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96 That prayer ought to be made in a known tengue: know not the meaning ofthe voyce, I /hall be to him that fpeaketh a barbarian, and he that fpeaketh /hall be a bar - l.? 14. barian. unto me; not fimply,but to me, faith Chryfo- /'come. Hierome truly faith, omnts frmo qui non in- telligitur barbaras judicatur : All fpeech not under - flood is deemed barbarous. So Ovid in banifhment, Ue x`iRib' Barbaras hic ego fur quia non inteltiçor ulli, liG. s. eleg. r i , I am barbarous here, becaufe I am note underflood by any. 2. The minifter and people meeting to public k prayer ufe not publick prayer but private, for it is not the place but the congregation that ma_ keth it publick. But the minifter praying in an un- known language, his prayer is private; and the peo- ple when they do pray at all, betake themfelves to their private devotions. Hereunto adde examples and precedents. For the Patriarchs and Prophets under the law,theApoflles and Primitive Church did alwayes pray in a known tongue. Neither can any found teflimonie or ap- proved example be produced to the contrary for fix hundred yeares after Chrifl. Vitalicus the Pope about the yeare 666 , which is the number of the beaft whofe name is Attr pp-, is thought to have been the firft authour of this ordinance, concerning Conan cet- Divine fervice to be done in Latine. Origen faith, fiam, lib s. That every nation in their mother tongue make their prayers unto God and yield him due praifes. So Bafil , Epi fl. 63. ad der. Iveoccefar. And to the examples of the ancient Church we may adde the practice not onely of the reformed Churches, but alfo of the Ethiopians and Egyptians, Syrians, Ar- menians, Mofcovites,Moravians, and Sclavonians; all