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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70321	A view of the nevv directorie and a vindication of the ancient liturgie of the Church of England in answer to the reasons pretended in the ordinance and preface, for the abolishing the one, and establishing the other.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). Proclamation commanding the use of the Booke of common prayer.	1646 (1646)	Wing H614B; ESTC R2266	98,033	122

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 proportion'd to those sorts in that text yet have we distributed the frequent prayers for him into the severall services one solemne prayer for him in the ordinary daily service and only a versicle before as it were prooemiall to it another in the Letany another after the commandements of which though our book hath two formes 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 supreame of it just as Herodotus relates the custome of the Persians l. 1. p. 52. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they pray for all the Persians peculiarly 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 thankes for Kings yet certainly somewhat else in that high Declaration made concerning it in the next words for this is good and acceptable before Good our Saviour whose acceptation is reward sufficient to any action and yet who never accepts but rewards also 2. The practice of the antient Christians set down by Tertull. Sacrificamus pro salute Imperatoris pura prece our prayers are sent up a pure sacrifice for the prosperity of the Emperor 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 Casaris vota sunt praying alwaies for the Emperours and begging of God for them long life secure reigne the safety of his house couragious Armies a faithfull Senate a good people a quiet world all those severalls which would make up more prayers then our book hath assigned all that either as Man or King they can stand in need of and so Athenagoras 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 thinke necessary to abbridge or supercede must give us leave by that indication to judge of somewhat else by occasion of that to pick 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 publike service unsupportable I shall refer 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 charity 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 disclaimes 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 ●llow-member with Christ himselfe The effects of this charity on their parts is in Christ intercession and in the Saints suffrages and daily prayers to God for us but on our part thankesgivings 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 Dipticks in time of the offertory before the Sacrament besides this so solemne a Christian duty another act of charity there is which the Church owes to her living sonnes the educating them in the presence of good examples and setting a remarke 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 Gospells to every day every Sunday every Festivall in the year 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 Festivalls and solemnities for the birth of Christ and his other famous passages of life and death and resurrection and ascension and mission of the Holy Ghost and the Lessons Gospells 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 beleeved no more then the Festivalls of Christ make known to men and sure by antient Fathers whose Preaching was generally on the Gospells for the day as appears 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 turn'd poyson all these wholesome designes to be perfectly noxious till ill or no examples uncharitablenesse schismaticall cutting ourselves off from being fellow-members with the Saints and even with Christ our head till ingratitude ignorance and Atheisme it selfe be canonized for Christian and Saint-like and the onely things tending to edification in a Church there will hardly appeare any so much as politick necessity to turn these out of it Sect 37 7. For the reading of the Commandements and prayer before and the responses after each of them though it be not antiently