Contraried by Antiquitie.
Origen. cont. Cels. l. 8. Let euery man make his prayer to God in his natiue Mother tongue.
Austin. Tract in Iohan. 21. Why are these things spoken in the* 1.1 Church, but to be knowne? Why are they pronounced, but to bee heard? And why are they heard, but to be vnderstood? And on Gen. l. 12. cap. 8. Noman (saith hee) is edified by hearing that which he vnderstands not.
Ambr. in cap. 14. 1. Epist. ad Cor. If we come together (saith he) to edifie the Church, those things ought to be spoken, which the hea∣rers vnderstand.
Chrysostom. hom. 35. in 1. Cor. Hee that speakes in an vnknowne tongue, is not onely vnprofitable, and a Barbarian to others, but euen to himselfe, if he vnderstand not.
In Hom. 18. on 2. Cor. Hee telleth vs, that the Priests and the people say the same common prayers, and all doe say one thing.
S. Basil. Epist. 63. telleth, how, that in his time, when they met together, they vsed a knowne language.
In the purest Churches, for the space of eight hundred yeeres, Diuine Seruice was neuer performed in an vnknowne tongue. And if it were at any time, in a tongue not the Mother tongue, yet was not that tongue a strange language, but such as the hearers vnderstood. See for this point Master Perkins Pro∣bleme.
If any desire any more of this, let him reade Doctor Fulk on Rhem. Testament, 1. Cor. 14. Doctor White his last Book of this