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A26350	The duty of daily frequenting the publick service of the church recommended in a sermon preached in a chapel at Wragby in Lincoln-shire erected to that purpose by Sir Edmound Turnor, Kt., and consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln the 18th day of July, 1697 / by John Adamson.	Adamson, John.	1698 (1698)	Wing A500; ESTC R27093	17,308	34

God and him to answer the great End of this his Bounty to you by living to the Honour of God and your Religion particularly by a constant and devout attendance at the Prayers and Sacraments which will be performed in this Place Be very careful I beseech you to approve your selves Widows indeed that so you may be worthy of ' that Honor i. e. Relief and Maintenance as the Original Word often signifies in Scripture which the Apostle would have to be given to such in 1 Tim. 5. 3. Honor i. e. Relieve Widows that are Widows indeed And who are such he tells us v. 5 7 10. And such I hope and heartily pray All you may be She trusteth in God and continueth in Supplications and Prayers night and day She is blameless and well reported of for good Works and has diligently followed every good Work This is the sum of what your Blessed Saviour and I presume to say your pious Benefactor also expects from you viz. That you be Constant and Serious at Prayers and Sacraments That your Conversation be Blameless and of good Report particularly for Humility Gravity Sobriety Contentedness Weanedness from the World Love and Peaceableness amongst your selves and towards all Men Graces which more especially adorn your Station and that you be diligent Followers of every good Work Then shall you approve your selves Widows indeed in the Apostles Sense to the Honor of your Lord the Reputation of your Religion the great Satisfaction of your Benefactor and the mighty Encouragement of such Pious and Charitable Acts to your own great Comforts whilst you live in this World and to your eternal Happiness in the World to come Which eternal Happiness God in his due time make you and all of us Partakers of for the sake of his dear Son Iesus Christ our Saviour To whom with the Father and Blessed Spirit be ascribed all Obedience Adoration and Praise now and for evermore Amen For the Direction and Assistance of the more Ignorant let me here add 'T is very Adviseable that all Persons when they intend to partake of our publick Prayers hasten to the House of Prayer as soon as the Bell begins to call to it that so they may have some little time before Prayers begin to raise their Devotions and fix their Thoughts upon the Duties before them by considering the Weightiness of them and the Presence of God humbly and earnestly Begging his Assistance in the Performance of them which may be done by those who are not better provided in this or the like short Prayer following Let thy merciful Ears O Lord be open to the Prayers of thy humble Servants And grant that we may now and at all times ask faithfully and obtain effectually through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this Most gracious God who hast commanded us to pray without ceasing Incline my Heart to this Duty and so assist me with thy holy Spirit now and at all times in the Performance of it that I may so ask that I may receive and so hear thy Word that I may practice it and by these Opportunities for which I bless thy Name I may daily more and more improve in Righteousness and true Holiness until I come to thine everlasting Kingdom through Iesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen At the Conclusion of Divine Service and before thou risest from thy Knees say to thy self this or the like short Prayer Lord in Mercy hear our Prayers and relieve all our Wants Continue unto us these means of Grace make me and all that profess thy Name to delight in them with Reverence and godly Fear to approach unto them and always to become better by them through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this Blessed be thy Name O God for this Opportunity of waiting upon thee in thine House Lord pardon the Iniquity of my holy Things and make me a partaker of the Benefit of those Prayers which have been put up unto thee at this time In Mercy continue unto me these Opportunities and fit me more and more for thy Service here and for thy Kingdom hereafter for Iesus Christ his sake Amen FINIS * Hist. Eccles. l. 10. c. 3. † Exod. 30. 15 16. ‖ Godwyn's Jewish Antiq l. 6. c. 10. And Pool's Synopsis in loc * So some interpret Ier. 11. 5. and Isa. 26. 10. † Joh. 2. 16. † Matt. a 1. 12. * So it is to be understood in Isa. 9. 6. Matt. 5. 19. Luke 1. 32 35 36. Rev. 19. 13. See Dr. Hammond on Matt. 2. 23. note l. * 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. † St. Joh. 9. 31. ‖ 1 Tim. 2. 8. * Prov. 15. 8. ‖ Rom. 12. 11. † God win's Jewish Antiquit l. 2. c. 2. ‖ David Psal. 95. 6. Solomon 2 Chron. 6. 13. Daniel c. 6. v. 10. * St. Stephen Acts 7. 60. St. Petër Acts 9. 40. St Paul Acts 20 36. 21. 5. † Dr. Cave's Prim. Christ. part 1. c. 9. Tertull. de Orat. c. 12. p. 134. Contra Scripturam fecerit fi quis in Cathedrâ aut subsellio sederit factum isthud irreligiosum est nisi exprobramus Deo quod nos Ordtio fatigaverit c. * 2 Chron. 6. 8. † St. Luke 7. 5. * St. Jam. 5. 16. † Ver. 17 18. ‖ Apol. 39. A. * St. Matt. 18. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist. ad Ephes. p. 122. † St. Matt. 18. 20. * St. Luk 11. ver 9. † Ver. 13. * Exod. 3. 5. † Ioshua 5. 15. ‖ V. Pool's Synopsis on Exod. * Aynsworth on Exod. 30. 19. † Mr. Pcole ut prius Id. ib. † 1 Cor. 11. 10. Dr. Hammond in loc note d. ‖ Gen. 18. v. 16 17. * Dr. Cave's Frim Christianity part 1. cap. 6. * 1 Kings 8. * Read the Rules for our more Devout Behaviour in the time of Divine Service in the Church of England Printed in 1695. * The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety By the Author of the VVhole Duty of Man c. 8. * Dr. Cave in his Prim. Christianity Part 1. c. 9. † Hom. 56. tom 1. p. 623. † Psal. 42. v. 2. * Mal. 1. 13. * St. Luke 2. v. 37. † Acts 2. 45. ‖ St. Luke 24. v. 53. * Dr. Hammond Annot. on Acts 1. note d. * Heb. 10. v. 25. † The Widows of the Alms-House adjoyning to the Chapel * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. Dr. Hammond on 1 Tim. c. 5. note d.

