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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39077	An exposition on that most excellent prayer in the liturgy of the Church of England called the litany Wherein all or most ot the exceptions that have been made against it, are fully answered.		1698 (1698)	Wing E3888DA; ESTC R220212	16,626	45

their Feet how ready are they to carry them into the Fire and the Water to trip at every Stick and Straw how ready are they to play on the hole of the Asp and sport on the Brink of the Pit how near Danger must they always be that are afraid of none and unable to help themselves out of any There is doubtless a special Providence watcheth over young Children that so few miscarry and doubtless most watchful over them that are recommended to his Care by the Prayers of the Church and their Parents Fifthly Shew thy Pity upon all Prisoners and Captives What all some will say old Goal birds Felons and Traitors Although the Prayer chiefly means Prisoners for Debt and Captives in War and so we may understand the Prayer of Asaph Let the Sighing of the Prisoner come before thee Psal 79.11 according to the greatness of thy Power Preserve thou those that are appointed to die And that in another Psalm Psal 102.19 20. He hath looked down from the height of his Sanctuary from Heaven did the Lord behold the Earth To hear the Groaning of the Prisoner to loose those that are appointed to Death or the Children of Death Yet it will take in also the most Notorious Malefactors that need the more Pity by how much they less pity themselves and we shall do well to Pray for the Thief on the Cross the Murderer at the Goal-house that God would make them Penitent and accept of their Repentance break the Stony Heart and not despise the broken Sixthly and Seventhly Defend and provide for the Fatherless Children and Widows and all that are Desolate and Oppressed Provide for the Desolate and defend the Oppressed And surely we ought to Pray for those who are God's Special Care so Special that he intitles himself there-from in the sixty eight Psalm where God is represented riding in triumphant Majesty and one would have expected a Proclamation of such Titles as King of Kings and Lord of Lords c. but instead thereof we hear A Father of the Fatherless Ver. 5 6. and a Judge of the Widows is God in his holy Habitation God setteth the Solitary in Families He bringeth out those which are bound with Chains The Widow hath lost the Guide of her Youth and the Staff of her Age and the Fatherless the best Friend he can have upon Earth and therefore we pray that God would be to them Friend and Father and Husband And now that we may not leave any sort of Men out of our Prayers it follows That it would please thee to have Mercy upon all Men. All Men What Reprobates Apostates those that have sinned the Sin unto Death Who are Reprobates c. we know not but we know St. Paul exhorts that Supplications Prayers 1 Tim. 2.1 Intercessions be made for all Men. 1 Tim. 2.3 Giving this reason For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2.4 Who will have all Men to be saved and to come unto the Knowledge of the Truth I know how many Distinctions are made to restrain the All in these places which if they will hold good there they will also hold good in this Prayer and then one of any Perswasion may joyn with us in it But there is one fort of Men for whom the Heart of Man hath little list to pray to wit Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers Now to prevent the tacit Exception our Church hath added a Prayer for them that God would forgive them and turn their Hearts I say added for neither it nor any of the forementioned Charitable Prayers except for the Poor and Captives are in that Primer Thus have I given a plain Account of this incomparable Prayer our solemn Litany which is not obscure in it self but yet hath been much misunderstood and therefore I have laboured to beget a right understanding of the same And if what I have said be not sufficient to remove the Prejudices and Prepossessions of those who under a Pretence of Praying by the Spirit have taught the People to despise both this and all other Set Forms of Prayer yet I hope at least it may not prove altogether unuseful to such Devout Members of our Church for whose sake it was chiefly intended that are desirous both to know what it is they pray for in every part and parcel of it and heartily to pray for the same FINIS ADVERTISEMENT A Brief Exposition on the Creed the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments To which is added the Doctrine of the Sacraments By Isaac Barrow D. D. And late Master of Trinity College Cambridge This on the Creed never before Publish'd Advice to young Persons relating both to Faith and Practice Contain'd in some plain directions how to Demean themselves Together with some few motives to the Observation of what is here recommended in Octavo Price 4 d. Family Religion or the Exercise of Prayer and Devotion in private Families By the late Reverend Dr. Payne late Minister of White-Chappel In 24es Price 2 d. A Method of daily Devotion A Method of Devotion for the Lords Day Likewise several small Books against Debauchery Profaneness Blasphemy Cursing and Swearing c. All by Dr. Ascheton In 24es Price 2 d Each and something Cheaper to them that give away Numbers