A33360:159
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.
Many several ways are taken to evade this; no way of one, it seems, satisfying another amongst themselves; by which we may guess, what satisfaction they are like to give to others.
cOne tells us, it is a complement of Civility, as when we say, Ago gratias, non quas debeo, sed quas possum; or quantas possum maximas. But, not well pleased with this (it seems) himself, (at which we need not wonder) he tells us (which will no more please others) of some, (Learned too) who understand it of giving God thanks, with as loud a voice, as he is able; [Greek or Hebrew].
cOne tells us, it is a complement of Civility, as when we say, Ago gratias, non quas debeo, sed quas possum; or quantas possum maximas. But, not well pleased with this (it seems) himself, (at which we need not wonder) he tells us (which will no more please others) of some, (Learned too) who understand it of giving God thanks, with as loud a voice, as he is able; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- cAnonym. p. 18. Use of daily public Prayers.Anonym. p. 18. Use of dayly publick Prayers.
dAnother brings an instance, where [Greek or Hebrew] is thought to be applied to a Form; This is in Gregory Nazianzen, [Greek or Hebrew], come let us, as we are able, sing a Triumph, the Song which Israel sometimes sung, upon the overthrow of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. But here, by [Greek or Hebrew], the Song which Israel sung, we need no more understand the very same words of that Song, then