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A guide to the humble: or an exposition on the common prayer Viz. I. The visitation of the sick. II. The Communion of the sick. III. The burial of the dead. IV. The thanksgiving of women after child-birth. V. The denouncing of God's anger and judgments against sinners, with prayers to be used on the first day of Lent, and at other times. By Thomas Elborow.
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Elborow, Thomas.
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Wing E322A; ESTC R227794
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then in the Cloud of our Flesh now in the Clouds of Heaven then to be judged now to Judg. Note 1. Who shall come He. 2. Whence from Heaven 3. When. No time set it is certain come he shall but most uncertain when Latet ille dies ut observentur omnes 4. What to do To judge 5. Whom The quick and dead Act. 10.38.40 41. Rom. 2.16 2 Tim. 1.8 Jam. 5.9 8. Article I believe in the Holy Ghost This Article is touching the third Person in the sacred Trinity the Author of Man's Sanctification wherein we are to Note 1. The Divinity I believe in which we could not do was he not God 2. His Nature A Spirit an holy spirit 3. His Nature and Office both Holy 1. He is so The highest Holy 2. He makes us so He is Spiritus Sanctus spiritus sanctificans 1 Cor. 1 21 22. 1 Pet. 1.2 9. Article I believe there is an Holy Catholick Church which is a Communion of Saints As the other Articles were touching God and the chief works of God Creation attributed to the Father Redemption attributed to the Son Sanctification attributed to the holy Ghost So this and the following Articles are touching the People of God called a Church or the Lords People Catholick for time and place Apostolick for faith and government Holy and a Communion of Saints because sanctified in Baptism by the holy Spirit and dedicated to the service of God which is an holy service Note 1. There is a Church 2. There is but one 3. It is distinguished from other Societies by these badges or marks 1. Holy 2. Catholick 3. Apostolick 4. A Communion of Saints Ephes 4.15 1 Cor. 10.16 Heb. 10.25 1 John 1.7 Ephes 1.3 4. Ephes 2.21 Colos 1.22 Isay 54.2 Psal 87.4 Act. 1.8 Ephes 2.14 Revel 5.9 10th 11th 12th Article I believe there is a Remission of Sins Resurrection of the Body and a Life Everlasting In these last Articles are contained the priviledges and special immunities of the People of God 1. Touching the Soul Remission 2. Touching the Body Resurrection 3. Touching both Life Everlasting Amen So it is I believe Lord help my unbelief Note here once for all that a very great part of the Service-Book or Common-Prayer may be resolved into this Creed and was the Method of the Common-Prayer warily and considerately observed the Apostles Creed would need no other explication then what the Church in her Liturgick Office hath in one part or other one office or other clearly made out to our hands I am very confident the Service-Book cannot be faulty in any one thing unless it will be confest that this confession of faith according to which most of the Service is composed be faulty also 1. The Te Deum The Athanasian and the Nicene Creeds are but explications of this and the growth of heresies in the Church gave the occasion to those explications that the Members of the Church might be the better secured from the infection of them 2. The Gloria patri c. so often repeated is but a shorter confession of the Trinity which this Creed teacheth us to believe in 3. The Lord have mercy Christ have mercy c. Lord have mercy c. which is the lesser Litany used in all Divine Offices is of the same use and design 4. The greater Litany which begins O God the Father of Heaven c. is as to the first part of it the very same and those passages in it which some scruple at By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation c. is but a pathetical enumeration of all those acts and passages of our Redeemer mention'd in this Creed by which we pray for deliverance and without which our deliverance we pray for could not possibly be obtain'd 5. Many of the Collects Epistles and Gospels for the Dominicals and Festivals may be reduced to this Creed and may serve for a clear explication of it As that for Trinity-Sunday to the whole Creed The Prayer for Rain In time of dearth and Famine with many other Collects to the first Article The last Prayer but one in the Visitation of the Sick to the second Article as also many other Prayers and Collects The Collects for the Annunciation and the Nativity to the third Article The Collect for the Sunday next before Easter and the first Collect for good Friday to the fourth Article The Collect and Epistle for Easter Even The Anthems Collect Epistle and Gospel for Easter Day for Munday and Tuesday in Easter-Week for the first and second Sunday after Easter to the fifth Article The Collect Epistle and Gospel for ascension-Ascension-Day and the Collects for the Sunday after Ascension to the sixth Article The Collect for the first Sunday in Advent to the seventh Article The Collects Epistles and Gospels for Whit-Sunday Munday and Tuesday in Whitsun-Week and the second Collect for good Friday to the eighth Article The Collect for the 22th Sunday after Trinity for all the Festivals of the Apostles and Evangelists especially for all Saints to the 9th Article The Confession and Absolution at the beginning of the Service-Book the Absolution and following Collect in the Visitation of the Sick The general confession in the Office for the Communion and the Absolution together with many other Collects and Prayers to the tenth Article The most part of the Office for the Burial of the dead and many other passages in the Service-Book as the Collect for the second Sunday in Advent to the eleventh and twelfth Article Hither all the Festivals touching Christ then Apostles and Evangelists together with the Collects Epistles and Gospels proper Lessons and proper Psalmo may be reduced and may serve not only to explain every Article in the Creed but to imprint it in our memories that it may have the greater influence upon our lives So that I very much wonder that any People can be offended at the Service-Book it being of so admirable contrivance and so singularly useful would People but follow and observe as well as follow the Churches method I could easily reduce the most of it to the Lord's Prayer Apostles Creed and Ten Commandements After the Minister hath rehearsed the Articles of the Faith The sick Person is to return this Answer All this I stedfastly believe That by it the Minister may be assur'd that the sick Person believes as a Christian ought to do and so may proceed to the other part of the Office in that order as the Church directs Rubrick Then shall the Minister examine â— Note It is not enough that the sick Person declare his assent to all the Articles of Faith contained in the Creed but that his faith may appear sound and sincere and be in some sort evidenced to the Minister that so it is by the fruits and effects of it the Minister is to examine him further touching his life and conversation 1. Touching his charity without which a bare profession of faith is nothing worth Fides non
