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A39987	Forms of prayer used in the reformed churches in France before their persecution and destruction With an account of their manner of batizing, celebrating the Holy Supper, marrying and burying; with some additional remarks. Translated into English, for the use of such of the French nation as do desire to learn English; and may be serviceable to those English who are willing to improve themselues in the French language; and for the information of all of the reformed religion, and others. Unto which is also annexed the names of several learned French ministers, to evidence the truth of this translation.	Eglises réformées de France.; J. T.	1699 (1699)	Wing F1584B; ESTC R221545	24,972	145

his Covenant of Salvation through all the world which was before limited to the people of the Jews there is no doubt but our Children are heirs of that Life which he hath promised unto us and therefore St. Paul saith the Children of the Faithful are holy to distinguish them from the Children of Pagans and Infidels for this Reason our Saviour received the Children which they presented unto him as it is written in the 19th Chapter of St. Matthew the 13th and 14th verses Then were there brought unto him little Children that he should put his hands on them and pray and the Disciples rebuked them but Jesus said Suffer little Children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Now seeing he declares that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them and that he layeth his hands on them and recommendeth them to God his Father he fufficiently teacheth us that we ought not to exclude them from his Church therefore according to this Rule we will receive this Child into his Church that he may be made partaker of those benefits which God hath promised to his Faithful and we will first humbly present him unto God by our Prayers saying with all our heart Lord God Eternal and Everlasting Father since it hath pleased thee by thy infinite goodness to promise us that thou wilt be a God to us and to our Children we pray that it may please thee to confirm thy Grace in this Child here present begotten of parents whom thou hast called into thy Church and as he is offered and consecrated unto thee by us receive him into thy holy protection declaring thy self to be his God and Saviour by pardoning the Original sins which the whole Race of Adam are guilty of Sanctify him also by thy Spirit that when he shall come to the use of Knowledge he may own and adore thee as his only God in glorifying thee all his Days that he may obtain of thee the remission of his sins and to the end that he may obtain such grace be pleased to incorporate him into the Communion of our Lord Jesus Christ and make him partaker of all his Benefits as one of the Members of his Body Hear us merciful Father that the Baptism we are to communicate unto him according to thy Ordinance may produce such Fruits and Vertues in him as are declared to us in thy Gospel Our Father which art in Heaven c. Seeing we are about to receive this Child into the Congregation of the Christian Church do you promise when he shall come to years of discretion to instruct him in the Doctrine which is received by the People of God as it is briefly comprehended in the Confession of Faith which we all profess I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven c. Do you promise to take pains to instruct him in all this Doctrine and generally in all that is contained in the holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments that he may receive it as the true Word of God come from Heaven You must also exhort him to live according to the Rule which our Lord hath given us in his Law which doth briefly consist in these Two Points That we should love God with all our minds and with all our heart and with all our strength and our Neighbour as our selves likewise according to the Exhortations that the hath given by his Prophets and Apostles that this Child renouncing himself and all his Carnal Desires should dedicate himself unto the glory of the Name of God and of Jesus Christ and to the Edification of his Neighbour After the Promise is made the Godfather speaking to the Minister the Child hath his Name given him and then the Minister sprinkling water on the For●head baptizing him saying with a loud voice N. I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost The whole being audibly performed in the vulgar Tongue that all they which are present may understand and be Witnesses to what is done and be edified in acknowledging and calling to mind what is the Fruit and Vse of their Baptism THE MANNER OF Celebrating the Holy Supper IT is to be observed that they declare to the People on the Lords day before the holy Sacrament is given First that every one may prepare hims●lf to receive it worthily and with such Reverence as it behoves him to do Secondly That they do not admit any children but such as are well instructed and