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A91004	Syneidēsilogia ̇or, The doctrine of conscience, framed according to the points of the catechisme, in the Book of Common-Prayer. / By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Prideaux, late Lord Bishop of Worcester, for the private use of his wife.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.; N. Y.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3436; Thomason E1697_2; ESTC R203209	47,433	193

this life and can receive no benefit by our prayers others may have sinned against the Holy ghost and God's decree is past upon them for whom we are not to pray An evill man D. in an evill way petitioning for an evill thing may speed no better then Bathsheba did for Adeniah in her suit to Solomon to give him Abishag to wife charity in our praiers is to be understood to extend no further then Gods word doth limit it To pray for the dead who have their immutable doom we have no warrant It is sufficient ground therefore for our conscience in this behalf that God would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledg of his truth to make it a petition in our Litany that it may please him to have mercy upon all men we beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Wherein we expresse our charitable desires leaving it to God to distinguish for whom our prayers shall be effectuall A further direction may be that of our Saviour to his Disciples Mat. ●0 11 13. if ye come into a house salute it and if the house be worthy let your peace come upon it but if the house be not worthy let your peace returne to you So our devotion in prayer for all shall be acceptable to our father who maketh his sun to rise on the evill as on the good and his raine to fall on the unjust as on the just though the saving benifit thereof shall redound only to those whom God hath appointed it shall take with The second word in our Lords prayer is C. II. Father which sheweth to what person in the blessed Trinity we should direct our prayers This prayer then being not only a prayer to be used of all but also a patterne to all what warrant then hath a scrupulous conscience to direct its prayers not to Saints or Angells or any other creatures for that good Christians are easily satisfied in but either to the Son or holy Ghost in as much as we are precisely to keep to the rule which our Saviour hath left us and not to frame other devotions how religion soever they may seeme to be according to the model of our owne fancies This ground being laid in our Creed D. that the three Persons howsoever distinguished are but one God it will necessarily follow thereupon that whosoever prayeth to one prayeth to all and all the persons howsoever distinguished in themselves yet in relation to the creatures may be called Father And beside for the directing of our prayers to the Son we have that of Saint Stephen Lord Jesu receive my spirit Act. 7.59 And for that of the holy Ghost who gave a commandement separate me Barnabas and Saul to the worke which I have called them which must needs be taken for the command of a person that was God It follows after they had fasted and prayed 3. to whom can we imagine that they have prayed but to him who gave the command Matth. 28. This is confirmed by our baptizing equally in the name of the holy Ghost as of the Father and Son and by S. Pauls blessing taking in equally the Holy Ghost with the Father and the Son Where he maketh this as his ordinary blessing The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 13.14 and the love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Where the putting of Jesus Christ before the Father plainly sheweth that as we have it in Athanasius Creed in this mysterious and sacred Trinity none is afore or after another none is greater or lesse then other That which is done therefore to one is done to all For which that attribute in the prayer of the Apostles may be taken for a further ground The Text is they prayed and said Act. 1. thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men To him that knoweth therefore our hearts and to no other we may safely direct our prayer and who will deny that the Holy Ghost knoweth our hearts which is said to guide and lead into all truth That petition therefore in our Liturgy with the like O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners and the Doxology so often repeated glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost cannot be excepted against but only by such wretches which deny the Sacred Trinity Notwithstanding as some prayers are private of or by our selves others publick with the congregation As private prayers are usually not necessarily directed to either of the Persons So publick are most orderly in the first place tendered to the Father through our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus that he will vouchsafe us his Holy Spirit to furnish us with all blessings to accomplish all our warrantable petitions And according to this are all or most of our Liturgicall petitions framed which in an uniformity shew the order of the Persons in the Trinity and prevent distractions which might arise amongst the weaker by reason of variety From the first petition C. III. hallowed be thy name may arise this doubt That in as much as our Saviour approved of such as cast out devills in his name yet followed him not and would not have them forbidden and the Jewes attribute even at this day a virtue to the name Jehovah that miracles may be done by it in regard whereof in reverence they dare not to utter it Why may not we thinke