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A68393	The forme of prayers and ministration of the sacraments, &c. vsed in the Englishe Congregation at Geneua and approued, by the famous and godly learned man, Iohn Caluyn.; Book of common order.	English Church (Geneva, Switzerland); Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. Instruction et confession de foy. English.	1556 (1556)	STC 16561; ESTC S109631	153,918	420

to expresse Rom. 8. Gal. 4. endueth oure mīdes with such a zeale and feruente affection as God requireth in prayer ¶ The minister Dothe this doctrine teache vs that we ought not to dispose and stirre vp our selues to prayer ¶ The childe Nothyng lesse but rather contrary wyse so ofte as we do not feele in our selues such a deuocion or disposition to prayer we ough to make our supplication vnto the lorde that it wyl please hym to geue vs of hys grace wherby we may be framed to prayer with such affection of mynde as we oughte to doe ¶ The minister As touchyng the vse of the tounge The tonge serueth to a very good vse in the makyng of our prayers thou doest not counte it vtterly vnprofitable in making of prayers ¶ The childe No verely for the wordes whiche the tōge vttereth doe many times helpe to cōfort and to styrre vp the affectiōs of the mind yea they do strengthen and holde in the mynde of man wherby his thoughte doth not wander so sodaynely from GOD as otherwyse it would moreouer for somuche as the tounge is a creature of GOD ordeined of him to praise and set forth hys glory aboue al other membres of the bodye it is reason and duetye that the tongue be employed by all meanes to that vse fynally the very feruente affectiō of the heart doth many times through a vehement mocion enforce the tounge to speake though a man did not purpose so to do ¶ The minister Since it is as thou sayest to what purpose is it to praye in a langage that a manne doth not vnderstande To praie in a straunge language is a mocking of God 1. Cor. 14. ¶ The childe It is to mocke God withal and a supersticious hypocrisie ¶ The minister Sonday 26 When we make our prayers vnto God do we it at al auētures without sure knowlege whether we shal obtayne any profyt or not either ought we to be surely perswaded that our prayers shal be heard ¶ The childe Prayer must procede of a sure confydence in goddes promysse We must haue this euermore as a sure foundation ground in all oure prayers that they shal be accepted of God that we shal obtaine our request so farforth as it shal be expedient and necessarye for vs where vpon Rom. 10. Sainct Paule sayeth that the right inuocatiō and prayinge vnto God procedeth of faith for if we haue not a sure affiance and trust in the bountyfull mercy of God it is vnpossible to make oure prayer vnto hym aryghte ¶ The minister What saiest thou then of them which be in doubt and vncertaine whether God wil heare them or not Matt 12. Mark 11. whosoeuer doubteth whether God heare his praier obtaynethe nothyng ¶ The childe Theyr prayers are vtterlye voide and nothing worth neither hath God made any promyse to any suche prayers for he saieth what soeuer we shal aske if we belieue he will graunt it vnto vs. ¶ The minister There is nothinge nowe behynde but to knowe by what meanes in whose name we maye come by thys sure confidence to presente oure selues before God consideryng that we are vyle synners Thre thinges make vs bold to aske of God 1. His promise Psal 50.91.145 Esa 30.65 Iere. 29. and farre vnworthy so to do ¶ The childe Fyrst of al we haue promises of God wherupō we must staye oure mīdes withoute hauynge any regarde of oure owne worthynes Secondaryly then if we be the children of GOD he doeth induce vs and pusshe vs forward with his holy spirite 2. His spirite Ioel. 2. Mat. 6. to the entente to allure vs to be familier with hym as with our louynge father and fynally to the ende that we should not be afrayde to come before hys glorious maiestye 3. The mediacion of Christ his owne sonne 1. Tim. 2. Hebru 4. 2. Ihon. 2. although we be but as poore woormes of the earth and moste wretched synners he hath geuen vnto vs oure Lorde IESVS to be our peacemaker and intercessoure to thintent that we by meanes of hys merites hauyng recourse vnto God our father myght haue an assured truste to fynde grace at hys hande ¶ The minister Doest thou meane it thus that we may not cal vpon God by prayer onlesse it be done in the name of oure sauioure Christ ¶ The childe we may not pray but in the name of our Sauiour Christe Ihon. 14. Yea I meane it euen so for we haue an expresse commaundement so to do and in so doynge we haue a sure promyse that throughe hys merytes and intercession al our requestes shall be graunted vnto vs. ¶ The minister Is it not then to be taken as a poynte of rashe boldenes or folyshe presumpcion to come forth hardely and to presente our selues before God himself