have made profession of their Faith in the Church Thirdly if there come any Strangers that are yet ignoraut to present themselves they should come to be instructed first in private The day it is to be celebrated the Minister speaks of it at the end of his Sermon or if it be necessary makes his Sermon wholly upon it to explain to the people what our Lord did signify by this Mystery and in what manner we must receive it After the Prayers and Confession of Faith are made to testify in the Name of the People that all would live and die in the Christian Doctrine and Religion he says with a loud voice Let us hear my brethren how Jesus Christ hath instituted for us his holy Supper as St. Paul saith in the 11th chap. of the first Epist to the Corinthians I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me After the same manner he also took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood This do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord Vnworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup for he that eateth and drinketh Vnworthily eateth and drinketh Damnation to himself not discerning the Lords Body Brethte we have heard how our Lord made his Supper amongst his Disciples which shews us That Aliens and such that are not of the Number of his Faithful should not be admitted thereto Therefore according to that Rule in the Name and by the Authority of the Lord Jesus Christ I do Excommunicate all Idolaters Blasphemers and contemners of God Hereticks and all people that make separate Sects to break the Union of the Church all that are Perjured and all those who are Disobedient to Parents or to their Superiors all Seditious Mutinous Strikers Litigious Adulterers Whoremongers Thieves Covetous Usurers Extortioners Drunkards Gluttons all such as lead a wicked or scandalous

we see them coming we must acknowledge that God is displeased with us and as true Christians we must confess our sins and be grieved in our selves returning unto the Lord by Repentance and Amendment of life and pray unto him with true humility that we may obtain pardon Wherefore if at any time we see that God threatens us to the end that we may not tempt his Patience but rather prevent his Judgments which otherwise we may perceive to hang over our heads it is meet that we should keep one day in every week on which these things especially should be represented and in which we must make Prayers and Supplications according to the Exigency of the times For which here follows a proper Form Before the beginning of the Sermon they use the general Confession as before written and used on the Lords Day At the end of the Sermon having remonstrated to the people that God afflicts Men because of their Offences which are committed upon the Earth and that the World is given up to al●● Iniquity having also exhorted the people to convert and amend their Lives and to pray unto God to obtain mercy they use this following Form of Prayer Almighty God and Heavenly Father we do acknowledge and confess as the Truth is that we are not worthy to lift up our Eyes to Heaven to present our selves before thee and that we ought not to presume so far as to think that thou wilt hear our prayers if thou shouldest mark what is amiss in us for our Consciences accuse us and our sins bear Witness against us and we know that thou art a Just Judge who dost not justifie sinners but punishest the sins of those who have transgress'd thy holy Commandments therefore O Lord when we consider our whole Lives we are ashamed at our hearts and cannot but sink down in despair as if we were already in the gulph of Death But Lord since it hath pleased thee in thy infinite mercy to command us that we should call upon thee and the greater our Weakness and Misery is we should with so much the greater Confidence betake our selves to thy Soveraign Bounty since thou hast promised us to receive our supplications and requests not in respect of our own worthiness but in the Name and by the Merits of our Lord Jesus Christ whom thou hast made to be our Advocate and Intercessor we do therefore renounce all humane confidence and do altogether rely on thy sole goodness and present our selves before thee to call upon thy holy Name for mercy First Lord besides the infinite benefits which thou hast in general bestowed upon all men in the world thou hast done us so many singular Favours that it is impossible for us to declare or sufficiently to comprehend them and in particular it hath pleased thee to call us to the knowledge of thy Gospel and to draw us from the miserable slavery of the Devil in which we were detained delivering us from the Curse of Idolatry and Superstition in which we were plunged to guide us into the light of thy truth yet by our Ingratitude we have forgotten the benefits which we have receiv'd from thy hand and have gone astray and turned our selves from thee after our own Lusts we have not given that honour and obedience to thy holy Word which we ought neither have we