of people, and rarenesse of the Assembly. Whereby it seemeth he meant to maintaine Your Degenerate Romish Wor∣ship with Paradoxes; First, As if Psalmes, publiquely sung in the Church to Gods glorie, were not Divine duties and service. Se∣condly, As if the Primitive Church, using both Psalmes and other Prayers in a knowne tongue (as he confesseth) did not bold a neces∣sitie of the Common knowledge of both, for Instruction and Con∣solation. Thirdly, As if the Assemblies of Christians were of such a Paucitie in the dayes of Tertullian; when those Psalmes ordained for Instruction and Consolation were in use. And fourthly, as if People now adayes had not asmuch need of Instruction and Con∣solation, as they that lived in Primitive-times; yea, and more, especially such People, who being led blind-fold by an Implicite Faith, have reason to crave Instruction; and having their Conscien∣ces tortured and perplexed with multiplicities of Ceremoniall Lawes, have as just cause also to desire Consolation.
As for your obiecting the Worship of God by vnknowne prayers; that may be sufficient, which your owne Catechisme (authorized by the Councel of Trent) teacheth you; where answering to that question, why God, although hee know our wants before wee pray, yet will be sollicited by our prayers? it saith, that hee doth this to the end, that Praying more confidently, wee may be more inflamed with love towards God: and so being possessed with more joy, may bee exercised to a ••ervent worship of God. So your publike and gene∣rall Romane Catechisme.
The case then is plaine. From more Edification there ariseth more Consolation; from more Consolation there issueth more Devo∣tion; from all these proceeds more filiall Loue and dutifull Wor∣ship of God. Which was long since shadowed (as Philo Iudaeus allegorizeth, witnessing your Iesuite) by Moses and Miriam singing unto the Lord: Moses signifying the understanding part, and Miriam betokening the Affection; both notifying, that we are to sing Hymnes both affectionately and understandingly unto God. Therefore, if you be men of Conscience, recant that your now objected Barbarous Paradoxe, Which (contrarie to all anciently-professed Divinity, and expresse Scripture, saying, I will pray with my spirit, I will pray with my understanding also) doth thrust man's Vnderstanding out of God's worship, to the vtter abolishing of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is, his Reasonable worshipping of God; by making man (as Saint Augustine noteth) no better than O••zells, Parrots, Ravens, and Mag-pies, all which learne to prate they know not what.