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A63950	The golden grove, or, A manuall of daily prayers and letanies, fitted to the dayes of the week containing a short summary of what is to be believed, practised, desired : also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church, composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons / by the author of The great exemplar.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1655 (1655)	Wing T336; ESTC R17298	60,024	193

graces he hath promised to give us more He hath promised to forgive us our sins to hear our prayers to take the sting of death from us to keep our souls in safe custody after death and in his due time to raise our bodies from the grave and to joyn them to our souls and to give us eternal life and joyes that shall never ●…ease Quest How is Jesus Christ able to do all this for us Ans. When he had suffered death and was buried three dayes God raised him up again and gave him all power in heaven and earth made him Head of the Church Lord of Men and Angels and the Judge of the Quick and Dead Quest By what means doth Jesus Christ our Lord convey all these blessings to us Ans. Jesus Christ had three Offices and in all he was Mediator between God and Man He is our Prophet our Priest and our King Quest What was his Office as he was a Prophet Ans. This Office he finished on earth beginning when he was thirty years old to preach the Gospel of the Kingdome Faith and Repentance Quest When began his Priestly Office and wherein does it consist Ans. It began at his death for he was himself the Priest and the Sacrifice offering himself upon the Altar of the Cross for the sins of all the world Quest Did his Priestly Office the●… cease Ans. No he is a Priest for ever that is unto the end of the world and represents the same Sacrifice to God in heaven interceding and praying continually for us in the virtue of that Sacrifice by which he obtains relief of all our necessities Quest What doth Christ in heaven pray for on our behalf Ans. That our sins may be pardoned our infirmities pitied our necessities relieved our persons defended our temptations overcome that we may be reconciled to God and be saved Quest How is Jesus Christ also our King Ans. When he arose from his grave and had for forty dayes together conversed with his Disciples shewing himself alive by many infallible tokens he ascended into heaven and there sits at the right hand of God all things being made subject to him Angels and Men and Devils Heaven and Earth the Elements and all the Creatures and ●…ver all he reigns comforting and ●…efending his Elect subduing the ●…ower of the Devil taking out the ●…ting of death and making all to ●…erve the glory of God and to turn to the good of his Elect. Quest How long must his Kingdome last Ans. Till Christ hath brought all his enemies under his feet that is till the day of Judgement in which day shall be performed the greatest acts of his Kingly power for then he shall quite conquer Death triumph over the Devils throw his enemies into Hell-fire and carry all his Elect to never-ceasing glories and then he shall deliver up the Kingdome to his Father that God may be all in all Quest How is Christ a Mediator in all these Offices Ans. A Mediator signifies one that stands between God and us As Christ is a Prophet so he taught us his Fathers will and tyes us to obedience As he is a Priest he is our Redeemer having paid a price for us even his most precious blood and our Advocate pleading for us and mediating our Pardon and Salvation As he is a King so he is our Lord our Patron and our Judge yet it is the Kingdome of a Mediator that is in order to the world to come but then to determine and end And in all these he hath made a Covenant between God and us of an everlasting interest Quest What is the Covenant which Jesus Christ our Mediator hath made between God and us Ans. That God will write his Laws in our hearts and will pardon us and defend us and raise us up again at the last day and give us an inheritance in his Kingdome Quest To what Conditions hath he bound us on our part Ans. Faith and Repentance Quest When do we enter into this Covenant Ans. In our Baptism and at our ripe years when we understand the secrets of the Kingdome of Christ and undertake willingly what in our names was undertaken for us in our infancy Quest What is the Covenant of Faith which we enter into in Baptism Ans. We promise to believe that Jesus Christ is the Messias or he that was to come into the world That he is the Anointed of the Lord or the Lords Christ That he is the Son of God and the Son of the Virgin Mary That he is God incarnate or God manifested in the flesh That he is the Mediator between God and Man That he died for us upon the Cross and rose again the third day and ascended into heaven and shall be there till the day of Judgement that then he shall be our Judge In the mean time he is the King of the World and Head of the Church Quest What is the Covenant of Repentance Ans. We promise to leave all our sins and with a hearty and sincere endevour to give up our will and affections to Christ and do what he hath commanded according to our power and weakness Quest How if we fail of this Promise