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A90999	Euchologia: or, The doctrine of practical praying. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Prideaux, late Bishop of Worcester. Being a legacy left to his daughters in private, directing them to such manifold uses of our Common Prayer Book. As may satisfie upon all occasions, without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3425; Thomason E1515_1; ESTC R209505	69,265	323

humble Supplicants and dismisse them with the Seal of Amen set to their just requests You cannot therefore my Daughters be ignorant what to pray for or what to decline as impertinent to your Devotions being so compendiously instructed by our Saviours owne heavenly Directory It will do well therefore in the next place to take some notice what Gestures in our Prayers may be most conveniently used CHAP. IV. Of External Gestures beseeming Religious Devotions HOwsoever Superstition as praying in an unknown tongue upon Beads before a Crucifixe or the like be as wild Goards 2 Kin. 4.40 that throwne in among good herbs makes the pottage deadly yet a distinction must be ever made between that and due reverence This is required not only of the mind but also of the Body Exod. 4.5 Josh 5.15 Moses and Joshuah must put off their shooes when they approach near to have conference with God Job Job 42.6 that was somewhat too forward upon his integrity when the Lord had schooled him was quickly brought to professe that he abhorred himself and repented in dust and ashes And it may well be thought that the heavy doome pronounced against the Intruder at the Kings Marriage Supper for his Son Mat. 22.13 without a Wedding garment was especially inflicted upon him for his irreverence in that behalf For would an earthly Prince endure a Tradesman invited by him to a Feast to come regardless out of his shop in his worst Apparrel without respect of the Person or place or honor of his Superiour that vouchsafed so much to owne him Joseph must not be presented to Pharaoh without trimming Gen. 41.74 and changing his rayment And what adoe was there with the Purification of the Virgins Esth 2.12 before they were thought fit to come into Ahasuerus his presence To this purpose God himself lessoneth grieved Aaron for the unexpected death of his two rash sons Nadab and Abihu I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified It is a plot of Satan to brand due reverence of the body with the scandal of Superstition Bowing at the name of Jesus standing up at the Creed kneeling at the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper must be held with some Superstitious to smel of Popery as though it were too much for him that created the body aswel as the soul to have the due reverence from both And because Papists are too peevish in over acting we should performe nothing at all That mean therefore must be kept between warrantable Ceremonies and superstitious fooleries that in detesting the one wee prove not profane in the other Herein our Church hath been very careful and judicious in giving a reason of Ceremonies in a Preface to our Leiturgy why some be abolished and some retained which those that dislike will dislike any thing that comes not out of the forge of their owne fancies and that most commonly as our fashions endures no longer then the starting up of another whimzy whose noveltie takes more with the people Jude such clouds without water fruitlesse trees raging waves of the sea foaming out their owne shame gifts without grace shifts withont blushing drifts without the least touch of conscience and Christianity our late experience hath taught us how ruinous they prove to Church and Commonwealth The smarts whereof should rather make us to recollect our selves and recover that we have lost both in external and internal Devotions then to proceed in such dangerous wayes which in the end must needs undo us for this falleth in with that of the Prophet Jer. 18.15 16 17. Because my people have forgotten me they have burnt Incense unto vanity and they have caused them to stumble in their wayes from the ancient paths to walk in paths in a way not cast up to make their Land desolate and a perpetual hissing Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and wag his head But mark the issue if timely repentance prevent it not I will scatter them as with an East wind before the enemy I will shew them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity Amendment therefore for the present and prevention for the future will prove at this time especially more seasonable then complaints for that which is past and cannot be recalled That which the Apostle requireth 1 Cor. 14.40 Let all things be done decently and in order is of a large extent and hath a more evident reflex in our devotions upon the outward postures of our body then the inward affection of the mind Such Gestures therefore as these 1. Casting our eyes on the earth and smiting our brests as unworthy to behold heaven by reason of our false-hearted exorbitancies 2. Standing up