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A45541	The apostolical liturgy revived a sermon preached at the assizes held at Chelmsford in the county of Essex, March 18, 1660 / by Nath. Hardy.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing H708; ESTC R27167	22,011	41

must also draw near to and follow hard after God with David by a believing application of his mercy 2. You have seen the first part of the duty namely Petition but we must not stay here to our supplications prayers and intercessions we must adde giving of thanks They are joyned together by our Apostle in precept not only here but elsewhere and we must not sever them in our practise Davids Psalms consists of Hallelujahs as well as Hosannas we must not only have the tongue of men in begging but of Angels in praising we are never so full here but there is something wanting and therefore we have need to pray nor are we ever so necessitous but there is something we enjoy and therefore have reason of thanks and then is our devotion compleat when these two meet together according to that of St Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let every prayer be attended with thanksgiving It is observed of those Lepers in the Gospel Ut acciperent importuni donec acceperint inquieti cum acceperint ingrati They were importunate that they might unquiet till they did but unthankfull when they had received health and cure from Christ. Oh far be this temper from us let us be as forward in acknowledging what we receive as in imploring what we desire Indeed thanksgiving is Efficacissimum orandi genus a most effectuall kind of prayer but ingratitude stops the current of divine mercy since Indignus de dandis qui ingratus de datis he is unworthy of what he craveth who is unthankfull for what he hath whereas Gods benefits like that River whereof Solinus speaketh which so long as men are singing continueth flowing are so much the more plentifully encreased by how much they are gratefully acknowledged Nor would that gloss of Theophylact be passed by who observing what followeth would have us take notice that we ought to give thanks for benefits conferred upon others by which means we are firmly knit together in brotherly love for he that is thanfull for his neighbours prosperity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cannot but have a love towards his person and if thanksgiving ought to be rendered in respect of others much more in regard of our selves 2. Besides this generall notion there is a particular reference of this duty to the publick service of God which appeareth so much the more rationall when we consider that this Epistle is directed to Timothy who was invested with Episcopall Authority by St. Paul and therefore ought to take care that common supplications prayers intercessions with giving of thanks be made in the publick Assemblies To this purpose is that gloss of Beza upon those words which follow I will that men pray every where Omnem locum intellige sacris caetibus destinatum understand every where to be all such places as are appointed for holy Assemblies And more fully that of Aretius who saith that as St Panl had given Timothy order in the former Chapter to take care that sound doctrine were preached to the people so here that the publick prayers be done decently and religiously to which end he prescribeth severall rules in the preceding part of this Chapter and in these two Verses more particularly insinuateth for whom they should put up their joynt prayers and to give you his own words Ut certam habeant formulam that they should have a certain form of prayer consisting of these severall parts which are here enumerated Nor is it without great reason since where men are left to their extemporary effusions these severall sorts of devotion are either some of them omitted or else confusedly mentioned In pursuance of this Apostolicall Exhortation it is that the Christian Church hath still had her Liturgy and that replenished with this variety St Austin hath observed and distinguished these four kinds of devotion in the Eucharisticall administration where speaking of these words he saith Eligo in his verbis hoc intelligere quod omnis vel paenè omnis frequentat Ecclesia c. I choose to understand in these words that which all or almost all the Church frequenteth that we conceive those to be called supplications which we make at celebrating the mysteries before that which is on the Lords Table begins to be blessed prayer when it is blessed and sanctified and broken to be distributed intercession or request when the people are blessed which done all concludeth with thanksgiving If we take a view of our own Liturgy we shall find these severall forms in that comprehensive Letany in that excellent Office of the Communion yea almost in every part of the service of which having this occasion to mention it I shall be bold to say though it is not so exact as not to need any alteration or addition yet there is nothing in it which may not admit of a candid construction nor is there any publick form in any other Church whatsoever which excels it I had almost said which is equall to it And though I dislike not a review for the satisfaction of the scrupulous if any thing in reason might or themselves knew what would satisfie them yet I hope and pray that our Timothies may in due time have the exercise of their power so far restored to them that in all Churches with one lip and language this Apostolicall precept may be observed Supplications prayers intercessions with giving of thankes may be made And that For all men for Kings and all that are in Authority which is the third part of the Text the objects for whom we are to make intercession which is proposed 1. Universally in those words For all men For men we are not to pray on the one hand for Angels the good Angels are in gratiâ confirma i so confirmed in innocency that they need not our prayers and the bad are in malitia obstinati so setled in their wickedness that our prayers cannot benefit them Nor yet on the other for the irrationall and inanimate creatures but only in reference to men so far as they are serviceable for and beneficiall to mankind upon which account we both give thanks and pray for seasonable weather the fruits of the earth and the like For men it is and that for all men which we must make intercessions To give you the just and full latitude of this All. 1. I shall first consider the distinction of all men into the quick and the dead 1. Those who are dead are to be ranked only into two sorts the wicked and the righteous whose bodies lie mingled in the grave but their souls go those to Hell torments and these to Abrahams bosome 1. As for those who die in their sins their state after death is such as can admit of no alteration and therefore it is in vain to make any supplication Sanguis Christi non descendit adinferos saith St Bernard not Christs bloud much less can our prayers prevail for the damned As for