A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

somewhat contrary to this your former custom, in this last age you have made some Translations out of a Translation ⟨p. 528⟩and that none of the best, the use whereof you permit to very few, by virtue of special dispensation, pleading that the use of it in the Church among the body of its members is useless and dangerous. Again it is the Custom of your Church to celebrate all its public worship in Latin, whereof the generality of your people understand nothing at all, and you forbid the exercise of your Church worship in a vulgar tongue understood by the Community of your Church or people. These I apprehend to be the Customs of your Church, and to the best of my understanding they are directly contrary, (1.) To the End of God in granting unto his Church the inestimable benefit of his Work and worship; and (2.) To the Command of God given unto all to read, meditate and study his Word continually. And (3.) Prejudicial to the souls of men, in depriving them of those unspeakable spiritual advantages which they might attain in the discharge of their duty, and which others, not subject unto your Authority, have experience of. And (4.) Opposite unto, yea destructive of that edification which is the immediate end of all things […] to be done in public Assemblies of the Church. And (5.) Forbidden expressly by the Apostle who enforceth his prohibition with many cogent reasons, 1 Cor. 14. And (6.) Contrary to the express practice of the primitive Church both Judaical and Christian, all whose worship was performed in the same language wherein the People were instructed by preaching and exhortations which I presume you will think it necessary they should well understand; being (7.) Brought into use gradually and occasionally through the […] negligence of some who pretend in the Churches of those days, when the Languages wherein the Scripture was first written ⟨p. 529⟩and whereinto for the use of the whole Church it had been of old translated, as the Old Testament into Greek, and the whole into Latin, through the Tumults and Wars that fell out in the world, became corrupted, or were extirpated. And (8) A means of turning the worship of Christ from a rational way of strengthening faith and increasing Holiness, into a dumb histrionical show exciting brutish and irregular affections;