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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bow_v	jesus_n	knee_n	2,266	5	9.3927	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

head to be a fountain of tears Jer. 9.11 St. Peters bitter tears Luk. 7.38 and Marie's bath of tears for our Saviours feet and towel of her locks to wipe them must acknowledge that tears with prayer make a happy mixture to procure pity from him who shed tears over Jerusalem and wept in compassion with the sisters Luk. 19.41 Joh. 11.35 that lamented their dead brother Lazarus For bowing the knees and body that humble posture of the afflicted Israelites when they received the hopefull message of their deliverance may be a lending case to bee imitated when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that he had looked upon their affliction Then they bowed their heads saith the Text and worshiped Exod. 4.31 And what can be the meaning of that prohibition from falling down and worshiping images or any other similitudes in the second commandment but that God hath retained unto himself such a religious worship of the body Those that make scruple of such kneeling in prayer must needs set themselves against that solemne proclamation of the King of heaven I have sworn by my selfe the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousnesse Isa 45.23 and shall not return That unto mee every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear The same posture when we find allowed to our Saviour incarnate that at Phil. 2.10 or in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow of things inheaven and things on the earth and things under the earth confirmeth the Onenesse of the Son with the Father which novellists now question and make it their glory to cavil at where confutation is impossible 1 King 8.54 Solomon with these now masters for kneeling on his knees and spreading of his hands toward heaven in his dedication prayer of the Temple Dan. 6.10 shall be held unwise Daniel for praying on his knees three times a day shall be scarce thought worthy to be beloved And Saint Paul might save his labour for bowing his knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Ephes 3.14 Christ in the behalfe of the Ephesians because sitting as many doe at Sermons with their heads covered would be farre more easie and in those mens discipline doe as well And last of all when I find my Saviour falling on his face Matth. 26.39 and praying O my Father if it be possible let this cup passe from me neverthelesse not as I will but as thou wilt I should hold him far from superstition that in time and place and where it may be fitly performed shall prostrate his whole body or doe more if it were possible put his face between his knees as Elias did on mount Carmel in adoring him in whose book are all our members written 1 King 18.24 and day by day were fashioned when there was yet none of them Psal 139.16 With great judgment therfore is the 95 Psalm set in the fore front of our leiturgy as a preface to the ensuing devotions wherein that passage O come let us worship fal down and kneel before the Lord our maker consorting with that in the 132. we will go into his Tabernacle we will fall low before his footstoole should shame the irreverent behaviour of too many in the house of prayer which Turks and Infidels would hold abominable to be used in their Idoll Temples Moreover wherein women most offend Gods house is not a place for the displaying of plaited hair 3 Pet. 3.3 or wearing of gold or putting on of apparel or out-vying one another in more then the 24 fashions of the daughters of Sion taxed particularly by the prophet but for meek and quiet spirits Isai 3.16 to humble themselves before God to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to aske those things that be requisite as well for the body as the soule And that is not to be slighted 1 Cor. 11. which the Apostle reproves in the Corinthian Assemblies that men presumed to pray with their heads covered and women with their heads uncovered I would have you my daughters so to look to your feet when you enter into the hous of God that your devotions through irreverent unseemlinesse prove not the sacrifice of fools It was the modesty humility of some of your fore-mothers not to seat themselves in the Church before they had performed a reverent respect to the Minister then officiating which howsoever the high spirits of these times hold derogatory to their greatnesse yet the Son of God will take it as done to himself if it be done to the meanest of his Matth. 10.41 for his sake And the B. Virgin his mother will informe the stateliest that God will exalt the meek and humble when the mighty shall be put down from their seat Luk. 1.52 and the rich sent empty away This submisse and religious deportment of the body in Gods worship hath been too shamefully neglected amongst us surely such that slight Gods Ministers so much would hardly be induced to wash their Masters feet with their tears Luk 7.38 and wipe them with their curled locks but those that have ears to hear will hear 1. Bowing of the head And 2. The body to the earth Gen. 24.26 52 Psal 9 6. 3. Kneeling 4. Prostration or falling on the face 5. Lifting up of the eyes to heaven 6. And spreading forth the hands to the same place Mat. 26.39 Jo. 17.1 as also 7. Smiting of the brest with the penitent publican are postures of the body warranted to be used by precept and practice 1 King 8.22 out of the word of God which if they were seasonably and devoutly frequented more of us Luk. 18.13 in our private and publick prayers according to the example of our religious predecessors Mat. 23.6 would better then any Jewish phylacteries or fringes put us in mind of the weight of the business we are about set an edge on our dulnesse Deut. 6.8 and stirre up others to offer violence as it were and take by force the kingdome of heaven Jam. 5.16 Mat. 11.12 but this sacred fervency will meet with many Impediments to be considered in the next place CHAP. V. Of Impediments that disturb or frustrate our Prayers PRayer is so effectual against Satan and all his drifts and depths that he sets his utmost plots and stratagems to frustrate or hinder it and therefore he that seriously composeth himself to prayer shall bee sure to meet with a world of Impediments Amongst which these especially may be taken notice of to be carefully opposed 1. Wandring thoughts 2. Presumption 3. Ostentation 4. Superstition 5. Bosom sins retained 6. Irreconciliation 7. Despair 1. Concerning wandring thoughts we should eespecially attend that caveat of the Apostle Jam. 1.5 If any man ask wisdom let him as kit not by by Intercession of Saints or Angels but of God himselfe that giveth