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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09489	Certaine short prayers and meditations vpon the Lords prayer and the Ten commandements With other particular prayers for seuerall purposes. Written by the right worshipfull Sir Iames Perrott Knight.; Certaine short prayers and meditations upon the Lords prayer and the Ten commandments.	Perrott, James, Sir, 1571-1637.	1630 (1630)	STC 19772; ESTC S106420	28,622	238

CERTAINE Short PRAYERS and MEDITATIONS vpon the Lords Prayer and the Ten Commandements With other particular Prayers for seuerall purposes Written by the right Worshipfull Sir IAMES PERROTT Knight LONDON Printed by Aug. Mathewes for ROBERT SVVAYNE and are to be sold at the Signe of the Bible at Britaines Burse 1630. TO THE Right Honorable WILLIAM Earle of Pembrooke Lord high Steward of his Maiesties Houshold one of the noble Order of the Garter and of his Majesties Honourable Priuy Councell Chauncellor of the Vn uersitie of Oxenford Right Honourable IT may seeme strange vnto some that J being no professed Diuine should presume to present vnto the viewe and verdict of curious Censurers a Treatise of praiers It being a subiect fittest for deepe grounded Divines to deale withall And asmuch that J should Dedicate these my Medi●ations vnto your Lordship For the first my excuse is that I offer them not for instruction of the iudicious but for the vse of them that are as weake in Iudgement as I am and to others of meaner capacitie if any such there bee For my addresse of them to your Honour J haue no other excuse or defence but that which is best knowne vnto your Honor to whom I am more obliged then my weake Abilities can giue hopes to yeelde other recompence then by Prayer vnto God that your proceedings may prosper by pietie and be rewarded with eternall felicitie Your Lordships most bounden to be at command'ment IAMES PERROT The Preface to the insuing Praiers and Meditations THE Reader may easily finde the Writers weakenesse yet in reading perchance he may finde sowmewhat though it be but simple that may informe his conscience and stirre vp his minde to better meditations By vsing that is good our inclinations grow to greater goodnes as by the bad that that which is euil becoms worse In this small and slender Tract of mine of Prayers on the Lords Prayer and on the Decalogue or Tenne Commandements The first containing the rule of all our Prayers deliuered by our Lord and Sauiour who taught vs how to whom and for what to pray This Doctrine being the fountaine and so from it by vs there may flow stremes of pious Prayers though our cesternes are but shallow yet the conduit or rather Conductor of them may thereby water the fields of our soules and hearts with piety felicitie fertilnesse that so our selues and our posterities may receiue encrease of all spirituall temporal blessings The true practise of Prayer is as the Path-way to heauen the guide of our life on earth the remoouers of such Remoras and rubbs as doe hinder vs here and doe stay vs from eternall happinesse hereafter For our true beliefe credendorum of things to bee beleeued which we call the Creede is Regula via vitae the rule and way of life So the Decalogue or ten Cōmandements being regula faciendorum the rule of things to be done is vita viae the life of this way both these making vp by feruent frequent and faithfull prayers our progression vnto eternall life This as a gate the other as goles vnto eternall glory betwixt these two Prayers are as the Sayles the holy Spirit as the wings that carries vs thorow the troblesome waues of this world and beareth vs vp in all tentations afflictions and calamities In the vse of Prayers as of the other parts of pietie Humility is the ground Faith the foundation Petition and thankesgiuing the walles eleuated Meditations the roofe knowledge ioyned with conscience the props and pillars So is holy prayer made scala caeli the ladder that leades vs to asscend vnto heauen Prayer then being the precious balme of Gilead that cures the festring sores of our sinnes I craue pardon to publish these my weake conceptions of Prayers and meditations Which proceedeth from no other purpose but to helpe the weake and ignorant in their well disposed devotions To such I say it is not enough to pray much long and often except it bee done with a regenerat a deuout and an vnderstāding hart although the saying was ancient Breuis oratio penetrat caelum short Praier pierceth the heauens Yet it is neither the length nor shortnes of our prayer that mooues God vnto mercy vnlesse they be ioyned with a godly and conscionable vse of them in clensing and casting away our corruptions distractions dulnesse coldnesse carnal cares vaine imaginations which presse vpon vs in the time of Prayer when it is not the voyce or the sound of words but the holy affection and pure desires of the heart with the assistance of Gods holy spirit that makes our prayers vnto God profitable and powerfull as the olde verse hath it Non vox sed votum non cordula musica sed cor Non clamans sed amans cantat in ore Dei Which signifieth thus much Not voyce but vowes not musick but the heart Not cr●es but loue sweet songs to God impart If any man question why so many treatises of prayer being published my selfe or any other should set foorth any more therein yet I conceiue it is with the readers and specially with the vsers and learners of Prayers as with Phisitians who seeking simples to cure their Patients goe not onely to one garden medow or fielde to gather them but vnto many for in some places there grows of one kind in some another sort So in the relish vse choise of prayers which is that herbe of grace Some desire such as are short and pithy others make vse of them that are of good length waight Besides this consideration though I acknowledge there are diuers excellent treatises of Prayers yet I haue seldome seene any that haue closly and punctually handled the Petitions of the Lords Prayer and the parts of the Ten Cōmandements with a strict mixture of Doctrinall Meditations in the forme and to be vsed as praiers containing therein their contents which I haue indeauoured to doe according to my weake skill and iudgement First for mine owne exercise and then for the use of such as shal neede and desire it as much as I doe Which I haue done the rather because I see how feareful dangerous and common a thing it is to finde such multitudes of people who vsing only the Lords Prayer or reading the Tenne Cōmandements with out premeditation or knowledge what either of them contains do yot think that they haue sufficiently serued God when they know little or vse not that aright they shold know and doe better To knowe much and doe little doth little auaile in diuine or humane things to doe much to know little proues vnprofitable if not hurtfull Yet not to finde fault with others but to come home vnto my selfe for these my Meditations such as they are I leaue them with the readers and vsers of them to the direction of Gods holy Spirit The Contents of the Prayers and Meditations contained in this Booke SEuerall Prayers vpon the seuerall Petitions of