IESVIT.
Neither are we in this point of repeating Prayers vpon Beades or little stones, in a certaine number, for the causes before mentioned, destitute of the example of Saints that liued in the best ages of the Church. Palladius in his Hi∣storie, [ C] * 1.1 setteth downe some examples of Saints praying in this kinde: yea, the Centurie Writers and Osiander ac∣knowledge * 1.2 the example of Saint Paul, a most holy Monke, liuing in the fourth age after Christ, that In dies singulos trecentas orationes Deo velut tributum reddidit, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ne per imprudentiam in numero erraret trecentis la∣pillis in sinum coniectis, ad singulas preces singulos eijcit lapillos, consumptis igitur lapillis constabat sibi orationes lapillis numero pares abs se expletas [ D] esse: Which example of so great a Saint, so knowne, and notorious, and neuer censured by any Father, may more than abundantly suffice for satisfaction in a matter of no more moment than this: for wee are not curious in this point, nor doe require of any man that he say his Prayers in a certaine number, so as that he may not say more or lesse, as his deuotion serues him.