A discourse concerning liturgies, and their imposition

This being the entrance that the Liturgies enquired after, made into the Churches of God, we are not much concerned to enquire what was their Progress. That in the Western parts of the World they all at length centred in the Roman Mass-Book and Rituals we know. Their beginnings were small, plain, brief, their use Arbitrary, the Additions they received were from the endeavours of private men in several Ages, occasional for the most part; the number of them great, equal to the various denominations of the Churches, until the Papal authority growing absolute and uncontrollable, the Roman Form was imposed on the World, that by innumerable artifices in a long tract of Ages was subjected thereunto, and that contrary to the determination of former Roman Bishops, who advised the continuance of the different Forms of administrations which were in use in several Churches. Mihi placet, ut sive in Romanis sive ⟨p. 34⟩in Galliarum partibus▪ seu in qualibet Ecclesia aliquid invenisti quod plus Omnipotenti Deo possit placere solicite eligas. Greg. Resp. ad Interrogat. August.

This being the entrance that the Liturgies enquired after, made into the Churches of God, we are not much concerned to enquire what was their Progress. That in the Western parts of the World they all at length centred in the Roman Mass-Book and Rituals we know. Their beginnings were small, plain, brief, their use Arbitrary, the Additions they received were from the endeavours of private men in several Ages, occasional for the most part; the number of them great, equal to the various denominations of the Churches, until the Papal authority growing absolute and uncontroulable, the Roman Form was imposed on the World, that by innumerable artifices in a long tract of Ages was subjected thereunto, and that contrary to the determination of former Roman Bishops, who advised the continuance of the different Forms of administrations which were in use in several Churches. Mihi placet, ut sive in Romanis sive ⟨p. 34⟩in Galliarum partibus▪ seu in qualibet Ecclesia aliquid invenisti quod plus Omnipotenti Deo possit placere solicite eligas. Greg. Resp. ad Interrogat. August.