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That prayer ought to be made in a known tongue. 95 publick prayers , not that God but that men may heare. But that the people ought to underftand the pub- That _tz' lick prayers,I prove, i. Becaufe, as I have faid, it is people ought to under their prayer , whereunto alto they are to give their stand pub_ confent, which the Apofle faith they cannot do lick prayer xanleffe they underftand what is fpoken, v. i 6. 2. Prayer uttered ib a language unknown is un- profitable to the congregati.on, as the Apoftle faith; ¡f r come to you fpeaking with tongues, what /ball l profit you ? v. 6. fuck an one f eaketh in the aire, v. 9. that is, faith the Greek Scholiaf,,ad?tw ;áv,,42x, s,invainand unprofitably; &, his underflanding is unprofrtable,v.t4. So Bafil,'o v á yVWstt, Ñ 77,7; 7rdego ¡icax 7';7s vt9scdiVi , ¿%+( - Bafl. in der 7rs RIP ó vás pit 04'056 26We,,utitAvós c shgthJe, that is, When b'eb.178. as the words of the prayer are not underfloodof thole that areprefent, the underflanding is without fruit ,f that no man ( prayeth with the profit of another. So Oecumenius 5 'owe, a i,e u t, s, a'vrváooñs,We are not unpro- fitable unto you. Thirdly, all things =aft be done to edification: Which generali the Apofle applyeth to this parti- cular, v. z6. For it is a moil true Paying of Augu- De Genef ad fine, Nemo .edifiicatur audiencia quod non intelligit: literam, No man is edified by hearing that which he doth ""'"If* 8*- not underftand. Fourthly,all things muff be done decently and in order, v. 40. But when publick prayers are made in an unknown language, there happeneth much diforder and confufion , like that of Babel. The Minifter though he (peak Latine is a barbarian to thepeople, and the people to the Minifter,v. i t. If I hnosts