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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39987	Forms of prayer used in the reformed churches in France before their persecution and destruction With an account of their manner of batizing, celebrating the Holy Supper, marrying and burying; with some additional remarks. Translated into English, for the use of such of the French nation as do desire to learn English; and may be serviceable to those English who are willing to improve themselues in the French language; and for the information of all of the reformed religion, and others. Unto which is also annexed the names of several learned French ministers, to evidence the truth of this translation.	Eglises réformées de France.; J. T.	1699 (1699)	Wing F1584B; ESTC R221545	24,972	145

his Covenant of Salvation through all the world which was before limited to the people of the Jews there is no doubt but our Children are heirs of that Life which he hath promised unto us and therefore St. Paul saith the Children of the Faithful are holy to distinguish them from the Children of Pagans and Infidels for this Reason our Saviour received the Children which they presented unto him as it is written in the 19th Chapter of St. Matthew the 13th and 14th verses Then were there brought unto him little Children that he should put his hands on them and pray and the Disciples rebuked them but Jesus said Suffer little Children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Now seeing he declares that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them and that he layeth his hands on them and recommendeth them to God his Father he fufficiently teacheth us that we ought not to exclude them from his Church therefore according to this Rule we will receive this Child into his Church that he may be made partaker of those benefits which God hath promised to his Faithful and we will first humbly present him unto God by our Prayers saying with all our heart Lord God Eternal and Everlasting Father since it hath pleased thee by thy infinite goodness to promise us that thou wilt be a God to us and to our Children we pray that it may please thee to confirm thy Grace in this Child here present begotten of parents whom thou hast called into thy Church and as he is offered and consecrated unto thee by us receive him into thy holy protection declaring thy self to be his God and Saviour by pardoning the Original sins which the whole Race of Adam are guilty of Sanctify him also by thy Spirit that when he shall come to the use of Knowledge he may own and adore thee as his only God in glorifying thee all his Days that he may obtain of thee the remission of his sins and to the end that he may obtain such grace be pleased to incorporate him into the Communion of our Lord Jesus Christ and make him partaker of all his Benefits as one of the Members of his Body Hear us merciful Father that the Baptism we are to communicate unto him according to thy Ordinance may produce such Fruits and Vertues in him as are declared to us in thy Gospel Our Father which art in Heaven c. Seeing we are about to receive this Child into the Congregation of the Christian Church do you promise when he shall come to years of discretion to instruct him in the Doctrine which is received by the People of God as it is briefly comprehended in the Confession of Faith which we all profess I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven c. Do you promise to take pains to instruct him in all this Doctrine and generally in all that is contained in the holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments that he may receive it as the true Word of God come from Heaven You must also exhort him to live according to the Rule which our Lord hath given us in his Law which doth briefly consist in these Two Points That we should love God with all our minds and with all our heart and with all our strength and our Neighbour as our selves likewise according to the Exhortations that the hath given by his Prophets and Apostles that this Child renouncing himself and all his Carnal Desires should dedicate himself unto the glory of the Name of God and of Jesus Christ and to the Edification of his Neighbour After the Promise is made the Godfather speaking to the Minister the Child hath his Name given him and then the Minister sprinkling water on the For●head baptizing him saying with a loud voice N. I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost The whole being audibly performed in the vulgar Tongue that all they which are present may understand and be Witnesses to what is done and be edified in acknowledging and calling to mind what is the Fruit and Vse of their Baptism THE MANNER OF Celebrating the Holy Supper IT is to be observed that they declare to the People on the Lords day before the holy Sacrament is given First that every one may prepare hims●lf to receive it worthily and with such Reverence as it behoves him to do Secondly That they do not admit any children but such as are well instructed and have made profession of their Faith in the Church Thirdly if there come any Strangers that are yet ignoraut to present themselves they should come to be instructed first in private The day it is to be celebrated the Minister speaks of it at the end of his Sermon or if it be necessary makes his Sermon wholly upon it to explain to the people what our Lord did signify by this Mystery and in what manner we must receive it After the Prayers and Confession of Faith are made to testify in the Name of the People that all would live and die in the Christian Doctrine and Religion he says with a loud voice Let us hear my brethren how Jesus Christ hath instituted for us his holy Supper as St. Paul saith in the 11th chap. of the first Epist to the Corinthians I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me After the same manner he also took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood This do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord Vnworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup for he that eateth and drinketh Vnworthily eateth and drinketh Damnation to himself not discerning the Lords Body Brethte we have heard how our Lord made his Supper amongst his Disciples which shews us That Aliens and such that are not of the Number of his Faithful should not be admitted thereto Therefore according to that Rule in the Name and by the Authority of the Lord Jesus Christ I do Excommunicate all Idolaters Blasphemers and contemners of God Hereticks and all people that make separate Sects to break the Union of the Church all that are Perjured and all those who are Disobedient to Parents or to their Superiors all Seditious Mutinous Strikers Litigious Adulterers Whoremongers Thieves Covetous Usurers Extortioners Drunkards Gluttons all such as lead a wicked or scandalous