assuryng oure selues that we haue our sauioure Christe for our aduocate and to set him before vs to the ende that God maye for hys sake accept both vs and our prayers ¶ The childe No verely for we make oure prayers as it wer by hys own mouth Rom. 8. for somuch as he himselfe openeth the waye for vs and maketh our prayers to be hearde yea and entreateth also continually for vs. ¶ The minister Sonday 37 Let vs comon now of the substance of oure prayers is it lawefull for vs to praye for all thynges that we fansye either is there a certaine rule to appoynt what thinges ought to be prayed for ¶ The childe If we shoold folowe oure owne wil and fantasye in making our prayers they should be very vnhansomlye framed For we are so blynde that we are not able to iudge what is good ād meete to be prayed for moreouer al oure desyres are so inordinate and repugnaunte to Gods wil that it is expediente for vs to brydle them and kepe them vnder ¶ The minister What is then to be done ¶ The childe We muste learne of God what is mete to be praied for seing he alone knoweth what is necessarye for vs and that he leadeth vs as it were by the hande so that we our own selues do nothynge but folow ¶ The minister What instruction hath he geuen vs for prayer ¶ The childe He hath taught vs sufficiently how and wherfore to pray throughoute the whole scripture but to the intente to bring vs to one certayne and sure marke he hath set forth vnto vs one maner of prayer wherin he hath brieflye comprehended all suche poyntes as be meete or lawfull for vs to demaunde ¶ The minister Rehearse that forme of prayer ¶ The childe It is the very same that oure Lorde Iesus taughte his discyples to praye Mat. 6. Luke 11. for whā they asked of hym how they should pray he answered that they shulde say on this wyse The faithfull prayer whyche our lord himself taught vs. OVre father whych art in heauen halowed be thy name thy kyngdome come thy will be done in earthe

as it is in heauen geue vs this daye oure daylye breade forgeue vs our trespaces as we for geue them that trespasse against vs and leade vs not into temptacion but delyuer vs from euyl For thine is the kingdom the power and the glory worlde withoute ende So be it ¶ The minister For the more easie vnderstandyng hereof tell me how manye articles or particuler requestes be conteined herein ¶ The childe Syxe The deuision of the lordes prayer of whiche the .iii. firste do concerne the glory of God withoute any respecte or consideration of our selues the other iii. touche vs properlye and concerne our wealth and profyte ¶ The minister Why then ought we to desyre any thing of God that bringeth no maner of commoditie vnto our selues ¶ The childe This is true that God of his infinite goodnes doth dispose and ordre all thinges in suche sorte that nothyng can turne to the glory of hys name which is not also profytable vnto vs so that when hys name is saynctyfyed honored he maketh it redounde to oure sanctyfycacion and whē hys kingdome cōmeth we are after a sort partakers therof yet notwitstādinge oure duetye is at suche tyme as we aske and desyre these thynges to haue onely regarde to hys honour without any consideration to our selues or to our owne commoditie and profit ¶ The minister By thy saying then though these .iii. first peticions are greatly profitable to vs yet we may not make them for anye other purpose but onely to desyre to haue God glorifyed honored ¶ The childe It is euen so and likewyse albeit the three first requestes be ordeyned to praye for thynges expedient and necessary for vs yet euen in them also we ought most earnestly to seeke goddes honor so that it must be the chief ende and marke wherunto all our wisshinges and desyres be dyrrected ¶ The minister Sonday 38 Let vs come now to the exposicion of it and before that we proceade any farther wherfore is god named here our father rather thenby some other name ¶ The childe Since in time of prayer speciallye we oughte to haue a strong confydence and a stedfaste assureaunce of Goddes fauour in our consciences In what sence we call God father it pleaseth God to be called of vs by a name whiche soundeth nothing but al swetenes boūtye and mercifulnes thereby to dryue away all doubtfulnes and feare and to make vs conceyue a bolde courage to come familyarelye into hys presence ¶ The minister Maye we then come boldlye and familiarely vnto god euen as a childe may vnto hys father ¶ The childe Yea and with a great deale more assured confidence to obteyne whatsoeuer we shall desyer for if we being euyll Mat. 7. cannot chose but geue vnto our children bread meate whē they aske it howe muche lesse can our heauenlye father refuse to geue vs such thinges as we haue neede of since he is not alonelye good but the very souerain goodnes it selfe ¶ The minister May we not proue sufficientlye by thys that God is named our father