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Thatprayer ought to k made in a known tongue. all which at this day obfcrve the ancient form of praying in their vulgar languages. De Cyrillo Moraviorurn prxfule, qui vixit goo, neas Sylvias I ifl. Bohm. cap. z 3.f ribit , Ferunt Cyrillum cúrn Rome ageret Bontìfci f pplicaf ut Scla- vorumlinguá ejasgentis homnidus quam baptizav`- rat rein Dtvinam faciens utipofet. De qua re dun» in facro fenatu difputaretur, egéntg, non pauci qui contra - dicerent, auditar vocem tanquam de culo in Ace verba miffam, OMNIS SPIRITUS LAUD ET DOMINUM,17ICmnit.eX- ET OMNIS LINGUA CONFITEATUR EI. Indéqueam.pa;z. datum Cyrillo indultum, &c. They report that Cy- i7". rill when he was at Rome filed unto the Bifhop,that executing Divine fervice he might ufe the tongue of the Sclavonians to the men of that nation which he had baptized. About which when they difputed in the facred fenate, and there were many that gain - faid it, a voice Pent as it were from heaven was heard uttering thefe words, Let everyy rpirit praife the Lord, andlet every tongue confe unto him. And fo Cyrills fuit was granted, &c. And yet will the Papifts be counted Catholicks , who in this point, as in rna- ny more, go againfl the prance and doarine uni- verfall of the Primitive Church for fix hundred yeares after Chrift. But, fay they, the Latine tongue loth better be- objecrl0 come the majefrie of the Divine fervice, which is diminifhed in vulgar languages. The commendation of prayer confifteth not in Anfiv. the language, whereof there is no difference to be made in refpe of G od,but in the fence of the words and devotion of him that prayeth. That which I the 97