A discourse concerning liturgies

One of the first Books for public Service, which I meet with, is the Libellus officialis in Conc. Toll. 4. Can. 25. an. 633. which seems rather but a short Directory, then a complete Liturgy, given to every Presbyter at his Ordination, to instruct him how to administer the Sacraments; least, through ignorance of his Duty herein, he should offend. Quando Presbyteri in Parochiis ordinantur, libellum officialem a suo Sacerdote accipiant, ut ad Ecclesias sibi deputatas instructi accedant, ne per ignorantiam ⟨p. 16⟩etiam in ipsis divinis Sacramentis Christum offendant. And many of the Canons of that Council had been needless, if those Churches had been before furnished with such a Liturgy; since that would have provided sufficiently for the severals there decreed. Can. 2. 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

One of the first Books for publick Service, which I meet with, is the Libellus officialis in Conc. Tol. 4. Can. 25. an. 633. which seems rather but a short Directory, then a compleat Liturgy, given to every Presbyter at his Ordination, to instruct him how to administer the Sacraments; least, through ignorance of his Duty herein, he should offend. Quando Presbyteri in Parochiis ordinantur, libellum officialem a suo Sacerdote accipiant, ut ad Ecclesias sibi deputatas instructi accedant, ne per ignorantiam ⟨p. 16⟩etiam in ipsis divinis Sacramentis Christum offendant. And many of the Canons of that Council had been needless, if those Churches had been before furnished with such a Liturgy; since that would have provided sufficiently for the severals there decreed. Can. 2. 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

To ascend a little higher; in the times of the Churches Persecution, in the beginning of the fourth Age; if there had been such Service Books, why did not their Persecutors call for the delivery of them, as they did, not only for the Bible, but for other Church Utensils? (Vid. Conc. Arelat. Can. 13. in Caranz. p. 65.) Why hear we of no traditores upon this account? It was not the Christians belief contained in the Scripture concerning the true God, or the Gentiles false Gods, that did more exasperate the Heathen against them, then their Worship. The Jews, whose belief was as opposite to theirs, had a toleration many times, when the Christians were destroyed. And Origen