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

Tongue not underflanded, &c.] Since all Divine Worship is rather an Act of the Mind than of the Body, it follows, that the Worthip in which the Ming is not concerned, is impious and ablurd.

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ce in Cities, or in the Country; and the Books of the Pro- „ phets, or the Writings of the Apostles, are there read, & as long as Time will permit. When the Reader has „ done, he who presides in the Assembly makes an Ha- & rangue, in which he admonishes and exhorts us to imi- <« take and practise the fine Things we have heard. Then & we all rise up with one Consent, and send forth our

Apelog.adu, © Prayers to […] We go together Gent. c. 39+ into our Assemblies, that, as it were with a well disci-

& plined Body, we may surround God by our Prayers.

Contra Cel- “ This Force is acceptable to God.” And Origen, $% Eve- Jum, J. 8. cc ry one prays in his own Tongue, and praises God ac-

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„ cording to his Power; and the Lord of all Tongues &« hears them praying with all their several Tongues.” Cyprian. %* When we stand up to pray, my dearly te beloved Brethren, we ought to watch, and attend to our Prayers with our whole Heart. All carnal and woridly e Thoughts should be discarded, and the Mind should be e solely intent upon what it prays for. And therefore the c Priest, before the Prayer, doth by a Preface prepare the & Minds of the Brethren, saying, Lift up your Hearts; & that while the People answer, Ve lift them up unto the & Lord, they may be admonished that they ought to think © of nothing else but the Lord. Our Breast should be e then shut against the Adversary, and open to God only; & neither should God’s Enemy be suffered to come near it in the Time of Prayer. For he frequently steals & upon us, and gets Admission into us, and by his subtle « Deceits diverts our Prayers from God; so that we have &« one Thing in our Mouth, and another in our Heart: & Whereas we ought to pray to the Lord, not only with c the Sound of the Voice, but with the sincere Intense- & ness of the Mind and Spirit.“

See also the Homily of Common Prayer and Sacra- ments. Patrich’s Answer to the “Fouch-stone, Set. 52. Fewel’s Reply, Art. 3. Noweli: Catech. p. 112. Bilson of Christian Subjection, Part IV. p. 393. Field of the Church, Append. to B. III. p. 238.

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