A discourse concerning liturgies

In general, that they had no such public Liturgies for the administration of the Sacraments, appears by this; that they thought themselves obliged, with all care to conceal the Symbols, the Rites, the Prayers used in these administrations, from the sight and knowledge of all that were not initiated. The Christians, in the fourth and fifth Ages especially, counted it a heinous crime, to have any of the Heathen or Catechumens acquainted therewith; some of them make it no less ^*then Sacrilege, ^†one of the greatest crimes, and ^‖worthy of the highest censure, prolixiori anathemate.

In general, that they had no such publick Liturgies for the administration of the Sacraments, appears by this; that they thought themselves obliged, with all care to conceal the Symbols, the Rites, the Prayers used in these administrations, from the sight and knowledge of all that were not initiated. The Christians, in the fourth and fifth Ages especially, counted it a hainous crime, to have any of the Heathen or Catec••umens acquainted therewith; some of them make it no less ^*then Sacriledge, ^†one of the greatest crimes, and ^‖worthy of the highest censure, prolixiori anathemate.

1. *Christianis ipsis minime consecratis sine Sacrilegio videri non potest. Author sermonum de continentia; not Zeno Veronensis, who lived about; but one who says in that Sermon, he writ four hundred years after the Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians was written.
2. †[Greek or Hebrew]. Chrysost. in 2 Tim. hom. 2. p. 338.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Chrysost. in 2 Tim. hom. 2. p. 338.