A33360:84
A discourse concerning liturgies
A discourse concerning liturgies by ... David Clarkson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hence they durst not administer them in the sight of the [Greek or Hebrew], nor discourse of them intelligibly in the hearing of such, nor commit them to writing for common use; that being the way to have them divulged.
Hence they durst not administer them in the sight of the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, nor discourse of them intelligibly in the hearing of such, nor commit them to writing for common use; that being the way to have them divulged.
They called Baptism, and the Lords Supper, and the Prayers used therein, with some other Rites, [Greek or Hebrew]r, and used them according to the import ⟨p. 29⟩of the word, which in Phavorinus is [Greek or Hebrew], and derived [Greek or Hebrew] as concerned to keep those secrets to themselves, and confine them to their own breasts, without communicating them to others, either by action, word, or writing. It is not at all a mystery, says Basil, if it be exposed to common notice; [Greek or Hebrew]. de Spiritu Sancto, p. 273. 'Tis a mystery, says Chrysostom, therefore keep all close, &c. [Greek or Hebrew]. in Math. hom. [Greek or Hebrew]. p. 451. using a like phrase to that, wherewith Orpheus begins the discourse of his Mysteries, for the divulging of which ⟨p. 30⟩Diagoras (amongst other crimes of the like nature) was prescribed.
They called Baptism, and the Lords Supper, and the Prayers used therein, with some other Rites, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉r, and used them according to the import ⟨p. 29⟩