praised and glorified thee as it behoved us to do and although though thou hast always faithfully admonished us by thy Word yet we have not hearkned to thy Admonitions therefore we have sinn'd Lord and offended against thee this covers us with shame and confusion confessing that we are grievously guilty before thy Judgment-Seat and if that thou should'st deal with us according to what we deserve we might expect nothing but Death and Damnation for when we would excuse our selves our Consciences accuse us and our Iniquities are before thee to condemn us and indeed Lord we see by the Punishments which are already come upon us that thou art Justly displeased with us for as thou art Just and upright it is not without Cause that thou dost afflict thy People having therefore been chastized with thy Rod we acknowledge that we have provoked thee against us and now we behold thy hand still lifted up to punish us for the Sword with which thou wert wont to execute thy Vengeance is unsheathed and the threatnings which thou hast made against the wicked and ungodly are ready to be executed But tho thou should'st punish us much more severely than thou hast hitherto done and that for one Plague we should receive an hundred and should'st even suffer such Calamities to fall upon us as thou didst afflict thy People of Israel with yet we must confess that it were just with thee and no more than what we have fully deserved However Lord thou art our Father and we are but Dust and Ashes thou art our Creator and we are the works of thy hands thou art our Pastor and we are thy flock thou art our Redeemer and we are the people thou hast redeemed thou art our God and we are thine Heritage therefore be not so angry with us as to correct us in thy fury neither remember our Iniquities to punish them but chastise us lovingly in thy mercy By reason of our sins thine Anger is inflamed but remember that we are call'd by thy name and that we bear thy sign and Token Maintain therefore the work thou hast begun in us by thy grace that all the Earth may know that thou art our God and Saviour thou knowest that the Dead in the Grave those whom thou hast destroyed cannot praise thee but sorrowful and afflicted souls contrite hearts and Consciences oppressed with the sence of their sins and longing after thy grace shall give thee glory and praise Thy People of Israel often provoked thee to Anger by their Iniquities thou didst Justly afflict them by thy Just Judgments but when they did return unto thee thou didst always in pity receive them were their Offences never so heinous for the sake of thy Covenant which thou mad'st with thy Servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob thou didst turn away those Evils and thy Rods which were prepared against them so that their Prayers were never rejected by thee We have by thy Grace a much better Covenant to rely on than they which thou hast made and established in Jesus Christ our Lord which thou wast pleased should be written with his Blood and ratified by his Death and Passion therefore Lord renouncing our selves and all humane hopes we have recourse unto that blessed Covenant by which our Lord Jesus in offering his Body as a Sacrifice hath reconciled us unto thee look then Lord on the Face of thy Christ and not on us that by his Intercession thy Anger may be appeased and thy Face may shine upon us with joy to our salvation and grant we may henceforth be received into thy holy conduct and guided by thy holy Spirit

which may regenerate us into a better life by which thy Name may be hallowed thy Kingdom come thy Will be done c. And altho we are not worthy to open our mouths unto thee for our selves and to call upon thee in our necessities yet since it hath pleased thee to command us to pray one for another we pray thee for all our poor Brethren and Fellow-members whom thou dost visit with the Rod of thy correction beseeching thee to turn thine Anger from them and more especially for N. N. that it may please thee Lord to remember they are thy Children as we are and altho they have offended thee yet cease not to extend thy wonted goodness and mercy towards them which thou hast promised should continue for ever to all thy faithful Look down with pity we beseech thee upon thy whole Church and People at this time afflicted by War Pestilence or Famine and also upon all persons which do suffer by Sickness Imprisonment or Poverty comfort them all according to their several Necessities make them to profit by thy Correction endue them with patience and let not thy whole Displeasure arise against them but in the end deliver them and cause them fully to rejoice in thy goodness and to bless thy Name Especially that it may please thee to look down upon all and every one of those who do labour in the defence of thy Truth strengthen them with invincible constancy protect and assist them however dispersed or distressed defeat all the Plots Practices of their thy Enemies restrain their fury and confound all their