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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09489	Certaine short prayers and meditations vpon the Lords prayer and the Ten commandements With other particular prayers for seuerall purposes. Written by the right worshipfull Sir Iames Perrott Knight.; Certaine short prayers and meditations upon the Lords prayer and the Ten commandments.	Perrott, James, Sir, 1571-1637.	1630 (1630)	STC 19772; ESTC S106420	28,622	238

most mercifull God Graunt me power not onely to proceede in examination but in amendment For my prayers good God which should be the pathway to thy praise and the steppes to my saluation they are feeble and slow O make them stronger and more frequent Take from me in my prayers distractions doubting and dullnesse Remooue my most violent passions the perturbers of minde and soule Grant me grace to forgiue them that wrong mee and that I may pray for them that persecute mee as thy sonne my Sauiour did and hath taught mee to doe And as thy seruan● Stephen hath shewed me an example Take from me hatred and increase in mee lou● and charity Graun● mee grace to ioyn● faith with examination and examination with repentance And that I may be the better able to do this and all other good duties Giue me power to pray vnto thee and to prayse thee So be it Good Lord Amen The Differences in Deuotion and exercises of Religion betwixt the Protestants and the Romane Catholicks Especially in regard of Excesse and Defect FOr the excesse The Romanists tye themselues too much vnto Canonicall howers as they call them in the publike or priuate seruice of God As to say or sing Masse at such houres as in the forenoone at the howres of nine and eleauen to haue Angular Masses whereof many in one Church and in diuers Corners of the same Church at the same time To tye them in their priuate Deuotions to reade or rather to runne ouer the Iesus Psalter and other manuall bookes heretofore altogether in the Lati●e tongue which most of them vnderstood not at all So might they speake as Birdes are taught to speake by the pronunciation scarce of syllables aright sometime saying one word or at the least sounding one for another without any sence or signification to themselues what they speake But of latter times heere in England though not so in other Countries where the Roman Catholique Religion as themselues call it onely hath vse and force heere more then elsewhere They are lately tolerated by the authority of the Church of Rome to haue some few prayer bookes both in Latine and english but which of both they do most vse themselues do best know And either they are so full farced and stuffed with hymnes short versicles some without conclusion of sence and in most the sentences so shortly and suddainely set together the one leaping so close vpon the backe of the other that hardly can they remember or scarce perceiue what they say Onely they are made to beleeue that these ready but raw repetitions may serue for Gods seruice whereas the vnderstanding should be aswell supplyed as the affection in performance of true Religion Heerein is their excesse ioyned with defect Excesse of measure in heaping many words not well weyed Defect in the conception and knowledge of what they doe deliuer Besides there is an exceeding great Error allowed and taught in putting them not onely to pronounce those prayers so peeced which must needes be ouer perfunctorily thus speeded but some nay many I may say most of their prayers are directed to the Saints as intercessors whereof some were such as in their liue● were scarce holy but so esteemed and yet were in a maner deified onely because they adhered to the Pope of Rome Namely amongst others Thomas Becket sometime Arch-Bishop of Canterbury rebellious to his Soueraigne and so though euill slayne therefore Canonized Prayers allowed by publique authority printed and practised euen in our times As desiring God by the blood of this Becket to make the poore seduced suppliant to ascend where Christ ascended They making in those common prayer bookes more prayers to the blessed Virgin Mary then to our Sauiour himselfe They calling on her to beseech God the Father and to commaund God her sonne by the right of a Mother Which with many other most gross superstitions aswell in their publicke as in their priuate Deuotions themselues cannot deny or if they should yet their bookes are extant and their practises perspicuous Their creeping and their bending and bowing of their Bodies before the Images of some but supposed Saints The adoring of the Image of the Crosse and crucifixe with other but said to be but hallowed reliques what dishonor it hath broght to the Christian Religion and what danger to themselues although they will not acknowledge and their learnedest Teachers will seeme to defend or to excuse yet Intelligent and pious men who are not seduced by Iesuits and Romish Priests or so vnhappy as to be bred vp in their Schooles of superstition may perceiue though they wil not confesse That deuotion without true vnderstanding turnes soone vnto superstition That feruor without Faith and beliefe without knowledge makes many men erre grossely and offend most where they think they doe best Their bookes of Meditation are in many parts good to stirre Deuotion but in some places patched with superstition If this Cockle might be separated from their Corne it would proouemore profitable For the Protestants profession practise of Religion wherof I professe to be one If most Protestāts would be as feruent as frequent in their Praiers as many of thē are intelligent in that they pray they should more shun sinne and shame the Romanists who yet seeme to shun them by being more deuoute in that which they doe lesse vnderstand and are far more frequent in Praier And if there were more zeale joyned with Conscience it would much adorne the profession make it most excellent as it is in deede so would it be in estimation and effect But no profession can make men perfect The most perfection wee haue consists or is consummated in practise and action Peace and prosperitie which should helpe doth yet hinder Devotion It begets Pride and that ingenders presumption Affliction giues instruction gaines humility guides the Conscience and reformes euill liuing Witnesse nay many witnesses heereof were the persecutions of the Primitiue Church when vnder the Tyrannies and bloudy Massacres of the Christians by the Heathen Emperours Princes and Magistrates the Christians liues were shining lights of sanctitie their patient and constant sufferings causes of cōuersion to many men who before knew not God nor what Godlinesse meant Their sinceritie and singlenesse of heart set vp Trophees for themselues and made them Conquerors ouer their cruellest and causelesse Enemies And I would I could not say in mine owne particular for my poore sinnefull selfe that when I enioyed the World as I did most wish I was euer then worst I would I could as well say that since Aduersitie came I became better yet if any thing worke in mee or in others amendement it must be Affliction and some Aduersitie Affliction in minde for sinne and a touch of Aduersitie for the same O therefore that so I may doe as now I say and that others may doe as I wish My Prayers I hope by the heauenly assistancce shall be That yet in these