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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

hath a special prescription Lev 7.12 to be tempered with plenty of oyl of gladness that maketh the face to shine Ps 24.25 In this behalf the Psalmist is so copious that it is hard to pitch upon any passage wherein he seemeth more expressive then other In that ninety second Psalm which carries the Title for the Sabbath day no entrance is found but by the door of Thanksgiving It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy Name O thou most high To tell of thy loving kindnesse early in the morning and of thy truth in the night season Upon an Instrument of ten strings and upon the Lute upon a loud Instrument and upon the Harp Church-musick then in those dayes was not held Superstitious but taken in for an help to set forth Praise and Thanksgiving For performance of which duty so many ties are upon us that the Prophet cryes out as destitute of expressions Psa 116.11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits he hath done unto me and can resolve no otherwise for himselfe but Psal 145.1 Every day will I give thanks to thee and praise thy name for ever and ever And for stirring up of others to the same duty O praise the Lord saith he for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea Psal 147.1 a joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful But what need we go further where we have the practice of our Saviour to lead us I thank thee O Father Mat. 11.25 Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight According with this we have that large form of Thankgiving besides many others to stirre up our selves and others of the Kingly Prophet Psal 136. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever O give thanks unto the God of all gods for his mercy endureth for ever O thank the Lord of all Lords for his mercy endureth for ever and so going on in numbring up Gods blessings for which thanks were due with a repetition from whence they proceeded from Gods mercy not our deserts for his mercy endureth for ever He ends as he began as though in his acknowledgment he had never said enough O give thanks unto the Lord of heaven for his mercy endureth for ever O give thanks unto the Lord of Lords for his mercy endureth for ever Upon this ground proceed the four and twenty Elders representing the whole Church of the Faithful falling upon their faces and worshipping We give thee thanks Rev. 12.17 O Lord God Almighty which art and which wa st and which art to come because thou hast taken unto thee thy great power and hast reigned From these and the like patterns our Leiturgies forms are derived A Thanksgiving for raine in time of drought O God our heavenly Father who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth c. For fair weather O Lord God who hast justly humbled us by the late plague of immoderate rain and waters c. For Plenty O most merciful Father which of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of the Church c. For Peace and Victory Almighty God who art a strong Tower of Defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies c. For Deliverance from the Plague O Lord God which hast wounded us for our sins c. After receiving of the Lords Supper Almighty and everlasting God wee most heartily thank thee for that thou dost vouchsafe to feed us which have duly received these holy Mysteries c. And last of all under the Title of Prayers most commonly set in the end of the Church-Book what a complete form of Thanksgiving have we that thus begins Honour and Praise be given to thee O Lord God Almighty most dear Father of heaven for all thy mercies and loving kindness shewed unto us c. Which ends with this most pious and necessary petition to be used at all times and on all occasions Let thy mighty hand and out-stretched arm O Lord be still our defence c. For your Sexe also my Daughters is not to be omitted the Thanksgiving of women after Child-birth commonly called the Churching of Women though latter times have held it superfluous if not superstitious wherein Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodnesse to give you safe deliverance and preserved you in the great danger of Child-birth You are called upon to be thankful heartily and to pray with the words of the Psalmist Psal 121. I have lifted up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my salvation my help cometh from the Lord which hath made heaven and earth And that which followes The Sun shall not burn thee by day nor the Moon by night c. is not impertinent as some will have it in as much as it ascribes all preservation to God at all times and in all places in our greatest extremities When more punctual devout and judicious Thanksgiving upon surer grounds and authority shall bee tendred to you my Daughters you may satisfie your consciences in making use of them In the meane time you and yours may feed on the milk which your Mother the Church so plentifully affords you and not cast about for change of Nurses who will scarce prove so natural CHAP. VI. Of Praises PRaise is a due acknowledgment of Gods infinite excellency expressed in his works of Power Mercy and Justice It hath such affinity with Thanksgiving that most commonly they go together and usually are taken one for the other Psa 145.11 As in that Psalm All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy Saints give thanks unto thee I will magnifie thee Ver. 1 2. O Lord my King and will praise thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I give thanks to thee and praise thy Name for ever and ever Notwithstanding howsoever Magnifying Praising Blessing and giving of Thanks to God are used to the same purpose yet praise may belong to Excellency which we are not bound to thank whereas Thanks includeth Praise for affording us a Blessing by which wee are obliged to magnifie the Donor In the Old Testament those that will seek for forms in this behalf shall find all the Psalmes of David in the Original to come under the title of The Book of Praises Not that all Psalmes therein may be so termed but because the most part are so that gives the nomination to the whole And Samplers for Praises to you my Daughters may be as pertinent that of Miriam registred to all posterity for imitation in these words Exo. 15.20 And Miriam the Prophetesse the sister of Aaron took a Timbrel in her hands and

before me At our going forth Psalm 143 Shew me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto thee At the hearing of a Clock or looking on a Watch or a Dyal Teach me O Lord Psal 9.12 to number my dayes that I may apply my heart to Wisdom At the undertaking of any work of our vocation The glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon me Ibid. v. 17 Prosper thou the works of my hands O prosper thou my handy work which if wee cannot desire with a good conscience a stop must be made and the business not undertaken Last of all upon our death-beds old Jacobs Ejacalation will be acceptable and comfortable Gen. 49.18 O Lord I have waited for thy salvation With old Simeons in the New Testament to bear it company Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace because mine eyes have seen thy Salvation in knowing and depending upon him for my Redemption my Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus Luk. 23.46 Whose praier in giving up the Ghost must be ours at the last gasp Father into thy hands I commend my spirit The happiest conclusion that all our Devotions can bring us unto In the interim we shall meet with in this vale of misery many passages to be lamented at which how it may be performed the next Title suggesteth CHAP. VI. Of Lamentations and complaints on sad Objects WE read in the Old Testament of the Roll of a Book Ezek. 2.10 wherein was written within and without Lamentations and Mourning and Wo. And in Ramah was there a voice heard as it is repeated in the New Testament Lamentation and weeping Matth. 2.18 and great mourning Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they were not The taking up of a lamentation is a Scripture phrase Jer. 7.29 Ezek. 19.1 26.17 27.2 28.12 32.2 and the practice of it usuall Lamentations are prescribed for Tyre and Pharaoh Saul hath a set lamentation penned by David for his sad overthrow and his brave son Jonathans upon cursed mount Gilboa in which the Daughters of Israel are called upon to weep over them 2 Sam. 1.22 under whom they had injoyed such Ornaments and happiness But all the singing men and singing women must by an Ordinance in Israel 2 Chr. 35.25 speak of Josiah in their Lamentations who was slain at Hadradrimmon Zac. 12.11 in the valley of Megidde whereof the Prophet Jeremiah was the Pen-man from whom wee have those inimitable Lamentations for the ruines of the Church and State that fell out in his time O that my head were waters Jer. 9.1 and my eys a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slaine of the Daughter of my people Jer. 7.29 Cut off thy hair O Jerusalem and cast it away and take up a Lamentation in the High-Places Lam. 1.11 Is it nothing to you all ye that passe by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow Then he turnes unto the Lord Behold Chap. 2.20 O Lord and consider to whom thou hast done this shal the women eat their fruit and the children of a span long Shall the Priest and the Prophet be slain and that in the Sanctuary of the Lord How cold are all Heathen Poets and Orators compared to these burning expressions Isai 22.4 Isaiah had the like before for the desolation he foresaw should come upon his Country for their sins Look away from me for I wil weep bitterly Labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people And Alas Chap. 5.16 alas is the burthen of the Lamenration foretold by Amos in the like case which the Citizens and Husbandmen and all those that are skilful in wailing must take up when the Lord is angry and poureth out the Vials of his punishments upon them Psal 8.5 Psal 102.9 Such bread of tears and drink mingled with weeping the Prophet David often made his Kingly repast when the floods of Belial made him afraid and mark how earnest and passionate he is indivers addresses to God which pierce the highest heavens to extort as it were a blessing Will the Lord absent himself for ever Psal 77.7 and will he be no more intreated Is his mercy clean