at the Creed in token of our free profession of it and resolution ever to stand to it 3. The lifting up of our eyes and hands to heaven as to the Mercy-Seat of that only God to whom only our prayers are to bee directed 4 Strong cryes and tears Heb 5.7 which make our Supplications prevalent with him that puts them in his bottle and is able to save us from death provided they be as well meant as they are oftentimes expressed 5. Bowing of the head and body 6. Kneeling on the knees 7. Prostrating our whole body upon the earth have pattern and warrant in Scripture and may be used of us in our private or publick devotions as variety of occasions shall be offered 1 For casting down the eyes to the earth as unworthy to look on heaven and smiting his brest Luk. 18.13 were the penitent Publicans postures that went home more justified thereby then the self-pleasing vaunting Pharisee 2. Ps 106.30 Phineas stood up and prayed therewith executing judgment the word bears both senses and so the plague ceased Judg. 3 26 Eglon the fat King of Moab had so much goodness in him as to rise from his seat when he was to hear a Message from God And may Christians hold it superstitious to rise up reverently when their Faith is to be professed And Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost in acknowledgment of the blessed Trinity to be given unto God 3. Moses holding up his hands that purchased victory against Amalek Exod. 17.11 Davids practice and prayer I have lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help Psal 123.1 Psal 141.2 And let the lifting up of my hands be as the evening sacrifice Our Saviours confirmation in that excellent prayer for his disciples These things spake Jesus Joh. 17.1 and lift up his eyes to heaven and said are uncontrollable patterns for the lifting up of our eyes and hands to God in prayer 4. And he that observeth Davids watering his couch with tears by night Psal 6.6 and mingling his drink with weeping by day Psal 102.4 Jeremies wishing his

in passion may censure to be so for we are to hope the best of all and condemn not Luk. 6.37 lest we be condemned May not a persecuting Paul become an Elect vessel Act. 9.15 and a forsworn Peter go out and weep bitterly But of this more when we shall speak of execrations herafter What wee are to pray for Sufficient limits may be found in that heavenly pattern which our Saviour hath left for that purpose Mat. 26.75 consisting of a Preface petitions and a conclusion In the preface the first word as we have it Our minds us of unity and respect to our brethren as well as of our selves excluding dissention that frustrates our best intentions as also respect of persons in preferring the rich before the poor and censuring others as being not capable of Gods mercies equally with our selves The second word Father assures us of acceptance tells us we are all brethren and that we need not to make our addresses for our wants to others whom we may not term fathers he having will and power to supply us and dislikes that we should seeke further in hope of speeding better for wee have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear Rom. 8.15.16 but we have received the Spirit of Adoption wherby we cry Abba Gal. 4.6.7 Father This Spirit it selfe bearing witness with our spirit that we are the children of God That which followes which art in heaven makes pilgrimages to shrines and reliques superfluous and superstitious Psal 25. Psal 121. Psal 122. For it lifts up our hearts to heaven and heavenly things as the Psalmist teacheth us I lift my heart to thee and unto thee do I lift up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens Ioh. 17. Which our Saviours practice confirmeth These words spake Jesus and lift up his eyes to heaven and said Father the houre is come And tells us moreover that wee have an overseer who looks into all our thoughts words Ps 113.5 and works Who is like unto the Lord our God who hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heaven and in earth The Petitions that succeed are by some made but six but without quarrelling may be reckoned seven In which the order of them shew that spiritual things are to be first looked after Mat. 6.33 and prayed for before temporal according to that of our Saviour first seek the Kingdom of God Mat. 6.33 and the righteousnesse thereof and then temporal matters shall be added as an advantage In which respects Solomons choice pleased God in praying for wisdome 1 King 3.11 before riches and honour for what shall be best for us we shall not want if we prefer the first petition the Hallowing of Gods Name before all temporalities Of this Moses and St. Paul were so tender that the one wished to be blotted out of Gods booke of life Exod. 32.32 Rom. 9.3 The other to be accursed from Christ rather then an aspersion should be cast on God either of impotency in not being able or breach of promise as not performing what he had of his free bounty undertaken for his Church to bring to passe The Hallowing therefore and glorifying and extolling above