A discourse concerning liturgies

Hortaris ut orationem amicis pluribus recitem, faciam quia hortaris: quamvis vehementer addubitem, neque enim me praeterit, actiones quae recitantur, impetum omnem caloremque, ac prope nomen suum perdere, ut quas soleant commendare, simul & accendere,—dicentis gestus, incessus, discursus etiam, ⟨p. 12⟩omnibusque motibus animi consentaneus vigour corporis,—Recitantium vero praecipua pronuntiationis adjumenta, oculi, manus praepediuntur; quo minus mirum est si Auditorum intentio languescit, nullis extrinsecus aut blandimentis capta aut aculeis excitata. Plin. ep. 9. l. 2. What would he have said; how would this wise and judicious Person have aggravated these disadvantages, how intolerable would this great Orator have accounted the motion; if Cerealis had moved him, to read the same Oration to his Friends whenever they met, at every solemn Meeting?

Hortaris ut orationem amicis pluribus recitem, faciam quia hortaris: quamvis vehementer addubitem, neque enim me praeterit, actiones quae recitantur, impetum omnem caloremque, ac prope nomen suum perdere, ut quas soleant commendare, simul & accendere,—dicentis gestus, incessus, discursus etiam, ⟨p. 12⟩omnibusque motibus animi consentaneus vigor corporis,—Recitantium vero praecipua pronuntiationis adjumenta, oculi, manus praepediuntur; quo minus mirum est si Auditorum intentio languescit, nullis extrinsecus aut blandimentis capta aut aculeis excitata. Plin. ep. 9. l. 2. What would he have said; how would this wise and judicious Person have aggravated these disadvantages, how intolerable would this great Orator have accounted the motion; if Cerealis had moved him, to read the same Oration to his Friends whenever they met, at every solemn Meeting?

Chrysostom tells us, that in his judgment, it required a greater confidence, then Moses and Elijah had, to pray as they were wont to do before the Eucharist. [Greek or Hebrew] De Sacerd. orat. 3. p. 46. Now why such boldness was needful, if they had the Prayer in a Book before them, and no more to do then read it, I apprehend not. I never heard of any, who were Masters of the Art of Reading, that found so much confidence necessary to exercise their faculty upon any Prayer whatsoever. [Greek or Hebrew]