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A38583 The reasonableness of our Christian service (as it is contained in the Book of Common-Prayer) evidenced and made clear from the authority of Scriptures and practice of the primitive Christians, or, A short rationale upon our morning and evening service as it is now established in the Church of England wherein every sentence therein contained is manifestly proved out of the Holy Bible, or plainly demonstrated to be consonant thereto / composed and written by Thomas Elborow, vicar of Cheswick ; and since his death made publick by the care and industry of Jo. Francklyn ... Elborow, Thomas. 1678 (1678) Wing E324; ESTC R31410 96,665 240

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all that we are or have is due to thee from whom all is received and therefore we do not impute any thing to our selves or our own acquisition In this Faith we pray and confide that what we pray for shall be granted RUBRICK Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answ And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Psal 51.15 O God make speed to save us Psal 70.1 Answ O Lord make hast to help us Psal 40.13 RUBRICK Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Isa 42.8 1 Cor. 10.31 Rom. 11.36 Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord Psal 146.1 Answ The Lords name be praised EXPLANATION The forementioned Versicles with the Responses are Canonical Scripture and taken most-what out of the Book of Psalms by which we acknowledge our dependance upon God and that we are unable of our selves to perform any Religious duty well unless God enable us They are used interchangably by Minister and People to testifie mutual Love to strengthen affection to stir up devotion to kindle and enflame it one in another to oblige us to greater attention and this praying by way of Response is grounded upon the Scripture and conformable to the practice of the earliest and purest times of Christianity And for the form of giving glory to God Father Son and Holy Ghost it is very ancient by which we avouch our Doctrine and Faith of the Trinity against all opposers as we have received from Christ and his Apostles so we baptize believe and give glory to God Father Son and Holy Ghost and this we do not without Scripture-warrant Mat. 28.19 Rom. 11.36 It is the Christians Hymn and shorter Creed some who professed Christianity had corrupted this form of giving glory to God and had framed up another form in favour of their own new opinions and perswasions in Religion differing from that of the Ancient Christians both in words and sense but the ancient form which was before and is still used was again restored upon the restauration of which those words were added As it was in the beginning c. that is in the first beginning of the true Religion professed and solemnly owned by the name of Christian Now certainly very meet it is that we should give glory to God because it is appropriate to God alone Psal 115.1 It is his peculiar right which he lays claim to Isa 42.8 for he is the King of Glory The Heavens declare it Psal 19.1 the Angels chant it Luk. 2.14 Seraphims resound it Isa 6.3 and man is no less obliged to it then those coelestial Spirits are No place on earth is more proper for it then God's house where every man should speak of his honour and there is no better posture to do it in then standing for by it we shew our chearful readiness to give glory to God and our pious resolution to stand fast in the Faith of the Holy Trinity And for those words Praise ye the Lord they are the same with Hallelujah set at the end of the five last Psalms in the Psalter and used in this place to be as an impression invitatory to the following Psalms and the following Response The Lords name be praised is according to what we find written Psal 106.48 RUBRICK Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following except on Easter-day upon which another Anthem is appointed and on the nineteenth day of every month it is not to be read here but in the ordinary course of the Psalms PSAL. 95. Ver. 1. O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation 2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and shew our selves glad in him with psalms 3. For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods 4. In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hills is his also 5. The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land 6. O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker 7. For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand 8. To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness 9. When your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works 10. Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do err in their hearts for they have not known my ways 11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen EXPLANATION With this Psalm the ancient Church used to begin her Service it was the invitatory Psalm with which they usually began before the Congregation was well met together at the hearing of which all hastned to Church and it is very well appointed to be used in this place before all other Psalms because it is the fittest to conform us to the right use of all the rest and to furnish out Gods Service with all due reverence Glory be to the Father c. is added at the end of this and of every Psalm that we may reduce that to practice which is the scope of every Psalm that is Give Glory to God RUBRICK Then shall follow the Psalms in order as they are appointed And at the end of every Psalm throughout the year and likewise at the end of Benedicite Benedictus Magnificat and Nunc dimittis shall be repeated Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen EXPLANATION The Psalter was anciently divided into several portions called Nocturns by which division the Psalms were read every week and this was a custom peculiar only to the Latine Church for in the Syrian and Greek Churches the Psalter was read over every twenty days Our Church allows a months space for the reading over the Book of Psalms and her meaning is that they should be read in publick according to ancient practice by way of Response Now the reasons why the Psalms are so frequently read over and why in this manner I conceive to be these Because the Psalms do contain in them the choice and flower of all things profitable which may be met withall in the Holy Scriptures and do more movingly express them by reason of the Poetical form wherein they are written No part of Scripture doth more admirably set forth all the considerations and operations which belong to God nor so magnifie the Holy meditations and actions of Divine
