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There was one Mamercus bishop of Vienna / which in the time of great ¹earthquakes which were in France / instituted certain supplications / which the Grecians / & we of them call the Litany / which concerned that matter: there is no doubt but as other discommodities rose in other countries / they likewise had prayers accordingly. Now Pope Gregory either made himself / or gathered the supplications that were made against the calamities of every country / and made of them a great Litany or supplication / as Platina calleth it / and gave it to be used in all churches: which thing albeit all churches might do for the time in respect of the case of the calamity which the churches suffered / yet there is no cause why it should be perpetual / that was ordained but for a time / and why all lands should pray to be delivered from the incommodities / that some land hath been troubled with.

There was one Mamercus bishop of Vienna / whych in the time of great ¹earthquakes whych were in Fraunce / instituted certaine supplications / whych the Grecians / & we of them call the Letany / whych concerned that matter: there is no doubte but as other discommodities rose in other countreys / they likewise had prayers accordingly. Nowe Pope Gregorie eyther made himselfe / or gathered the supplications that were made againste the calamities of euery countrey / and made of them a great Letany or supplication / as Platina calleth it / and gaue it to be vsed in all churches: whych thing albeit all churches might do for the time in respect of the case of the casamity whych the churches suffered / yet there is no cause why it should be perpetuall / that was ordained but for a time / and why all landes should pray to be deliuered from the incommodities / that some land hathe bene troubled wyth.

1. 1Platina cap. Leo.

The like may be said of the gloria patri, and the Athanasius Creed: it was first brought into the church / to the end that: nen thereby should make an open profession in the church of the divinity of the Son of God / against the detestable opinion of Arius and his disciples / wherewith at that time marvellously swarmed almost the whole christendom / now that it hath pleased the Lord to quench that fire / there is no such cause why these things should be in the church / at the least why that gloria patri, should be so often repeated.