through infirmity and commit sins Ans. Still we are within the Covenant of Repentance that is within the promise of pardon and possibility of returning from dead works and mortifying our lusts and though this be done after the manner of men that is in weakness and with some failings yet our endevour must be hearty and constant and diligent and our watchfulness and prayers for pardon must be lasting and persevering Quest What Ministeries hath Christ appointed to help us in this duty Ans. The Ministery of the Word Sacraments which he will accompany with his Grace and his Spirit Quest What is a Sacrament Ans. An outward Ceremony ordained by Christ to be a sign and a means of conveying his grace unto us Quest How many Sacraments are ordained by Christ Ans. Two Baptism and the Supper of our Lord Quest What is Baptism Ans. An outward washing of the body in water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost in which we are buried with Christ in his death after a Sacramental manner and are made partakers of Christs death and of his Resurrection teaching us That we should rise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness Quest What is the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Ans. A Ceremony of eating bread and drinking Wine being blessed or consecrated by Gods Minister in publick Assemblies in remembrance of Christs death and Passion Quest What benefits are done unto us by this Sacrament Ans. Our souls are nourished by the body and blood of Christ our bodies are sealed to a blessed Resurrection and to Immortality our infirmities are strengthned our graces increased our pardon made more certain and

all pardon and holiness and life eternal through Jesus Christ Amen The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the Holy Spirit be with us all for ever Amen A SHORT PRAYER To be said every Morning O Almighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the God of mercy and comfort with reverence and fear with humble confidence and strong desires I approach to the Throne of Grace begging of thee mercy and protection pardon and salvation O my God I am a sinner but sorrowful and repenting Thou art justly offended at me but yet thou art my Lord and my Father merciful and gracious Be pleased to blot all my sins out of thy remembrance and heal my soul that I may never any more sin against thee Lord open my eyes that I may see my own infirmities and watch against them and my own follies that I may amend them and be pleased to give me perfect understanding in the way of godliness that I may walk in it all the dayes of my pilgrimage Give me a spirit diligent in the works of my Calling chearful and zea●…us in Religion fervent and frequent in ●…y Prayers charitable and useful in my ●…onversation Give me a healthful and a ●…aste body a pure and a holy soul a ●…nctified and an humble spirit and let ●…y body and soul and spirit be preserved ●…nblameable to the coming of the Lord ●…esus Amen II. BLessed be thy Name O God and blessed be thy Mercies who hast preserved ●…e this night from sin and sorrow from ●…ad chances and a violent death from the ●…alice of the Devil and the evil effects of ●…y own corrupted nature and infirmity The out-goings of the Morning and Evening shall praise thee and thy servants ●…hall rejoyce in giving thee praise for the operation of thy hands Let thy providence and care watch over me this day and all my whole life that I may never sin against thee by idleness or folly by evil company or private sins by word or deed by thought or desire and let the imployment of my day leave no sorrow or the remembrance of an evil conscience at night but let it be holy and profitable blessed and alwayes innocent that when the dayes of my short abode are done and the shadow is departed I may die in thy fear and favour and rest in a holy hope and at last return to the joyes of a blessed Resurrection through Jesus Christ In whose Name and in whose words in behalf of my self and all my friends and all thy servants I humbly and heartily pray Our Faether c. A Prayer for the Evening ETernall God Almighty Father of Men and Angels by whose care and providence I am preserved and blessed comforted and assisted I humbly beg of thee to pardon the sins and follies of this day the weaknesses of my services and the strength of my passions the rashness of my words and the vanity and evil of my actions O just and dear God how long shall I confess my sins and pray against them and yet fall under them O let it be so no more let me never return to the follies of which I am ashamed which bring sorrow and death and thy displeasure worse then death Give me 〈◊〉 command over my evil inclinations and 〈◊〉 ●…erfect hatred of sin and a love to thee ●…ove all the desires of this world Be ●…leased to bless and preserve me this night ●…rom all sin and all violence of Chance ●…nd the malice of the Spirits of darkness ●…atch over me in my sleep and whether sleep or wake let me be thy servant ●…e thou first and last in all my thoughts ●…nd the guide and continual assistance of ●…ll my actions Preserve my body pardon ●…he sin of my soul and sanctifie my ●…oul let me alwayes live holily and justly ●…nd soberly and when I die receive my ●…oul into thy hands O holy and ever●…lessed Jesus that I may lie in thy bo●…ome and long for thy coming and hear ●…hy blessed Sentence at Doomsday and ●…hold thy face and live in thy King●…lome singing praises to God for ever and ●…ver Amen Our Father c. For SUNDAY A Prayer against Pride I. O Eternal God merciful and glorious thou art exalted far above all heavens thy Throne O God is glory and thy Scepter is righteousness thy Will is holiness and thy Wisdome the great foundation of Empire and Government I adore thy Majesty and rejoyce in thy Mercy and revere thy Power an●… confess all glory and dignity and honour to be thine alone and theirs to whom thou shalt impart any ray of thy Majesty or reflexion of thy honour but as fo●… me I am a worm and no man vile dust and ashes the son of corruption and the heir of rottenness seized upon by folly a lump of ignorance and sin and shame and death What art thou O Lord the great God of Heaven and Earth the fountain of Holiness and Perfection in●…te But what am I so ignorant that ●…now not what so poor that I have no●…ng of my own so miserable that I am ●…e heir of sorrow and death and so sin●… that I am encompassed with shame ●…d grief II. ANd yet O my God I am proud proud of my shame glorying in my 〈◊〉 boasting my infirmities for this is all ●…t I have of my own save onely that I ●…ve multiplied my miseries by vile acti●…s every day dishonouring the work of ●…y hands my understanding is too con●…ent my affections rebellious my will ●…ractory and disobedient and yet I ●…ow thou resistest the proud and didst ●…t the Morning Stars the Angels from ●…aven into chains of darkness when they ●…w giddy and proud walking upon the ●…tlements of heaven beholding the glo●…us Regions that were above them III. THou O God who givest grace to the 〈◊〉 humble do something also for the ●…oud man make me humble and obedient Take from me the spirit of prid●… and haughtiness ambition and self-fla●…tery confidence and gayety teach met●… think well and to expound all things fai●…ly of my brother to love his worthiness to delight in his praises to excuse his er●…rors to give thee thanks for his grac●… to rejoyce in all the good that he receive●… and ever to believe and speak better thing●… of him then of my self IV. O Teach me to love to be conceale●… and little esteemed let me be tru●… humbled and heartily ashamed of m●… sin and folly teach me to bear reproach●… evenly for I have deserved them to r●…fuse all honours done unto me because have not deserved them to return all t●… thee for it is thine alone to suffer r●… proof thankfully to amend all my fau●… speedily and do thou invest my so●… with the humble robe of my meek Mast●… and Saviour Jesus and when I have hun●… patiently charitably and diligent●… served thee change this robe into t●… shining garment of immortality my co●… into glory my folly to

he that hath given the following Assistances to thee desires to be even a door-keeper in Gods House and to be a servant of the meanest of Gods servants and thinks it a worthy imployment to teach the most ignorant and make them to know Christ●… though but in the first rudiments of a holy Institution This onely he affirms That there is more solid comfort and material support to a Christian spirit in one Article of Faith in one period of the Lords Prayer in one holy Lesson then in all the disputes of impertinent people who take more pains to prove there is a Purgatory then to perswade men to avoid Hell And that a plain Catechism can more instruct a soul then the whole dayes prate which some daily spit forth to bid men get Christ and persecute his Servants Christian Religion is admirable for its wisdome for its simplicity and he that presents the following papers to thee designs to teach thee as the Church was taught in the early dayes of the Apostles To believe the Christian Faith and to understand it to represent plain Rules of Good Life to describe easie Formes of Prayer to bring into your Assemblies Hymnes of Glorification and Thanksgiving and Psalms of Prayer By these easie paths they lead Christs little ones into the Fold of their great Bishop and if by this any service be done to God any ministery to the Soul of a Childe or an ignorant Woman it is hoped that God will accept it and it is reward enough if by my Ministery GOD will bring it to passe that any Soul shall be instructed and brought into that state of good things that it shall rejoyce for ever But do thou pray for him that desires this to thee and endevours it ERRATA Page 87. 