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298 THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT adept sunt id quod volebant et operam simul atque industriam perdiderunt quia Veritas id est arcanum summi Dei qui fee it omnia ingenio ac propriis sensibus non potest comprehendi Alioqui nihil inter Deum hominemqne distaret si consilia et dispositiones illius majestatis seternaa cogitatio assequeretur humana Quod quia fieri non potuit ut homini per seipsum ratio divina notesceret non est passus hominem Deus lumen sapientize requirentem diutius aberrare ac sine ullo laboris efl'ectu vagari per tenebras inextricablies Aperuit oculos ejus aliquando et notionem veritatis munus suum fecit ut et human am sapientiam nullam esse monstraret et erranti ac vago viam consequeiuke immortalitatis ostenderet To be translated into Latin Such was the ancient simplicity and softness of spirit which sometimes prevailed in the world that they whose words were even as oracles amongst men seemed evermore loth to give sentence against anything publicly received in the Church of God except it were wonderful apparently evil for they did not so much incline to that severity which delighteth to reprove the least things it seeth amiss as to that charity which is unwilling to behold an thing that duty bindeth it to reprove The state of this present age wherein zeal hath drowned charity and skill meekness will not now suffer any man to marvel whatsoever he shall hear reproved by whomsoever Those rites and ceremonies of the Church therefore which are the selfsame now that they were when holy and virtuous men maintained them against pro- fane and deriding adversaries her own children have at this day in derision II -Etturcjtcal anti Pastoral Cljcologn Describe the general constitution and order of worship of the Jewish synagogues What influence did they exercise on the worship of the Christian Church What is the etymology of the word Liturgy What appear to have been the essential elements of Liturgy in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries