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heaven_n	father_n	kingdom_n	trespass_n	2,158	5	10.3225	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40831	The Family prayers of those poor Christians who in court and country, in cities, towns, cottages and farm houses, are in good earnest with religion : together with their way of intercession or praying for others.		1675 (1675)	Wing F355; ESTC R18017	7,316	23

THE FAMILY-PRAYERS OF THOSE POOR CHRISTIANS WHO IN Court and Country in Cities Towns Cottages and Farm-Houses are in good earnest with Religion Together with their way of Intercession or Praying for others LONDON Printed by A. M. for R. Royston Bookseller to his Most Sacred Majesty at the Angel in Amen-corner 1675. The Family-Prayers of those poor Christians who in Court and Country in Cities Towns Cottages and Farm-Houses are in good earnest with Religion ●●gether with their way of Intercession or Praying for others 1. THE Sum of our Christian Religion In the Name of the ●●●er and of the Son and of the 〈◊〉 Ghost Amen 2. The Prayer of Prayers that ●●erein we ask all things necessary for ●●ers as well as for our selves for 〈◊〉 and for Body for our happy li●●● in this world for our happy go●●● out of it and for our most happy ●●ining of that better world that is 〈◊〉 come namely Our Father which 〈◊〉 in Heaven With this preparation ●●●d not by all but by one only ●●us pray for our selves and all others ●he Lord Jesus Christ himself hath not only taught but also command us to pray and to say Our Fat●● which 3. The General Thanksgiving 〈◊〉 that blessing of God for all his merci●● that he is much pleased with na●●ly Glory be to the Father and to 〈◊〉 Son and to the Holy Ghost As it 〈◊〉 in the beginning is now and ever 〈◊〉 be world without end Amen With 〈◊〉 Introduction said not by all but 〈◊〉 one only let us bless the Lord 〈◊〉 God for all his Mercies in that fo●● of words which he greatly delights 〈◊〉 Glory be to the Father and 4. The Blessing of Blessings u●● and to our selves The Grace of 〈◊〉 Lord Jesus Christ and the love of G●● and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost with us all evermore Amen Being not able with any patience think of living without com●● Prayers in their respective Famil●● they have used themselves to own th● God in common as they could w●● they could not as they would 〈◊〉 ashamed they say they were the ri●● 〈◊〉 learned sort should go beyond them 〈◊〉 the duty it self though they do or 〈◊〉 least seem to do in the manner of ●●sormance Set and long Meals they 〈◊〉 are used among them and also set 〈◊〉 long Family-Prayers But though 〈◊〉 neither of these could they equal 〈◊〉 yet equal if not exceed them 〈◊〉 would do as in the wholesom●● of their meats never eating 〈◊〉 when they are hungry so also in 〈◊〉 devoutness of their Morning and ●●eaing Family-Prayers Because these 〈◊〉 them are nothing but these four 〈◊〉 now set down said aloud and 〈◊〉 leisurely and deliberately and ●●nctly by all Parents Children 〈◊〉 Servants and all that are pre●● And this upon these two grounds ●●●●g sundry other 〈◊〉 Because they assure themselves 〈◊〉 devotion is from them and any 〈◊〉 Believers true and acceptable de●●●n to that God who hath command●● and knows the full importance 〈◊〉 though we do not and has promised to hear and answer it not according to our unworthy and narrow understanding of it but according to his own All-seeing Mind and Meaning in it 2. Because this way of Family-Prayers 1 All 2 together and 3 upo● their knees saying these things bot● Morning and Evening is such as th● most busie and most employed Famil● that is may have time for And ye● such too as the most slender and ignorant Ruler whether man or woman is able to perform And yet that whic● being offered to God with true Dev●tion Attention and Intention is 〈◊〉 him as acceptable as any Prayers wha● soever nay not the less but the mo●● acceptable for the fervency occasion●● by the Brevity Because they can off●● it most leisurely and considerately a●● so most earnestly and ardently A●● hereunto That owning their God ev●ry day thus in common they do assu● themselves whatever falls out to the●● it shall be and is a Dispensation or Bl●sing out of Sion or such as Religi●● ●●●s sanctified to them especially when ●very one of and in the Family has a great charge laid upon him and her ●or daily performing his or her own ●●cret and personal Devotions accor●ing to his or her own secret and perso●●l Necessities Occasions and Impulses The Worship it self 1. In the Name of the Father and of 〈◊〉 Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen 2. Let us pray for our selves and all ●thers as the Lord Jesus Christ him●●lf hath both taught and commanded 〈◊〉 Our Father which art in Heaven Hal●●wed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come ●●y will be done in Earth as it is in Hea●en Give us this day our daily bread ●nd forgive us our trespasses as we ●●rgive them that trespass against us ●nd lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen 3. Let us bless the Lord our God for all his Mercies in that form of words which to him is most acceptable 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 4. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen Besides this shorter ordinary way of Family-Prayers they have also whensoever they see they have time enough a larger way of praying but still by this Prayer of Prayers For first they say it for the Holy Catholick Church or for the whole estate of Christs Church militant here upon Earth with this Introduction Let us pray for the whole Estate ●f Christs Church militant here upon ●●rth And then most devoutly and ●eisurely do they in the Name of the father Son and Holy Ghost offer up the Lords Prayer all the while thinking of the whole Church Next for the Particular Church wherein they are with the Governours of it with this preparation Let us pray for our King and this whole Church and State And then 〈◊〉 the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost saying Our Father which ●rt most leisurely and fervently all the while thinking of the King and all his Dominions both in Church and State After this for the particular Neighbourhood whereunto they do belong and the particular Guide thereof with this Introduction Let us pray for our Minister and this whole Parish where Gods Providence hath seated us And then In the Name of the Our Father which art Both most religiously and leisurely uttered all the while thinking of their respective Parish and Minister In the fourth place Let us pray for all Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers c. In the fifth For any sick weak or otherwise in Danger Necessity and Tribulation Namely in the Let us pray him or her or them to whom they are ready to be so charitable In the sixth For the blessing of God upon the fruits of

