A discourse concerning liturgies

Augustin, giving directions, how the Catechumens are to be instructed, adviseth the Catechists (Deo gratias particularly) to accommodate themselves to their several capacities; and when they are to ⟨p. 132⟩deal with those of some learning and eloquence, to let them understand, that God minds not so much the expressions, as the inward affection; ita enim non irridebunt, si aliquos Antistites & ministros ecclesiae forte animadverterint, vel cum barbarismis & soloecismis Deum invocare, de Catechiz. rudib. cap. 9. p. 330. Tom. 4. pars poster. So they will not jeer, if perhaps they take notice, that some Bishops and Ministers of the Church, do invocate God with Barbarisms and Solecisms. Prayers, wherein there were Barbarisms and Solecisms, none will imagine them to have been prescribed by the Church; yet such were the Prayers both of Bishops and Ministers, in Austin's time.

Augustin, giving directions, how the Catechumens are to be instructed, adviseth the Catechists (Deo gratias particularly) to accomodate themselves to their several capacities; and when they are to ⟨p. 132⟩deal with those of some learning and eloquence, to let them understand, that God minds not so much the expressions, as the inward affection; ita enim non irridebunt, si aliquos Antistites & ministros ecclesiae forte animadverterint, vel cum barbarismis & soloecismis Deum invocare, de Catechiz. rudib. cap. 9. p. 330. Tom. 4. pars poster. So they will not jeer, if perhaps they take notice, that some Bishops and Ministers of the Church, do invocate God with Barbarisms and Solecisms. Prayers, wherein there were Barbarisms and Solecisms, none will imagin them to have been prescribed by the Church; yet such were the Prayers both of Bishops and Ministers, in Austin's time.

Socrates, who lived in the middle of the Fifth Century, ^hand whose History reaches an. 439. gives us an account of the variety then used in Prayers, altogether inconsistent with any common