IO 1 profitable Expofition atiouof man , till the corruption of ROMP infeded the Church , there is nor one to bee produced that eitherbeeing a Minifletof,Common Prayer, made it in a tongue that the people knew not, or being a privateman,prayed pri- uatelyhewi(lnotwhat? Not one Prophet, not one Apollle, notoneman, or woman of holymemory in the Booke of God,that euer vied it: and vet they prai- edas often,as much, as zealoufly,as fruitfully, & as commendably,as we J. Crow, yea happie wee , if we were.likethem. And is it nothing to lesue the example ()t- all :hele Saints, and to goe a courfe that not one ofthem euer prartifed ?Is there Ike comfort in a thing neuer vied, and euer vied of Gods chofen ? .How then are fome bewitched in miau matters to relic vpon examples, and alert o bee fpying and prying into the scayes and workes of weaker men ten thoufand partes, and yet in this matter foweightieand great,to call behind them the praetife of fuch great ones, and neuer to regard it for the publike prayers of the Clutch it bath suer moiled me line I knew it, what Lfee recorded; by indifferent men in this Their badge- behalfe i Saint Theron:: fpeaking of the Pompe of Parches funerali in his Epitaphe ',rentagat>rfihe made oflier, & Ihewiug what concurle was to it of people ofdiuers languages it. plainely layeth it downe;that cuery onehad the tongue they vnderflood in their C ap. t s, sd common praiers, and not a ftrange one . And yet none of them was neitherHe- finesn. brew, Greeke, nor Latine, which fome count onely holy , but the Syriacke De catechi- S. v/Igufline willing the Priefls to apply their Lindy to correa the errors oftheir zandisrudi- Latinelpeech in thofedaies, addeth this reafon :vr populruadidquoet plan intelligit bus. dicat, Amen : That the people tot hat which they hi lyvnderflandmayanfwere, Cap.9. Ad Amen. Note-tile cu[ lome ofthe Church then, and the faithfull cam of this god- futem. ly father for the people, that no let might be to their vnder(landirig of the coin- mou prayers. The fame father againe in an other place faying that wee need not Demagifro anyvtterance ofwords aiwaies to pray veto God, becaufe the Sacrifice of lu(tice is principia is fandified inthe Temple of the mind and in the ferret chambers ofthe heart,by and byobieéteth to himfelfe, wherefore then doth the Prie(l liftvp his voice,.& pray aloud in the open atrembly in the Church, and then anfwereth to the fame thus : Not that God, butthat men may heare him , and that the people by the foundofhis voice & vnder[landing of his meaning,may be put in minde, and by lug.dedac- confentioyned together, &lihvp to God. Againe he faith, ,,Qzidprsdefllaquteti- trtna chrtfli- snis integritas, quam non fepiturintelletius audientis? Cum loquendt sesmao nulls f,t cau- anali6 g, fa, fi quadloquimurnoninte/ ligunt, proper quos ,vt:ntelligant,loquimur. What profit is cap, 5G. there inlpeech be it neuer 1h perel, if ehe vnder(landing of the hearer cannot attaine it. For there is no cau[è why we fhould fpcake at all, if theyvnderfland not what we fpeake, for wholefake we fpeake that they may vnderflandvs. Againe, (Men" menfinefmas efl, hoc slit, quando id quad diciturnon imelligitur. My mind is without fruit, This the ApottleS, Paul. faith, when the thing that is fpoken is not perceiued. And againe,Stintcllcthem mentis remoueas, nemo adificatus audiendo pod non int elligit. Set apart thevnderflanding of the mind, and no man hath fruit or lurfa1,99, pprofit of the thing that heperceiuethnot. Quid opus cfliubilare& non intelligereiu- bilationem, viVornof lrafolaiubilet &cornoniu6iles: Somasemmtordtintellearesef, Whatneedeth vs toting ifwe vnderlland not what we fing; to fingwith our voice & not with our heart ?For vnderflanding is the found or voice ofthe heart.Thefe are moll plaine teflimoni es,&worthy confideration, ifwe defire a trueth. Origen againe very plainely faith of filch things as are read in the Church. Non fui ¡et neceffariumlegi bac in ecclef,a,n f ex bioadificatio aliqua sudientibus pra beretur? It fhould neuer need to read them vnletfe fome edification fhould come by them to the hearer? But without vnder[landingweknowe not what edification is, and thereforeOrgent iudgernentis openly this, that ifScriptures and prayers fhould be in a orange tongue, then it were as good that there were neuer any at all of ei- Lexi. cap.7, eher ofthem: O marke it I cyprian next as Ratly e againe, Not the found of the voice,but the mind andvnderllanding muff pray vnto the Lord with pure in- tention.
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