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The shreds cited by you prove a Liturgy indeed, such as we have used while the Common Prayer Book was not used, where the Psalms, the words of Baptism, of Consecration, Commemoration, and delivery of the Lord's Supper, and many other, were used in a constant Form, when other parts were used as the Minister found most meet; so Sursum Corda was but a warning before, or in the midst of Devotion, such as our [Let us Pray] and will no more prove, that the substance of Prayer was not left to the Ministers present or prepared Conception, than Ite Missa est, will prove it. The Gloria Patri, Bellarm. himself saith, according to the common opinion, was formed in the Council of Nice, which was in the 4th. Century. And even then such a particular testimony against the Arians, might well stand with a body of unimposed Prayers; and rather shows, that in other things they were left at liberty. If the Benedicite, the Hymns, or other passages here mentioned, will prove such a Liturgy as pleaseth you, we pray you bear with our way of Worship, which hath more of Hymns and other Forms, than the•e come to. That these Liturgies had no Original from General Councils, adds nothing with us to their Authority, but showeth that they had an arbitrary Original; and all set together shows, that then they had many Liturgies in one Princes Dominion, and those alterable, and not forced; and that they took not one Liturgy to be any necessary means to the Churches Uni•• or Peace, but bore with those that used various at discretion. We well remember that Tertul. tells the Heathens, that Christians showed by their conceived Hymns, that they were sober at their Religious Feasts; it being their Custom [ut quisque de Scripturis sanctis, vel de proprio ingenio potest, provocetur in medium Deo canere] Apol. cap. 39. Note here, 1. That though there be more need of Forms for Singing, than for Praying; yet even in this, the Christians in public had then a liberty of doing it de proprio ingenio, by their own wit or parts. 2. That those that did not de proprio ingenio, did it de Scripturis sanctis, and that ⟨p. 92⟩there is no mention of any other Liturgy, from which they fetched so much as their Hymns. And the same Tertul. Apol. c. 30.

The shreds cited by you prove a Lyturgy indeed, such as we have used while the Common Prayer Book was not used, where the Psalms, the words of Baptism, of Consecration, Commemoration, and delivery of the Lord's Supper, and many other, were used in a constant Form, when other parts were used as the Minister found most meet; so Sursum Corda was but a warning before, or in the midst of Devotion, such as our [Let us Pray] and will no more prove, that the substance of Prayer was not left to the Ministers present or prepared Conception, than Ite Missa est, will prove it. The Gloria Patri, Bellarm. himself saith, according to the common opinion, was formed in the Conncil of Nice, which was in the 4th. Century. And even then such a particular testimony against the Arrians, might well stand with a body of unimposed Prayers; and rather shews, that in other things they were left at liberty. If the Benedicite, the Hymns, or other passages here mentioned, will prove such a Lyturgy as pleaseth you, we pray you bear with our way of Worship, which hath more of Hymns and other Forms, than thee come to. That these Lyturgies had no Original from General Councils, adds nothing with us to their Authority, but sheweth that they had an arbitary Original; and all set together shews, that then they had many Lyturgies in one Princes Dominion, and those alterable, and not forced; and that they took not one Liturgy to be any necessary means to the Churches Uni or Peace, but bore with those that used various at discretion. We well remember that Tertul. tels the Heathens, that Christians shewed by their conceived Hymns, that they were sober at their Religious Feasts; it being their Custom [ut quisque de Scripturis sanctis, vel de proprio ingenio potest, provocetur in medium Deo canere] Apol. cap. 39. Note here, 1. That though there be more need of Forms for Singing, than for Praying; yet even in this, the Christians in publick had then a liberty of doing it de proprio ingenio, by their own wit or parts. 2. That those that did not de proprio ingenio, did it de Scripturis sanctis, and that