owe our being conduct and preservation and to him we are obliged to pay all the obedience and observance which the meekest creatures in nature pay to those who have the care and conduct of them Vers 4. O let us make our solemn addresses to his Sanctuary where his Divine Majesty is signally pleased to exhibit himself and to testifie his peculiar residence and favourable audience to them who assemble there Thither let us come with all the humility and devotion of loyal and thankful hearts and praise and magnifie his Name for all the mercies which we have ever received from him Vers 5. For to do this we have all imaginable obligations not only that of his Soveraign dominion over all to which all the performances of our lives are but a most unproportionable tribute but also his abundant benignity his rich promises of a never-failing mercy and his constant fidelity of performing to every man who is fitly qualified for receiving it the utmost that he ever promised to any 4. A Paraphrase on Magnificat Luke 1. Vers 46 47. MAry the blessed Virgin and mother of the Lord Jesus brake out into this holy Hymn of praise and thanksgiving saying All the faculties of my Soul my affections and understanding have reason to bless and praise the name of God and to return great thanks unto him for I have received great things from him I my self will praise him and will not do it only by another as I have tasted liberally of his bounty so will I in my own person perform this duty His benefits are so great and so good so manifest and so manifold that I cannot utter them with my tongue and therefore must devoutly ponder on them in my heart I will give him my Soul the best thing that I have who hath given to me all that I am or have I will praise him cordially unfeignedly without hypocrisie with all intention in my understanding with all devotion in my affection not with a divided heart but with my whole heart will I praise him I will make him who is great in himself to be reputed so of others I will magnifie him and magnifie my self too in the doing of it He is a Lord able to help and he is a Saviour as willing as he is able I adore his greatness I joy in his goodnes● and whatever I take joy in beside it is only for his sake He is my mighty Saviour and deliverer saving me both from sin and danger Vers 48. He hath done the greatest honour to me the unworthiest of all his Servants that was ever done to any He hath s●ken pity of the wretched condition and state which I the daughter of David's Seed was brought into and hath not disdained my poverty but hath been pleased to make choice of me for a vessel of Grace in a very great work He hath looked upon me in my abased condition with a most gracious eye and hath not only vouchsafed to make me his Child but the Mother of my Maker so that all posterities shall look upon me as a most happy person and most highly dignified by God of any Vers 49. The omnipotent God of Heaven hath done marvellous things in me hath honoured me above imagination hath so blessed me as to make me a Virgin the Mother of the most Blessed in whom all Nations of the Earth are blessed and his Name shall be ever blessed for it Vers 50. For in me he hath accomplished the promised mercy made to Abraham saying I will be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee which abundant kindness is not to me only but ●o all who obey and serve him humbly from time to time to help and comfort them to scatter and confound all their foes and especially to make good his promise to them touching the Messias and Saviour of the world Vers 51. The great and proud designer-of the world are so far from being favoured that they are manifestly opposed and confounded by him and by his only power without any helper hath he now wrought a great and glorious work He hath established the Kingdom of Christ and hath overthrown all the counsels and endeavours of his enemies and hath disappointed all who are proud in the imagination of their own hearts Vers 52. It is ordinary with him to abase the lofty Atheists however high they are raised in might and power and to advance humble persons though they are of never so low degree Vers 53. He takes the poor who depend upon him into his protection and replenisheth them with all necessaries when they call upon him whereas the rich men of the world who trust in their uncertain riches are often brought into want and beggery Vers 54 55. He hath now performed his promise made to Abraham and his Seed hath exhibited to them and to all the believing world the great promised mercy and hath made such a provision for them which shall never fail having sent the Messias the Saviour of the world so long expected which is a mercy that shall never be taken from us Therefore for this unspeakable mercy and for all mercies flowing from this Glory shall be ascribed to God in all the Churches of his Saints and that for ever 5. A Paraphrase upon Psal 98. Vers 1 2. IT is now an opportune season to praise and magnifie the great God of Heaven for all his miraculous deliverances but especially for the glorious conquests of the Messias who by his own power and by vertue of his most perfect righteousness hath obtained for the Humane nature which he assumed and for his whole Church Victory over all his enemies and eternal Glory He hath made a conquest over the Grave by rising triumphantly out of it and thereby hath given us a pawn and pledge of our Resurrection This is a new work indeed and deserves a new Song to be sung in all Ages by all the regenerated part of Mankind who are renewed according to Christ Jesus the most glorious exemplar of all the Regenerate Vers 3. This mighty work of God in raising the Messias from the dead and the completion of his predictions and promises therein his goodness and mercy and Evangelical righteousness by which he is pleased to justifie sinful men through the merits of his Son 's most perfect righteousness embraced by a lively Faith God would have to be published and proclaimed by the preaching of the Gospel to all the men in the world Vers 4. And not published only as a Miracle though of most stupendious nature but as an act of infinite goodness and promised mercy and of great fidelity in performing it too the benefits whereof were first reached forth to his own peculiar people the Jews and afterwards to be published to the utmost Nations of the world who have all their parts in the Redemption from sin and Satan atchieved and wrought by it Vers 5 6 7. This is true matter of the greatest joy and exultation to