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saint_n	article_n	church_n	creed_n	1,359	5	10.1652	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45474	A vindication of the ancient liturgie of the Church of England wherein the several pretended reasons for altering or abolishing the same, are answered and confuted / by Henry Hammond ... ; written by himself before his death.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing H617; ESTC R21403	95,962	97

Gods to which Christ opposes your heavenly Father knoweth what you have need of and so needs not your Tautologies to explain them to him Much more might be said for the explaining of that mistaken place but that it would seem unnecessary to this matter the exception being so causlesse that the Vindication would passe for an extravagance Sect. 35 Of the Prayers for the King the account will not be much unlike S. Paul commands that prayers supplications and intercessions thanksgivings be made for Kings c. 1. Tim. 2. 1 2. where though the mention of those severall sorts of prayers signified by those foure words might be matter of apology for the making severall addresses to God for Kings in one service supposing them proportioned to those sorts in that text yet have we distributed the frequent prayers for him into the severall services one solemn prayer for him in the ordinary daily service and onely a versicle before as it were prooemiall to it another in the Letany another after the Commandments on which though our book hath two forms together yet both the Rubrick and Custome gives us authority to interpret it was not meant that both should be said at once but either of the two chosen by the Minister another before the Communion where the necessity of the matter being designed for the Church militant makes it more then seasonable to descend to our particular Church and the King the supream of it just as Herodotus relates the custome of the Persians l. 1. p. 52. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they pray for all the Persians particularly for the King To this practice of ours so grounded in the Apostle we shall adde 1. the reward promised by the Apostles intimation to such Prayers if not as I conceive by those words that we may live a peaceable and quiet life c. that peaceable and quiet life of all blessings the greatest seeming to be a benefit or donative promised to the faithfull discharge of that duty of praying and supplicating and interceding and giving thanks for Kings yet certainly somewhat else in that high Declaration made concerning it in the next words for this is good and acceptable before God our Saviour whose acceptation is reward sufficient to any action and yet who never accept● but rewards also 2. The practise of the ancient Christians set down by Tertull. Sacrificamus pro salute Imperatoris purâ prece our prayers are sent up a pure sacrifice for the prosperity of the Emperour And that quoties conveniebant in another place at every meeting or service of the Church precantes semper pro omnibus Imperatoribus vitam prolixam Imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum Orbem quietum quaecunque hominis Caesaris vot● sunt praying alwayes for the Emperours and begging of God for them long life secure Reign the safety of his house couragious Armies a faithfull Senate a good people a quiet world all those severals which would make up more prayers then our book hath assigned all that either a Man or King they can stand in need of and so Athen●goras and others to the same purpose especially when they have occasion to justifie the fidelity of Christians to their unchristian Emperours having no surer evidence to give of that then the frequency of their prayers for them which they which think necessary to abridge or supersede must give us leave by that indication to judge of somewhat else by occasion of that topick to observe their other demonstrations of disloyalty to those that are set over them by God And to any that are not guilty of that crime nor yet of another of thinking all length of the publick service unsupportable I shall referre it to be judged whether it be necessary that the King be prayed for in the Church no oftner then there is a Sermon there Sect. 36 6. The Communion of Saints which if it were no Article in our Creed ought yet to be laid up as one of the Christians tasks or duties consists in that mutuall exchange of charitie and all seasonable effects of it between all parts of the Church that triumphant in heaven Christ and the Saints there and this on earth militant which he that disclaims by that one act of insolence casts off one of the noblest priviledges of which this earth is capable to be a fellow citizen with the Saints and a fellow member with Christ himself The effects of this charity on their parts is in Christs intercession and in the Saints suffrages and dayly prayers to God for us but on our part thanksgivings and commemorations which 't is apparent the Primitive Christians used very early solemnizing the day of Christs resurrection c. and rehearsing the names of the Saints out of their Diptycks in time of the offertory before the Sacrament besides this so solemn a Christian duty another act of charity there is which the Church ows to her living sonnes the educating of them in the presence of good examples and setting a remark of honour on all which have lived Christianly especially have died in testimony of the truth of that profession and again a great part of the New Testament being story of the lives of Christ and his Apostles and the rest but doctrine agreeable to what those lives expressed it must needs be an excellent compendium of that book and a most usefull way of infusing it into the understanding and preserving it in the memory of the people to assigne proper portions of Scripture in Lessons Epistles and Gospels to every day every Sunday every Festivall in the yeare which are none in our Church but for the remembrance of Christ and the Scripture-Saints to infuse by those degrees all necessary Christian knowledge and duties into us the use of which to the ignorant is so great that it may well be feared that when the Festivals and solemnities for the birth of Christ and his other famous passages of life and death and resurrection and ascension mission of the holy Ghost and the Lessons Gospels and Collects and Sermons upon them be turn'd out of the Church together with the Creeds also 't will not be in the power of weekly Sermons on some head of Religion to keep up the knowledge of Christ in mens hearts a thing it seems observ'd by the Casuists who use to make the number of those things that are necessariò credenda necessary to be believed no more then the Festivals of Christ make known to men and sure by the ancient Fathers whose Preaching was generally on the Gospels for the day as apears by their Sermons de tempore and their postils To all these ends are all these Festivals and these Services designed by the Church and to no other that is capable of any the least brand of novell or superstitious and till all this antidote shall be demonstrated to be turned poyson all these wholesome designes to be