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A90999	Euchologia: or, The doctrine of practical praying. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Prideaux, late Bishop of Worcester. Being a legacy left to his daughters in private, directing them to such manifold uses of our Common Prayer Book. As may satisfie upon all occasions, without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3425; Thomason E1515_1; ESTC R209505	69,265	323

EVCHOLOGIA OR The DOCTRINE of PRACTICAL PRAYING By the Right Reverend Father in God JOHN PRIDEAUX Late Bishop of Worcester Being a Legacy left to his DAUGHTERS in Private directing them to such manifold Uses of OUR Common Prayer Book As may satisfie upon all Occasions without looking after New Lights from Extemporal Flashes Jer. 6.16 Ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest to your souls London Printed for RICH. MARRIOT and are to be sold at his Shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard Fleetstreet 1655. The Right Reuerend Father in God John Prideaux late B p of Worcester To my Daughters SARAH HODGES And ELIZABETH SUTTON Dear Daughters AFter the expiration of three score and ten years the ordinary date by Moses allotted to mans life finding weaknesse with age to creep upon me Psal 90.10 and summoning me continually to prepare for a Change I have often bethought my selfe what Legacy of my Love I might best leave unto you being the only Survivors of the nine children that God had blest me with by your long since deceased Mother Acts 3.6 Silver and Gold have I none as I may well profess with the Apostle and you know it too well Mat. 13.44 46. But what is all worldly pelf to that Treasure and Jewel to purchase which we should be happy to part with all that we have My Education as 't is well known and course of life hath not led me to make you great in this world if it induce you to be good and fit you for an heavenly Inheritance it is all that I aim at and the utmost from me you can expect Your Mother was known to be a religious and modest Matron in all the course of her life extraordinarily addicted to Prayer A Sampler from whom I exhort you to take especially in that behalf To which purpose I have framed these ensuing Directions to set you onward I make no doubt but your loving Husbands wil herein be my Seconds whom those that know must confesse to be Learned Pious and painful Ministers and I think you happy to have met with such above divers that hold themselves of a higher pitch in this world You know who protesteth Psal 84.10 He had rather be a Door-keeper in the House of his God then to bear a greater sway in more esteemed Mansions and intimates the Sparrow and Swallowes condition almost to be envied at that have admittance to nestle and lay their young so near Gods Altar Besides your Names should mind you of good old Sarah in the Old Testament and Elizabeth in the New what excellent Patterns you have to follow And when you read that Timothy S. Pauls famous Pupil 2 Tim. 1.5 and first Bishop of Ephesus had the first ground of his Catechism from his Grand-mother Lois and Mother Eunice you should cast about how you might perform the like to your little ones whom God hath blest you with abundantly That your Sons may grow up as the young plants Ps 144.12 and that your Daughters may be as the polished corners of the Temple plants growing to trees that will bring forth seasonable fruit and corner stones that will hold together and set forth a building To conclude I may not omit one passage of that famous Martyr Dr. Rowland Taylor which should take the more with you because by your Mother you are lineally descended from him the Chaine of Pearl he only left your great Grandmother his dear wife when he last parted from her to suffer Martyrdome was no other but the Book of Common Prayer in contriving of which he had a hand and which he used only in his Imprisonment as holding that Book above all other next the Bible the most absolute Directory for all his effectual Devotions The same Book commend I unto you and yours my beloved Daughters as fittest for your use and most complete and warrantable for the grounds it stands upon 2 Tim. 4.3 Take heed of itching ears and damned devourers of widows houses who under a shew of making long prayers Mat. 23.14 mislead silly women to be ever learning 2 Tim. 5.7 and never come to the knowledg of the Truth You see what mischiefe such Reformers have wrought which the piety and prudence of manyages are scarce likely in a long time to recover The Lord keep you and all his from the snares of such Hunters and Stools of wickedness Psal 94.20 which imagine mischief as a Law Luke 1.74 That we being delivered from the hands of our enemies both spiritual and temporal may serve him without fear in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our lives Which is the hearty Prayer and Conclusion of Your aged careful Father J. W. A Table of the Heads of the following Treatise Which are in General 1. A Preparation to Prayer 2. Of prayers in private 3. Of Prayers in Publick Assemblies Particulars of the first part being the Preparation are 1. The Necessity of Prayer p. 7. 2. To whom our Prayers are to be directed p. 18. 3. What we are to ask in Prayer p. 24. 4 Of external Gestures beseeming religious Devotions p. 46. 5 Of Impediments that distract or frustrate our prayers p. 65 6 Of Helps for the stirring up and furtherance of our suits p. 89. 7. Of waiting for a gracious Answer from God and the surest Tokens to discern it p. 100. Particulars of the second Part concerning Private Prayers are 1. Of Personal or Prayers in secret p. 117. 