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A39987	Forms of prayer used in the reformed churches in France before their persecution and destruction With an account of their manner of batizing, celebrating the Holy Supper, marrying and burying; with some additional remarks. Translated into English, for the use of such of the French nation as do desire to learn English; and may be serviceable to those English who are willing to improve themselues in the French language; and for the information of all of the reformed religion, and others. Unto which is also annexed the names of several learned French ministers, to evidence the truth of this translation.	Eglises réformées de France.; J. T.	1699 (1699)	Wing F1584B; ESTC R221545	24,972	145

Administration of the Sacraments and other Ecclesiastical Rites and Ceremonies used in the Churches and Chappels of Zurick And the aforesaid People as I have been well informed do endeavour to liv● up to the strict Rules o● Justice and Piety whic● their Lord and Master hat● enjoyned and required fro● them And it is to be remarked that there were and sti●● are other Forms of Public● Prayers used in the Reformed Churches where th● Doctrine and Discipline Luther hath prevailed Which are sufficient prove and to convinc● People that set Forms 〈◊〉 Prayer were and are used in other Ancient Churches besides those of England or Rome and to demonstrate that such as reject Forms are in that respect Dissenters from Luther and Calvin as well as from that of England and also to shew the unannimous agreement of the Churches before recited and of the French Reformed with the Church of England besides these Prayers will infallibly point out to us the frequent use of the Lords Prayer the Apostles Creed and the Ten Commandments which were placed in their Churches and still are the main subjects of their Catechism which wa● taught every Lords Day and the two former are repeated when ever they assemble for the Publick Service At Baptizing an Infan● the Minister doth sprinkl● water on its Forehead whe● the Name is given an● that Church makes use of God-Fathers and God-Mothers who do undertak● most of the same charge o● those in the Church of England The French Protestant● have also a particular Form of Prayer for Baptizing ●uch Persons of riper years as desire and duely prepare themselves to receive it The time and manner of their receiving the Holy Sacrament is generally after the Morning Sermon which is performed with much decency and r●spect but for the most part they did receive it standing in France partly because their Flocks being large and their opportunities of receiving not frequent they might the sooner give place one to another And partly because they would not follow the manner of the Papists among whom they lived and who kneeled at the Communion in order to adore their Host● or a Wafer yet they do never oppose kneeling whe● it doth not tend to Idolatry But supposing the● lookt upon kneeling as on● extreame they took to b● sure sitting for the other● But as to the sence of it they do agree with th● Church of England a● you may more plainly s● towards the latter end o● their Catechism which 〈◊〉 often annexed to their Form of Prayers after th● Singing Psalms at th● latter end of the French New Testament In the time of Persecution before the general destruction of their Churches the Protestants in France had but one hour allowed them in the Morning and another hour in the Evening for the meeting of the thirty People to bury the Dead which was the greatest Number then permitted to attend the Corps unto the Grave unto which they were obliged to commit them without paying such decent respects which are usually done to the Corps of other Christians to make a difference between the Bodys of Deceased Christians and of such Animals as have nothing but meer sence tho' they are sometimes put into th● Earth yet never deserv● a solemn interment This Ceremony which used's to Deceased Christians it also to put the living in mind of Mortality and therefore after the return of the People from the Grave to the Deceased's late House or to the place where they at first met the Minister did make an Exhortation to admonish the living and to comfort the afflicted for the loss of their Friend At first when they were allowed to bury publickly the Minister followed after the Dead and at the interment the Minister made such an Exhortation as before mentioned In this Book are also comprehended the Forms of Prayer used upon Fasting Days and at the Celebration of the Holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper and also at Marriage Altho' their Prayers are short they comprehend most things for most conditions of men so composed that the whole Congregation may joyn with the Minister in praying for all necessaries and for Gods Love and Mercy in Jesus Christ toward them and in giving thank for the same Their affinity to the Antient Catholick and no● reformed Church of England is further demonstrated by several reformed French Churches in and about London whos● Ministers have not only received the Ordination o● the Church of England but do also make use of he Liturgy and are conformable to her Orders an● Constitutions Moreover the Protestants of Geneva Swi●zerland Germany c Esteem her Doctrine an● Discipline to be Apostolical and Orthodox And the Characters which our Episcopal Divines bore in the Synod of Dort doth plainly shew the great veneration they had for the reformed Church of our Kingdom And especially Monsieur le Moines Letter written at Leyden in September in the Year of our Lord 1680 confirms the same He was at that time and in that Vniversity Professor of Divinity and the Letters of Monsieur de Langle one of the Ministers of the reformed French Church at Charenton and of Monsieur Claude another French Minister of the same Church both written at Paris do the like and the last was wrote by one of the most Illustrious Men of the reformed French Church in his time In which he mentions that he hath often explained his Opinion concerning the Government of the reformed Episcopal Church which appears from a larger Discourse upon it in the 336 Page of his defence of the Reformation Which Letters do likewise ascertain the giving o● their Pulpits and committing the charge of their Flocks to such Ministers as had received Episcopal Ordination and particularly to Monsieur du Plessis and Monsieur Wicart who were ordained by the Right Reverend the Bishops of London and Lincoln the former was afterward received Minister of a reformed French Church in the Province of Paris and the latter also Preached afterwards in the Protestant Church of Charenton in the same Province and is now Dean of Winchester These Letters were all sent to the Right Reverend Henry present Lord Bishop of London in which you may not only see the particular sentiments of those Reverend Ministers but also the general Opinion of the reformed Churches then in France concerning the Government and Discipline of the English Church and of the Divisions that were then between her and the Presbyterians and others Which Letters were written in French and from the Originals Translated into English and Printed in the life time of the Authors they being Annexed unto the Treatise of the unreasonableness of separation or an Impartial account of the History of the Nature and Pleas of the present separation from the Communion of the Church of England written by the Reverend Doctor Stillingfleet now Lord Bishop of Worcester one of these Books was sent by the Lord Bishop of London unto Monsieur Claude in 1681 with the said Letters