gone for ever and his promise come utterly to an end for evermore Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindness in displeasure And what consorts more with the miseries of these lamentable times then that of the sixtieth Psalm Psalm 60.1 O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad thou hast also been displeased O turn thou unto us again Thou hast moved the land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh thou hast shewed thy people heavy things thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine When you therefore consider my Daughters which I will you seriously and conscionably to do the irreverent contempt and worse then heathenish profaneness that is fallen of late upon Gods Worship under a pretence of exacter teaching and purer Reformation you may betake your selves to that complaint of the Psalmist Help Lord for there is not one godly man left Psalm 12.1 the faithful are minished from among the children of men the wicked walk on every side Ver. ult when the vilest men are exalted And turn that reproof of our Saviour into a necessary Prayer Mat. 21.13 O Lord thy house should be called and so ever acknowledged to bee the House of Prayer but behold it is now made not only a Den of Thieves but a Stable for horses and a Receptacle for Zims and Ohims and daughters of the Owles to act their parts therein Isai 34.14 Men of worse then Heathenish conditions are come into thine inheritance Psalm 79.1 thy holy Temple have they defiled and made thy Jerusalem an heap of stones c. 2. When you recount with your selves Things consecrated to God to be alienated to cursed uses the shepherds smitten the flocks scattered and that not by strangers but at home in the houses of our friends Zach. 13.6 how seasonably will that bee thought upon out of the seventy fourth Psalm O God Psalm 74.1 why art thou absent from us so long Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture Thine adversaries roar in the midst of the congregations and set up their banners for tokens breaking downe the carved works set up for thy Worship with axes and hammers Let us make havock of them altogether say they root them out Psal 83.12 that they be no more a people that we may take the houses of God into our own possession Is it not time therefore for all good Christians to cry out Arise O Lord Psal 74.23 and maintaine thine own cause remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily 3 At the

then upon this repeated condition again and again most strictly to be observed As we forgive them that trespasse against us Mat. 6 14 15 And lastly is not that a thundring censure denounced upon that Caitiffe that took his Brother by the throat for a few pence when his Lord had acquitted him for so many Talents O thou wicked Servant Mat. 28.32 I forgave thee all that debt because thou desiredst me shouldst not thou have had also compassion on thy fellow servant even as I had pity on thee And you may read what followes Take him Tormentors not a penny to be abated those that afford none shall find no mercy And the application is from him that propounded the Doctrine ver 35. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do unto you if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses 7. Lastly Distrust and despair take away all ground of prayer and turn us into the Land of Nod with Cain to denounce with a guilty conscience Gen. 4.13 Mine iniquity is greater then it my be forgiven or politickly to hang our selves with Achitophel or to give a name to Acheldama with Judas Such Murderers and Traytors prevent as it were Gods judgments and suppose the paines of hell more tollerable then a guilty conscience Let it be your care therefore my Daughters with your prayers to beseech God amongst other blessings to remove from you these forementioned Hindrances of prayer Gen. 15.11 Abraham had much ado when he sacrificed to keep off the fowls from devouring it And Joshuah the High Priest shall no sooner present himself a poor and ragged supplicant for restoring of his captive Country-men Zech. 3.1 but Satan will be at his right hand to resist him But resist the Divel saith the Apostle and he will flee from thee Jam. 4.7 That is done not by force of arms nor fasting only or almes-deeds howsoever otherwise commended but by continued and devout prayers gronnded upon that of our Saviour lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil And with this being put to flight if the evil spirit return again with seven worse then himself Luk. 11.26 of his undermining companions The shield of faith will be sufficient to quench all his fiery darts being managed with continued prayers and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance as the Apostle assures us Eph 6.18 more fully to be handled in that which followes CHAP. VI. Helpes for the stirring up and furtherance of our suits HE that intends to build a tower Luk. 14 28 you may find whose observation it is first sits downe and counts the costs what it wil amount unto lest haply when he hath laid the foundation and is not able to compass it all that behold begin to mock and say This man began to build and was not able to finish it In