all things of the infinite Majesty of Gods Name is the thing that we are to esteem of above our own salvation And Name here which signifies Gods Essence Attributes and Commands must be conceived to be no other but that which wee were baptized in including both Father Sonne and Holy Ghost who being of one essence must needs by the same Act of ours equally be honoured or dishonoured The second petition Let thy Kingdome come Instruct us that next after Gods glory the good of his Church must be respected and prayed for that being militant here as it ought it may triumph hereafter as it expects Any thing therefore that may derogate from this must be so far from our prayers that it be rejected as the subject of our chiefest detestations Thirdly Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven guideth all our desires and petitions to be regulated by Gods will revealed in his word the resisting or declining from which must not once come within compasse of our thoughts much lesse of our petitions And now when we descend to beg for supplies in our own behalfe The fourth Petition Give us this day our daily bread how in every word doth it lesson us to exclude exorbitances Give not as due but of thy meer bounty not to one that hath of his own but to those that of unfained necessity are forced to beg with us not for themselves only but for their brethren too who must do the like for them also rich and poor are at Gods gate of mercy must be equally supplicants and that for present supply This day our daily bread must be conferred on us by a continued liberality where under the name of bread are contained apparel dwellings all things necessary to teach moderation to be used in all Gods blessings so that superfluities make not up any part of our petitions And that these blessings be not hindered by our sins The fifth petition puts in a caveat forgive us our trespasses as wee forgive them that trespass against us The condition here expresses the obligation that lies upon us of forgiving others if wee hope to be forgiven of God our selves I say therefore saith our Saviour blesse them that curse you Mat. 5.44 do good to them that hate you pray for them that despightfully use you and persecute you So that an irreconciled petitioner in Gods Court of Requests is like as you see to find no audience And as not for the remission of his own debts so neither to be freed from the assaults and hazards of ruining temptations which makes up the sixth request to be granted of him that only can keep us from and deliver us in the strongest combates of the World the Flesh and also against the most impetuous incursions of the Divel himself desired in the seventh and last Petition All these shew so sufficiently what wee are to ask that wee need not cast about what besides wee should pray for for the Articles of the Apostles Creed shew but the condition of that Kingdome whose coming and prosperity we pray for in the second Petition And what is the loving of God above all things and of our neighbour as our selves but the substance of the ten Commandments that wee desire in the third Petition That the will of God may bee done by us here on earth as it is in Heaven by the Saints and Angels For the more assured obtaining of all which petitions the Conclusion adds this confidence For thine O Father is the Kingdome therefore thou wilt the Power therefore thou canst the Glory therefore in honour thou art in a sort by thy selfe engaged to tender the prayers of thy children subjects and

all the women went out after her with Timbrels and with Dances none being so scrupulous in those dayes as to take exceptions at them And Miriam said Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath criumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he throwne into the sea O what an excellent Emulation it is betweene men and women when they contend who may praise God most for his Blessings bestowed upon them In the same straine of praises is the consort of Deborah and Barak for the overthrow of General Siserah Judges 5. Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel when the people willingly offered themselves c. In comparison of which piece the highest touch of Heathen Poetry sounds but flat and livelesse Neither must the good-wives of Bethlehems praising of God for the birth of Obed King Davids grand-father be thought not worthy to be imitated upon the like occasion Rut. 4.14 15 And the women said unto Naomi Blessed be the Lord which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman that his name may bee famous in Israel And he shall be thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy Daughter in Law which loveth thee which is better to thee then ten sonnes hath born him Thankful Hannahs Hymn is tuned to the same key for the birth of her son Samuel And Hannah prayed and said 1 Sam. 2.1 My heart rejoiceth in the Lord my horn is exalted in the Lord my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation But eminent above all the rest is that Magnificat or Song of Praise and