the same thing which we affyrmed touchyng Christe that our prayer ought to be grounded vpon sure trust in his merites intercession ¶ The childe Yes certainely for god doth acknowledge vs no otherwyse to be hys chyldren but onelye insomuch as we be the membres of hys deare sonne ¶ The minister Wherefore doest thou not rather call God thy father than our father as it were in comon ¶ The childe why we call hym our father Euery faythful mā may right wel call God hys father particularelye but in thys forme of prayer our sauiour Christ doth teache vs to pray in common that we myght remembre therby the duety charitie whiche we owe to oure neyghboures in our prayers and to monishe vs not to care onelye for oure selues ¶ The minister What meaneth thys clause which art in heauen ¶ The childe It is asmuche to saye as to name hym hygh myghtye and of a maiestye incomprehensible ¶ The minister To what purpose serueth that ¶ The childe It serueth to thys ende that when we cal vpon him by prayer we myghte learne to lyfte vp our mindes to withdraw our imaginacyon from thynking any thyng of hym wordly or earthly that we shoulde not measure hym by our fleshly iudgement and so make hym subiect or appliable to our wil or appetyte but rather that we myght with all humblenes of mynde honour hys excellēte maiestye and also that we myght haue occasion to putte so much the more our trust assuredlye in hym consideryng that he is Lorde and maister of all ¶ The minister Sonday 39 Make an exposicion of the fyrst peticion ¶ The childe peti ∣ tion The first The name of god is hys honor renoume wherby he is sanctified and praysed amongest men therfore we desyre that his glory may be auaunced aboue al thinges euery where ¶ The minister Doest thou meane that thys hys glory may eyther increase or dymynyshe ¶ The childe No verelye in it selfe In what sence we wyshe the setting forth of gods glorye but the meanynge hereof is that it may be knowen as it ought to be and that all the woorkes whiche God doeth maye appeare vnto menne to be gloryous and worthy of high praise euen as they be in very deede so that he myght by al meanes be magnifyed ¶ The minister peti ∣ tion The second What doest thou meane in the seconde requeste by the kyngdome of God ¶ The childe Thys kyngdome consysteth pryncypallye in two poyntes wherin the kingdome of God consisteth that is to saye fyrste in that he guydeth and gouerneth hys elect through hys holye spiryte And agayn in that he destroyeth bryngeth to vtter shame confusion the wicked whiche wil not become subiectes to his kyngdome to the ende that it maye euidentlye appeare that there is no power hable to withstande hys incomparable myghte ¶ The minister What vnderstandest thou in praying that thys kyngdome may come ¶ The childe The meanyng is that it wil please god from daye to day to encrease the number of his faithful flocke The kingdome of Christe that he wil continually more and more shew furth hys fauour in bestowyng the gyftes of his holy spirite emong them vntil the time come in whiche they shal be fullye replenished that it may also please hym to cause the lyghte of hys trueth more more to shine amongest vs that he will in suche wyse make hys iustice to be knowen that the deuyll and hys kyngdome of darkenes maye come to vtter confusion and that all wickednesse may be cleane abolished rooted out ¶ The minister Is nor thys requeste perfourmed in thys worlde ¶ The childe It is partly fulfylled already The perfeict state of Christes kyngdome yet our duety is to desyre that it may be continually increased and that he wil auaunce styll and further hys kingdome vnto such tyme as it

comonly do attribute our regeneratiō to hys 18 Rom. 10. b. 1. peter 1. a. resurrection for as by 19 Mat. 28. b. Act 10. f. 1. Cor. 15. c. rysinge agayn frome the graue the third day The third daie he rose againe frome deathe he 20 Ose 11. d. 1. Cor 15. g. 2. Cor. 13 b. conquered deathe euen so the victorie of our faith standeth in his resurrection and therfore without the one we can not fele the benefite of the other For as by death 21 Rom. 4. d. synne was taken awaye so our rightuousnes was restored by his resurrectiō And because he wolde 22 Ephe. 4. b. Ioh. 14. Ephe. 2. b. accomplishe all thinges and take possession for vs in his kingdome he 23 Mar. 16. d. Luk 24. g. Act. 1. b. 1. Cor. 15. b. ascended into heauen He ascended into heauen to enlarge that same kingdome by the aboundant power of his 24 luk 24. g. Ioh. 14. b. Act. 2. a. spirite by whome we are moste assured of his contynuall 25 rom 8. g. heb 9. f. 1. Ioh. 2. c. intercession towardes God the father for vs. And althoghe he be in 26 Act. 1. c. 3. c. heauen as towchinge his corporall presence where the father hathe nowe set him on his 27 Col. 3. a. rom 8. g. heb 1. a. 10.12 right hande And sytteth at the right hand of God the father almyghtie committinge vnto him the administratiō of all 28 Ephe. 1. d. philip 2. b. Col. 2. c. thinges aswel in heauē aboue as in the earthe benethe yet is he 29 Matt. 28. d. present with vs his membres euen to the ende of the world in preseruinge and gouernynge vs with his effectuall power and grace who whē all thinges are 30 Act. 3. c. fulfilled which God hath spoken by the mowth of all hys prophetes since the world began wyll come in the 31 Act 1. b. same visible forme in the which he ascēded Frome thense shal he come to iudge the quicke an● the dead with an vnspekable 32 Matt. 25. c. Philip. 