wicked attempts against thee and the Members of thy Church let not thy Inheritance be brought to desolation nor suffer the memory of thy Name to be abolished permit not those to perish who call upon thy Name nor the Turks Pagans or any other Infidels to rejoice in blaspheming of thee Then followeth a part of the Sundays Prayer wherein they pray for the King and the Royal Family c. The FORM of Administration of Baptism It is to be observed that those Children which are to be Baptized ought to be brought on the Lord's Day at the time of Catechising or on some other days of Preaching to the end tha● Baptism being a solemn Reception into the Church i● should be performed in the presence of the Congregation At the end of the Sermon they present the Children and then the Minister begins to say OUR help is in the Name of God who hath made Heaven and Earth Amen Do you present thi● Child to be baptized Ans Yes The Minister Our Lord shews us what Poverty and Misery we are all born in telling us we must be born again for if our Nature must be renewed that we may have an entrance into the Kingdom of God it is a sign that it is wholly corrupt and evil in that he admonishes us to humble and dislike our selves and so he prepares us to desire and seek after his grace by which all the Depravity and Corruption of our Original state may be abolished for we are not able to receive it before we are void of all confidence in our own goodness Wisdom and Righteousness so as to disclaim all that is in us Now when he makes us sensible of our misery he likewise comforts us by his mercy promising to regenerate us by his holy Spirit into a New Life which may be to us a an entrance into his Kingdom This Regeneration consists in Two Points 〈◊〉 That we should deny ou● selves and not follow ou● own Reason Will an● Pleasure but submit ou● Understanding and Heart to the Justice and Wisdo● of God and that we should mortify all that is in us and our Carnal Lusts 2. That we should follow the Light of God to please him and to obey his Will and good pleasure as he teacheth us by his word and leads us thereto by his Spirit The fullfilling of both these is in our Lord Jesus Christ whose Death and Passion hath such Vertue that in our partaking thereof we are dead to sin that our Carnal Lusts may be mortified likewise by the Vertue of his Resurrection we do rise from sin unto a new and godly life seeing his Spirit governs and leads us to do such works as are acceptable unto him Now the first and chief Point of our Salvation is that he by his mercy pardoneth all sins not imputing them unto us but blotting out the memory of them that they may not stand in judgment against us all these Graces he confers upon us when it pleaseth him to incorporate us into his Church by Baptism for in this Sacrament he declareth the Remission of our sins and therefore he ordained the sign of the Water to represent unto us that as by this Element our bodily filth and Pollutions are cleansed so he will wash and purifie our Souls that they may be without blemish Moreover he there represents to us our Regeneration which consists as before instanced in the Mortification of our flesh and in the Spiritual Life which he produceth in us Thus we receive a double benefit from God in Baptism if we do not make the vertue of this Sacrament of none effect by our Ingratitude First We have thereby a real assurance that God will be our gracious Father in not imputing our sins and offences to us And Secondly That he will assist us by his holy Spirit that we may be able to fight against the Devil Sin and the Lusts of our flesh until we obtain Victory over them that we may get Freedom in his Kingdom which is the Kingdom of Righteousness and Justice therefore seeing that these two things are thus wrought in us by the grace of Jesus Christ it followeth that the vertue and substance of Baptism is comprehended in ou● Saviour and we indeed can no otherwise be cleansed than by his Blood nor renewed but by his Death and Resurrection but as he communicates his Riches and Blessings to us by his Word so he distributes them unto us by his Sacraments Now our good God hath not only been pleased to adopt us for his Children and receive us into the Communion of his Church but also hath more abundantly extended his goodness towards us in promising that he will be our God and the God of our Posterity unto a thousand Generations therefore tho the Children of the Faithful be of the corrupted Seed of Adam yet he receives them by the vertue of that Covenant into the Number of his own therefore he would heretofore that in his Church the Children should receive the sign of Circumcision figuring thereby the same as is now represented unto us in Baptism and as he did command that they should be Circumcised so he did also own them for his Children calling himself their God as he was the God of their Fathers Now therefore as our Lord Jesus did not come down from Heaven to lessen the Grace of God his Father but to enlarge