Having begged pardon of our sins, and deprecated vengeance, it proceedeth to evil in general, and some few sins in particular, and thence to a more particular enumeration of judgments; and thence to a recitation of the parts of that work of our redemption, and thence to the deprecation of judgments again, and thence to prayers for the King and magistrates, and then for all nations, and then for love and obedience, &c.
The very points here objected to as faults I should have selected as excellencies.

For do not the duties and temptations occur in real life even so intermingled?
The imperfection of thought much more of language, so singly successive, allows no better representation of the close neighbourhood, nay the co-inherence of duty in duty, desire in desire.
Every want of the heart pointing Godward is a chili agon that touches at a thousand points.

From these remarks I except the last paragraph of s.
12: (As to the prayer for Bishops and Curates and the position of the General Thanksgiving, &c.) which are defects so palpable and so easily removed, that nothing but antipathy to the objectors could have retained them.
13.

The like defectiveness and disorder is in the Communion Collects for the day....

There is no more reason why it should be appropriate to that day than another, or rather be a common petition for all days, &c.
I do not see how these supposed improprieties, for want of appropriateness to the day, could be avoided without risk of the far greater evil of too great appropriation to particular Saints and days as in Popery.