A33360:318
A discourse concerning liturgies
A discourse concerning liturgies by ... David Clarkson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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And now, I may from the premises conclude, That for Five hundred Years after Christ (if not more) the ordinary way of worshipping God in public Assemblies, was not by prescribed Liturgies.
And now, I may from the premises conclude, That for Five hundred Years after Christ (if not more) the ordinary way of worshipping God in publick Assemblies, was not by prescribed Liturgies.
Instead of a more particular discovery of their introduction, this may suffice, and is enough for my purpose, that they were not the common usage, while the state of the Church was any thing tolerable, nor till it was sunk deep into degeneracy, and was much worse than when Chrysostom complained, [Greek or Hebrew], Hom. 29. in Act. p. 776, 777. The Church is in an exceeding bad posture; and compares it to one laid out for dead, [Greek or Hebrew], &c. in 2 Cor. Hom. 7. p. 692. And again to a House quite burnt down, having taken Fire at the Pillars, which should have supported it, in Ephes. Hom. 10. p. 816. where he says, it was many a day since the Church through the World was overturned, and laid flat on the Ground, all being equally involved in evil, but those that were its Rulers more guilty than others; [Greek or Hebrew] ⟨p. 182⟩[Greek or Hebrew], p. 817. And elsewhere represents it to us, by a Woman crobbed of her Jewels and Treasure, having nothing left, but [Greek or Hebrew], some poor empty significations of what precious things once she had, in 1 Cor. Hom. 36. p. 487, 488. In which he is followed by dIsidore of Peleusium, lib. 3. Epist. 408. Zenoni.
Instead of a more particular discovery of their introduction, this may suffice, and is enough for my purpose, that they were not the common usage, while the state of the Church was any thing tolerable, nor till it was sunk deep into degeneracy, and was much worse than when Chrysostom complained, , Hom. 29. in Act. p. 776, 777. The Church is in an exceeding bad posture; and compares it to one laid out for dead, , &c. in 2 Cor. Hom. 7. p. 692. And again to a House quite burnt down, having taken Fire at the Pillars, which should have supported it, in Ephes. Hom. 10. p. 816. where he says, it was many a day since the Church through the World was overturned, and laid flat on the Ground, all being equally involved in evil, but those that were its Rulers more guilty than others;