Jones on Article XXIV: Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people understandeth

” For ye have changed the Common Prayer called ” The Divine Service with the administration of the Sacraments,-’ from the vulgar and known language, into a strange tongue, contrary to the will of the Lord revealed in his word.” — Dispu- tation with Smith.

” For we spend the whole day in singing, sacrificing, and mumbling, we speak with tongues, but no man preacheth which should speak unto men, to edify, exhort, and comfort, (1 Cor. xiii.) The apostle will speak five words with his understand- ing, that he may instruct and teach others also, rather than ten thousand, with tongues.” — Old Learning and Neiv.

” Heretofore we had in the temples, when we came together to pray and to give thanks unto thee, all our prayers and thanksgiving in the tongue that we understood, whereby we received great comfort and were much edified, but now the papists (which wish thy people to be more rude than asses, more blind than beetles, more ignorant than dastards, that they might make them their riding fools and laughing-stocks) contrary to the usage and practice of the primitive church, yea contrary to

thy commandment given by thine apostle, which willeth all things in the congregation to be uttered in such a speech as all might understand and be edified, or else silence to be kept, have brought the matter to this point, that all English service driven out of the churches, they have stablislied this popish Latin ser- vice which the most part of thy people understand nothing at all .’ ’ — Supplication .

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