A33360:310
A discourse concerning liturgies
A discourse concerning liturgies by ... David Clarkson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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But, if I minded not the discovery of the truth, more than upholding of my opinion, or disproving of yours; I would grant, that by Ordo is understood a Liturgy with prescribed Prayers; and it would be a great disadvantage to your cause, to grant it; for here's a plain signification, they had no such Liturgy before, and the Original hereof from Six Bishops, in one Province of France, where Fifteen or Seventeen, and this not till the latter end of the Fifth Age, when all [Greek or Hebrew].
But, if I minded not the discovery of the truth, more than upholding of my opinion, or disproving of yours; I would grant, that by Ordo is understood a Liturgy with prescribed Prayers; and it would be a great disadvantage to your cause, to grant it; for here's a plain signification, they had no such Liturgy before, and the Original hereof from Six Bishops, in one Province of France, where Fifteen or Seventeen, and this not till the latter end of the Fifth Age, when all 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
And this is all, which I can find alleged in behalf of these Liturgies for Five hundred Years after Christ, that is considerable, unless the Hymns Benedicite and Te Deum may be counted worthy of consideration: And so perhaps they may be accounted, if not otherwise, yet in respect of the Persons, that so make use of them.
And this is all, which I can find alledged in behalf of these Liturgies for Five hundred Years after Christ, that is considerable, unless the Hymns Benedicite and Te Deum may be counted worthy of consideration: And so perhaps they may be accounted, if not otherwise, yet in respect of the Persons, that so make use of them.
But the inference is not good, from Forms of Hymns to Forms of Prayer; much less from arbitrary Forms of Hymns, to prescribed Forms of Prayer, or Liturgies. Hymns are more elaborate, require more Art and Ornament than Prayers: and therefore, those who are not for set Forms of Prayer, if they admit Hymns of humane and ordinary composition, see reason to have them in Forms, and not without premeditation. And their Opposites will not deny them here more needful.