Thanksgiving of the most blessed Mother-maid Luke 1.46 retained in our Leiturgy to be alwayes repeated Wherein Humility in her greatest advancement referring all to Gods glory and reflecting still upon the Churches good is most lively set forth He hath looked upon me a poor wretch regarding the low and inconsiderable estate of his Hand-maiden passing by the flourishing Pomp of the rich and mighty He hath remembred his mercy for the redemption of Israel according to the promise made to our forefathers and therefore My soul doth praise and magnifie the Lord and my spirit rejoyceth not for any worth found in my self but in God only my Saviour O that the proud ones of these times would but think upon this This one patterne might be sufficient to take down their haughty looks and new fangled attires by minding them that the blessedst amongst all women was otherwise affected In the like straine is that Benedictus of holy Zachary Luke 1.68 Blessed or praised be the Lord God of Israel for hee hath visited and redeemed his people c. And that Psal 100. O be joyful in the Lord all yee Lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a Song O go your way into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name And it is worth the noting that as the Book of the hundred and fifty Psalms begins with Blessed is the man or many blessings are upon that man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly but kissed the Son and ordered his walks to God to which the first fifty Psalmes especially lead him Neither stood in the way of sinners which the second fifty beats him from as most dangerous So the third fifty plucks him and his from the Seat of the scornful lift him up with Psalms of Degrees and Hallelujahs to thank and praise the Maker and Preserver of all things sealing all up with this conclusion Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Wherefore let not the Te Deum We praise thee O God we acknowledg thee to be the Lord or the Benedicite the following Canticle O all ye works of the Lord blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever be thought superfluous in our Leiturgy for not having that Canonical Authority which the former Scriptures have lest our Sermons and unpremeditated praises and prayers should be in that respect excepted against and so Preaching be discredited as bordering too neer sometimes upon Apocrypha Let it be sufficient then that such holy prayers have ground in Scripture from which as the Articles of our Creed they are deduced and framed to the capacitie and memories of all that cannot bee more edifyingly instructed So Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost so often repeated to uphold the Doctrine of the sacred Trinitg against the ancient and moderne Hereticks and that Angelical Rapture used after receiving of the Lords Supper Glory be to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men We praise thee we blesse thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give thanks to thee for thy great glory O Lord c. are such collections whereby young men and maidens old men and children may praise the Name of the Lord Psa 148.12 as the Psalmist exhorts them to do With whom we may safely conclude in that which our Leiturgy takes up for an entrance Psalm 95. O come let us sing unto the Lord c. with the Postscript of that good wish Psal 40.19 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say alwayes The Lord be praised CHAP. VII Of Comminations or Cursings COmmination in our Leiturgy is a part of Church-Discipline whereby Gods judgments are denounced against notorious offenders to terrifie them from their desperate courses and to put a stop to others that they follow not them in their damned wayes which by their owne mouthes they have pronounced accursed This is grounded on the twenty seventh of Deuteronomy with little alteration of words or matter for the applying it to our time And to the same end serve the Woes denounced by our Saviour Matth. 23 against the hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees which will never be out of date as long as the same sins are fomented and thought good policie and not heartily repented of amongst Professors of Christianity With this Commination the Church-Excommunication hath a neer affinity whereby obstinate notorious offenders are excluded from the benefit of the Saints communion and delivered unto Satan as the incestuous Corinthian was by Saint Paul to the destruction of the flesh 1 Cor. 5.5 that the Spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus These warrantable practices of Primitive Discipline considered as they ought should breed a restlesse horror in the consciences of those that lye under such censures Gal. 6. For Be not deceived God is not mocked who will not have his Church neglected whose priviledges of binding and loosing here on earth are enrolled in heaven Mat. 18.18 And if we account it a slight matter to bee reckoned of Gods people as an Heathen or Publican at the last admittance of the faithful and obedient