Downame - BV209_D69_G6_1640_v1

Thatprayer ought to 6e made in a known tongue; gg ble creature, as Augufline faith; 9Ltid hoc fit quod in In Pfat.i$. Pfalmo dicitur, AB OCCULTIS MUNDA MP, Zn ^EXP°fz.. . telligere debemus, ut human á ratione non quafi avian: voce cantemus: .Nam b merula t pfittaci tr pici hujafrnodi volucres fepe ab hominibus docentur finare quod nefciunt: What this fhould be which is faid in the Pfalme, Cleanfe me from fecret fins, we ought to underhand, that we ought to fing with humane rea- fon, and not (as it were) with the voice of birds: For even black-birds , parrots, pies, and fuch like birds are often taught by men to found that which they do not underhand. So Caffaod. in Pfal.46. Ne- mo Ppienter facit quodnon intelligit : No man Both wifely that which he underftandeth not. 2. Neither doth he pray in fpirit, but the prayer not underflood is a mere lip- labour. The found of the foul is the undemanding. Neither is that any fpeech of the foul which it doth not underhand, neither can they pray but with continual) wandring thoughts : For the mind will not attend that which it doth not underhand: or if they do, they do but at- tend to the words and not to the matter,which they do not underhand. 3. As he which prayeth before others in a lan- guage unknown to them,his underftanding is unpro- fitable to them, neither are they edified thereby; fo when a man prayeth in a language which himfelf underftandeth not, his underftanding is unfruitfull to himfelf. And as he which praying in an unknown tongue to others,is to them a barbarian; fo he which prayeth in a tongue which he doth not underhand, is a barbarian to himfelf. H2 4.Nei-