2. Of Houshold or prayers in a Family p. 129. 3. Of Blessings and Occasional Salutations p. 146. 4. Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs p. 160. 5. Of occasional Ejaculations 178 6 Of Lamentations and complaints on sad objects p. 190 7 Of Excitations and Incouragements to all kind of Christian cheerfulness and alacrity 204 The third Parts particulars are of 1. Confessions p. 227 2. Deprecations p. 242. 3 Supplications or Petitions 249 4 Intercessions p. 257. 5 Thanksgivings p. 267. 6 Praises p. 277. 7 Comminations or Cursings p. 288. THE DOCTRINE OF PRAYER INTRODUCTION Lord teach us to pray as John also taught his Disciples Luke 11.1 THE Doctrine of Prayer may bee termed a fit Direction collected out of Gods Word for the right preparing us to pray both for our selves and others as also to praise and give thanks unto God in Private and Publick for his blessings bestowed upon us It differs therefore from Meditations Soliloquies Lamentations Expostulations though thefe border neare upon it and may be made good Helps unto it but hath a greater distance from Ave-maries or Salutations of the blessed Virgin as also from Adjurations such as the High Priest or the Divel used to our Saviour Mat. 26.63 neither Creed said or sung may be accounted Prayers but Professions of our faith upon which our Prayers are grounded For your readier apprehending and retaining that shall be fittest for your practice and progresse

into the New Jerusalem a better portion cannot be expected for us Rev. 21.8 and 22.15 then to be shut out with Dogs and Socerers and Whore-mongers and Murderers and Idolaters and Forgers and approvers of lyes into that utter darknesse where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth and the worm dyeth not and the fire goeth not out But that which may be more useful for you my Daughters and more consonant to prayer which we have in hand is Imprecation or Cursing how farre that is to be detested and yet in some cases to be allowed as a commendable Prayer Such Imprecations then may either be upon unreasonable creatures or reasonable So the Serpent is cursed above all cattel Gen. 3.14 for being an Instrument of the Divel to seduce Man The ground is cursed for mans sake that had yeilded to the divel so easily to transgress his Makers command Likewise in the New Testament Mat. 21.9 did the Figtree that yeilded only leaves in stead of fruit escape the curse of our blessed Saviour These things are not for our practice but observation to catechize us that as nothing prospereth without Gods blessings so when he curseth the least good or scruple of comfort cannot be expected It is a fashion of divers when their horse stumbleth to wish The Divel take him or when any thing thwarts their will to bid a vengeance upon it or the like Such Imprecations are intolerable abuses in Christianity and give no further content then that which the Psalmist speaks of Psa 109.16 His delight was in cursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore it shall be far from him Imprecations against reasonable creatures may be either against such as are blasphemers profaneners of Gods Name and Worship Destroyers or persecuters of his Church and Saints Oppressors of their Countries wholesome Lawes and Liberties or against other persons or Societies that by private injuries have wronged us or ours That Blasphemers and Profaneners of Gods Name and Worship Destroyers and Persecuters of his Church and Saints oppressors of their Countries Laws and Liberties or making any approaches that way lye under the curse of God and all good people no man may doubt that findeth a mongrel boy stoned to death for blasphemy Levit. 24.14 Achan and all his family executed for Sacriledg Josh 7.22 Meroz cursed bitterly for not coming to help Gods people against the mighty Judg. 5. So that those Psalmes of David the eighty third and the one hundred and ninth with like passages in others may be thought not so much Prophecies what will befal the wicked as Imprecations to implore Gods justice to take vengeance on them that continue still in their obstinate courses Smite through the loines of Church-Opposers is a passage of Moses blessing upon Levies enemies Deut. 33.11 Let him be Anathema Maran-atha saith Saint Paul whosoever loveth not the Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 16.22 And from the same incensed zeal proceeded that against the Factors for a new Gospel amongst the giddy Galatians Galat. 1.8 Though wee or an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you then that which we have preached let him be accursed And As we said before so say I now again If any man preach any other Gospel unto you then that ye have received let him bee accursed Here is Curse upon Curse but upon just cause and a supposal that damnable Seducers should make head to affront Gods truth Where the Imprecation or Curse as you see is in a publick Cause and levelled against the sins rather then the persons of the offenders For those if it so please God by prayer and repentance may be recocovered as Peter after denying his Master when he had cursed and sworn that he knew not the man Matth. 26.74 All this will stand well with our Saviours mildest Doctrine and Practise I say unto you Love your enemies blesse them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despitefully use and persecute you Matth. 