we see them coming we must acknowledge that God is displeased with us and as true Christians we must confess our sins and be grieved in our selves returning unto the Lord by Repentance and Amendment of life and pray unto him with true humility that we may obtain pardon Wherefore if at any time we see that God threatens us to the end that we may not tempt his Patience but rather prevent his Judgments which otherwise we may perceive to hang over our heads it is meet that we should keep one day in every week on which these things especially should be represented and in which we must make Prayers and Supplications according to the Exigency of the times For which here follows a proper Form Before the beginning of the Sermon they use the general Confession as before written and used on the Lords Day At the end of the Sermon having remonstrated to the people that God afflicts Men because of their Offences which are committed upon the Earth and that the World is given up to al●● Iniquity having also exhorted the people to convert and amend their Lives and to pray unto God to obtain mercy they use this following Form of Prayer Almighty God and Heavenly Father we do acknowledge and confess as the Truth is that we are not worthy to lift up our Eyes to Heaven to present our selves before thee and that we ought not to presume so far as to think that thou wilt hear our prayers if thou shouldest mark what is amiss in us for our Consciences accuse us and our sins bear Witness against us and we know that thou art a Just Judge who dost not justifie sinners but punishest the sins of those who have transgress'd thy holy Commandments therefore O Lord when we consider our whole Lives we are ashamed at our hearts and cannot but sink down in despair as if we were already in the gulph of Death But Lord since it hath pleased thee in thy infinite mercy to command us that we should call upon thee and the greater our Weakness and Misery is we should with so much the greater Confidence betake our selves to thy Soveraign Bounty since thou hast promised us to receive our supplications and requests not in respect of our own worthiness but in the Name and by the Merits of our Lord Jesus Christ whom thou hast made to be our Advocate and Intercessor we do therefore renounce all humane confidence and do altogether rely on thy sole goodness and present our selves before thee to call upon thy holy Name for mercy First Lord besides the infinite benefits which thou hast in general bestowed upon all men in the world thou hast done us so many singular Favours that it is impossible for us to declare or sufficiently to comprehend them and in particular it hath pleased thee to call us to the knowledge of thy Gospel and to draw us from the miserable slavery of the Devil in which we were detained delivering us from the Curse of Idolatry and Superstition in which we were plunged to guide us into the light of thy truth yet by our Ingratitude we have forgotten the benefits which we have receiv'd from thy hand and have gone astray and turned our selves from thee after our own Lusts we have not given that honour and obedience to thy holy Word which we ought neither have we praised and glorified thee as it behoved us to do and although though thou hast always faithfully admonished us by thy Word yet we have not hearkned to thy Admonitions therefore we have sinn'd Lord and offended against thee this covers us with shame and confusion confessing that we are grievously guilty before thy Judgment-Seat and if that thou should'st deal with us according to what we deserve we might expect nothing but Death and Damnation for when we would excuse our selves our Consciences accuse us and our Iniquities are before thee to condemn us and indeed Lord we see by the Punishments which are already come upon us that thou art Justly displeased with us for as thou art Just and upright it is not without Cause that thou dost afflict thy People having therefore been chastized with thy Rod we acknowledge that we have provoked thee against us and now we behold thy hand still lifted up to punish us for the Sword with which thou wert wont to execute thy Vengeance is unsheathed and the threatnings which thou hast made against the wicked and ungodly are ready to be executed But tho thou should'st punish us much more severely than thou hast hitherto done and that for one Plague we should receive an hundred and should'st even suffer such Calamities to fall upon us as thou didst afflict thy People of Israel with yet we must confess that it were just with thee and no more than what we have fully deserved However Lord thou art our Father and we are but Dust and Ashes thou art our Creator and we are the works of thy hands thou art our Pastor and we are thy flock thou art our Redeemer and we are the people thou hast redeemed thou art our God and we are thine Heritage therefore be not so angry with us as to correct us in thy fury neither remember our Iniquities to punish them but chastise us lovingly in thy mercy By reason of our sins thine Anger is inflamed but remember that we are call'd by thy name and that we bear thy sign and Token Maintain therefore the work thou hast begun in us by thy grace that all the Earth may know that thou art our God and Saviour thou knowest that the Dead in the Grave those whom thou hast destroyed cannot praise thee but sorrowful and afflicted souls contrite hearts and Consciences oppressed with the sence of their sins and longing after thy grace shall give thee glory and praise Thy People of Israel often provoked thee to Anger by their Iniquities thou didst Justly afflict them by thy Just Judgments but when they did return unto thee thou didst always in pity receive them were their Offences never so heinous for the sake of thy Covenant which thou mad'st with thy Servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob thou didst turn away those Evils and thy Rods which were prepared against them so that their Prayers were never rejected by thee We have by thy Grace a much better Covenant to rely on than they which thou hast made and established in Jesus Christ our Lord which thou wast pleased should be written with his Blood and ratified by his Death and Passion therefore Lord renouncing our selves and all humane hopes we have recourse unto that blessed Covenant by which our Lord Jesus in offering his Body as a Sacrifice hath reconciled us unto thee look then Lord on the Face of thy Christ and not on us that by his Intercession thy Anger may be appeased and thy Face may shine upon us with joy to our salvation and grant we may henceforth be received into thy holy conduct and guided by thy holy Spirit