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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90999	Euchologia: or, The doctrine of practical praying. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Prideaux, late Bishop of Worcester. Being a legacy left to his daughters in private, directing them to such manifold uses of our Common Prayer Book. As may satisfie upon all occasions, without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3425; Thomason E1515_1; ESTC R209505	69,265	323

all the women went out after her with Timbrels and with Dances none being so scrupulous in those dayes as to take exceptions at them And Miriam said Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath criumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he throwne into the sea O what an excellent Emulation it is betweene men and women when they contend who may praise God most for his Blessings bestowed upon them In the same straine of praises is the consort of Deborah and Barak for the overthrow of General Siserah Judges 5. Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel when the people willingly offered themselves c. In comparison of which piece the highest touch of Heathen Poetry sounds but flat and livelesse Neither must the good-wives of Bethlehems praising of God for the birth of Obed King Davids grand-father be thought not worthy to be imitated upon the like occasion Rut. 4.14 15 And the women said unto Naomi Blessed be the Lord which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman that his name may bee famous in Israel And he shall be thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy Daughter in Law which loveth thee which is better to thee then ten sonnes hath born him Thankful Hannahs Hymn is tuned to the same key for the birth of her son Samuel And Hannah prayed and said 1 Sam. 2.1 My heart rejoiceth in the Lord my horn is exalted in the Lord my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation But eminent above all the rest is that Magnificat or Song of Praise and Thanksgiving of the most blessed Mother-maid Luke 1.46 retained in our Leiturgy to be alwayes repeated Wherein Humility in her greatest advancement referring all to Gods glory and reflecting still upon the Churches good is most lively set forth He hath looked upon me a poor wretch regarding the low and inconsiderable estate of his Hand-maiden passing by the flourishing Pomp of the rich and mighty He hath remembred his mercy for the redemption of Israel according to the promise made to our forefathers and therefore My soul doth praise and magnifie the Lord and my spirit rejoyceth not for any worth found in my self but in God only my Saviour O that the proud ones of these times would but think upon this This one patterne might be sufficient to take down their haughty looks and new fangled attires by minding them that the blessedst amongst all women was otherwise affected In the like straine is that Benedictus of holy Zachary Luke 1.68 Blessed or praised be the Lord God of Israel for hee hath visited and redeemed his people c. And that Psal 100. O be joyful in the Lord all yee Lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a Song O go your way into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name And it is worth the noting that as the Book of the hundred and fifty Psalms begins with Blessed is the man or many blessings are upon that man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly but kissed the Son and ordered his walks to God to which the first fifty Psalmes especially lead him Neither stood in the way of sinners which the second fifty beats him from as most dangerous So the third fifty plucks him and his from the Seat of the scornful lift him up with Psalms of Degrees and Hallelujahs to thank and praise the Maker and Preserver of all things sealing all up with this conclusion Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Wherefore let not the Te Deum We praise thee O God we acknowledg thee to be the Lord or the Benedicite the following Canticle O all ye works of the Lord blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever be thought superfluous in our Leiturgy for not having that Canonical Authority which the former Scriptures have lest our Sermons and unpremeditated praises and prayers should be in that respect excepted against and so Preaching be discredited as bordering too neer sometimes upon Apocrypha Let it be sufficient then that such holy prayers have ground in Scripture from which as the Articles of our Creed they are deduced and framed to the capacitie and memories of all that cannot bee more edifyingly instructed So Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost so often repeated to uphold the Doctrine of the sacred Trinitg against the ancient and moderne Hereticks and that Angelical Rapture used after receiving of the Lords Supper Glory be to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men We praise thee we blesse thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give thanks to thee for thy great glory O Lord c. are such collections whereby young men and maidens old men and children may praise the Name of the Lord Psa 148.12 as the Psalmist exhorts them to do With whom we may safely conclude in that which our Leiturgy takes up for an entrance Psalm 95. O come let us sing unto the Lord c. with the Postscript of that good wish Psal 40.19 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say alwayes The Lord be praised CHAP. VII Of Comminations or Cursings COmmination in our Leiturgy is a part of Church-Discipline whereby Gods judgments are denounced against notorious offenders to terrifie them from their desperate courses and to put a stop to others that they follow not them in their damned wayes which by their owne mouthes they have pronounced accursed This is grounded on the twenty seventh of Deuteronomy with little alteration of words or matter for the applying it to our time And to the same end serve the Woes denounced by our Saviour Matth. 23 against the hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees which will never be out of date as long as the same sins are fomented and thought good policie and not heartily repented of amongst Professors of Christianity With this Commination the Church-Excommunication hath a neer affinity whereby obstinate notorious offenders are excluded from the benefit of the Saints communion and delivered unto Satan as the incestuous Corinthian was by Saint Paul to the destruction of the flesh 1 Cor. 5.5 that the Spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus These warrantable practices of Primitive Discipline considered as they ought should breed a restlesse horror in the consciences of those that lye under such censures Gal. 6. For Be not deceived God is not mocked who will not have his Church neglected whose priviledges of binding and loosing here on earth are enrolled in heaven Mat. 18.18 And if we account it a slight matter to bee reckoned of Gods people as an Heathen or Publican at the last admittance of the faithful and obedient