1.2 for me r. us ibid. f. me r. us ibid. 1.3 f. me r. us ib. 1.5 f. me r. us ibid. f. me r. us ibid 1.6 f. my r. our CREDENDA OR What is to be Believed O {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Plato de legibus Let this Truth be confessed and remain for ever That they who are well instructed easily become good men A. SHORT CATECHISM FOR The institution of young persons IN THE Christian Religion QUESTION IN what does true Religion consist ANSWER In the knowledge of the one true ●…od and whom he hath sent Jesus ●…hrist and in the worshipping and ●…rving them Quest What dost thou believe con●…rning God Answ. That there is a God 〈◊〉 That he is one 3. Eternal 4. Al●…ighty 5. That he hath made all ●…he world 6. That he knows all things 7. That he is a Spirit not of any shape or figure or parts or body 8. That he is present is all places 9. That his seat is in Heaven and he governs all the world so that nothing happens without his order and leave 10. That he is the Fountain of Justice 11. of Mercy 12. of Bounty or Goodness 13. That he is unalterably happy and infinitely perfect 14. That no evil can come near him 15. And he is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him Quest What other Mystery is revealed concerning God Ans. That God being one in nature is also three in Person expressed in Scripture by the names of Father Son and Holy Spirit The first Person being known to us by the name of The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ The second Person is called The Son and the Word of the Father The third is The Spirit and Promise of the Father and these are Three and One after a secret manner which we must believe but cannot understand Quest What is this God to us Ans. He is our Creator and Father and therefore he is our Lord and we are his Creatures his Sons and his Servants Quest Wherefore did God create and make us Ans. That we might do him honour and service and receive from him infinite felicities Quest How did God make man Ans. By the power of his Word out of the slime of the earth and he breathed into him the breath of life Quest Was man good or bad when God made him Ans. Man was made pure and innocent Quest How then did man become sinful and miserable Ans. By listening to the whispers of a tempting spirit and breaking an easie Commandment which God gave him as the first tryal of his obedience Quest What evils and change followed this sin Ans. Adam who was the first man and the first sinner did both for himself and his posterity fall into the state of death of sickness and misfortunes disorder both of body and soul we were thrown out of Paradise and lost our Immortality Quest Was man left in these evill without remedy Ans. No But God pitying his creature promised That of the seed of the woman he would raise up a Saviour and Redeemer who should restore us to Gods favour and to the felicity which we lost Quest How did God perform the promise Ans. By sending Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature to dye for our sins to become our Lord and the Author of holiness and life and salvation to mankinde Quest Who is Jesus Christ Ans. He is the Son of God the second Person of the holy Trinity equal with the Father true God without beginning of life or end of days Quest How then could he be our Redeemer and the promised seed of the woman Ans. The Son of God in the fulness of time by the miracles of his Mercy took upon him humane Nature and united it after a wonderful manner to his Godhead so that he was both God and Man He was born of a Virgin who conceived him not by any natural means but by the power of the Holy Ghost and was called Jesus Christ and his Mothers name was Mary of the seed of Abraham of the family of King David and all these things came to passe when Augustus Caesar was Lord of the Roman Empire Quest How did Jesus Christ work this promised Redemption for us Ans. By his holy and humble life and his obedient dying a painful death for us upon the Cross Quest What benefits do we receive by the life and death of Jesus Christ Ans. We are instructed by his Doctrine encouraged by his excellent Example we are reconciled to God by his Death He hath given us an excellent Law and glorious Promises and himself hath received power to make good all those Promises to his servants and fearfully to destroy them that will not have him to reign over them Quest What Promises hath Jesus Christ made us in the Gospel Ans. He hath promised to give us all that we need in this life That every thing shall work together for our good That he will be with us in tribulation and persecution He hath promised his Graces and his holy Spirit to enable us to do our duty and if we make use of these

came that way For there he lay That is the God of Night and Day And over all the pow'rs of heaven doth reign It was the time of great Augustus Tax And then he comes That payes all sums Even the whole price of lost humanity And sets us free From the ungodly Emperie Of Sin and Satan and of Death O make our hearts blest God thy lodging place And in our brest Be pleas'd to rest For thou lov'st Temples better then an Inne And cause that sin May not profane the Deity within And sully o're the ornaments of Grace Amen A Hymn upon S. Johns day THis day We sing The friend of our eternal King Who in his bosome lay And kept the Keys Of his profound and glorious Mysteries Which to the world dispensed by his hand Made it stand Fix'd in amazement to behold that light Which came From the Throne of the Lamb To invite Our wretched eyes which nothing else could see But fire and sword hunger and miserie To anticipate by their ravish'd sight The beauty of Celestial delight Mysterious God regard me when I pray And when this load of clay Shall fall away O let thy gracious hand conduct me up Where on the Lambs rich viands I may sup And in this last Supper I May with thy friend in thy sweet bosome lie For ever in Eternity Allclujah Upon the day of