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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04947	A discourse concerning prayer especially of frequenting the dayly publick prayers. In two parts. / By Symon Patrick, D.D. now Lord Bishop of Ely.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing P789A; ESTC R181547	106,863	299

at Morning and Evening Prayer in the Temple Praising and Blessing God Luk. xxiv 53. And after by the power of the Holy Ghost coming on them they had setled Churches we read the four living Creatures and the twenty four Elders by which are certainly meant the Governours of the Christian Church rested not Day and Night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty c. that is Morning and Evening they fell down before God and Worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever Which Practice hath ever since continued in the Church which in that Heavenly Hymn commonly ascribed to St. Ambrose hath constantly said Day by day we magnifie thy Name For which end certain hours as well as a certain place have been alwayes appointed that Men might so order their other Affairs as to be able to mind this great business of giving Thanks and Praise to God the Creator of all and imploring his Blessing on them in their several Callings and Conditions and on their Church and Country and finally on the whole World It is so sure that the Jews had such set hours of Prayer that I do not think fit to say much of a matter so well known I will only note that they were the 3d hour the 6th and the 9th Which the Christian Church afterward observed and that from the Example of the Apostles themselves For St. Peter even when he was not at Jerusalem went up to the house-top to pray about the sixth hour i. e. Twelve a Clock Which we cannot doubt was his usual custome and as little doubt that it was the custom of the other Apostles and by them every where propagated throughout all the Churches Which the Ancient Writers of Christianity tell us observed those very set hours of Prayer So Clemens in his Constitutions vii 24. and Clemens Alexandrinus in L. vii of his Stromata where he calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the set appointed hours And Tertullian in his Book of Fasting chap. 10. Origen also in his Book of Prayer proves from several Scripture Examples that it ought not to be made less than three times every day N. 38. And such was the Practice in St. Chrysostomes dayes I shall have occasion to show in the end of this Chapter which is still continued in our great Churches every where I will here only transcribe the Words of St. Hierom upon the vi Dan. 10. There are three times in which our knees ought to be bowed to God at the third hour the sixth and the ninth as the Ecclesiastical Tradition instructs us At the third hour the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles At the sixth Peter went up to pray in the upper Chamber And at the ninth Peter and John went up together into the Temple Whether the Publick Service of God was every where celebrated three times a day or only upon the Lord's Day and in great Cities every Day may justly be questioned And I incline to think it was not every day in all places celebrated more than twice because the Constitutions ascribed to the Apostles which are undoubtedly very Ancient injoyn no more but Morning and Evening Prayer The words are very remarkable directed to the Bishop to whom they say L. 2. Constit 58. Command and Exhort the people to come continually to Church Morning and Evening every day and not to fail at all and then they mention in the same place three Services upon the Lord's Day as more solemn than all the rest Which is exactly sutable to God's appointment among the Jews who had daily the Morning and Evening Offering And on the Sabbath day another Offering beside the Continual Burnt-Offering as we read expresly Numb xxviii 9 10. They had indeed at the Temple other Offerings every day about 12 a Clock but they were not the Sacrifices of the whole Congregation of Israel as the Morning and Evening Sacrifices were but the Sacrifices of particular Persons on particular Occasions And accordingly all Christians prayed publickly twice every day Morning and Evening and had another hour also for Private Prayers which was about Noon conformable to that of the Psalmist Evening and Morning and at Noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice Psal lv 17. It must not here be forgotten there were likewise two of the Week dayes more solemnly observed than the rest for Publick Prayers viz. Wednesdayes and Fridays as hath been elsewhere proved * Treatise of Repentance pag. 112. On which dayes there were three Services in some places as on the Lord's Day And in all places they took special care that nothing should keep them then from the Publick Assemblies how negligent soever they were at other times And the devouter sort also fasted on those two dayes that they might have more time for Prayer and be excited to greater fervour in it by a deep sense of their own unworthiness of the least of God's Blessings And do we now think to please God and to preserve our Religion without any of this care either on those dayes or on others but only the Lord's Day Then the Christian Church in all ages till these later times hath been too officious though it followed the plain Instructions and the best patterns of the Holy Scriptures Which have been so universally understood to enjoyn a daily publick Service of God that there is no Christian Country that I can find at this day by whom this Tribute is not pay'd unto him All the Eastern Christians as a Learned Divine and great Traveller hath informed us * Dr. Basire 's Funer Sermon for the Bishop of Durham pag. 95. and see Chemnitius Exam Concil Trident pars quarta p. 160 and 162. Greek Armenian and others constantly perform it in the West the Church of Rome still observes this practice and in Germany both the Lutherans and the Calvinists have their dayly publick Offices and full Congregations So we have in these Islands and in many places full Congregations also though in others alas either no publick Assemblies or scandalously empty Which is a very great shame as the forementioned Dr. speaks that when now under the Gospel God doth not require our Lambs which were offered publickly twice every day by the Jews we should not dayly give him the Calves of our Lips as the Prophets phrase is that is Pray to him and Praise him and give him Thanks in the publick Congregation Why the Reformed Churches in France did not thus constantly Assemble as they do in Germany it is not my business to enquire Mr. Calvin I am sure both approved of this Practice and wisht it were restored in more places of his Works than one by noteing which what I have said will be confirmed and some reason also given of this Omission For having observed that God appointed a * Comment in iii. Act. 1. Morning and Evening Sacrifice to be offered among the Jews and thereby taught them to begin and close the day with Invocation