A discourse concerning liturgies

It is not denied, but there were some Forms of Prayer of old, viz. arbitrary and particular, such as this or that Person composed himself, or made choice of composed by others, for his use in public. There is an intimation of this later sort, Can. 23. Con. Carthag. 3. held in the conclusion of the fourth Age; and it is the first that I meet with. But common Forms (though arbitrary) viz. such as many Churches made use of in the same words, I cannot discover till many years after; unless the Lords Prayer be made an instance hereof^c. This indeed ⟨p. 3⟩was used anciently, but far otherwise then of late, not more then once at one Assembly, not in Prayers before or after Sermon, not at all in the Catechumens office, ^dno where in their ordinary Service; but [Greek or Hebrew] (in 2 Cor. hom. 3.) as Chrysostom calls the Eucharistical Office; and there commonly in the conclusion of the Prayer for the blessing of the Elements.

It is not denyed, but there were some Forms of Prayer of old, viz. arbitrary and particular, such as this or that Person composed himself, or made choice of composed by others, for his use in publick. There is an intimation of this later sort, Can. 23. Con. Carthag. 3. held in the conclusion of the fourth Age; and it is the first that I meet with. But common Forms (though arbitrary) viz. such as many Churches made use of in the same words, I cannot discover till many years after; unless the Lords Prayer be made an instance hereof^c. This indeed ⟨p. 3⟩was used antiently, but far otherwise then of late, not more then once at one Assembly, not in Prayers before or after Sermon, not at all in the Catechumens office, ^dno where in their ordinary Service; but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (in 2 Cor. hom. 3.) as Chrysostom calls the Eucharistical Office; and there commonly in the conclusion of the Prayer for the blessing of the Elements.