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A25385	Holy devotions, with directions to pray also a brief exposition upon [brace] the Lords prayer, the creed, the Ten commandments, the 7 penitential psalms, the 7 psalms of thanksgiving : together with a letanie / by the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews ...; Institutiones piae, or, Directions to pray	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1663 (1663)	Wing A3129A; ESTC R40284	169,352	493

sin that without repentance he will condemn every one that offendeth therein Saul for unadvised cursing and adjuration lost a Victory against the Philistines For consulting with a Witch was with his Sons brought to untimely end Sennacherib for blaspheming God was slain by his own Sons Ananias for lying to the Holy Ghost dyed suddenly The Fourth Commandement Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day c. IN this Commandement are two things contained 1. A Precept or Declaration of the will of God To set apart some day 1. To the publick worship of God 2. In ceasing from our labours 2. A Reason of the Commandement 1. Because God after the Creation rested on the seventh day 2. Because he also blessed and sanctified it Let not worldly cares put it out of thy mind but observe it with all Care and Religion And not without great cause was this Precept so strictly urged 1. Because by the neglect of it ariseth the neglect of all spiritual duty 2. Because in it was contained a Type or Shadow of the great and everlasting Sabbath which is our Sanctification 3. Because we have thereby some time to shew mercy to our Servants and Beasts wearied with labour In frequenting the Church and there to exercise thy self In Prayer Hearing the Word Receiving the Sacrament In pious and religious Works as Visiting the Sick Relieving the Poor Meditating on Gods Works Praising him for them In refraining from Sin In resting from servile Labour And although that part of the Iews Sabbath be abrogated which respected the Seventh day Sacrifices and other exteriour acts of Gods worship commanded and enjoyned to the Iews yet the Church hath appointed instead thereof the Lords day or Sunday called the first day of the week wherein all Christians are bound to retain and observe all the duties of the first Sabbath avoiding the Iewish strict and superstitious Ceremonies In following the Vocation appointed thee by God wherein thou art to omit nothing necessary for the sustentation of thy Family And not to spend those six dayes wholly in idleness pleasure or excess Nor in the publique duties of the Sabbath and thereby nelecting the Care over thy Family In that day neither thou nor any of thy Family or Cattel shall do any servile labour except in case of necessity and preservation of Gods Creatures from damage or loss but ye shall spend it in those religious duties formerly set down In case of necessity The Sabbath being made for Man and not Man for the Sabbath we are to conceive that it was ordained not to destroy but to preserve him and therefore all works are not forbidden that day 1. As dressing of meat By the example of the Priests who on the Sabbath killed the Beasts for Sacrifice and dressed the rest And of Christs Disciples plucking ears of Corn. And Tertullian saith That the Antient and Primitive Church never fasted on the Sabbath day 2. Ministring Physick to the Sick By the example of our Saviour healing on that day 3. Saving Corn Hay-Houses and the like from perishing By our Saviours question to the Pharisees 2. The Reason why God commanded the observation of the first Sabbath was 1. Because after God by his Word had created the Universe of nothing he rested himself from all the work that he had made 2. Because this day was by him blessed and sanctified And the reason why the Seventh day was changed by the Apostles and continued by Christian Emperours into the first day of the week upon which the Christians Sabbath is observed was in remembrance of our Saviours Resurrection which happned on this day as may be gathered by Christs selecting that day to appear twice to his Apostles after his Resurrection The Second Table The Fifth Commandement Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy dayes may be long on the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee AS the first Table teacheth the honour and love of God so doth the second the duty we owe to our Neighbour And the first Commandement of this Table enjoyneth us to honour and reverence our Parents as being the thing which God esteemeth next in degree to his Honour And it containeth First A Precept Secondly A Promise 1. The Precept is General and Particular 1. The General comprehendeth our Duty to all our Elders and Superiours whom God hath set over us for our government and preservation which duty is of necessity to be performed in respect of the upholding of Politique Government 2. The Particular Precept containeth our Duty to our natural Parents Father and Mother of what degree estate or condition soever they be Whether Poor or Rich Good or Bad this Commandement layeth hold on us That which we are enjoyned to do by these words is to Reverence them as from whom we received our being Love them for their care sorrow and pains in our education Obey them in all lawful things at being appointed by God to command over us Be thankful to them in requiting their charge and love in ministring to their necessities Be patient with them in their corrections and bearing with all their infirmities That which we are forbidden to do against them is Not to speak evil of them or to curse them Not to see them want Not to be ashamed of them for poverty or other cause whatsoever 2. The Promise is made to all such as shall keep this Precept which is Long dayes of life here and happy too else they would be no better than a curse Long dayes hereafter for ever in bliss which is the highest blessing that can befall to any It was Saint Pauls observation that this was the first Commandement that had a Promise annexed to it This Promise God made 1. To allure us to the Duty of reverencing and obeying our Parents and Superiours 2. To shew how highly he esteemeth of it 3. It suits with the Commandements if we honour our Parents who gave us life we shall be rewarded with long life The Sixth Commandement Thou shalt not Kill THis Commandement followeth properly and in order in the next place For mans life being the most precious thing in this World and upon which all other things depend God seemeth to take care by this Commandement for peace and quietness whereby mans life may be preserved The life of man ought to be preserved for three respects 1. Because God is the Iudge of man only 2. Nature desireth nothing more than the preservation of life 3. Murther destroyeth all society Neither thy self nor others Neither shalt thou have any desire to do any such act Under this Commandement are divers other particulars forbidden For as God forbiddeth the act so doth he command that all occasions or means to execute that act be forborn and taken away If God commands us not to kill then he prohibits the affections to Slaughter Anger Unjust War Quarrelling

