A discourse concerning liturgies

But though they used the words of it there, yet not out of any apprehension, that Christ did enjoin them there to use it. Augustine declares it plainly ^ethat Christ in the delivery of those Petitions, did not teach his Disciples what words they should use in Prayer, but what things they should pray ⟨p. 4⟩for; and understands it to be a direction for secret and mental Prayer, where no words are to be used. The coherence in Matth. 6. led him to explain it of such Praying, as Christ is speaking of ver. 6. which he took to be mental, and none deny to be secret.

But though they used the words of it there, yet not out of any apprehension, that Christ did injoin them there to use it. Augustine declares it plainly ^ethat Christ in the delivery of those Petitions, did not teach his Disciples what words they should use in Prayer, but what things they should pray ⟨p. 4⟩for; and understands it to be a direction for secret and mental Prayer, where no words are to be used. The coherence in Matth. 6. led him to explain it of such Praying, as Christ is speaking of ver. 6. which he took to be mental, and none deny to be secret.

1. eAug. Non te ergo movet Dominus summus Magister, cum orare doceret Discipulos, verba quaedam docuit, in quo nihil aliud videtur fecisse, quam docuisse quomodo in orando loqui oporteret? Ad. Nihil me omnino istud movet, non enim verba, sed •es ipsas cos verbes docuit, quibus & seipsi common•sacerent, a quo q•id esset orandum, cum in penetralibus, ut dictum est mentis, orarect. Aug, Recte intelligis. Lib. de Magistro. cap. 1. p. 172. tom. 1. edit. Lugdan. To the same purpose Bede in