A discourse concerning liturgies

To this prayer we may refer what we find of Jerome, who complains that in his time, the oblations ^awere publicly mentioned by the Deacon, and the names of the offerers recited, yea and the quantity of what they offered, and also of what they promised to offer, in Ezek l. 6. c. 18. Publice in ecclesia Diaconus recitat Offerentium nomina, tantum offert ille, tantum ille pollicitus est. Which he sharply censures, Placent sibi ad plausum Populi torquente eos Conscientia; they delight in the applause of the people, whiles their Conscience torments them. The like complaint he makes in Jer. c. 11. Nunc publice recitantur offerentium nomina, & Redemptio peccatorum recitatur in laudem. Now ⟨p. 66⟩who can believe, that a practice, worthy of so sharp a rebuke, was publicly prescribed; or if it had been prescribed for common use, would have been so severely censured? And therefore, what can be thought, but that those, who officiated, were left to their liberty, to use what expressions they thought fit? If there had been a rule or prescription, limiting them to any thing better; he would have taken notice of it; and of this usage, as a transgression of the established order.

To this prayer we may refer what we find of Jerom, who complains that in his time, the oblations ^awere publickly mentioned by the Deacon, and the names of the offerers recited, yea and the quantity of what they offered, and also of what they promised to offer, in Ezek l. 6. c. 18. Publice in ecclesia Diaconus recitat Offerentium nomina, tantum offert ille, tantum ille pollicitus est. Which he sharply censures, Placent sibi ad plausum Populi torquente eos Conscientia; they delight in the applause of the people, whiles their Conscience torments them. The like complaint he makes in Jer. c. 11. Nunc publice recitantur offerentium nomina, & Redemptio peccatorum recitatur in laudem. Now ⟨p. 66⟩who can believe, that a practice, worthy of so sharp a rebuke, was publickly prescribed; or if it had been prescribed for common use, would have been so severely censured? And therefore, what can be thought, but that those, who officiated, were left to their liberty, to use what expressions they thought fit? If there had been a rule or prescription, limiting them to any thing better; he would have taken notice of it; and of this usage, as a transgression of the established order.