Forms of Prayer Used in the Reformed Churches in France before their Persecution and Destruction With an Account of their manner of Baptizing Celebrating the Holy Supper Marrying and Burying with some Addi●ional Remarks Translated into English for the use of such of the French Nation as do desire to learn English and may be serviceable to those English who are willing to improve themselues in the French Language and for the Information of All of the Reformed Religion and others Unto which is also Annexed the Names of several Learned French Ministers to Evidence the truth of this Translation London Printed for E. Tracy at the 3 Bibles on London-bridge and are to be sold by M. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1699. THE Translator TO THE READER HAving perused the Liturgy of the reformed Churches in France framed in the beginning of the Reformation by Mr. Calvin about the same time that the Prayers of the Church of England were made by her Reverend Bishops and Divines to lead Men from Tautologies and Superstitions to the true worship of Almighty God and in their known Tongues to the end that all Men might understand them and they might be useful and conduce to draw the minds and affections of Men from Temporal to Heavenly things and that the Minister and whole Congregation might joyn together with their Heart and Voice to crave Gods Gracious Pardon for all their daily wants and to render thanks and praise to his most Holy Name for their receiving of the same and also observing the Doctrine and Ceremonies of the reformed Churches in France and seeing the unhappy Differences and Misunderstandings that are between the Church of England and some other Protestants and that many of her Members and others believed that the reformed French Church had a nearer Affinity to the English Presbyterians then to the Church of England as I my self did till by my frequenting and often hearing of the French Ministers I found the contrary I thought it my Duty by this Translation to undeceive all those who thro' ignorance or prejudice labour under that Error 'T is true there are already many Books Written by very Pious and Learned Men to shew the misery and unreasonableness of separation and Divisions in Religion and the advantage of a general Conformity in the same The Titles of some of them as of other Books that may be very useful on this occasion are hereafter inserted that all such Persons as are Piously inclined and desirous of Vnion in the Church may with more ease find out such necessary Subjects which I hope may tend to their satisfaction and Vnity in Faith Doctrine and Prayers The excellency and usefulness of our Liturgy is explained by the Learned Doctor Cumber and also by Doctor Beveridge in his Sermon upon that point I thought fit likewise to direct you unto Mr. Hookers Ecclesiastical Polity and unto the Case of a doubting Conscience written by the most Reverend Father in God John Sharp the present Lord Arch-Bish●p of York And the London Divines of the Church of England as established by Law did with great Learning Ingenuity and Candor in several Discourses defend that Glori●us and Pious Church of which they have the honour and happiness to be members against the several objections that are usually raised by Dissenters against her But what need I Name more of the Ep●scopal Clergy Mr. Baxter himself hath in several of his Treatises well set forth the great mischief of Divisions and Separations in his Christian Directory p. 741. he saith that Schism is a sin against so many clear and vehement words of the Holy Ghost that it is utterly without excuse he proceeds and declares that even Whoredom Treason and Perjury are not oftener forbidden in the Gospel then this and that it is contrary to the design of Christ in our redemption to the Spirit of Grace and to the Nature of Christianity it self c. That Church Dividers are the ●ost successful Servants of the Devil and Enemies to Christ in his Family and Livery that they serve the Devil more effectually then open Enemies and much more on this head he hath said in the pages above-cited And you will find him quoting above forty places of Scripture against separations in his Cure of Church Divisions Direct 7. and in his defence of the said Book pag. 3. and saith that the World the Flesh and the Devil are the Causes whence Divisions arise all which you may see more al● large in the Books themselves If any reply that Mr. Baxter was a Dissenter I Answer he is the more to be regarded by Dissenters But withal it is very well known that he often heard the Divine Service and received the Communion from the hands of the Right Reverend Doctor Sharp then Minister of St. Giles in the Fields To conclude he that desires further information of the inexpressible dangers which accompany Divisions let him peruse the Learned Mr. Edwards Book called Gangrena unto which Tract I refer you some if not most of these Books herein Named may be had of Samuel Ke●ble at the Turks Head in Fleet-street or Walte● Kettleby at the Bishop Head in St. Pauls Church-Yard or of other Booksellers in London But yet considering tha● in other Treatises ther● are so many points discussed as make most 〈◊〉 those Books so dear tha● all Persons are not enclined to buy them I have thought fit t● present unto the world this small Specimen of th● Prayers of the reforme● Churches in France whic● shew their Concurrence and Harmony with the Church of England in reading the Holy Scriptures in their Publick Assemblys and in most substantial points as Confessions of Faith contained in the Apostles Nicene Athanasian Creeds and likewise in their Methods of VVorship and Rules of Practice by which you may see how near Divine Providence and the Holy Spirit hath brought these Churches together And I am perswaded that if all Men would impartially observe the same it might prevail with considering Christians and make them sincerely united together This Liturgy being Composed in a small Tract I was the more induced to Translate it into English for the information of all such who can neither spare so much Money or time as the obtaining and perusing those larger Volumes do require By which all may see the Prayers and Service which were and are used in the reformed French Churches and that this or some such form is used i● all the reformed Churches throughout Holland Hungary Brandenburg and in other Parts of Germany Switzerland and Piedmont and in all those Places where the Persecution hath not taken away the Exercise of the reformed Religion used by Calvin and his followers There are also peculiar Forms of Publick Prayers in the Tigurian Churches which are the Protestant Churches of the City and Government of Zurick in Switzerland as you may see in a Book lately Printed and called Liturgia Tigurina or the Book of Common Prayers and