5.44 For personal wrongs may and must be forgiven where a curse is ever due to the opposers of all true peace and piety Whence wee have that highest pitch of charity in his extremest Agony on the Crosse towards his scorning and brutish Executioners Father forgive them for they know not what they do Luke 23.34 Thus when he was reviled he reviled not againe when he suffered hee threatned not 1 Pet. 2.23 No such words ever proceeded from his sacred lips I may forgive but I will never forget I shall find a time to cry quits with you or The plague of God fall upon him that so divellishly wrongs me or the like No he commits himself only to him that judgeth righteously who will plead the cause of the innocent Psal 35.1 with them that strive with him and fight against them that fight against him and say unto his soul I am thy salvation For vengeance is mine Rom. 12.19 and I will repay saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head And according to this calme and Christian temper I make no doubt but Gods Spirit directed the learned pious and judicious Compilers of our Church-Leiturgy to insert that charitable prayer to be tendred to God on Good-friday as we call it for all sorts of people for whom our Saviour suffered that by believing in him they might apprehend the only meanes of their salvation Merciful God who hast made all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made nor wouldst the death of a sinner but rather that he should be converted and live have mercy upon all Jews Turks Infidels and Hereticks c. To such Charity and Blessing we all are called as the blessed Apostle instructs us that we should inherit a blessing 1 Pet. 3.9 The exemplary King David in settling of his family as it was touched before would not endure that any 1. Psal 101. Unfaithful 2. Froward 3 Scandalous 4 Slanderous 5 Proud 6 Cheating 7 Lying person should have any residence in it And if you my Daughters do ever expect Gods Blessings upon you or yours 1. Irreverent mention of Gods holy name 2 Lying 3 Swearing 4 Cursings 5 Calumnies 6 Profane jestings especially on Gods Word or Ministers 7 Rotten communication that corrupts good manners must not once bee countenanced or named amongst you but knockt as it were in the head with your most effectual reproofs and correction Which if you shall religiously do in zeal to Gods glory and not out of a passionate disposition to vent your own mis-beseeming harshnesse then shall you bee delivered from the hand of strange children Psa 144.11 whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity then shall your sonnes grow up as the young plants and your Daughters be as the polished corners of the Temple your garners shall bee full of all manner of store your sheep shall increase your Oxen bee strong to labour without decay leading into captivity or complaining in your streets And thus have you my dear Daughters the best Legacy which my ruined worldly estate amongst so many distractions could lay together for you Wherein you may take notice that of purpose I have tyed my selfe to the Scriptures and church-Church-Book not adding any Quotation of any other Authours who yet notwithstanding are plentiful and profitable in this kind or Prayer of mine owne making to let you to understand that in those two books you shall have sufficient if you set your hearts to make true use of them without coasting about for any newer refined Directories I end with that Collect appointed for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany which especially sorts with the times wherein we live and was commended unto mee by your Grand father John Prideaux my dear Father when I was a boy in the time of a Plague The words are these O God That knowest us to bee set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for Mans frailenesse we cannot alwayes stand uprightly grant to us the health of Body and Soul that all those things which we suffer for sinne by thy help wee may well passe and overcome through Jesus Christ our Lord. To this you may add if you please the Collect for the second Sunday in Lent Almighty God which dost see that we have no power of our selves to help our selves keep thou us both outwardly in our Bodies and inwardly in our Souls that wee may bee defended from all adversities which may happen to the Body and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord. Who make You and Yours Partakers abundantly of all Temporal and Spiritual Heavenly Blessings External Internal Eternal To Whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God be all Honour Might and Majesty in Prayer Prayses and Thanksgiving ascribed both now and evermore Amen FINIS

head to be a fountain of tears Jer. 9.11 St. Peters bitter tears Luk. 7.38 and Marie's bath of tears for our Saviours feet and towel of her locks to wipe them must acknowledge that tears with prayer make a happy mixture to procure pity from him who shed tears over Jerusalem and wept in compassion with the sisters Luk. 19.41 Joh. 11.35 that lamented their dead brother Lazarus For bowing the knees and body that humble posture of the afflicted Israelites when they received the hopefull message of their deliverance may be a lending case to bee imitated when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that he had looked upon their affliction Then they bowed their heads saith the Text and worshiped Exod. 4.31 And what can be the meaning of that prohibition from falling down and worshiping images or any other similitudes in the second commandment but that God hath retained unto himself such a religious worship of the body Those that make scruple of such kneeling in prayer must