A33360:137
A discourse concerning liturgies
A discourse concerning liturgies by ... David Clarkson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And those, who having much more work as Pastors, did Preach ordinarily every day, and some days twice; yea sometimes twice in a forenoon, and thrice in one day; (as Bishops in those and former times did) it cannot be thought, but many of their Sermons were born as soon as conceived. Such were their tractates: Nor was it then thought canting, to ascribe such Discourses to the assistance of the Holy Spirit. Nazianzen being to discourse of the Holy Ghost, prays for his assistance, that he might thereby be enabled for the expressions, [Greek or Hebrew]. That I may open the mysteries of the Spirit, let me have the presence of the Spirit, to give such expressions as I desire; or if not so much, yet what may be agreeable to the season, Orat. 44. and says also, they both studied and spoke, inspired by it. The Spirit, as he adds, blows where it listeth, and inspires whom, and where, and how ⟨p. 60⟩much he will, [Greek or Hebrew]; accordingly we are inspired, both to meditate and speak by the Spirit, p. 709.
And those, who having much more work as Pastors, did Preach ordinarily every day, and some days twice; yea sometimes twice in a forenoon, and thrice in one day; (as Bishops in those and former times did) it cannot be thought, but many of their Sermons were born as soon as conceived. Such were their tractates: Nor was it then thought canting, to ascribe such Discourses to the assistance of the Holy Spirit. Nazianzen being to discourse of the Holy Ghost, prays for his assistance, that he might thereby be enabled for the expressions, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. That I may open the mysteries of the Spirit, let me have the presence of the Spirit, to give such expressions as I desire; or if not so much, yet what may be agreeable to the season, Orat. 44. and says also, they both studied and spoke, inspired by it. The Spirit, as he adds, blowes where it listeth, and inspires whom, and where, and how ⟨p. 60⟩much he will, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; accordingly we are inspired, both to meditate and speak by the Spirit, p. 709.