Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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C. Knight, 1839
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Página 60 - King's commission gave them no farther power, than to compare the Common Prayer Book with the most ancient Liturgies that had leen used in the Church, in the most primitive and purest times ; requiring them to avoid, as much as possible, all unnecessary alterations of the Forms and Liturgy, wherewith the people were altogether acquainted, and had so long received in the Church of England...
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