3. d. Maiestie power and companye to separate the lambes frome the goates thelecte frome the reprobate So that 33 matt 24. c. Act. 10. f. 1. Cor. 15. c. 1. Thes 4. 2. Thes 1. 2. Tim. 4. a. none whether he be alyue thē or deade before shall escape his iudgement MOREOVER I beleue I beleue in the holie ghoste and confesse the holy ghoste 1 Matth. 3. d. 1. Ioh. 5. c. 1. pet 1. b. 1. cor 6. Ioh. 16. d. Act. 17. God equall with the father and the sonne whoe regenerateth and sanctifieth vs ruleth and guideth vs into all trueth persuadinge moste assuredly in our 2 consciences Rom. 8. c. gal 4. a. that we be the childrene of God bretherne to Iesus Christe and fellowe heires with him of lyfe euerlastinge Yet notwithstandinge it is not sufficiēt to beleue that God is omnipotent and mercifull that Christ hath made satisfaction or that the holy ghoste hath this power and effect except we do 3 Abac. 2. a. rom 1. b. 10. c 1. Ioh. 3. d. applie the same benefites to our selues which are Gods 4 Ioh. 17. a. elect The holie catholike churche the communion of sainctes I beleue therfore and cōfesse one holye 5 Matt. 16. c. Ioh. 10. a. Ephe. 5. b. rom 8. Can. 2. churche which as 6 Ephe. 1. d. Col. 1. d. 1. Cor. 12. c. membres of Iesus Christe thonely 7 Ephe. 4. d. heade therof 8 Ephe. 4. a. philip 3. d. Col. 2. a. cōsēt in faithe hope and charitie vsinge the giftes of God 9 Act. 2. g. 4. g rom 12. c. 1. cor 12. b. ephe 4. c. whether they be temporall or spirituall to the profit and furtherance of the same Whiche churche is not 10 Rō 111. a. sene to mans eye but onely knowen to God who of the loste sonnes of Adā hath ordeyned some as 11 Rom. 9. e eph 1. a. b. vessels of wrathe to damnation and hathe chosen others as vessels of his mercie to be saued the whiche also in due tyme he 12 Rom. 8. eph 5. c. callethe to integritie of lyfe and godly conuersation to make them a glorious churche to him selfe But that churche which is 13 Matt. 18. c. 1. cor 13. b. visible and sene to the eye hathe three tokens or markes wherby it may be discerned First the 14 Matt. 28. d. rom 10. c. 2. Cor. 3.4 ephe 2. d. Ioh. 10. a. 2. tim 3. d. 2. peter 1. d. worde of God cōteyned in the olde ād newe testament which as it is 15 Ephes 2. d. matth 17. c. Ioh. 10. a. b. aboue the autoritie of the same churche and onely 16 Ioh. 20. g. 2. tim 3. d. sufficient to instruct vs in all thinges concernynge saluation so is it left for 17 Ios 1. b. Ioh. 5. c. all degrees of men to reade and vnderstand For without this worde 18 Ephes 5. c. mat 15. b. neither churche concile or decree can establishe any point touching saluation The seconde is the holy 19 Matt. 26. c. 28. f. rom 4. a. Ephe. 5. f. sacrements to witt of Baptisme and the Lordes Supper which sacramentes Christ hathe left vnto vs as holie signes and seales of Gods promesses For as by Baptisme once receyued is signified that we aswel infants as others of age and discretion being 20 Rom. 5. b. Ephe. 2. a. Tit. 3. b. gal 3. c. rom 7. d. straungers frō God by originall synne are receyued into his familie and congregation with full assurance that althoghe this roote of synne lye hyd in vs. yet to the electe it shal not be 21 Rom. 4. a. Psal 31. a. imputed So the 22 1. Cor. 11. e. supper declareth that God as a moste prouident father doth not onely fede our bodies but also spiritually nurisheth our soules with the 23 Ioh. 6. d. graces ād benefites of Iesus Christ which the scripture calleth eatinge of his flesh and drinkinge of his bloode nether must we in the administratiō of these sacramētes followe mās phātasie but as Christ him self hath ordeyned so must they be ministred and by suche as 24 Heb. 5. b. Ioh. 3. d. by ordinarie vocatiō are therunto called Therfor whosoeuer reserueth and worshippeth these sacramēts or contrariwyse contemneth them in tyme and place procureth to him self damnatiō The third marke of this church is 25 Matt. 18. b. luk 17. a. leui 19. d. Ecles 19. b. ecclesiasticall discipline which standeth in admonitiō and correction of fautes The finall ende wherof is excommunication by the consent of the churche 26 1. Cor. 5. a. determyned if the offender be obstinate And besides this ecclesiasticall censure I acknowlage to belonge to this church a politicall 27 Rom. 13. a. wisdome 6. a Tit. 3. a. 1.