A discourse concerning liturgies

The Learned Remonstrant says, in answer to this, that in Justin Martyrs time, they prayed according to their ability, and yet had a public Liturgy, as we have, though ours pray according to their ability: (meaning, I suppose, before and after Sermon.) And so he grants (if I understand him) that they used no public Liturgy, in celebrating or consecrating the Eucharist; (for of the Prayer for sanctifying the Elements the Holy Martyr speaks it); and thereby yields all that we now allege it for, and in effect all that we desire: Since it will be easy to satisfy the World, that, if they used no public Liturgy, no prescribed Forms of Prayer, in this part of Worship, they used none, in any. And [Greek or Hebrew],¹ in this very passage, rendered by themselves in like manner as before; gives us notice, that as they prayed here, so in like manner they prayed in the other parts of Worship, which he had given account of immediately before, in Baptism, in the Lords Supper, in all [Greek or Hebrew], according to their ability, without any public, any prescribed Liturgy.

The Learned Remonstrant sayes, in answer to this, that in Justin Martyrs time, they prayed according to their ability, and yet had a publick Liturgy, as we have, though ours pray according to their ability: (meaning, I suppose, before and after Sermon.) And so he grants (if I understand him) that they used no publick Liturgy, in celebrating or consecrating the Eucharist; (for of the Prayer for sanctifying the Elements the Holy Martyr speaks it); and thereby yields all that we now alleadge it for, and in effect all that we desire: Since it will be easie to satisfie the World, that, if they used no publick Liturgy, no prescribed Forms of Prayer, in this part of Worship, they used none, in any. And 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,¹ in this very passage, rendered by themselves in like manner as before; gives us notice, that as they prayed here, so in like manner they prayed in the other parts of Worship, which he had given account of immediately before, in Baptism, in the Lords Supper, in all 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, according to their ability, without any publick, any prescribed Liturgy.

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