A discourse concerning liturgies

Now, if in such circumstances he would not be confined, in the part of a Prayer, to the invariable use of so short a clause, as the half of the Doxology now used; would he be confined ^ghimself, or confine others to the invariable use of whole Prayers? No, it is hereby evident, his times knew no such bonds; he used expressions, as to his Auditory seemed strange and unusual, which the words of a Common-Prayer Book could not have been.

1. gQui loquendi arte caeteris hominibus excellere videntur, but not to be reckoned inter illos doctissimos, quorum mens magnarum rerum est exercitata quaestionibus. Discant non contemnere, quos cognoverint morum vitia, quam verborum, amplius devitare, id. ibid. p. 329. His enim maxime utile est nosse, ita esse praeponendas verbis sententias, ut praeponitur animus corpori, id. p. 330. Basil, In Praying publicly, used [Greek or Hebrew], strange or unusual expressions, which could not be the words of a Common-Prayer Book, of ordinary, tho' free use, much less of one prescribed and enjoined to be constantly, and unvariably used. If there had been any such, you will not think, but Basil would have been confined to them; but he is far from it, he would not be limited to the same words.Qui loquendi arte caeteris hominibus excellere videntur, but not to be reckoned inter illos doctissimos, quorum mens magnarum rerum est exercitata quaestionibus. Discant non contemnere, quos cognoverint morum vitia, quam verborum, amplius devitare, id. ibid. p. 329. His enim maxime utile est nosse, ita esse praeponendas verbis sententias, ut praeponitur animus corpori, id. p. 330. Basil, In Praying publickly, used 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, strange or unusual expressions, which could not be the words of a Common-Prayer Book, of ordinary, tho' free use, much less of one prescribed and injoyned to be constantly, and unvariably used. If there had been any such, you will not think, but Basil would have been confined to them; but he is far from it, he would not be limited to the same words.