which obligednearly two thousand clergy of the Church of England to resign theirlivings rather than sacrifice a good conscience.On the Restoration, the Book of Common Prayer had been resumed in theroyal chapel at Whitehall; it was ordained to be read in the House ofPeers; and before the year closed, some of the parochial clergy, whoscrupled to use it, were prosecuted according to the laws in forcebefore the civil war.