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A61432	The liturgy of the ancients represented as near as well may be in English forms calling : with a preface concerning the restitution of the most solemn part of Christian worship in the Holy Eucharist, to its integrity, and just frequency of celebration.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5429; ESTC R24616	81,280	108

other Benefits of his Passion And here we offer and present unto thee O Lord our Selves our Souls and Bodies to be a reasonable holy and lively Sacrifice unto thee humbly beseeching thee that whosoever shall be Partakers of this Holy Communion may worthily receive the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son Iesus Christ be fulfilled with thy Grace and Heavenly Benediction and made one Body with him that he may dwell in them and they in him And although we be Vnworthy through our manifold Sins to offer unto thee any Sacrifice yet we beseech thee to accept this our Bounden Duty and Service * And command these our Supplications Prayers to be by the Ministry of thy Holy Angels brought up into thy Holy Tabernacle before the Sight of thy Divine Majesty In the First Book of Ed. 6. but lese out afterward not weighing our Merits but pardoning our Offences through Iesus Christ our Lord by whom and with whom in the Vnity of the Holy Ghost all Honour and Glory be unto thee O Father Almighty World without end Amen AND we humbly beseech thee O Lord our God That it may please thee to give us Hearts to love dread and adhere unto thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments That it may please thee to preserve rule and govern thy Holy Church Vniversal in the Right Way That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons and particularly of this Church and Diocess with true Knowledge and Vnderstanding of thy Word and that both by their Preaching Living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly That it may please thee to direct keep and strengthen in the true Faith and Worship of thee and in Righteousness and Holiness of Life thy Servant N. our King and Governour That it may please thee that he may ever have Affiance in thee ever seek thy Honour and Glory and have Victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to bless and preserve all the Royal Family That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with Grace Wisdom and Vnderstanding That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them Grace to execute Iustice and to maintain Truth That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy People to give them increase of Grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure Affection and to bring forth the Fruits of the Spirit That it may please thee to give to all Nations Vnity Peace and Concord That it may please thee to bring into the way of Truth all such as have erred and are deceived That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the Weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in Danger Necessity and Tribulation That it may please thee to preserve all that Travel by Land or by Water all Women labouring of Child all Sick persons and young Children and to shew thy Pity upon all Prisoners and Captives That it may please thee to defend and provide for the Fatherless Children and Widows and all that are Desolate and Oppressed That it may please thee to have Mercy upon all Men. That it may please thee to forgive our Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers and to turn their Hearts That it may please thee to give and preserve to our Vse the kindly Fruits of the Earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We humbly beseech thee to hear us O Lord our God through the Merits and Intercession of thy dearly beloved Son our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ Iesus and as he hath taught and commanded us we are bold to say OUR Father who art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done on Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our Daily Bread And forgive us our Crespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into Temptation But deliver us from Evil For thine is the Kingdom And the Power And the Glory For ever and ever Amen Then after a little Pause for all to offer up their own private Prayers this Collect of humble Access to the Holy Communion Kneeling WE do not presume to come to this thy Table O merciful Lord trusting in our own Righteousness but in thy manifold and great Mercies We are not worthy so much as to gather up the Crums inder thy Table But thou art the same Lord whose Property is always to have Mercy grant us therefore Gracious Lord so to eat the Flesh of thy dear Son Iesus Christ and to drink his Blood that our Bodies and Souls being cleansed and our Sins part oned through his most precious Blood we may enjoy thy Favour be filled with thy Spirit and evermore dwell in Him and He in Vs Amen Note Concerning the Behaviour of the Communicants these things are to be observed that Anciently 1. They came Fasting to it v. Sparrow 2. They came in Purity from all not only Unlawful but Carnal Embraces whatsoever for some time before v. S. Hier. Apol. pro Lib. contra Jovin 3. They came up to the Rails v. Spar. to which they are called by these Words Draw near in the Invitation before the Confession 4. They answered Amen to the Words of the Priest at the Delivery of the Sacrament v. Spar. 5. They received the Consecrated Bread in their Hands v. Spar. 6. They were careful that none of it should fall to the Cround v. Tertul. de Cor. Mil Origen Hom. 13. in Exod. circa Med. Cyril Hierosol Cat. Myst 5. sub fi Aug. Hom. 26. l. 50 Hom. 7. They did but sip or tast of the Cup. So did the Jews before for it was a Rite of Thanksgiving to God in Use amongst them and so did the christians both using it as a Sacred Cup and not to be prophaned by pleasing the Palat which was the Fault of some of the Corinthians punished by the Judgments of God 1 Cor. 11.30 and savouring of the Temper and Disposition of those Jews whom our Saviour repremands Jo. 6.26 At the Communion this Benediction and Recognition THe Body of our Lord Iesus Christ † which was given for thee preserve thy Body and Soul unto Everlasting Life Ans Amen Take and eat this in Remembrance that Christ Died for thee And at the delivering of the Cup this THe Blood of our Lord Iesus Christ † which was shed for thee preserve thy Body and Soul unto Everlasting Life Ans Amen Drink this in Remembrance that Christ's Blood was shed for thee and be thankful Then having decently covered what remaineth of the Consecrated Elements this Thanksgiving ALmighty and Everliving God we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost vouchsafe of thy Favour and Goodness towards us to feed us who have duly received these Holy Mysteries

