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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76443	Devotions of the ancient church in seaven pious prayers with seaven administrations. Collected for a private use, and now at the desire of some judicious persons, made publick.	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing B2008; Thomason E1835_1; ESTC R209866	73,655	224

DEVOTIONS Of the ANCIENT CHVRCH In Seaven Pious PRAYERS with Seaven ADMINISTRATIONS Collected for a private use and now at the desire of some judicious persons made publick Luke 5. 39. No man having drunk old wine straightway desires new for he saith the Old is better LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane 1660. The PREFACE THat there may be good use of a set form of Prayer cannot be gainsaid without the censure of the Ancient and present reformed Churches condemning the judgement and practice of the most eminent Divines not only the Episcopal but Mr. Rogers Mr. Egerton Mr. Heldersham Dr. Gouge Dr. Preston Dr. Sibbs with others which also appears by that book conceived to be of Mr Cartwrights penning entituled The form of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments agreeable to Gods word and the use of the reformed Churches wherein is enjoyned a constant use of the Lords Prayer both after the Ministers prayer before Sermon ●●d in each other service Bap●isme Communion c. and 〈◊〉 title of Common Prayer now slighted is there often ●●●ned such as have been and are reputed otherwise And if so why not the old being taken out of the most Ancient Liturgies unless that must be its reproach which with Jeremiah cap. 6. 6. is its reputation The matter is granted by all to be holy and good and if a formality be the only barre to its reassuming why might not each party for unitysake hearken to some accommodation to suppress the whole is to blur the compilers of it some of whom suffered Martyrdome by the Sea of Rome but a review in the exchange of some few expressions for the better reception of it in an after age may be a friendly office Such as observe no form do frequently in sacred administrations fall into impertinencies where each Minister takes his own there cannot but be an inequality of those performances in several congregations and the refusing to submit to any but our own argues a too much valuing of our selves and too little of that humility and lowliness of minde which best becomes the Ministers of the Gospel The framing of a new Liturgy which some of both parties have been attempting will not attain its desired end by the present much lamented disaffection between them that what the one shall commend the other will dislike and an equal mixture of a new composure with the old will be but as the putting of a new piece to an old Garment whereby the rent will be the worse so that there can be no such probable way of healing up the breach among us in this particular as by some prudent consideration of that which was framed by our fore-fathers and with which most of us have been educated for which submitting one to another in circumstantials we have the examples of St. Paul and other of the Apostles And it is some evidence such are the stronger in knowledge on either side who upon this exigency are the most apt to yield in them and those the weaker that stand most upon them rather hazarding the shipwrack of the whole then permit the casting over-board some goods of the least value zeal is an excellent vertue but without a bridle may run the person headlong upon dangerous inconveniences as there extremity is to be condemned who will have none of the old at all so is theirs not justifiable who will have all i. e. every particular rite and circumstance or none a moderation between both is the more prudential In this book is the matter of the whole only with some diversity in the form method and dispensing with a few causelesly offensive passages Many short prayers found in the same service or administration for which St. Augustine commends the Aethiopick Liturgies and others prudently appointed for some special dayes and annual commemorations are here with the several Exhortatives in satisfaction of a very weak objection drawn into one body And if the Lords Prayer do appear once in each I suppose it will be judged very convenient by which with the Creed and Ten Commandements in the old form constantly repeated the fundamentals of religion were preserved in the memories of the vulgar which by these late years neglect have been almost worn out of them and in the younger sort who have never or very rarely heard of them there is found a grosser ignorance then in the elder This caveat is only entred that if the Reader do sometimes meet with an exchange or omission of any rite or clause in either let him not conclude them to be removed by a writ of errour but be looked upon as innocent honourable persons offering themselves to die for the peace of their Country And as the aime of all our endeavours ought to be for the restauration of that Primitive union when the Church was of one heart and one soul so it will be the prudence of us notwithstanding our judgements are still firm for the old form without the least alteration to shew it in our meekness of compliance accordingly for that end It being one of the best evidences of a true son of the Church of England to be willing to bear with somewhat cross to his own opinion for the peace of his Mother In a word most of these particulars following were drawn up by the Author long agoe for a private use and though they be now printed which was desired by such whose judgements are sufficiently known to be for the Liturgy of the Church of England yet in regard the principal Administrations are stil too frequently so confin'd it is possible they may not transgress that intended limit of them and the experimental acceptation which they found then with the moderate sort of both parties in the hearing gives the like probability now in the reading Howsoever being thus barely presented without any presumptuous proposal for the publick use as a copy for others to write after I know no cause of censure it can incur in the publishing unless it be for observing that advice of St. Paul Let your moderation be known unto all men The Contents of the Book Diverse brief prayers used by the Church at each are here drawn into one 1. A Prayer for the Morning page 1. 2. A Prayer for the Evening pag. 6. Consisting of the ancient Collects or prayers appointed for each Sunday in the year 3. A prayer for the Morning pag. 9. 4. A prayer for the Evening pag. 13. Composed of the like used upon the Festivals of the Apostles and Evangelists 5. A most profitable prayer pag. 19. Meditations upon our Saviours Incarnation Birth circumcision passion resurrection ascension c. used by the Church upon those and the like Festivities 6. A heavenly prayer pag. 23. Full of faith containing the articles of it and full of Charity in praying for all degrees of men and all sorts of blessings for them called heretofore the Letany drawn without the responds into one continued Prayer 7. An