to the Souls of those who are under your Authority As any time hereafter morning and evening not to seek God in your Families in this short and easie but effectual way and make no question but that God who understands Hearts better than we do Words will most graciously accept both the Hearts and Words because these of his own endi●ing as those of his own exciting See then saith the Apostle that ye ●alk circumspectly not as fools but as ●ise redeeming the time because the days 〈◊〉 evil Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord 〈◊〉 Ephes 5.15 16 17. As if he should ●ave said in other words thus Seeing the days are so evil so perilous and so ●●heistical and withal so contagious and ●●oysoning as ye see they are do not ●●il to redeem time for this little as one would say to find or make time for ●sing this soveraign Antidote in your re●●ective Families twice every four and twenty hours at the least or certainly 〈◊〉 do not understand what the will of the Lord is in this and many such-like Scriptures If yet ye have not done it yet now at length do it and let not this reproach lie at the doors of professed Christians that Family-prayers like set and costly meals are to be seen and found only among the rich and learned Do but break into it and begin and after one week the Devil and former neglect will never be able to cast you back into your old stupour indisposition and benummedness To conclude whereas that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great volume great vanity was never more true than now because men of poverty cannot buy such Books and men of business cannot read them We shall put no more to you at this time but this one thing the long and happy experience of sundry your Brethren which assures you that if this due care among sundry other ye do take of your Families this benefit for certain ye shall sind to your selves namely That in your secret proper and personal Prayers and Ejaculations whether up or in bed whether for your selves or for others ye shall see your selves every day more and more enlarged and asse●●ed than ever ye did when this open regard of your Families ye had not as ●●e would say in the words of the Prophet Ezekiel when ye did not study the turning of others as well as of your selves Ezek. 18.30.32 Wherefore turn ●●ur selves and live ye Margent Where●●re turn others and live ye Especially if 〈◊〉 do not fail often to mind your Fa●●ilies both jointly and severally both ●●e by one and altogether that to these family-prayers they add praying by themselves every one to himself and by himself as often as he shall find himself ●●leisure and thereunto disposed and ●●et never seldomer may it be than ●ery night when he goes to bed and ●ery morning when he ariseth And 〈◊〉 every Father of the Family let him ●●ver forget but always well remember ●●●t the only way to have good Children and good Servants is to be sure to ●●ke them good Christians And all whatsoever Masters Servants Parents children Landlords Tenants Kings Subjects Pastors People Husbands Wives all of all estates conditions and capacities whatsoever Know we all one great reason why we all have so little comfort one of another seems to be this Because we have so little Christian care one of another For if Kings for instance would pray more for the Kingdom of God to rule in their Subjects their Kingdoms certes would not be so shaken with Rebellions and Seditions as they be And on the other side if Subjects would be more praying that their Kings might study more to hallow Gods Name than to honour their own they would see Reason questionless to be more willing to confess them the Fathers of their Country and under God the authors and maintainers of their Prosperity If Husbands would say the Lords-prayer for their Wives oftener than they do God would keep their Wives from saying their Prayers backwards for them so oft as many do 〈◊〉 Fathers and Mothers would be more a● Our Father for their Children the Children being wrought upon by their Father in Heaven would become more dutiful to their Parents on Earth If people would pray more that the Angels of God in this World his Ministers might do the will of God on Earth as done it is by the Angels in Heaven they would see more things in them to rejoyce in than now they do to lament and find fault with If Masters would pray more that God would give their Servants their daily bread in the full extent and true meaning of that word the daily bread which they do give them would doubtless be much better resented and requited by them than now ordinarily it is And then according to the Ordinance of King Ethelbert who gave all mean Lords their Estates upon three Conditions and one of them this That they should be Fathers to their Tenants Then I say would Landlords doubtless be a kind of loving Fathers to their Tenants and they back again as good as Sons to their Landlords if both would make great conscience of offering up Our Father for one another daily constantly and devoutly In a word if all that is if men as St. Paul orders Phil 2.1 Would not seek every one his own things only but think and study and pray every man for the things of others also then would there be clean another face of things in the World than now is even as it is in the next verse The same mind in us in a good measure as was in Christ Jesus But when all the entercourse between the respective Estates and Conditions is nothing but what we see every one prating and practising for himself and scarce any one praying or so much as propounding for any other no marvel so many very many are for the good of themselves only and so few able to do themselves or others any real good at all Si in suà quisque viciniâ hanc aut similem fatigandi Isa 62.7 Deum suum rationem suos omnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 docerent Ecclesiae Ministri eamque iis in usum redigerent effectum daretur haud dubie multum boni multumque mali partim anteverteretur partim sanaretur Quod faxit Deus per propter Jesum Christum Advocatum Dominum Mediatorem nostrum Amen FINIS