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A10177	A briefe suruay and censure of Mr Cozens his couzening deuotions Prouing both the forme and matter of Mr Cozens his booke of priuate deuotions, or the houres of prayer, lately published, to be meerely popish: to differ from the priuate prayers authorized by Queene Elizabeth 1560. to be transcribed out of popish authors, with which they are here paralelled: and to be scandalous and preiudiciall to our Church, and aduantagious onely to the Church of Rome. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1628 (1628)	STC 20455; ESTC S120656	100,630	151

GRATIAN COLLECTAE in these Editions which were the last best there is not so much as any touch or menti●n of these Canonicall Howers of Prayer or first sixt or ninth howers Neuer could I heare as yet of any Deuotions or Prayer Bookes intituled the HOVVERS OF PRAYER but onely one in Spanish Printed at Paris by William Merlin 1556. Stiled HORAS DE NVESTRA SENIORA The Howers of our Lady Fraught with the very dregs of Popery and Idolatrie The very Phrase and Emphasis therefore of this Title which is neuer mentioned by way of approbation in any Protestant writers nor yet in the Articles Common Prayer Booke the Bookes of Homilies or Canons of our Church nor yet in any Orthodoxe English writer doeth stampe a kinde of Brand and Impresse of Poperie and Superstition on the Booke it selfe and euidence it to be meerely Popish Thirdly the whole Fabricke Frame and Method of these Deuotions doe prooue them to be Popish For they are directly moulded formed and contriued according to our Ladies Primer or Office Printed in Lattaine at Antwerpe 1593. and in Lattaine and English for the vtilitie of such of the English Nation as vnderstand not the English tongue 1604. According to the Breuiary of Pius the fift and Clemens the eight Printed at Antwerpe 1621. and the Howers of our Lady Printed at Paris 1556. For first you haue here a Frontispice with I H S. in a Sunne held vp by two Angels and two deuoute Females one of them holding a Crosse in here hand Supplicating vnto it Then you haue for the Title A Collection of priuate Deuotions or the Howers of Prayer together with a Preface Iustifying Canonicall Howers condemning all conceiued Prayers and confining men to the vnerring Deuotions of the Church and to the Ceremonies Formes and Sacraments of the ancient Church which can bee no other but the Church of Rome as I shall prooue anon Then you haue a Calender with a Preface to it Containing the Festiuall and Fasting dayes of the Church and the Memories forsooth of none but holy Martyres and Saints though many of them were neuer found in rerum natura and others of them were neuer Sainted but at Rome Next you haue a Table of moueable Feasts and rules for them Then you haue the Fasting dayes of the Church or dayes of speciall Abstinence and Deuotion whereof our Ember weekes and Rogation dayes Ash-wedensday the Fridayes after Whitsontide and holy Crosse the Saturday after Saint Lucies day and all the Fridayes and Saturdayes of the yeere must bee the chiefe though our Church enioynes them not Next you haue the times wherein Marriages are not to be Solemnized which times the Calenders Articles and Canons of our Church doe neither mention nor prescribe Then succeedes the Apostles Creed in twelue Articles the Lords Prayer in seuen Petitions the tenne Commandements with the dueties enioyned and the Sinnes prohibited by them together with the Precepts of Charitie the Precepts of the Church the Sacraments of the Church and these forsooth must bee seuen the three Theologicall Virtues the three kindes of good Workes The seuen gifts of the holy Ghost the twelue fruites of the holy Ghost the Spirituall and Corporall workes of Mercy the eight Beatitudes Seuen deadly Sinnes and their contrary Vertues then Quatuor nouissima all Popish trash and trumpery stolen out of Popish Primers and Chatechismes as I shall prooue anon and neuer mentioned in any Protestant writers Then comes in His collections for priuate Deuotions with his Plees both from Scriptures Fathers and Popish Authors for the practise and obseruation of Canonicall Howers both in generall and speciall all taken out of Bellarmine Azorius and the Rhemish Testament And first you haue his preparatiue Prayers before Mattins and among them one at our entrance into the Church and another when we come into the Quire then you haue a preparatiue Hymne Then comes in a Iustification of the antiquitie of Mattins AND THAT AT THE FIRST HOVVER then followes His Mattins for the first the third the sixt and ninth Hower beginning with the Lords Prayer seconded with an Hymne continued with Psalmes and gloria Patri c. with a piece or fragment of a Chapter or Lesson and Consummated with some Prayers and a Thankesgiuing Then succeed his VESPERS then his COMPLINE all of them exactly framed after the Popish Offices Primers and Horaries and not according to our Common Prayer Booke or any Protestants Method Now follow some other Prayers with the seuen Penitentiall Psalmes Next the Collects of our Church with seuerall Aduertisments and Prefaces them then Prayers and Meditations both before and after the Sacrament and among them one WHEN WEE ARE PROSTRATE BEFORE THE ALTER a Prayer worth the obseruing another desiring the MEDIATION OF ANGELS Then follow seuerall formes of Confessions to bee vsed according to the directions of the Church especially before the receiuing of the Sacrament then a deuout manner of preparing our selues TO RECEIVE ABSOLVTION with a Thankesgiuing after ABSOLVTION then followes some speciall PRAYERS FOR EMBER-WEEKES not mentioned in our Common Prayer Booke Then Prayers for the Sicke Prayers at the Hower of Death yea and A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD then other Prayers and Thankesgiuings And as he beginnes with the SIGNE OF THE CROSSE so hee concludes with the VIRTVE OF CHRISTS BLESSED CROSSE yea and with the INTERCESSION OF ALL SAINTS as I haue heard before the leafe was altered and torne out vpon some exceptions taken to it So that if you Suruay the whole frame and modell of these Deuotions and Howers of Prayers either in the whole intire structure or in the forme and order of its seuerall parts you shall finde that it tooke its patterne and sample from our Ladies Primer and the forequoted Deuotions which runne in the selfe same method forme yea matter too not from the priuate Prayers of Queene Elizabeth nor yet from our Booke of Common Prayers as I shall prooue more fully anon Fourthly the very Stile and Phrases of it doe euidence and conuince it to be meerely Popish Take these for all the rest that might bee mentioned The Howers of Prayer which is eighteene seuerall times mentioned and some twelue of them by way of Preface or Title The ancient Church in the second Title page the Ancient Lawes and godly Canons of the Church in the first Preface The Festiualls and Fasting dayes of the Church the Title before the Calender The Fasting dayes of the Church The precepts of the Church The Sacraments of the Church which being all compared together with their subiect matter will plainely testifie that he meanes the Church of Rome and no other since the Ancient Lawes and Canons of the Church for the obseruation of Canonicall Howers the Precepts of the Church there mentioned and the Sacraments of the Church which hee makes seuen can bee appropriated to no Church but that alone and not vnto our own or other Churches which approoue of no such