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A36933 Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration. Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. 1683 (1683) Wing D2660E; ESTC R220202 41,746 221

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Affirmative Precepts though they bind always in the Habit cannot be said always to bind in the Act this cannot be pressed so indispensably as that neither sickness nor weakness nor any other accident can be a bar to it For where necessity intervenes the bended knees of the heart may well excuse the Body There is therefore one posture more that we find hath been used in Prayer which though it may hear ill being practised by the Pharisees who as our Saviour describes them loved to pray standing not only in their Synagogues but in the corners of their Streets yet this is not enough utterly to exclude it from our Devotions For not only the proud Pharisee but the humble Publican stood at his Prayers although with this note of difference He stood but it was afar off in the lowest place of the Temple as thinking himself unworthy to come higher His body stood upright but his eyes were cast downward to the Earth But not to stop either upon these Particulars or upon the Custom of the Iews in general for it was their Custom to pray standing we find in the best times the Christians had their seasons to make use of it For besides that as between Easter and Whitsontide to express their Exultation for the Resurrection of their Saviour and their Expectation of the Descent of the Holy Ghost they were not seen to kneel openly in their publick Service of God So many times in their private Devotions especially when they continued them long upon their knees they relieved themselves with that change of Posture But to avoid all necessary Scruples in cases of this nature the result of all is this 1. That Adoration is an act of Religious Worship exhibited to God in Recognition of his Supreme Dominion 2. That as in Man the heart is first framed so the heart must be first offered as a spiritual Sacrifice of inward Reverence 3. That the outward Adoration by Prostration or kneeling is not so much a Ceremony as a part or duty in Divine Worship not to be omitted but either in case of necessity or when we find some other posture upon some occasion really to be of more advantage to us in our Devotion 4. That this Duty of external Reverence doth not then necessarily oblige when the Soul being suddenly and inwardly moved to lift it self up by Prayer the outward man is as it were surprized in some other posture as walking standing sitting or lying down in which case God will rather look to the inward Motions and Raptures of the Mind than to the outward Form and Composure of the Body Someother though more minute yet usual Circumstances of Adoration are summed up by Bonaventure as the uncovering of the head as it relates to Men the posture of either looking up to Heaven with the confidence of Saint Stephen or fastened down to the Earth with the humility of the Publican The hands lifted and stretched out a Gesture which God honoured with that famous Miracle Thus as long as Moses in this manner held up his hands the Israelites prevailed but when he let them down his Enemies prevailed But the choice of these must be regulated by the former Rule of Saint Austin and so far made use of as they shall conduce most to every particular Man's Devotion FINIS HOLY RULES and HELPS TO DEVOTION Both in Prayer and Practice BY The right Reverend Father in God Bryan Duppa Late Lord Bishop of Winton The Second Part. London Printed for W. Hensman at the King's-Hea● in Westminster-Hall 1683. HOLY Rules and Helps TO DEVOTION Both in Prayer and Practice Of Prayer what it is PRAYER is an Humble Address of the Soul towards God for whatsoever we stand in need of either in relation to this life or the life to come Prayer is The lifting up of the Soul The pouring out of the Soul A wrestling with God A Sacrifice to God A Succour to the Soul A Scourge to the Tempter A Sanctuary in Troubles A Remedy for sins A Key to open the Morning A Lock to shut in the Evening Of Morning and Evening Prayer I. MOrning and Evening Prayer are instead of that Morning and Evening-Sacrifice which God enjoined to be daily offered in the Temple II. They are out-goings of the Morning and Evening which David speaks of The out-goings of the Morning and Evening shall praise thee III. They are to every devout Soul like that Pillar which guided Israel through the Wilderness as a Cloud by day to shadow them and as a Fire by night to comfort them IV. By Morning Prayer thou openest the windows of thy Soul to the Sun of Righteousness and by Evening Prayer thou shuttest them against the danger of the night V. In your Morning Devotions you are to say within your self What shall I do this day which God hath given me How shall I employ it In the Evening What have I done this day How have I spent it Short Ejaculations or Occasional Prayers for the Morning BLessed art thou O God who hast sent the Day-spring from on high to visit me who hast given my body rest and preserved this night my Soul in safety Blessed art thou who 〈◊〉 ●●newest thy Mercies to me every morning and hast given me one day more to serve thee and call upon thy name Or this Psal. cxliii 5. 8. Let me hear thy loving-kindness O God betimes in the morning for in thee is my trust Shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto thee Or this Numb vi 24. The Lord God bless and preserve me make his face to shine upon me and be gracious unto me that it may go well with me this day and evermore A short Prayer at up-rising O Blessed Saviour who hast taught me that the dead shall hear thy voice let me no longer lie in the grave of sloth but raise me as thou didst thy servant Lazarus unbind my hands and feet set me in some good way that I may glorifie thee by serving thee this day with a pure mind and humble heart Amen At your Cloathing O My God as I came into the World a weak a naked and a wretched Creature so am I still if destitute of thy grace Reach out therefore unto me the unspotted Robe of thy Sons Righteousness and so clothe me with all the graces of thy holy Spirit that thy Image may be daily renewed in me and thy Name honoured by me for evermore Amen At the washing of your Hands O My dear Saviour who hast opened a fountain for sin and for all uncleanness wash me throughly with those saving Waters that being purified from the stains of sin and the guilt of my natural corruption I may with the more confidence draw near to thy Throne of Grace and bow myself before thy Mercy-seat Amen Eccles. xviii 5. 23. Before thou prayest prepare thy self and be not as one that tempts the Lord. Three Rules of Preparation I.