like those in Malachi Snuff at his Service and say What a weariness is it But certainly that All-seeing Eye which discerns what Multitudes carelesly absent themselves from his Worship cannot but adjudge us most profane Despisers of his Mercy in giving and continuing to us the happy Opportunities of it 1. Obj. But perhaps some may here object and say What need these daily publick Prayers We are careful to worship God at his House on the Lord's Day and this seems to be all that is required of us in the Fourth Commandment which allows us the other six Days for Labour and our own Business and therefore thus to require us to attend the daily publick Worship seems to be an unnecessary Service and an infringement of that Liberty which God has graciously indulged to us But Ans. Let such consider That this Objection is of equal Force against all occasional Days of Fasting and Thansgiving which yet I presume themselves will allow of and acknowledge they are obliged sometimes to observe Let them consider again That the same God who gave the Fourth Commandment to the Iews did also enjoyn them other Days for solemn Worship which were to be observed even upon any of those Six Days of Labour tho' they required strict Rest as the Day of Atonement did Lev. 23. 27 28. And that they had their daily Worship notwithstanding the Fourth Commandment at which our Blessed Saviour was frequently present and thereby gave his Approbation of it And that this is no Violence to Christian Liberty but rather a Duty recommended by Christianity appears in that 't is recorded by St. Luke in commendation of Anna That she departed not from the Temple but served God with Prayers and Fastings Night and Day And of the first Converts of Christianity That they continued daily with one accord in the Temple And of the Disciples of Christ that after his Ascension They returned to Ierusalem and were continually in the Temple praising and blessing God That is the Temple was the place not of their continual abode but of their constant daily Performance of their Devotions as the learned Paraphrast glosses upon those Words 2. Obj. Others perhaps may say They are very careful to perform this Duty in private they pray at home every Morning and Night and perhaps sometimes may read a Chapter in the Bible with their Families at the close of the Day And this they hope is sufficient for them who have much Business on their Hands and perhaps Families to provide for by their Labours and they trust their gracious God will accept of what they do and expect no more from them To this I Answer 1. Ans. 'T is much to be wish'd they are so well employ'd as they pretend at Home but as much to be fear'd that they are not for did they make a real Conscience of performing this Duty at their own Houses the same Conscience would bring 'em frequently to God's unless they labour under some unhappy Prejudices against it where I 'm sure they might perform it better For 2. Suppose they do pray and read at Home yet how can this excuse their neglecting the publick Service in the Church where the same Duties are performed with greater Advantage There thou findest many Fires to kindle thy Zeal the Example of others for Reverence and Order the Decency and Suitableness of the Place the more peculiar Presence of God and his gracious Promise that he will have a more especial Regard to those Prayers which are put up to him in his own House in that forequoted place 2 Chron. 7. 15 16. Does it become us to be our own Carvers and when our gracious God calls us to worship him in his House to tell him in effect he must excuse us we 'l do it as we can at our own and that must serve his turn 3. Consider That altho' thou perhaps mayst duely perform these Duties at Home yet others from thy Example may think it needless to come to publick Prayers and wholly omit them in private also and so thou fall under the Guilt of Scandal in its proper Sense against which a Woe is denounced by our Lord St. Matth. 18. 7. Woe be to that Man by whom Offences come 4. Consider That the Apostles and Primitive Christians who surely knew how to pray at Home as well as any of us yet were very constant at the publick Places of Worship tho' to the great hazard of their Lives or Liberties for so doing and left this express Command behind them to all Christians Not to forsake the Assembling of themselves together Not to forsake the publick Religious Assemblies tho' to avoid Persecution as was the unhappy Case of the Christians at that time much less to avoid some small and very tolerable Inconveniency to our secular Affairs as is generally the worst of the Case with us now which that God whom we serve can and certainly will abundantly Recompence to us But then let me add 5. In the last place If any well disposed Christians be so ingaged in some needful Business or have such urgent Necessities to provide for by their Labours that they cannot attend the daily publick Service of our Church without great Inconveniency and yet have really a due Esteem for it and would with all their Hearts be daily present at it did their indispensable Occasions permit them such I will presume to say shall be excused by our gracious Lord who has declared He will have Mercy Mercy to our selves as well as to others rather than Sacrifice St. Matth. 9. 13. Such shall undoubtedly be accepted on the Account of their Wills and real Desires and by the Goodness of our God in a good measure partake of the benefit of our publick Prayers as if themselves had actually been present at them But for all others who have not this Necessity to plead for their Absence who easily might have been present at the daily Service had they been really willing such must not expect to be so excused and therefore I hope and pray they will be prevailed with so to acquit themselves in reference to this Duty that God may be duly Honor'd by them true Piety and Devotion encouraged and advanced their own Comfort and Prosperity promoted in this World and their eternal Happiness by the Mercies of God and the Merits of his Son secur'd to them in the next One word in the close of all To you in particular for whose sakes more immediately your worthy Benefact or has erected this House of Prayer You by his great Bounty are in a more especial manner devoted to and engaged in the Service of God you have not the Necessities of this Life to provide for by your Labours nor the anxious Cares of it to perplex and distract your Thoughts you have a comfortable Provision made you by his Piety and Charity both for your Souls and Bodies Remember always how much you are obliged both to