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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25463	Panem quotidianum, or, A short discourse tending to prove the legality, decency, and expediency of set forms of prayer in the churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of common prayer of the Church of England... / by William Annand ...	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3222; ESTC R38624	47,207	64

offer the calves of his lips 2 Sam. 7. 17 18. and danger of drowning made the Disciple run hastily to Christ. Yet there are ordinary seasons wherein the Church goes frequently demanding or begging mercies which are not only commonly asked but commonly granted and they are either 〈◊〉 1. Spiritual mercies As for forgivenesse of sin for having our Covenant and interest in Christ renewed to us for having our corruptions subdued in us for his Fatherly love to shine upon us and his Spirit to remain with us 1. In a way of Direction 2. In a way of Information 3. In a way of Consolation until the day of our death and dissolution 2. Temporal mercies As for our daily bread to be given daily to us to be content with whatsoever portion doth befall us that he might ever blesse the fruits of the earth unto us that he would blesse the work hath been practised by us and the calling he hath chosen for us Coming daily unto God for those mercies that we daily want there must be a reason given why God should at the thrice coming grow weary of our prayers or loath our petitions purely upon the account of his hearing them twice before or I shall believe that coming daily for those mercies I may dayly begge them in the same expressions since it is the holinesse of the heart and not the nimblenesse of the tongue that makes prayers accepted in the Court of Heaven or made welcome before the face of God 3. Argum. Set forms of Prayer seeme to be lawful from the common practice of the most eminent persons that in all ages have been acquainted with the mind of God Who can know Gods mind better than those who were his friends Who can know Gods thoughts better than he that came out of his bosome Ioh. 1. 18. We shall find in the Institution and Gubernation of Churches set forms enjoyned and practised by God and his people 1. Under the Law by the Priests of God at the appointment of God the Father Numb 6. 22. Where God giving Lawes for the inbeing of that National Church which he was then instituting viz of the Jewes Thus saith God Aaron and his sons shall blesse the people on this wise The Lord blesse thee and keep thee the Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious to thee the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace a most exact pattern and form of prayer which the High Priest must use in the audience of the Congregation wherewith and in which words they are constantly to blesse or pray for the people whence ariseth the custom of Ministers under the Goipel to blesse the people in the like form of words before the dismissing of the Assembly he that reads this and observes it may call it a Common Prayer made by God to be commonly used by the High Priest in his service and worship 2. It hath been practised and enjoyned by the Saints of God under and after the Law at the permission allowance of God as 1. By him whose he●… was most like to Gods own heart even David of whose prayers and Psalms we read so often concerning his sending them to the chief Musician to him that excelleth that they might be sung in the Temple which to all the people yea to the prie●…s themselves was set formes of Prayers and we know that even God pleased to communicate himself in the Sanctuarie and Temple in which they were sung in extraordinarie wayes and manners to the people particularly 2 Chron. 5. 13. 4. Where the Priests singing the burthen of the 136. Psalm The glory of the Lord ●…lled the house of the Lord so that the Priests could not stand to minister before him 2. By him whose life was lengthened out by God even Hezekiah Like him there was no King in Israel before neither was there any after him having a lease of his life granted him at his praying After his coming to the throne of the Kingdom he immediately went about the settlement of the Church which at that time was in great desolation through the impiety of King Ahaz and having cleansed the Temple and the offerings which the King commanded should be made for a reconciliation with God for all the people and having appointed the Levites to stand in the house of the Lord with their Psa●…eries and Harps he and his Princes by his royal Prerogative and their Counsels commanded the Levites ●…uch power have Magistrates in Church affairs to sing praise to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the See●… not leaving them to their own ab●…lities nor parts and as obedient subjects to their Soveraigns command they sang with joy and gladnesse bowing down their heads and worshipped 2 Chron. 29. 30. And indeed in all lawful things what pleaseth the King ought to please all the people the words of David and of Asaph was without question a set form to the people and to the Priests likewise who might have abilities and parts of their own to furnish them with matter for praising the Lord after their own mind and pleasure but Hezekiah and the Princes commanded otherwise and these held it their duty to give obedience After the destruction of the Temple and after the Babylonish captivity at the building of the second Temple we shall finde by Zerubbabel that dear Saint of God the use of set forms Ezra 3. 11. But 3. Set forms are enjoyned by God the Son in the time of the Gospel Luke 11. 2. in which place the Apostles urging and desiring our Saviour according to the practi●… of Iohn to his Disciples to teach them to pray that they might not be behind Iohns followers in serving who were so farre before them in a master our Saviour though he had not given them the Holy Ghost yet charges them when they pray to say Our Father c. which we are no more to doubt of its being done by them or said of them than we are to doubt of their baptizing in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost though ●…ead of neither Surely Christ knew the mind of his Father to the full even in this point of a Set Form since the fulness of the God-head dwelt bodily in him Col. 2. 9. And indeed by them who are set against Set Forms this Set Form of our Saviours is set aside sure upon no other account since it is Scripture but because it is a Set Form Proud Souls who by a counterfeit humility before God would thus affront the Son of God by casting out this savory Prayer as unsavory salt because it is a Set Form as if their own extemporary ejaculations were better worth hearing than that that is composed by Christ and recommended to his Church upon deliberate meditation But verily verily for all their arrogancy wherever the Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole World that prayer that he hath made shall be used for a memorial of

