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day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	weekly_a	4,103	5	12.8265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49114	An exercitation concerning the frequent use of our Lords Prayer in the publick worship of God and a view of what hath been said by Mr. Owen concerning that subject / by Thomas Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1658 (1658)	Wing L2966; ESTC R2625	105,187	198

and forgiveness of sinne Genebrard hath translated from Maimonides officium lugentium the office of mourners wherein are many forms of Prayer Sol. Bar R. Nathan composed a form of Prayer to be said at the visiting of Sepulchres of which the learned Pocock saith Principium Orationis hujus c. The beginning of this Prayer is taken out of that which is among the forms of the hundred Benedictions extant in the publick Liturgy of the Jewes and in the Margine he saith This is otherwise attributed to Abraham Aben Ezrae on Eccles. 1. preferreth the Hymnes made by R. Saadiah Haggaon before those of Rabbi Eliezar Hakkalir Now considering the Antiquity of many of these forms more then a thousand years since and the tenaciousness of that people in adhering to the traditions of their Fathers and that in the Mischna are many forms used by the Iewes before our Saviours dayes as shall be proved hereafter it is a convinceing Argument that it was usual for their Rabbies and Doctors even before our Saviours time as to expound the Law in the Temple and Synagogues so to guide the people in their devotions in the Synagogues and Proseucha's which were very many by certain composed forms of Prayer which Prayers were learned and delivered onely by orall tradition and not permitted to be written or made publick untill that R. Hakkadosh composed the Mischna And whereas Master Thorndike hath observed their Prayers were read by one whom they called the Apparator of the Synagogue who was of inferiour rank to the Scribes and great Doctors and of a like degree and qualitie as Deacons in the Christian Church this is an Argument that they were not intrusted to direct the Devotion of their betters by any ex tempore effusions but to pronounce such Prayers as had been composed by their Superiors And thus we have brought down the continued use of set and prescribed forms of Prayer to our Saviours dayes wherein I have greatly exercised the patience of my Reader but I could not avoid it this being a part of my ground-work on which I intend after a little more labour to build this assertion That Saint John Baptist a most eminent Prophet being to gather a new Church and to make a reformation of Religion and by instructing his Disciples in the Doctrine of Repentance to prepare them for the receiving of the Messeas did after the manner of other Doctors and teachers among the Iewes collect out of the Prayers and Hymnes of Moses David the Prophets and other devout men such heads of Prayer as concerned the dayes of the Messiah his Offices and Doctrine and of these did compose a form of Prayer which he delivered to his Disciples to be publickly used by them on all solemn occasions and to serve as a Cognizance of their professing and owning the Doctrine taught by him which the Disciples of our Saviour observing on this occasion and for the same end they aske and our Saviour prescribeth this form of Prayer and injoyns the use of it when ye pray say c. But that I may not in this discourse seem to fight with my own shadow as the Pontikes once did Qui per errorem longius cadentes umbras quasi hostium corpora petebant I may say as David coming down to the battell against the Philistines Is there not a cause Are there not too many enemies both in opinion and practice to our Lords Prayer are not the Consequences of neglecting it extremely sad when many Christians have so far degenerated as to thank God they have forgotten what our Saviour commanded his Disciples to learn and say Our Father c. The grounds on which the most moderate dissenters proceed are these First that nothing is to be admitted into Christian practice as far as it concerneth the publick worship of God for which there is not an express or sufficient warrant in Scripture Secondly That to use Prayer as a form there is no such warrant either in that of Saint Matthew 6. 9. or Saint Luke 11. 12. The first plea divers learned men have answered I shall onely offer against it that which Doctor Sanderson hath written to this effect What scandall and advantage hath been given to Anabaptists and Quakers by What command have you in Scripture It is like the opening the Trojan horse or Pandora's box as if all had been let loose Unà Eurusque Notusque ruunt and swarms of Sectaries have overspread the land and the young striplings soon outstrip their leaders upon their own ground as they said what command or example for kneeling at the Communion for Surplices Lord Bishops a penned Liturgy and Holy dayes and there stopt These adde further Where are your Lay-Presbyters your Classes your Steeple-houses and national Churches your Tithes and Mortuaries your Infant-sprinklings and meeter-Psalmes your two Sacraments and weekly Sabbaths so far they are gone already Et erranti nullus terminus there is no bound to an erroneous spirit Nor indeed can they that set them a going now stop or relaim them Fugiunt trepidi vera manifesta loquentem Stoicidae for they proceed upon their own principles and if they say Haec ego nunquam Mandavi dices olim nec talia suasi We never intended nor countenanced these things the reply is ready Mentis causa malae tamen est origo pencs te The fountain of all these bitter and turbulent waters is with you They that made a stand sooner are displeased with such as rusht on further and declare against them but no great reason when they lent them the premisses to fall out with the conclusion The master in the Fable did not well to beat his maid for serving him with thinne milk when his own Cow gave it Why should he that giveth another scancal be angry with him for taking it or he that setteth a stone tumbling down the hill blame it for not stopping where he would have it So mischievous a thing it is not to lay the foundation on a firm bottom It were well if this were helpt ere it went too far So far that Reverend Dr. As to the second ground that there is no warrant in Scripture for the use of this Prayer as a form sub judice lis est All that I shall say here is That it is a sad thing when men are so blinded by the opinions and prejudices which they have espoused as that they can see nothing but what they have a mind to see or being defective in their own sight will needs perswade others as she in the Comedy that there is no light in the room And in our dayes the Proverb is verified even of Aarons bells As every man doth think So the bells do clink I cannot promise any Eye-salve to cure such inveterate diseases it is opus Deo dignum the Almighties work Those that are not wholly blinded I shall lend the best spectacles I have and make it my daily Prayer for my self