{"number":24,"title":"Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people vnderstand not","part":null,"questions":[],"paragraphs":["24.1"],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"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.","segments":[{"text":"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.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"The proposition. Publike praier, and the Sacraments, must be ministred in a tongue vnderstood of the common people.","segments":[{"text":"The proposition. Publike praier, and the Sacraments, must be ministred in a tongue vnderstood of the common people.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"The proofe from Gods word.","segments":[{"text":"The proofe from Gods word.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"This assertion needeth small proofe. For who so is perswaded (as all true Christians of vnderstanding, are) that what is done publikely in the Church by a strange language, not vnderstood of the people, profiteth not the Congregation; edifieth not the weake; instructeth not the ignorant; inflameth not the zeale, offendeth the hearers, abuseth the people, dipleaseth God, bringeth religion into contempt, easily will thinke, that where the praiers be said, or the Sacraments administred 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.","segments":[{"text":"This assertion needeth small proofe. For who so is perswaded (as all true Christians of vnderstanding, are) that what is done publikely in the Church by a strange language, not vnderstood of the people, profiteth not the Congregation;","proofs":["1 Corinthians 14:6, 9, 14"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 14:6, 9, 14","osis":["1Cor.14.6","1Cor.14.9","1Cor.14.14"]}],"note":null},{"text":"edifieth not the weake;","proofs":["1 Corinthians 14:17, 26"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 14:17, 26","osis":["1Cor.14.17","1Cor.14.26"]}],"note":"Ib. 17.26."},{"text":"instructeth not the ignorant;","proofs":["1 Corinthians 14:14, 19"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 14:14, 19","osis":["1Cor.14.14","1Cor.14.19"]}],"note":"Ib. 14 19."},{"text":"inflameth not the zeale,","proofs":["1 Corinthians 14:9"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 14:9","osis":["1Cor.14.9"]}],"note":"Ib. v. 9."},{"text":"offendeth the hearers,","proofs":["1 Corinthians 14:7, 11"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 14:7, 11","osis":["1Cor.14.7","1Cor.14.11"]}],"note":"Ib. 7.11."},{"text":"abuseth the people,","proofs":["1 Corinthians 14:11, 16"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 14:11, 16","osis":["1Cor.14.11","1Cor.14.16"]}],"note":"Ib. 11.16."},{"text":"dipleaseth God,","proofs":["Matthew 15:8"],"refs":[{"printed":"Matthew 15:8","osis":["Matt.15.8"]}],"note":null},{"text":"bringeth religion into contempt,","proofs":["1 Corinthians 14:23"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 14:23","osis":["1Cor.14.23"]}],"note":null},{"text":"easily will thinke, that where the praiers be said, or the Sacraments administred 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.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"This article no church doth doubt of, and very many by their extant Confessions doe allow.","segments":[{"text":"This article no church doth doubt of, and very many by their extant Confessions doe allow.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Confess. Helv. 2. c. 22. Witt. c. 27. August. de Missa, ar. 3. Suev. c. 21."}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"","answer":"Aduersaries vnto this truth.","segments":[{"text":"Aduersaries vnto this truth.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"But their is nothing either so true, or apparent, which hath by all men at any time bin ackowledged. So contrary to this truth.","segments":[{"text":"But their is nothing either so true, or apparent, which hath by all men at any time bin ackowledged. So contrary to this truth.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"In old time the Ossens made their praiers vnto God alwaies in a strange language, which they learned of Elxeus their founder, and the Marcosians, at the ministration of Baptisme, vsed certaine Hebrew words, not to edifie, but to terrifie, and astonish the mindes of the weake, and ignorant people.","segments":[{"text":"In old time the Ossens made their praiers vnto God alwaies in a strange language, which they learned of Elxeus their founder,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Epiph. haer. 19."},{"text":"and the Marcosians, at the ministration of Baptisme, vsed certaine Hebrew words, not to edifie, but to terrifie, and astonish the mindes of the weake, and ignorant people.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"D. Iren. l. 1. c. 18."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"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 vnderstand their Mahometane mysteries.","segments":[{"text":"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 vnderstand their Mahometane mysteries.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"An. Geufraeus aulae Tur. l. 2."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"The Iacobite preists doe vse a tongue at their church ministrations, and meetings, which the vulgar people cannot comprehend.","segments":[{"text":"The Iacobite preists doe vse a tongue at their church ministrations, and meetings, which the vulgar people cannot comprehend.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Magd. eccles. hist. Cen. 12. c. 5."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"The diuine Lyturgie among the Russians is compounded partly of the Greeke, and partly of the Sclavonian language.","segments":[{"text":"The diuine Lyturgie among the Russians is compounded partly of the Greeke, and partly of the Sclavonian language.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Alex. Guag. de relig. Mosc. pag. 230."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"The Papists will haue all diuine Seruice, Praiers, and Sacraments, 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, and that praiers, not vnderstood of the people, are acceptable to God, and all of them maintaining that hee is accursed, whosoeuer doth affirme, how the Masse ought to be celebrate onely in a vulgar tongue.","segments":[{"text":"The Papists will haue all diuine Seruice, Praiers, and Sacraments, 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,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Test. Rhem. annot. p. 463."},{"text":"and that praiers, not vnderstood of the people, are acceptable to God,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Test. Rhem. an. Matth. 21.6."},{"text":"and all of them maintaining that hee is accursed, whosoeuer doth affirme, how the Masse ought to be celebrate onely in a vulgar tongue.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Si quis dixeril, lingua tantum vulgari Missam celebrari debere, anathema sit. Concil. Trid. sess. 22. can. 9."}],"items":[]}]}]}],"text":null}