A discourse concerning liturgies

We have, in the English Service Book, a Prayer for the whole state of Christs Church, pretended to be answerable to this Prayer we are upon; and indeed the only Prayer in the Book, that can pretend to any footsteps of Antiquity, so high as the fourth Age. Now suppose the Bishop of L. should be accused, in that prayer to prefer such a petition for the Primate of Ireland, Domine praesta I., ut recte credat; what course would the Bishop take, to clear himself of this accusation? Would not the dullest of his Chaplains appeal to the prayer it self, being invariably used, as the best way to demonstrate ⟨p. 64⟩the charge was false; which yet the Bishop of Cyprus, supposed to be just in the same circumstances, did not offer at? Nay he denies not, &c. ut supra.

But let us proceed with his answer; quando autem complemus orationem secundum ritum mysteriorum, & pro omnibus, & pro te quoque dicimus, custodi illum qui praedicat veritatem. Vel certe ita, tii praesta Domine, & custodi, ut ille verbum praedicet veritatis; sicut occasio Sermonis see tulerit, & habuerit oratio consequentiam: He says, they prayed for all Pastors (all that preached) which shows it to be the general prayer, wherein they were wont [Greek or Hebrew]. Clem. Const. l. 2. c. 51. vid. Lest 190) and for him also; but in what expressions they did it, he is doubtful. It is but one article of this prayer he gives an account of. It is the same thing (preaching the truth) and the same persons, (those that preached) he is telling us they prayed for. And they prayed but for the same persons and things once in the same prayer; and yet he cannot tell determinately what words they used, as appears evidently, by his disjunction vel.

But let us proceed with his answer; quando autem complemus orationem secundum ritum mysteriorum, & pro omnibus, & pro te quoque dicimus, custodi illum qui praedicat veritatem. Vel certe ita, tii praesta Domine, & custodi, ut ille verbum praedicet veritatis; sicut occasio Sermonis se tulerit, & habuerit oratio consequentiam: He sayes, they prayed for all Pastors (all that preached) which shews it to be the general prayer, wherein they were wont . Clem. Const. l. 2. c. 51. vid. Lest 190) and for him also; but in what expressions they did it, he is doubtful. It is but one article of this prayer he gives an account of. It is the same thing (preaching the truth) and the same persons, (those that preached) he is telling us they prayed for. And they prayed but for the same persons and things once in the same prayer; and yet he cannot tell determinately what words they used, as appears evidently, by his disjunction vel.