There was also some kind of Uniformity in their Sacramental Prayers; that is, a general agreement to pray for the same things, though not in the same words. They might have said thereof, quamlibet alia verba dicamus, nihil aliud dicimus. This appeared especially in the general Prayer before the Eucharist. Therein for whom, and for what they prayed, very many of the Ancients give some account. Thereby it is manifest, that they prayed for the same persons, (for all of all sorts) and for ⟨p. 6⟩the same things, with respect to the various conditions of those several sorts of persons; and this in variety of expressions. So that herein was exemplified that of Augustine, Liberum est aliis atque aliis verbis, eadem tamen in orando dicere, Epist. 121. And this is the Uniformity in Prayer which Caelestine urgeth against the Pelagians; Epist. pro Prosper. & Hilar. c. 11. All Churches through the World agreeing to pray for those persons, and those things, which were inconsistent with their Tenets. And that mode of Praying, which as the Author of the Books, de vocatione Gentium, gsays, the Lord, by the Apostle, having prescribed, the devotion of all sorts did concorditer observe.
There was also some kind of Uniformity in their Sacramental Prayers; that is, a general agreement to pray for the same things, though not in the same words. They might have said thereof, quamlibet alia verba dicamus, nihil aliud dicimus. This appeared especially in the general Prayer before the Eucharist. Therein for whom, and for what they prayed, very many of the Antients give some account. Thereby it is manifest, that they prayed for the same persons, (for all of all sorts) and for ⟨p. 6⟩the same things, with respect to the various conditions of those several sorts of persons; and this in variety of expressions. So that herein was exemplified that of Augustine, Liberum est aliis atque aliis verbis, eadem tamen in orando dicere, Epist. 121. And this is the Uniformity in Prayer which Caelestine urgeth against the Pelagians; Epist. pro Prosper. & Hilar. c. 11. All Churches through the World agreeing to pray for those persons, and those things, which were inconsistent with their Tenets. And that mode of Praying, which as the Author of the Books, de vocatione Gentium, gsays, the Lord, by the Apostle, having prescribed, the devotion of all sorts did concorditer observe.
- gPraecipit itaque Apostolus, im• per Apostolum Dominus fieri obsecrationes, &c. pro omnibus hominibus, pro Regi•us, &c. quam legem supplicationis it a omnium Sacerdotum, & omnium fidelium devotio concorditer tenet, ut nulla pars mundi sit, in qua hujusmodi orationes non celebrentur a populis Christianis. Supplicat ergo ubique Ecclesia Deo, non solum pro Sanctis, & in Christo jam regeneratis; sed etiam, pro omnibus infidelibus & inimicis crucis Christi, pro omnibus Idolorum cultoribus; pro omnibus, qui Christum in membris ipsius prosequuntur; pro Jud•is—pro Haereticis & Schismaticis—Quid autem pro istis petit, nisi ut, relictis erroribus suis, convertantur ad Deum, accipiant fidem, accipiant charitatem, & de ignor antiae tenebris liberati, in agnitionem veniant veritatis. De voc. Gent. lib. 1. cap. 12.