EFFIGIES R. P. LANCELOTI ANDREWES Episcopi Wintoniensis Holy Devotions WITH Directions to Pray ALSO A brief Exposition UPON The Lords Prayer The Creed The Ten Commandements The 7 Penitential Psalms The 7 Psalms of Thanksgiving Together with a Letanie By the right Reverend Father in God Lancelott Andrews late Bishop of WINCHESTER The Fifth Edition LONDON Printed for A. Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1663. Christian Reader THou art here presented with another Manual from the Dead I need not tell thee who it is that being Dead thus speaketh For when thou shalt have perused these Pious and Holy Institutions this Dove with Silver Wings and whose Feathers are gold Thou wilt easily conclude what Hand it was and who the Noah that sent it forth of the Ark to find out the dry Corners of this Land that so there it might build a Nest not for it self but for others with that Olive Branch which it carries in its Mouth Or if happily thou mayest not here know the Parent by the Child because indeed the Child has been educated under a kind Foster-Father who dressed it up in three former Editions and might have done in a Fourth but that he now sleepes in the Lord. Know now that the True Father and primary Author of these Devotions was the Glory of this Church the Great and Eminent Andrewes a Person of such Learning Charmingness and Sanctity that in after-times there will bee some to make it their VVish O that they had lived in those Dayes when they might have seen Dr. Andrews in the Schooles Bp. Andrews in the Pulpit St. Andrews in the Closet And thus the Parentage of this Book which like that of Cyrus was for divers years concealed under a Shepheards Cottage a good and faithfull Shepheard he was that concealed it comes now to be vindicated to its own Nativity And the Child being of full Age desires to be known abroad in the VVorld for her Fathers Daughter the Daughter of her True not Supposed Father If it were not too great a Presumption for so sacred a Person to be commended by so mean a Pen I should be ready to say of our Lancelott Andrewes as Erasmus said of his Ioannes Vitrarius that had he lived in the Infancy of the Gospel and been a known Contemporary to Saint Paul he would happily have chosen Him even before Barnabas or Timothy to have been his Companion in his Labours and Ministry O the vast interest which this great Luminary had in those two Equal Sisters Prayer and Preaching Preaching and Prayer I am bold to call them Equal Sisters because the use of Preaching is to teach us all how to Pray And the Benefit of Prayer is to enable some after what manner to Preach Though it will here be Confessed that as the times now stand the best Weapons of the Church are Tearfull Prayers And therefore since the Press of late has grown even Wanton in the Printing of Sermons which serve to make Plagiary-Preachers of such that never would never could be Scholars So now I shall endeavour an expiation of that Crime by making it sweat under the Happy Dew of Penitential Prayers and Devotions And A Devout Heart and Tongue has much the Advantage of a Ravenous Ear. But Christian Reader not to keep thee longer from being upon thy Knees Know that This Preface is no way intended as a project to advance the sale of this Edition No This Hallowed structure is a work of more sanctity than to allow of any Brokage What is just Policy elsewhere would here be Simony I now intend not my own Benefit as Thine T is a work of Charity more than of Merchandise And the Design is chiefly that whilst our Churches are become Schools of Disputation My shop may be converted to an Oratory Wherein yet I hope amidst the many Conditions of Persons which thou art here invited to pray for thou wilt not leave him whose endeavours are at thy service Thine Henry Seile Holy Devotions OR DIRECTIONS To Pray c. A General Exhortation to Gods service THe minds of many I will not say of most men are so distracted with the cares of this world and so much addicted to the pleasures thereof and the thoughts of God and goodness are so farre from them that they seldom or never think either of the danger they are obnoxious to or the loss they are like to sustain by the neglect of those things which tend to their Salvation So that the saying of our Saviour to Martha may well be applyed to them Thou art troubled with many things One thing is necessary And if they would take into serious consideration what they hazard nay what they lose by neglecting this unum necessarium that one thing necessary without doubt they would withdraw themselves from the immoderate cares and pleasures of this transitory world and in due time bend their thoughts to that course which in the end would bring rest to their Souls The Heathen man could say Tempus est de illa perpetua jam non de hac exigua vita cogitare It is now high time not to think of this short life but of life eternal And Longum illud tempus cum non ero magis me movet quam hoc exiguum quod mihi tamen nimiùm longum videtur That length of time when I shall cease to be more moveth me than this short time which yet seemeth too long In our temporal estate wee are carefull enough in the beginning of our dayes to settle our selves in a course of life for our maintenance and preservation Why should we be so backward so remiss in those things which concern us nearer even the eternal good and happy estate of our souls but look to that betimes too For if our beginning be good there is good hope of the time succeeding Let us therefore lay a good foundation like wise builders and seek the Lord while he may be found and fix our cogitations wholly upon him love honour obey him and apply our selves wholly to his service This we are bound to do in divers respects For the excellency of Gods Divine Perfection Being defective in nothing Perfect in knowledge Past finding out Be perfect as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect Which Perfection though no Heart can comprehend or Tongue express fully Yet we may make some estimate of it by some of his Attributes whereof we shall give you a brief sight S. Augustine speaking of his perfection saith that He is immutable yet changing in all things Alwayes in action ever quiet Filling all things not concluded in any thing Great without quantity Good without quality Patet quam sit admirabilis cum omnibus linguis sit indicibilis omnibus cordibus sit incogitabilis Excedit supereminentia Deitatis non solum usitati eloquii sed etiam intellegentiae facultatem It appears how admirable it is since no tongue can express it nor any heart conceive