* Nostra quidem Scripta cur ignibus meruerunt dari Cur immaniter Conventicula dirui in quibus Summus oratur Deus Pax cunctis venia postulatur Magistratibus Exercitibus Regibus Familiaribus Inimicis adhuc vitam degentibus resolutis corporum vi●ctione lib. 4. suo fi But tho' this might be sufficient yet have we further Evidence to trace it even through the more troublesome times of the Churches so near to the Apostles that no Man without Disparagement to his Judgment or his Honesty can question its Original to be indeed Apostolical For tho' those troublesome times have left us so few Monuments of the Primitive Christianity in comparison that all will hardly equal the Writings of some one of the Writers of after-Ages yet among those few have we what is sufficient Arnobius an eminent Professor of Rhetorick who had been a bitter Enemy against the Christians even in the time of Persecution under Dioclesian turned Christian and wrote Seven Books against the Gentiles in the fourth of which he expostulates with them in this manner Why have our Scriptures deserved to be cast into the Fire Why our Meeting-Places to be cruelly destroyed in which the Great God is prayed to Peace and Pardon is besought for all for Magistrates Armies Kings our Familiars and Enemies for those yet living and those released from the Bond of their Bodies Where he speaks of Prayers for these last as as common as for any of the rest About 50 years before this was S. Cyprian Bishop of Carthage a Person of great Worth and most deserved Reputation in the Church and at last a Holy Martyr He in his LXVI Epistle with his Collegues in Council tells the Clergy and People to whom he wrote that their Predecessors upon religious Consideration as a necessary Provision had decreed That no Christian Brother at his Departure should name a Clergy-Man for Guardian or Executor and that if any one should do this there should be * Si quis hoc fecisset non offeretur pro ●o nec sacrificium pro Do●mitione ejas celebretur Neque enim c. no Offering for him nor Sacrifice celebrated for his Departure for he doth not deserve to be named at the Altar of God in the Prayer of the Priests who would call away the Priests and Ministers from the Altar And therefore since one Victor † Contra formam nuper in Concilio à sacerdotibus datam contrary to the Order lately made in Council by the Priests had presumed to constitute a certain Presbyter for a Guardian ‖ Non est quod pro Dormitione ejas apud vos fiat Oblatio aut Deprecatio aliqua nomine ejus in Ecclesia frequentetur there should no Oblation be made among them for his Departure or any Deprecation commonly used in the Church in his Name that the Decree of the Bishops religiously and necessarily made might be observed by them and Example given to others c. This Prohibition of those things to be done by way of Punishment is a plain Evidence of what was accustomed and should have been done if there had been no Prohibition and an Evidence not of a single Person but of a Council and not of Matter of Opinion but of plain Matter of Fact and that so notorious as was well known to all and of such Importance in the Opinion of all as the Prohibition was adjudged a competent Punishment for such a Crime as they all thought no little one It was a kind of Excommunication Another fifty years before this lived Tertullian a Man of very great and universal Learning very acute Parts and very strict for Discipline and for the Orders of the Church He mentions this Practice in divers of his Writings not only as common and usual but also as delivered by Tradition and so well known and unquestionable as to be it self an undeniable Instance and Proof of unwritten Traditions This he doth in his Book de Corona Militis § 3. where amongst the Instances which he alleadgeth for proof of the Authority of unwritten Traditions this is one Oblationes pro Defunctis pro Natalitiis annua die facimus We make Oblations for the Dead upon the Annual day of their Departure which the Ancient Christians called their Natalitiae or Birth-Days And after all concludes * Harum aliarum ejusmodi discipiinarum si Legem expostules Scripturarum nullam invenies Traditio tibi praetenditue auctrix Consuetudo confirmatrix Fides observatrix If of these and other Matters of Discipline you seek for a Rule of Scriptures you shall find none Tradition is alleadged for the Author Custom for the Confirmer and Faith for the Observer But of Traditions in general he hath other Discourses elsewhere and of this particular Tradition which he does but only mention here as an instance of Fact not to be denied we have farther mention in other of his Writings In his Book de Monogamia against second Marriages speaking of the Custom of the Widow's praying for her deceased Husband he says * Et pro anima ejus orat Refrigerium interim adpostulat ei in prima Resurrectione Consortium offert annuis diebus dormitionis ejus § 10. She prays for his Soul and intreats for Refreshment for him in the interim and Consort in the first Resurrection and offers for him on the Annual days of his Departure Again in his Book de Exhortatione Castitatis he thus upbraids him who had had several Wives † Et jam repete apud Deum pro cujus Spiritu postules pro qua Oblationes Annuas reddas Stabis ergo ad Deum cum tot Uxoribus quot illa oratione commemoras offeres pro duabus commemoras illas duas per sacerdotem de Monogamia ob pristinum de virginitate sanctitum circumdatum virginibus univiris ascendet sacrificium tuum iibera fronte inter cete ras voluntates bonae mentis postulabis tibi uxori castiatem● § 11 Say before God for whose Spirit thou dost pray for which thou dost make thy Annual Oblations Wilt thou therefore stand before God with so many Wives as thou dost in that Prayer remember and offer for two and commemorate those two by a Priest once married by reason of the ancient Sanction of Virginity incompassed with Virgins and once married Women And will thy Sacrifice ascend with Confidence and amongst other Habits of a good Soul wilt thou pray for Chastity for thy self and thy Wife This I think is plain and full for the common Practice both in private and in publick by the Priest at the Altar and for the Tradition But it is objected that Tertullian when he wrote these Books was a Montanist and wrote them against the Church And it is as easily answered that it is not Matter of Opinion but Matter of Fact for which they are here alleadged and it is certain he was no Fool which he must have