Eve had passed their Examination Confession had received the Sentence of their Penance and were cloathed with Skins like Poenitentiaries then they presented themselves at the Door of Paradise and were driven thence So He drove out the Man and ancient Writers conclude it to be much about this time of the Year and therefore in imitation of God's practise did the Primitive Church about this time of the Year cause all Penitents to present themselves at the Church door cloathed in Sack-cloth with their Feet bare and Visages dejected and while they were so presented they were led into the Church by their Penitentiaries all the whole Church lying Prostrate on the Floor to bewail their offences and after the Seven Penitential Psalms were sung the chief Governor or Bishop of the Church the Presbyters in a fraternal consociation joyning with him did sprinkle ashes upon their heads covered them with Sackcloth and with sighs and sobbs denounced this Sentence against them that as Adam was expelled out of Paradise so they were thrust out of the Church for their iniquities and after this they were driven out all the Clergy pursuing them with this Respond In the sweat of thy brows shalt thou eat thy Bread Gen. 3.19 That so these poor sinners seeing holy Church so afflicted and disquieted for their sins might be made the more sensible of their Penance This is briefly the Scheme of the ancient godly Discipline which may easily be proved as to the most material parts of it out of the Evangelists the Writings of the Apostles and Apostolical Men. But now there are scarce any Foot-steps of it remaining and that is certainly the Reason why the Christian World is grown so prodigiously vicious onely we have here an Office appointed in the stead of it to be read upon this day wherein we do not wish that curses may fall upon our own heads as some slanderously report of us only we affirm with our own mouths that the curse of God is indeed due to such sins as the Church here propounds it The use of this Office is to make us flee such Vices for the future and earnestly to repent of them if we be guilty as we acknowledg that the curse and vengeance of God doth deservedly follow such sins and sinners A SERMON Upon Ashwednesday Or the first Day of Lent Psal 95.7 To Day if ye will hear his Voice harden not your hearts c. FRom the words that I may bring the Text to the Time and the Time to the Text and that we may be all the better for this Days Meeting and depart not only wiser but better than we came for the end of these Solemn Meetings is not only to make us wiser but to make us better not only to inform our Judgment but to reform our lives I shall observe unto you these Particulars to be insisted on 1. A Day to be taken notice of To Day 2. A Duty to be done upon it To hear his Voice 3. A Direction to make the Duty suitable to the Day that we may do Opus Diei in Die suo the Work on this Day which is most proper for this Day Harden not your hearts 1. To Day Why what 's to Day it should not be as Yesterday was Yesterday we were perhaps in the 6th of Amos devoted to our pleasures feasting and fatting our pamper'd Bodies for what was Yesterday according to the vulgar mode and corrupt custom but Festum Bacchantium ante longum jejunium A Day of full feed whereon we feasted our Bodies liberally which we shortly after were to came Praejejunales feriae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Day most-what so spent as if our Belly was our God and eating and drinking our Godliness In Primitive times it is most certain the practise was otherwise but the best customes in tract of time gather Corruptions That which was once a Day of shriveing confession and penance and a more severe preparative to the Fast ensuing hath of late Years by a too much indulged liberty gained a scandalous Name of guttage-Guttage-Tuesday among the Plebs as if Eat Drink and be merry was the Motto of the Day and Work of the Day too Was it possible like the Philosopher mounted on the top of a Hill to have noted and taken a view of all Yesterday-passages we should scarce have met with any like the passages of this Day No one passage fit to usher this Day in but many administring cause enough to have such a severe and godly Discipline which the Church wishes the restoring of to follow at the heels of it Yesterday Vivebant Bacchanalia qui hodie Curios simulant What debauchery and intemperance in many Places What lusting after the Flesh-Pots which we were so shortly to leave The Bell that rang Yesterday was no Saints Bell I am certain no Service no Sermon-Bell Venter non habet aures We were too full fed to be well taught Vox Populi the Voice of the People was so loud that Vox Dei the Voice of God could not be heard The Cocks of Themistocles might be brought forth to prepare themselves for the Battel first to feast our Eye and then to fill our Bellies but I am confident St. Peter's Cock could not be heard amongst them to call us to Repentance and to prepare us to the Battel to fight against sin and to War against those Lusts which War against the Soul So that this Text as Yesterday would not have timed right well let us see what it will do to Day To Day if ye will hear his Voice Why what is to day Dies Diem docet The very Day teacheth us what the Day is and what is to be done upon it Ashwednesday The word is Vox decomposita twice compounded and out of it we may pick a double meaning Wednesday that was ever in the Greek Church which we follow in many of our Customes a Day of Solemn Fasting every Wednesday throughout the Year unless it chanced upon a Festival and the Reason is because upon a Wednesday it was that Christ was betrayed and sold by Judas a gracious Saviour betrayed by a graceless sinner a good Master sold by a wicked Servant Well why Ashwednesday This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or nomen superadditum which sprinkles the day with ashes and Christens it by a new name intimates something indeed it minds us of a Ceremony used by Christians as upon this Day as I noted before which was to give Ashes one to another The Ceremony is gone what is there of the substance left The ashes are blown away but I hope not the memory of them what-ever becomes of the Ceremony the substance would be retained Did these Ashes mind us of our Mortality of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as St. James phrase is Jam. 3.6 of Natures Wheel ever turning and turning some Daily into the Dust No that was not the meaning of them For Dust had been more proper to have done that Dust to dust our Mortality is