that the name of God used by Magicians and exorcists gathered by Cabala from the Scripture may worke wonders in casting out divills curing diseases and foretelling events and thereupon with a safe conscience have recourse to wizards for aid in that behalfe The name of God in the scripture especially importeth propriety authority and ability So that being baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost we are made Gods peculiar to submit to his authority under the protection of his omnipotent ability In this petition therefore it is as foolish as superstitious by the name of God to understand from the coupling of the letters the sound resulting from it or to imagine an hidden virtue to be in the characters or sound of words to terrifie spirits or worke other wonders The hallowing of Gods name is the setting forth of Gods glory in all his attributes to which all our petitions must be referred that his kingdome in his Church may be promoted here to be perfected hereafter in heaven and his will be done in order according as is prescribed in his word Which warrantable directions we have from that guide that will not deceive Saul will get cold comfort by consuting with the witch of Endor 1 Sam 28. 2 Kings 1 or Ahaziah by sending to Beelzebub of Ekron Our Saviour reproveth rather the aemulous jealousie of his disciples then approveth of the parties that made use of his name whom they would

hearts are enflamed with anger or revenge Against their Brother but there must be an atonement made with him first that so God may be atoned and the Sacrifice acceptable For in vaine doe they beg a boone from the all-merciful Lord whose merciless hearts are hardened against their fellow-servants Wherefore all who expect welcome here must lay aside their anger come in peace and love But though God is pleased thus to pluck the Sword of revenge out of the hand of each private person yet does he establish it in the Magistrate For saith Saint Paul he beareth not the Sword in vaine for he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill Rom. 13.4 Contrary to the calumnation of Julian the Apostate who upon this pretext that Christian religion did forbid revenge did therefore impugne it as destructive to all government When it is manifest Christs Doctrine abolished not but did vindicate it rather not permitting every private person to usurpe the Supream authority or sit in the regall throne To decide the first branch of the case therefore we are to observe and take notice of three things 1. That judiciall Proceedings at law are not forbidden in the new Testament but the contrary warranted as may most evidently appear not only from expresse texts of Scripture Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2. But likewise from the examples of Christ and Saint Paul Our Blessed Saviour not refusing to answer at the tribunall of Pilat and Paul himself appealing to Caesar Whence it will follow that a sute at law with ones neighbour is no sufficient plea for a man to abst●in from the Communion Yet 2. there ought to be labour and circumspection that we our selves add not fewell to enflame this publick controversy or deny such just meanes to quench it which are proposed to bring things to an accord whereby amity may be established or contend concerning trifles and things of no value They who are conscious to themselves that they are peccant in any of these particulars are not clad with the Wedding Garment of love and so cannot hope for any kind reception at the hands of Christ in this great banquet To which purpose it is desired of them they should take a view of these places in Scripture Rom. 12.18 If it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men Ro. 14.19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edifie another 1 Cor. 6.7 Now therefore there it utterly a fault among you because ye goe to law one with another Why doe ye not rather take wrong Why doe ye not rather suffer your selves to be defrauded 3. We are to take care we doe not seeke for justice at the hand of the Magistrate that so under that pretext we may cloake and exercise our malice the more freely against our neighbour This is but to clothe private revenge in a publick dresse and to make it so much the more odius to God as it is gilded over with hypocrisie Therefore remember it is the voice off God that speaks unto thee Lev. 19.18 Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudg against the children of thy people but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self I am the Lord. And that the same spirit who denyeth thee not a lawfull prosecution of thy right yet is so far from tolerating revenge in thee that he commandeth thee to feed thine enemy when hungry and if thirsty to give him drinke Rom. 12.20 Whether kneeling C. VII at the receiving of the Sacrament be not a most pious and decent gesture Were there nothing to commend this ceremony in this high service of religion but the humility of the gesture certeinly it must needs be kindly enterteyned by that soule where piety and devotion dwell considering that the most High ha●h not only a respect to the humble heart but is likewise well-pleased with such externall behaviour as serveth best to testifie the same but when to this it is added that it is the most significant signe of that reverence which the creature ought to exhibite to God in supplication and that as the Sacrament is particularly delivered to every man therewith so each man is bound to particularize and apply to himself the Sacramentall benefit by devout invocation of Gods name who then can be