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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27562	A sermon concerning the excellency and usefulness of the common prayer preached by William Beveridge ... 27th of November. 1681.	Beveridge, William, 1637-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing B2100; ESTC R974	27,675	46

The Lord be with you the other And with thy spirit And then immediately falling down upon our knees we adore and supplicate each person of the most blessed Trinity to have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us After which we address our selves to God in the words that he hath put into our mouths saying the Lords prayer which ended the Minister and People by turns lift up their hearts to God in some short and heavenly Ejaculations striving as it were to outvy each other in prevailing with the Allmighty to powr down his Blessings upon us And then in an humble and solemn manner we joyn together in supplicating his Divine Majesty for his Grace and Favour his Defence and Protection his Mercy and Blessing for our selves for the King for the Royal Family for his Church and for all Mankind And this we do ordinarily in the Collects appointed for that purpose But upon Wednesdays and Fridays upon which days the Primitive Church used to perform more than their ordinary Devotions as also upon the Lords day in the morning we do it in the Litany and in such a Litany as comprehends all and every thing that we can ever need to desire of Allmighty God either for our selves or others After this upon Sundays and Holydays we proceed to the Communion Service And therefore approaching to the Lords Table we begin it with his own Prayer And after another short Prayer to God to cleanse the thoughts of our heart by the Inspiration of his Holy Spirit we read the Ten Commandments which he hath enjoyned us to observe and after every Commandment we ask God Mercy for our Transgressions thereof for the time past and grace to keep the same for the time to come saying Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law And then after a Prayer for the King and the Collect for the day we read the Epistle and Gospel that is most commonly a short Paragraph taken out of the Cannonical Epistles and another out of one of the Holy Gospels which was the ancient way of Reading the Scripture before it was divided into Chapters And we do it now to prepare us the better for the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ therein revealed to us But seeing we neither do nor can read over the whole we repeat the substance of it in the Nicene Creed which it is very necessary we should do at this time that so we may demonstrate our selves to be Christians and so capable of receiving the most holy Communion He that all this while hath employed himself as he ought to do in the service of our Church cannot but find himself strangely edified by it Yet howsoever that nothing may be wanting that may any way conduce to our Edification after the Nicene Creed our Church hath appointed a Sermon to be preached which if sound plain and practical as it ought to be cannot but be very edifying too And now we may be well supposed to be so far edified as to be raised up to the highest pitch of Devotion that we can arrive at in this world and so are fit to be admitted to the highest Ordinance of the Church the Sacrament of the Lords Supper And therefore we now betake our selves to it But that we may not appear before our Lord empty we first offer up something to him of what he hath bestowed upon us to be disposed of to pious and charitable uses testifying thereby our acknowledgment of his goodness to us and that we have nothing but what we receive from him And to excite and encourage us to do this all the while that we are offering we have some select sentences of Scripture read to us wherein God either commands us to be charitable or else promiseth a blessing to those that are so And then we pray for Christs whole Church Militant here on earth whereby we profess our selves to be real Members of it and desirous to hold Communion with it in Christs Mystical Body and Blood And so we proceed to the Celebration of it in which the method is so clear so apparently edifying that I need not say any thing of it But shall only observe two things in general concerning it First That the Sacrament of the Lords Supper being the highest Mystery in all our Religion as representing the death of the Son of God to us hence that place where this Sacrament is Administred was always made and reputed the highest place in the Church And therefore also it was wont to be separated from the rest of the Church by a Skreen or Partition of Network in Latine Cancelli and that so generally that from thence the place its self is called the Chancell That this was anciently observed in the building of all considerable Churches for I speak not of private Oratories or Chappels within few Centuries after the Apostles themselves even in the days of Constantine the Great as well as in all Ages since I could easily demonstrate from the Records of those times But having purposely waved Antiquity hitherto I am loath to trouble you with it now But I mention it at present only because some perhaps may wonder why this should be observed in our Church rather than in all the other Churches which have been lately built in this City Whereas they should rather wonder why it was not observed in all other as well as this For besides our Obligations to conform as much as may be to the practice of the Universal Church and to avoid novelty and singularity in all things relating to the Worship of God it cannot be easily imagined that the Catholick Church in all Ages and places for 13 or 1400 years together should observe such a Custom as this except there were great reasons for it What they were it is not necessary for us to enquire now It may be sufficient to observe at present that the Chancel in our Christian Churches was always looked upon as answering to the Holy of Holies in the Temple which you know was separated from the Sanctuary or Body of the Temple by the Command of God himself And that this place being apppropriated to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper it ought to be so contrived as may be most convenient for those who are to partake of that Blessed Ordinance But it must needs be more convenient for those who are to enjoy Communion with Christ and in him with one another in this holy Sacrament to meet together as one body in one place separated for that purpose then to be dispersed as otherwise they would be some in one and some in another part of the Church Or in short it is much better for the place to be separate than the people Furthermore It is not only convenient but in some sense necessary for every Communicant to observe and take special notice of the several Circumstances which our Lord hath