this the case of such that shall make their addresses to God by prayer is in a manner represented All kind of snares distractions seductions impediments shall be cast in his way that except preventions and helps come from above and are circumspectly used of us our best intents will but prove attempts like a foundation that wants a purse to compleat the building The helpes that herein will best further us may be reckoned to be 1. Meditation 2. Vowes 3. Fasting 4. Almes-deeds 5. Visiting of the sick and distressed 6. Frequenting pious and lawfull assemblies 7. Putting on the whole Armour of God whereby we may be able to stand in the evil day Eph. 6 13. and having done all to stand 1. How meditation and prayer mutually helpe each other the Psalmist sheweth in his early and earnest prosecution of them Ponder my words O Lord and consider my meditation Psal 5.1 O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling my King and my God for unto thee do I make my prayer my voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up which when he had done in a serious turning over three books the book of Nature the book of Scripture and the book of Conscience which alwaies lie open for all to look upon he shuts up his religious speculation with this supplicant conclusion Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be alwaies acceptable in thy sight Psal 19.14.15 O Lord my Strength and my Redeemer This was holy Isaak's practice no doubt from the institution of his good father Abraham he went out to meditate in the field at eveningtide to pray saith the margin in our last translation intimating Gen. 24.63 that prayer and Meditation be of such affinity that prayer without meditation is as a messenger that runs without his errand 2. Vowes may passe also as helps to prayers upon deliberate meditation Jer. 23.32 otherwise they may prove rash and sinfull Those that we have made by our Godfathers and Godmothers in our Baptism to forsake the divel flesh and world with all their pompes and vanities might hold us in a right course without any monkish by-laws or further impositions of our owne if they were as well kept as they are wisely set down in our Catechisme But such is our wavering weaknesse and itch after Novelties that we must needs have a new lesson before the old be learned and Manna from heaven shall not relish if it grow too common you should do well therefore my daughters not to vow more then you have undertaken to doe already or else to vow no otherwise then that it may tend to the performance of that which solemnly before God and his Church you have undertaken For though the obedience of the Rechabites to the commands of their Father Jonadab Jer. 35.19 be approved in Scripture as an ensample for observing the fifth Commandment yet the Pharisaicall tye for their Corban that exempted children from obedience to their parents or relieving them in their necessity is branded by our Saviour as an attempt which justles aside Gods law that mans Traditions might take place So wise wee would make our selves to perfect Gods Text with our marginal notes and give order for a directer way to heaven then he that is the way John 14.6 the truth the life had leisure or pleasure to leave behind him Notorious are the sad consequences of Jeptha's inconsiderate vow Judg. 11.39 And what would Sauls for killing Jonathan 1 Sam. 14 c. 25. and Davids for massacring Nabal with his whole familie have wrought if God in mercy had not interposed Our vowes therefore when we make any extraordinary must be 1. Warrantable by Gods word 2. Fit for our condition of life 3. Concerning things in our power 4. Injurious to none 5. Changeable upon necessity 6. Referred wholly to Gods glory and the good of the Church and common-wealth wherein we live 7. No way exempting from

of a Sermon how becoming pious is that Petition Grant we beseech thee Almighty God that the words which we have heard this day with our outward ears c. And for the close of all our Prayers that which closeth up the Service of the Communion Almighty God which hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Sons name c. They are unworthy to pray or to bee heard Jer. 2.13 that forsake such fountains of knowne and living waters to hew out to themselves Cisterns broken Cisternes that hold troubled or no water or perchance some mixtures of Marah or Meribah which will not guide us to the Springs of Intercession that next wee must take in our way CHAP. IV. Of Intercessions AMong those kind of Prayers which the Apostle exhorteth 1. Tim. 2.1 especially Intercession succeeds Supplications which are Petitions put up to God for others for whom we are bound to pray either by Nature Law or Christian charity Under this title therefore come all those prayers we have for the Church in general and then more distinctly for Superiors Leaders Equals Friends Enemies all that bee desolate and oppressed that they may be relieved all that bee in good courses that they may be preserved and encouraged To such Intercessions the Psalmist exhorteth all well-affected people especially when they are assembled together Psal 122.6 7 8 9 O pray saith he for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Peace