A discourse concerning liturgies

It is granted also, that divers Churches had a certain order, wherein they agreed to administer the several parts of Worship, and particularly the severals in the Sacraments; so as each had its known ⟨p. 5⟩and fixed place. An order there is visible in Chrysostom, in 2 Cor. hom. 18. p. 647. and in Augustine to Paulinus, epist. 59. quaest. 5. p. 340, 341. This was settled in some Churches by Custom; and in some there was in time a Rule for it, such is that, Can. 19. Sin. Laodicen. whose Title in the Latin Copies is, de ordine orationum Catechumenorum atque fidelium. And in the West, the 27 Canon of the Synod of Pau, in the beginning of the sixth Age. And 'tis provided for in general terms by the Council of Vens Can. in the latter end of the fifth Age.

It is granted also, that divers Churches had a certain order, wherein they agreed to administer the several parts of Worship, and particularly the severals in the Sacraments; so as each had its known ⟨p. 5⟩and fixed place. An order there is visible in Chrysostom, in 2 Cor. hom. 18. p. 647. and in Augustine to Paulinus, epist. 59. quaest. 5. p. 340, 341. This was setled in some Churches by Custom; and in some there was in time a Rule for it, such is that, Can. 19. Syn. Laodicen. whose Title in the Latin Copies is, de ordine orationum Catechumenorum atque fidelium. And in the West, the 27 Canon of the Synod of Pau, in the beginning of the sixth Age. And 'tis provided for in general terms by the Council of Vens Can. in the latter end of the fifth Age.

Besides such direction as is in those Canons, other written Rubrics were not needful. For the actual disposing of the severals in their proper place, the [Greek or Hebrew] served them, of which Can. 22. and 23. Conc. Laodic. ^fThis managed by a Deacon, acquainted with the usages of the Church where he ministered, was sufficient, without other Rubric for that purpose, supposing it answered that description of its ancient use, which we have in Balsamo.