appointed by Authority and every one in that Nation at that time to be praying or using that set form of prayer appointed in the Common Prayer viz. Almighty God which in thy wrath in the time of King David didst stay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring mercy didst save the rest have pity upon us miserable sinners that now are visited with great sickness and mortality that like as then thou didst command thine Angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grieveous sickness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen This I say in a general sickness to be generally used is both proper and seasonable and as God both in Ioel 2. 17. and here did behold his people with his mercy and heal their Land so might he be also reconciled to that people through the hearty pouring forth of their souls before him in the using of that set form 2. Answ. It may be used when all generally are partakers of the same present mercies or would be partakers of the benefits of future blessings When our Kingdoms peace and happiness consists next under God in His Majesties Person it 's fit for all true Christians and all Loyal Subjects at once or in an houre to be praying O Lord save the King and this being all the Land over must needs be effectual When our Oxen are strong for labour and our sheep bring forth thousands in our streets when there is no complaining in our gates then for that Kingdom at once to be praising His Name as in the Common Prayer O most merciful Father which of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapness and plenty we give thee most humble thanks for this thy especial bounty beseeching thee to continue this thy loving-kindness unto us that our Land may yield her fruits of encrease to thy glory and our comfort through Iesus Christ our Lord. May not Heaven be delighted at this Hymne so much the more as the whole Nation in their sever●l Assemblies uses and sends up the same praises as Israel did Exod. 15. or as Deborah did Iudg. 5. 1. 3. Answ. It may chiefly be used when men are gathered into one place to worship in one way the great God this is a fit time to pray for and with each other to say O Lord open thou our lips and our mouth shall shew forth thy praise at our first meeting is very meet and proper When we come to the great Congregation and those about us with lifted up voices call Uenite exultemus O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation it is able to lift up the heart of him that is otherwise not taken with a sence of that Gods presence in whose House he now appears and fills a Seat One live Coal cast among many dead may and will quicken many so one sinners zeal may be enflamed with the zeal of that Christian that sits next him and the practice of many in prayer may rather provoke him than a single or silent Petitioner The Angels and Church writes us one way of Thanksgiving in the heavenly Kingdom R●…v 4. 11. sure then the Saints may joyn in one in the Kingdom of Heaven even in the Assembly of the Elders and with one mouth since they are frail may use this one Petition before they go O God make clear our hearts within us and take not thy Holy Spirit from us and that without sin and without offence 4. Answ. It ought to be done when it is enjoyned by Supreme Authority There are some that are borne to be ruled others are born to be Rulers What Supreme Authority enjoyns if lawful is to be obeyed if possible this was the case with the Levites 2 Chron. 29. 30. the King and his Princes commanded them to use the words of David unto which they yielded all obedience God promises to give to his Church Kings for its Nursing Fathers and Queens for its Nursing Mothers They ought therefore to look to all their Family and provide food and rayment for the weak and infirm and by some means remove the ignorance of them that are unlearned if he command us to teach them to praise the Lord at such a time and that in a set form it 's our duty to obey though our parts and abilities were never so great or eminent and since he commands it let the greater serve a while the l●…ss and he that is old for a small season teach him that is the younger and if we that are grown in years must eat of the childrens Mess by our Fathers direction for such a one is every King let us fall to it chearfully especially since the meat is wholesome that it may be seen we are not so much wedded to our own pallate-pleasing humor but that we can eat of any wholesome dish that is set before us else how shall our moderation he known to all men SECT VI. THE second circumstance to be spoken of touching set forms of prayer is the place where they may be made That that 's lawful may be done in any place that suits to the nature of the thing done We shall not speak of this in an absolute or positive way but by way of comparison only And shall defend this conclusion That set forms of prayer are rather to be used in publick than in pri●…ate Most of those set forms we read of in Scripture seem to make for this truth they being publick our Saviours indeed was private and used only for that time whether the Prodigals was publick or no in the Parable it is not so easie to be determined It seems to be of a mixed kind since the Servants of the House are spoken to by the Father immediately at the close of his Petition The Church therefore or if that offend the Congreation of the Elders is judged a more proper place for set forms than any other The reasons that induceth to this opinion are such as these 1. Reason Set forms are rather to be used in publick than in private for there men are and must be more close than they are or ought to be in private There are many secret sins which the conscience of man in a powerful way accuseth him of and many and great temptations befalls him which he must pray against and yet it is not expedient that either the one or the other should be known of the whole Assembly In publick we insist upon generals and confesse so that every man knows himself to be as guilty as he that makes that confession But now in private we must unbosome our selves to God and show him all our heart take shame to our selves by enlarging our selves upon the particular aggravations of our beloved sins and make known our soulest iniquities with David saying Against thee only have I sinned and done