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CATHOLIC TRACTATES.
fol. 49 v.
S. Paul.
I Cor. 14.
be sched for vs, bot becaus that quhilk is in the coup is
sched for our synnis, sua gif that quhilk vas sched for the
remission of synnis vas his auin blude, it follouis necessarlie
that it vas his auin blude quhilk vas in the chalice: the
quhilk argument is sa cleir and manifest that your paraclet 5
Theodore Beze is constranit to deny this pairt of the scripture,
and to say that it vas eikit to the text.
Of the Praying in Latine.
M. Giff the Mess in substance and ceremoneis contene the maner
hou God suld be vorshipped institut be Christ, as the Papistis
say is, quhy say thay not thair Messis in the vulgar tounge that 10
the simpil pepill quha vnderstandis not Latine may be edifeit
thairbie: for it vas bot ane mocking of God that ignorant pepill
sat done befoir God babling in ane strange langage tha thingis
quhilk thay vndirstud not, seing it is vreittin, gif I pray vith my
toung, my spreit prayis, bot my mynd vantis the fruit: quhat 15
than ? sal I pray in spreit l bot I sail pray in my mynd also.
And hou sail he quha suppleis the place of the Idiot ansuer Amen
to thy benedictione, gif he vndirstand the not ?
B. Thair be tua kynd of prayeris in the kirk, the ane is priuat,
quhilk euerie man sayis be him self: the vthir is publik quhilk 20
the preistis sayis in name of the hail kirk. As to the priuat
prayeris, na Catholik denyis, bot it is verie expedient that euerie
man pray in his auin toung, to the end he vndirstand that quhilk
he sayis, and that thairbie the interior prayer of the hairt may
be the mair valkinnit, and conseruit the bettir, and gif onie man 25
pray in ane vther toung, it is also expedient that he vnderstand
the mening of the vordis at the lest. For the quhilk caus in the
Catholik kirk the parentis or godfatheris ar obleist to learne
thame quhom thay hald in baptisme the formes of prayeris, and
Beleif, and instruct thame sufficientlie thairin, sua that thay 30
vndirstand the same : Albeit the principal thing quhilk God

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