be within thy walls and plenteousnesse within thy Palaces For my brethren and companions sake I wil wish thee prosperity yea because of the House of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee good So Samuel prayed for Saul until God told him in plaine termes that he had rejected him And so long in charity we are to pray for those that are most untoward until God hath evidenced by cutting them off that their case is desperate which wee must not be too bold to prejudg seeing she that had seven Divels in her did become the most zealous Attendant of our Saviour and he that was a most violent Persecutor 1 Cor. 15.10 the most laborious amongst all the Apostles Smal hopes there was of imprisoned Saint Peters preservation the sword having so fatally cut off Saint James and Herod being so fully bent to please the bloud-thirsty Jewes Acts 12.5 Peter was therefore kept in prison saith the Text but prayer that is Intercession was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him And was not the event as miraculous Peter is delivered by an Angel and the expectation of the Jews deluded Few would imagine that Saint Paul who had the favour to be rapt up into the third heaven 2 Cor. 12.4 and hear unspeakable words which were not lawful for a man to utter should have need of the Intercession of any of those Converts of his which he had so lately catechized in Christianity yet wee see what he writes to the Thessalonians 1 The. 5.25 Brethren pray for us And to the Hebrews Heb. 13.11 Pray for us for we trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Nay Pharaoh and Simon Magus were not so hard hearted though in the gall of bitterness but they allowed and desired the intercession of Gods servants Intreat the Lord saith Pharaoh that there be no more mighty thundrings and hail Exod. 9.28 Acts 8.24 And pray ye unto the Lord for me saith Magus that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me Whereupon Saint James laid it down for a Canon to be observed of all the faithful James 5.16 Confesse your sins one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed Which two Ingredients make an excellent Soulsalve for all spiritual wounds and bruises And therefore we have so divers and effectual formes of Intercession in our church-Church-Book that I may wel use the words to you that Boaz sometime did unto Ruth Ruth 2.8 Hear ye not my Daughters Go not to glean in another field neither go from hence for here you shal find that will satisfie The pattern of Intercession we have from our Saviour for his Apostles Successors and Converts John 17. as we had his general prayer before for all things necessary Matth. 6. conformable to which we have framed that excellent Intercession in our Leiturgy under the Title of Let us pray for the whole estate of Christs Church militant here on earth in these words Almighty and everlasting God which by thy holy Apostle hast taught us to make prayers and supplications and to give thanks for all men c. This Prayer is to be had by heart and alwayes used upon any occasion And in particular find we not further Intercessions for the King Queen and Royal Progeny Bishops and all the Clergy most orderly following one another To the same purpose are those interchangeable Intercessions betweene Priest and People O Lord shew thy mercy upon us and grant us thy salvation O Lord save the King c. Which your little ones may be brought to repeat in answering one another The like passages are interposed in Matrimony for the parties marryed O Lord save thy servant and thine hand-maid that put their trust in thee c. In the Visitation of the sick O Lord save thy servant which putteth his trust in thee c. And at your Womens-meetings commonly called Church-going O Lord save this woman thy servant which putteth her trust in thee c. Perswade your selves my Daughters these things are not to be little set by This simplicity in coming to God with good hearts and humble minds in obedience to our Mother the Church which hath thus directed us will be more acceptable to him and more prevalent then Balaks seven Altars and Balaams thence fetching Prophecies Nay then the Sacrifice of a Bullock to use the words of the Psalmist that hath horns and hoofes Psal 69.32 For God is not taken with quaint inventions or excellency of speech 1 Cor. 2.1 as the Apostle tels us The wisdom of this world to him is but foolishness chap. 3.19 chap. 4.20 and his Kingdome consisteth not in words but power If our hearts therefore condemne us not God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things And then saith the blessed Apostle we have confidence towards God 1 Joh. 3.20 21 22 and whatsoever wee ask wee receive of Him if wee keep his Commandments and doe those things which are pleasing in his sight And so wee may close with the man after Gods owne heart Psal 69.33 The humble shall consider this and bee glad Seek ye the Lord in this way and your foul shall live CHAP. V. Of Thanksgiving WEll may Thanksgiving follow Intercession which is the only high-rent that God expecteth for all his infinite blessings bestowed upon us Amongst the Sacrifices of the Old Testament this of Thanksgiving