offended with our Liturgy for enjoyning the decent use of it Or question his piety who in obedience thereunto shall observe it I know it hath been and is the fancy of some that sitting is a gesture better agreeing with the nature of a Supper but such ought to remember that it is no ordinary meale but a heavenly banquet to which we are invited in which Christ with all his benefits is exhibited to us and therefore such an humble posture of body would best become us as did serve best to expresse reverence and devotion at so high and holy a mystery Neither will it be any prejudice thereunto to quarrell at this gesture because Christ did not use it when he administred the Sacrament to his Apostles as neither did he sitting but lying on a bed according to the custome of those Easterne nations In these circumstances not prescribing their manner but leaving the determination of them to the prudence and judgement of those who are to see them done decently and in order The Table A. ABsolution of the Minister more then petitory Pag. 58 Agapae used at the Communion and the reason Pag. 163 Apocrypha why read in the Church Pag. 37 B. Baptisme whether necessary to Salvation 150. the perill of those through whose default Infants are deprived thereof Pag. 151 C. Charity to our neighbour required in a Communicant Pag. 159 Christian Religion whether a politick invention only Pag. 12 Why to be preferred before other Religions Pag. 13 Whether to be enforced 17 not destructive to Magistracy Pag. 167 Christ whether to be called the Son of the Father or Holy Ghost 46. whether he descended into Hell Pag. 49 Conscience what it is 1. The rules for it to walk by 6. The praejudice by neglect of them Pag. 7 Content in what estate or condition soever enjoyned in the last Commandement Pag. 113 Covenant old and new the difference betwixt them Pag. 31 Commandements Cases concerning them 63. How divided 64. Whether to be observed by Christians Pag. 68 Creed Cases concerning it 41. Whether composed by the Apostles 44. Perill of rejecting it 42. Whether a perfect summary of Faith Pag. 59. Other points how to be reduced to it pag. 60 Crosse whether it may be lawfully used in Baptisme pag. 154. Objections to the contrary answered pag. 156 D. Dancing of men with women whether lawfull pag. 101 Debts their kindes 130. Whether to be sued for ibid. Debtors that are careless their danger pag. 104 E. Examination required before receiving the Lords Supper 159. The manner in which we are to proceed ibid. F. Faith the nature of it that justifieth pag. 66 G. God whence inferred pag. 12 H. Hallowing Gods name what it is pag. 124 Holy dayes whether to be observed pag. 86 Holy Ghost what warrant we have to direct our prayers to him pag. 118 Holy kisse when used and the reason pag. 163 I. Images whether to be permitted to remaine in Churches their use their abuse pag. 70 Infants of believing parents whether to be baptized pag. 144 Irreverence in receiving the Mysteries the danger of it pag. 159 K Kneeling at the receiving of the Sacrament whether a pious and decent gesture pag. 168 L. Lay-Impropriators whether with Conscience they withhold the right from the Church pag. 104 Letter whether to be laid aside that the spirit may act the more freely pag 31 Lying whether upon any pretext lawfull pag. 106 Lords Prayer cases concerning it pag. 116 M. Marriages within degrees of consanguinity or affinity or after separation for fornication whether lawfull pag. 95 Murder of a mans self whether justifiable pag. 92 Merchants whether they may over-reach pag. 104 N. Name of God what it importeth pag. 123 O. Oath what it is whether to be dispensed with the difference of it from an asseveration pag. 73 Ordinaries whether to be exceeded pag. 126 P. Painting patching c. whether to be approved pag. 98 Perjury whether to be excused upon any pretext pag. 73 Petition the sixth the extent thereof pag. 137 Polygamy whether lawful pag. 96 Possessed the course to be taken with them pag. 137 Prayer whether to be made for all without exception pag. 118 Protestants whether by departing from Popery they set up a new Religion 16. Whether with a safe conscience they may be present at the Masse pag. 20 Punishments proportioned according to demerits pag. 15. R. Religion Cases concerning it 12. Not to be planted by the Sword but by the Word pag. 17 Roman Church whether the Catholick pag. 52 S. Sacraments their nature 140. Whether administred without a lawfull Minister there be a nullity in the action pag. 141 Salvation whether to be had without Christ pag. 15 Scripture cases concerning it 25. How to be assured it is the Word of God ibid. Whether appointed to be a rule 27. The method observed in it ibid. Why some parts of it not appointed to be read pag. 36 Whether to be used in charms c. pag. 33 Son what warrant to direct our prayers to him pag. 119 Sin against the Holy Ghost what it is ibid. Whether all are forgiven pag. 54 Sunday whether to be observed by the fourth Commandement pag. 82 Subjects whether they may resist the supream Magistrate pag. 87. Stage-playes whether lawfull pag. 101 Supper of the Lord how one may worthily receive it 139. Whether one at Law with his neighbour or private difference with him may come with a safe Conscience thither pag. 162 T. Tentations from God Satan how to be distinguished pag. 133 Tradesmen whether they may over-reach by false weights or other deceit pag. 164 V. Vowes Monasticall whether lawfull pag. 23 W. Word read whether of power to beget Faith pag. 33 World testifieth there is a God pag. 15 Wizards whether to be consulted with pag. 125 FINIS