the holy Innocents MOurnful Judah shreeks and cries At the obsequies Of their Babes that cry More that they lose the paps then that they die He that came with life to all Brings the Babes a funeral To redeem from slaughter him Who did redeem us all from sin They like himself went spotless hence A sacrifice to Innocence Which now does ride Trampling upon Herods pride Passing from their fontinels of clay To heaven a milky and a bloody way All their tears and groans are dead And they to rest and glory fled Lord who wert pleas'd so many babes should fall Whil'st each sword hop'd that every of the All Was the desir'd King make us to be In Innovence like them in Glory thee Amen Upon the Epiphany and the three wise men of the East coming to worship JESUS A Comet dangling in the aire Presag'd the ruine both of Death and Sin And told the wise-men of a King The King of Glory and the Sun Of Righteousness who then begun To draw towards that blessed Hemisphere They from the furthest East this new And unknown light pursue Till they appeare In this blest Infants King's propitious eye And pay their homage to his Royalty Persia might then the rising Sun adore It was Idolatry no more Great God they gave to thee Myrrhe Frankincense and Gold But Lord with what shall we Present our selves before thy Majesty Whom thou redeem'dst when we were sold W' have nothing but our selves scarce that neither Vile dirt and clay Yet it is soft and may Impression take Accept it Lord and say this thou had'st rather Stamp it and on this sordid metal make Thy holy Image and it shall out-shine The beauty of the golden Myne Amen A Meditation of the Four last things Death Judgment Heaven Hell For the time of Lent especially A Meditation of Death DEath the old Serpents Son Thou had'st a sting once like thy Sire That carried Hell and ever-burning fire But those black dayes are done Thy foolish spite buried thy sting In the profound and wide Wound of our Saviours side And now thou art become a tame and harmless thing A thing we dare not fear Since we hear That our triumphant God to punish thee For the affront thou didst him on the Tree Hath snatcht the keyes of Hell out of thy hand And made thee stand A Porter to the gate of Life thy mortal enemie O thou who art that Gate command that he May when we die And thither flie Let us into the Courts of Heaven through thee Allelujah The PRAYER MY Soul doth pant tow'rds thee My God Source of eternal life Flesh fights with me Oh end the strife And part us that in peace I may Unclay My wearied spirit and take My flight to thy eternal Spring Where for his sake Who is my King I may wash all my tears away That day Thou Conqueror of Death Glorious triumpher o're the Grave Whose holy breath Was spent to save Lost Mankinde make me to be stil'd Thy Child And take me when I dye And go unto my dust my Soul Above the sky With Saints enroll That in thy arms for ever I May lye Amen Of the Day of Judgement GReat Judge of all how we vile wretches quake Our guilty bones do ake Our marrow freezes when we think Of the consuming fire Of thine ire And horrid phials thou shalt make The wicked drink When thou the winepress of thy wrath shalt tread With feet of lead Sinful rebellious clay what unknown place Shall hide it from thy face When earth shall vanish from thy fight The heavens that never err'd But observ'd Thy laws shal from thy presence take their flight And kil'd with glory their bright eyes stark dead Start from their head Lord how shall we Thy enemies endure to see So bright so killing Majesty Mercy dear Saviour Thy Judgement seat We dare not Lord intreat We are condemn'd already there Mercy vouchsafe one look On thy book Of life Lord we can read the saving Jesus here And in his Name our own Salvation see Lord set us free The book of sin Is cross'd within Our debts are paid by thee Mercy Of Heaven O Beauteous God uncircumscribed treasure Of an eternal pleasure Thy Throne is seated far Above the highest Star Where thou prepar'st a glorious place Within the brightness of thy face For every spirit To inherit That builds his hopes on thy merit And loves thee with a holy charity What ravish'd heart S●…raphick tongue or eyes Clear as the mornings rise Can speak or think or see That bright eternity Where the great Kings transparent Throne Is of an intire Jaspar stone There the eye O'th'Chrysolite And a sky Of Diamonds Rubies Chrysoprase And above all thy holy face Makes an eternal Clarity When thou thy Jewels up dost binde that day Remember us we pray That where the Beryl lyes And the Crystal 'bove the skyes There thou may'st appoint us place Within the brightness of thy face And our Soul In the Scrowl Of life and blissfulness enrowl That we may praise thee to eternity Allelujah Of Hell HOrrid darkness sad and fore And an eternal Night Groans and shrieks and thousands more In the want of glorious light Every corner hath a Snake In the accursed lake Seas of fire beds of snow Are the best delights below A Viper from the fire Is his hire That knows not moments from Eternity Glorious God of Day and Night Spring of eternal Light Allelujahs Hymns and Psalms And Coronets of Palms Fill thy Temple evermore O mighty God Let not thy bruising rod Crush our loins with an eternal