needs set themselves against that solemne proclamation of the King of heaven I have sworn by my selfe the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousnesse Isa 45.23 and shall not return That unto mee every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear The same posture when we find allowed to our Saviour incarnate that at Phil. 2.10 or in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow of things inheaven and things on the earth and things under the earth confirmeth the Onenesse of the Son with the Father which novellists now question and make it their glory to cavil at where confutation is impossible 1 King 8.54 Solomon with these now masters for kneeling on his knees and spreading of his hands toward heaven in his dedication prayer of the Temple Dan. 6.10 shall be held unwise Daniel for praying on his knees three times a day shall be scarce thought worthy to be beloved And Saint Paul might save his labour for bowing his knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Ephes 3.14 Christ in the behalfe of the Ephesians because sitting as many doe at Sermons with their heads covered would be farre more easie and in those mens discipline doe as well And last of all when I find my Saviour falling on his face Matth. 26.39 and praying O my Father if it be possible let this cup passe from me neverthelesse not as I will but as thou wilt I should hold him far from superstition that in time and place and where it may be fitly performed shall prostrate his whole body or doe more if it were possible put his face between his knees as Elias did on mount Carmel in adoring him in whose book are all our members written 1 King 18.24 and day by day were fashioned when there was yet none of them Psal 139.16 With great judgment therfore is the 95 Psalm set in the fore front of our leiturgy as a preface to the ensuing devotions wherein that passage O come let us worship fal down and kneel before the Lord our maker consorting with that in the 132. we will go into his Tabernacle we will fall low before his footstoole should shame the irreverent behaviour of too many in the house of prayer which Turks and Infidels would hold abominable to be used in their Idoll Temples Moreover wherein women most offend Gods house is not a place for the displaying of plaited hair 3 Pet. 3.3 or wearing of gold or putting on of apparel or out-vying one another in more then the 24 fashions of the daughters of Sion taxed particularly by the prophet but for meek and quiet spirits Isai 3.16 to humble themselves before God to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to aske those things that be requisite as well for the body as the soule And that is not to be slighted 1 Cor. 11. which the Apostle reproves in the Corinthian Assemblies that men presumed to pray with their heads covered and women with their heads uncovered I would have you my daughters so to look to your feet when you enter into the hous of God that your devotions through irreverent unseemlinesse prove not the sacrifice of fools It was the modesty humility of some of your fore-mothers not to seat themselves in the Church before they had performed a reverent respect to the Minister then officiating which howsoever the high spirits of these times hold derogatory to their greatnesse yet the Son of God will take it as done to himself if it be done to the meanest of his Matth. 10.41 for his sake And the B. Virgin his mother will informe the stateliest that God will exalt the meek and humble when the mighty shall be put down from their seat Luk. 1.52 and the rich sent empty away This submisse and religious deportment of the body in Gods worship hath been too shamefully neglected amongst us surely such that slight Gods Ministers so much would hardly be induced to wash their Masters feet with their tears Luk 7.38 and wipe them with their curled locks but those that have ears to hear will hear 1. Bowing of the head And 2. The body to the earth Gen. 24.26 52 Psal 9 6. 3. Kneeling 4. Prostration or falling on the face 5. Lifting up of the eyes to heaven 6. And spreading forth the hands to the same place Mat. 26.39 Jo. 17.1 as also 7. Smiting of the brest with the penitent publican are postures of the body warranted to be used by precept and practice 1 King 8.22 out of the word of God which if they were seasonably and devoutly frequented more of us Luk. 18.13 in our private and publick prayers according to the example of our religious predecessors Mat. 23.6 would better then any Jewish phylacteries or fringes put us in mind of the weight of the business we are about set an edge on our dulnesse Deut. 6.8 and stirre up others to offer violence as it were and take by force the kingdome of heaven Jam. 5.16 Mat. 11.12 but this sacred fervency will meet with many Impediments to be considered in the next place CHAP. V. Of Impediments that disturb or frustrate our Prayers PRayer is so effectual against Satan and all his drifts and depths that he sets his utmost plots and stratagems to frustrate or hinder it and therefore he that seriously composeth himself to prayer shall bee sure to meet with a world of Impediments Amongst which these especially may be taken notice of to be carefully opposed 1. Wandring thoughts 2. Presumption 3. Ostentation 4. Superstition 5. Bosom sins retained 6. Irreconciliation 7. Despair 1. Concerning wandring thoughts we should eespecially attend that caveat of the Apostle Jam. 1.5 If any man ask wisdom let him as kit not by by Intercession of Saints or Angels but of God himselfe that giveth