A discourse concerning liturgies

In the 12th Canon of that Council, which passeth for the 2d of Milevis, for cum prudentioribus collatae, we have a prudentioribus tractatae^p. A phrase of the same import, signifying the Prayers handled by the more prudent, i. e. debated, discoursed of, and so examined by them, in order to approbation^q, if they were found good, or to amendment, if otherwise. And this sense of tractatae agrees best, both with the other constitutions of those African Churches, and their practice also declared to us by Augustine. But if any notwithstanding will thereby understand the Prayers composed by the more prudent, tractatus being a Sermon in Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine, Optatus, in Thornd. 176. and I will thence infer, the more prudent had no more liberty in Praying then in ⟨p. 56⟩Preaching. If I should yield this, it would be no great disadvantage. For, as they were not tied to use Sermons composed by others, being much below those Worthies, orations alieno formare ingenio, to owe their public Discourses to another's invention; so they had and took liberty to Preach, either ex tempore, or upon premeditation; and the former way commonly.

In the 12th Canon of that Council, which passeth for the 2d of Milevis, for cum prudentioribus collatae, we have a prudentioribus tractatae^p. A phrase of the same import, signifying the Prayers handled by the more prudent, i. e. debated, discoursed of, and so examined by them, in order to approbation^q, if they were found good, or to amendment, if otherwise. And this sense of tractatae agrees best, both with the other constitutions of those African Churches, and their practice also declared to us by Augustine. But if any notwithstanding will thereby understand the Prayers composed by the more prudent, tractatus being a Sermon in Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine, Optatus, in Thornd. 176. and I will thence inferr, the more prudent had no more liberty in Praying then in ⟨p. 56⟩