A discourse concerning liturgies

To proceed; The words in their delivery of the Elements were not of old prescribed, nor used in any unvariable Form. We need not go so high, for proof of this, as the sixth Age. Later and worse times afford evidence ⟨p. 90⟩enough to satisfy us. Only, in our way, the observation of truly noble Du Plessis, as to the former Ages, is true beyond contradiction, inter dandum vero verba hujus mysterii significativa, [Greek or Hebrew] quaeque praeferebant, ita tamen, ut certis & statis sese non alligabant. De Miss. p. 145. And the vanity used herein, both by Greeks and Latins Churches, is worth our notice, as he tells us, Contra adversariorum Superstitionem, qui Sacramentorum, tum distributionem tum Consecrationem, certis verbis adligare voluerunt; in reference to the Superstition of the Papists, (which it were to be wished they had kept to themselves,) who would have both the consecration and distribution of the Sacraments, confined to a set of words. p. 155.

To proceed; The words in their delivery of the Elements were not of old prescribed, nor used in any unvariable Form. We need not go so high, for proof of this, as the sixth Age. Later and worse times afford evidence ⟨p. 90⟩enough to satisfie us. Only, in our way, the observation of truly noble Du Plessis, as to the former Ages, is true beyond contradiction, inter dandum vero verba hujus mysterii significativa, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 quaeque praeferebant, ita tamen, ut certis & statis sese non alligabant. De Miss. p. 145. And the vanity used herein, both by Greeks and Latins Churches, is worth our notice, as he tells us, Contra adversariorum Superstitionem, qui Sacramentorum, tum distributionem tum Consecrationem, certis verbis adligare voluerunt; in reference to the Superstition of the Papists, (which it were to be wished they had kept to themselves,) who would have both the consecration and distribution of the Sacraments, confined to a set of words. p. 155.