first-fruits of the Land which thou O Lord hast given me So Israels repentance is directed by Hosea Take unto you words Chap. 14.2 and turn unto the Lord and say unto him Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously so will we render the calves of our lips So in their solemn fasting the time was not to be unseasonably spent in tedious Teaching or by extemporal rapsodies to set forth the gifts of the Speaker or tire the devotion of the Auditory Joel 2.17 but as the Prophet directeth Let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord neep between the Porch the Altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule ever them Wherefore should they say among the people Where is their God Which set formes in Publick Meetings were so far from altering in the New Testament that they are summed up and perfected in the Lords Prayer and so transmitted by the Apostles to all posterity that no settled Church can be noted that had not some Publick Leiturgy wherein the people might joyne with the Minister in Gods Service children and the simpler sort might be instructed by hearing the same words constantly repeated and not to come only as spectators to a Theatre to hear much learn little and do nothing as though all had not an interest in Gods Service according to their abilities and callings and that out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings Hosannaes were not to be endured Publick Prayers may be either 1. Confessions 2. Deprecations 3. Supplications 4. Intercessions 5. Thanksgivings 6. Praises 7. Comminations For Publick Confessions what can be contrived more fully and effectually then that used at the entrance of our Devotions Almighty and most merciful Father we have erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost sheep c. And that other before the receiving of the Lords Supper Almighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judg of all men we acknowledg and bewail our manifold sins c. These you and your children must have by heart to be ready at all times upon all pangs of sadnesse for sin or more dangerous convulsions of conscience Psal 32.6 In this the Psalmist found present ease I said I will confesse my sins unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickednesse of my sin This the Apostle commends as a salve most soveraign 1 John 1.9 If we confesse our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins But Ver. 10 If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us The Prophet Daniel fully relates how it wrought with him for no sooner had hee made that earnest passionate Confession in the behalf of himself and his fellow Captives in Babylon But while I was yet speaking Dan. 9.21 saith the Text and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel Tea while I was speaking in Prayer the man Gabriel being caused to flye swiftly came and touched me to give me satisfaction So quick in operation is an hearty Prayer and Confession No sooner shall David say 2 Sam. 12.13 I have sinned against the Lord but the Prophet shall reply And the Lord hath put away thy sin thou shalt not dye As soon as he shall acknowledge that his feet hath slipped Psal 94.18 he shall presently have good cause to adde Thy mercy O Lord held me up In the multitude of the sorrowes that I had in my heart thy comforts have refreshed my soul For as vomiting after excess of gluttony easeth the stomack so doth Confession the conscience after a burthening sinne committed For this purpose to have recourse to those Hymnes in our Church-Book and sing them devoutly O Lord of whom I do depend behold my careful heart c. And O Lord turn not away thy face from him that lyes prostrate c. And O Lord in thee is all my trust c. will be a great ease to an afflicted soul And they that have some fuller taste and relish of Gods Word may make a kind of confessionary Letany to themselves fitted to the times of trouble they live in As for example 1. By our Fratricide with Cain who causelesly murdered his innocent brother 2. By our unnatural irreverence with Cham that scoffed at the nakedness of his father 3. By our contemptuous profaneness with Esau who sold his birth-right for a mess of broth 4. By our Sacriledg with Achan who wickedly ventured on that which was consecrated to God to the destruction of himself and all his 5. By our divellish conspiracy with Corah and his Complices against Moses and Aaron Gods spiritual and temporal Prelates 6. By Doegs brutish falling upon Gods Priests to make them away that hee might have the greatest share in the plundering of their means 7. By Absoloms most unnatural rebellion against his most indulgent Father We have O Lord affronted heaven and plucked down thy just vengeance upon us but correct us therefore O Lord in thy judgment not in thy fury lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing And if you my Daughters would fit it more properly to your Sexe you may dispose it in this manner 1. Gen. 34.1 With Lots wife deserting her husband in looking back to the Luxury of Sodom 2. With Dinahs gadding abroad to her owne shame the enraging of her brethren and discontent of her father 3. With the plots of Josephs Mistresse upon her chaste servant 4. With Jobs impatient wife to adde affliction to the greatest afflictions of her tormented husband 5. With Michaels scoffing at her husband Davids Devotion as misbeseeming his High place to be submissive to God 6. With the haughtinesse of the daughters of Sion Isaiah 3 displaying their fancies to the world in twenty one fashions 7. With the peremptory Jewish wives Jer. 44.16 we have snapt at Gods Ministers as they did at the Prophet Jeremiah in Egypt and told them in plain termes Let them say what they would we would do as we list and our husbands should justifie us in it as there it is undertaken Ver. 19. In all which unsufferable exorbitancies or some of them wee have drawne thy just judgments upon us But spare us Good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Which leads us to Deprecation the second kind of Publick Prayer CHAP. II Of Deprecations AFter Confession Deprecations may bee best thought upon by which we being conscious to our selves how manifold punishments our innumerable sins have deserved cry out unto God with the Psalmist Psal 130.3 If thou Lord shouldst be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it And to fall in with our Leiturgy O Lord deal not with us after our sins neither reward us after our iniquities And fully to this