The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.

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Title: The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.
Author: Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.
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24. Article. Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people vnderstand not.

It is a thing plainely repugnant to the word of God, and the custome of the primitiue Church, to haue publike prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments in a tongue not vnderstood of the people.

The proposition. Publike praier, and the Sacraments, must be ministred in a tongue vnderstood of the common people.

The proofe from Gods word.

THis assertion needeth small proofe. For who so is perswa∣ded (as all true Christians of vnderstanding, are) that what is done publikely in the Church by a strange language, not vn∣derstood of the people, profiteth not the Congregationa 1.1; edifi∣eth not the weake b 1.2; instructeth not the ignorantc 1.3; inflameth not the zeale d 1.4, offendeth the hearers e 1.5, abuseth the people f 1.6, di∣pleaseth God g 1.7, bringeth religion into contempt h 1.8, easily will thinke, that where the praiers be said, or the Sacraments admi∣nistred in a tongue not vnderstood of the vulgar sort, neither is the word of God regarded, nor the custome of the purer, & primitiue Church obserued.

This article no church doth doubt of, and very many by their extant Confessions doe allow i 1.9.

Aduersaries vnto this truth.

But their is nothing either so true, or apparent, which hath

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by all men at any time bin acknowledged. So contrary to this truth.

In old time the Ossens made their praiers vnto God alwaies in a strange language, which they learned of Elxeus their foun∣der a 1.10, and the Marcosians, at the ministration of Baptisme, vsed certaine Hebrew words, not to edifie, but to terrifie, and asto∣nish the mindes of the weake, and ignorant people b 1.11.

In these daies, the Turkes performe all their superstitions in the Arabian language, thinking it not onely vnmeete, but also an vnlawfull thing for the common sort of persons, to vnder∣stand their Mahometane mysteries c 1.12.

The Iacobite preists doe vse a tongue at their church mini∣strations, and meetings, which the vulgar people cannot com∣prehend d 1.13.

The diuine Lyturgie among the Russians is compounded partly of the Greeke, and partly of the Sclavonian lan∣guage e 1.14.

The Papists will haue all diuine Seruice, Praiers, and Sacra∣ments, and that throughout the world, ministred onely in the Latine tongue, which but fewe men of the common people doe vnderstand: some of them holding, that It is not necessary that wee vnderstand our praiers f 1.15, and that praiers, not vnder∣stood of the people, are acceptable to God g 1.16, and all of them maintaining that hee is accursed, whosoeuer doth affirme, how the Masse ought to be celebrate onely in a vulgar tongue h 1.17.

Notes

a 1.1

1. Cor. 14.6.9.14.

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b 1.2

Ib. 17.26.

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c 1.3

Ib. 14 19.

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d 1.4

Ib. v. 9.

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e 1.5

Ib. 7.11.

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f 1.6

Ib. 11.16.

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g 1.7

Matth. 15.8.

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h 1.8

1. Cor. 14.23.

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i 1.9

Confess. Helv. 2. c. 22. VVitt. c. 27. August. de Miss••, ar. 3. Suev. c. 21.

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a 1.10

Epiph. haer. 19.

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b 1.11

D. Iren. l. 1. c. 18.

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c 1.12

An. Geufraeus a••lae Tur. l. 2.

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d 1.13

Magd. eccles. hist. Cen. 12. c. 5.

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e 1.14

Alex. Guag. de relig. Mosc. pag. 230.

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f 1.15

Test. Rhem. annot. p. 463.

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g 1.16

Test. Rhem. an. Matth. 21.6.

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h 1.17

Si quis dixe∣ril, lingua tan∣tum vulgari Missam cele∣brari debere, a∣nathema sit. Concil. Trid. sess. 22. can. 9.

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