A33360:153
A discourse concerning liturgies
A discourse concerning liturgies by ... David Clarkson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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Those who had liberty, when they were offering supplications and praises, in the celebration of the Eucharist, to pray as occasion was offered, and to put up such Petitions as they thought fit, upon ⟨p. 67⟩particular emergencies, were not confined to set forms in that administration.
Cyprian's occasional Praises and Prayers, in sacrificiis, upon Lucius return from banishment; Hic quoque in sacrificiis atque orationibus nostris, non cessantes, Deo Patri, & Christo filio ejus Domino nostro, gratias agere, & orare pariter & petere, ut qui Perfectus est atque proficiens, custodiat & persiciat in vobis confessionis vestrae gloriosam Coronam, qui & ad hoc vos fortasse revocavit, ne gloria esset occulta, si foris essent confessionis vestrae consummata martyria. Cypr. epist. l. 3. ep. 1. p. 53.
Cyprians occasional Praises and Prayers, in sacrificiis, upon Lucius return from banishment; Hic quoque in sacrificiis atque orationibus nostris, non cessantes, Deo Patri, & Christo filio ejus Domino nostro, gratias agere, & orare pariter & petere, ut qui Perfectus est atque proficiens, custodiat & persiciat in vobis confessionis vestrae gloriosam Coronam, qui & ad hoc vos fortasse revocavit, ne gloria esset occulta, si foris essent confessionis vestrae consummata martyria. Cypr. epist. l. 3. ep. 1. p. 53.
Add to this, what may be observed in Ambrose, Epist. 33. Ad Marcellinam sororem. He, whiles he was celebrating, about 387. Spond. p. 2. (missam facere caepi) and employed, as I suppose, in this Prayer *(dumb offero) understanding what the Arians were doing, and what had befallen Castulus; he orders the Prayer suitably to that occasion; Orare in ipsa oblatione Deum caepi, ut subveniret. [Sequente die, erat autem dominica, post lectiones atque tractatum, dimissis catechumenis, symbolum aliquibus competentibus in Baptisteriis tradebam basilicis, illic nunciatum est mihi comperto, quod ad Portianam Basilicam de palatio Decanos misissent (Ariani) ut vela suspenderent, Populi partem eo pergere. Ego tamen mansi in munere; missam facere cepi. Dumb offero, raptum a Populo cognovi Castulum quendam, quem Presbyterum dicebant Ariani, orar in ipsa oblatione Deum caepi, ut subveniret.]