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saint_n	catholic_a	church_n	creed_n	1,395	5	10.7130	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17019	A manual of praiers vsed by the fathers of the primatiue Church for the most part within the foure first hundred yeares of Christ, & al before the end of the sixt hundred yeare: diuided into seueral chapters. Wherin by the very praiers of the Apostles, and their successors, (here related without anie word or sillable, added or altered) al the cheifest questio[n]s now in controuersie, are inuincible proued for the holy doctrine of the present Roman Church; by which we are instructed how to beleeue, and what to practise in deuotion. By R. B. P.	Broughton, Richard.	1618 (1618)	STC 3899; ESTC S114459	45,830	122

A MANVAL OF PRAIERS VSED BY THE FATHERS OF THE PRIMAtiue Church for the most part within the foure first hundred yeares of Christ al before the end of the sixt hundred yeare diuided into seueral Chapters Wherin by the very praiers of the Apostles and their successors here related without anie word or sillable added or altered al the cheifest questiōs now in controuersie are inuincibly proued for the holy doctrine of the present Roman Church by which we are instructed how to beleeue and what to practise in deuotion By R. B. P. Simb Apostol I beleeue the holy Catholicke Church With Licence 1618. TO OVR MOST REnowmed Queene Anne And al her Right honorable and other Ladies MOST GRATIOVS QVEENE RIght noble and other worthy Ladies as by place of dignitie you are honorable in this world and honour is that which many of you enough if not to much affect to haue and being had continue as careful to encrease and feareful not to loase it So seeing you consist as al men and women doe of two portions the cheif and best by nature immortal and the other after a short life and death to be cloathed with immortalitie and al honors and pleasures here be fading mortal and no obiects of delight for creatures immortal It is wisdome in time for al that loue and desire honor to prouide how to ioyne honor immortality together for most sure it is that both you and al humane kinde shal be immortal and if we seeke not here for a better honour then this which is mortal we shal remaine without honour and be in dishonour for euer And al who haue or claime title vnto honour must also render true and due honour to euerie one more honourable in degree For to render honour is the vrgent and bynding law of God Nature and Nations But they which be often honourable in this world are not alwaies so strictly bound for accepting or seeking honour And because I do not doubt but manie or most of you are expert enough in the second case of admitting honour vnto your s●●ues and as negligent or ignorant in the former so generally commanding precept of performing honour office and dutie I haue to condemne ignorance wilfulnes and al vaine euasions perused the bookes of armorie of the best and most anutient Heraldes in the Religion of Christ next vnder him his holie Apostles their happie successors the practises of Apostolick and al Churches with the learned vertuous Fathers of this sacred Primatiue vnspotted Church of the first second third fourth fift and none after the sixt hundred yeare after Christ and out of them gathered together and set downe in this breife Summarie of true honour To whom when where how and what honour these most diuine and honourable persons yelded vnto others nor by anie priuate inference or exposition of mine owne but in the very wordes praiers them selues without anie sillable added or altered by which those holie Churches Fathers publikly professed and proposed to al posterities that inward faith which they beleued and also that office dutie and honor which they and al good Christiās owe and ought to render That except anie men or women naming them selues Christians wil be so impious Antichristians to condemne these most holie guides and Pastors in the kingdome of Christ and now by these professions of their faith performinges of dutie and honour glorious and happie Sainctes in heauen and our most B. Sauiour Redemer him self Christ Iesus to be a seducer the cheifest controuersies of this time in Religion being in this short Treatise by these inuincible Argumentes and authorities demonstratiuely proued made euident and adiudged for the most sacred doctrine of the present Romane Church wil haue an end the wilful and obstinate inuincibly refuted the ignorant truly instructed the vniustly persecuted truly rewarded and pitied most sacred preisthood and Sacrifice by many so prophanly vsed wil here thus proued appeare most reuerent holy and glorious To be breife what homage honour dutie loue pitie compassion or releife we owe and must render to the Church Triumphant Militant or patient that we may truly with the other Articles of our holie Creede beleue and confesse the holie Catholicke Church the Communion of Sainctes they are here thus manifestly and vndeniably determined and al cheifest matters now called into question so decided Diuers praiers of this subiect I haue wholly here omitted being alreadie lately published in my Manual of Meditations and Prayers And in some few Cōtrouersies though of least momēt because their praiers do not belong to al estates for which this booke is published I haue bene silent The cause why I principally dedicate it to you is not to make you patrons of the praiers of Sainctes and their holie faith but to make them Patrones vnto you not to constitute you Iudges of the honour which is due to the High Queene and Ladie in Heauen but to make you ladies there nor to make your vnlearned sexe vmpeare ouer the whole Church of God but to procure you to be true members of that holie companie forth of which there is no saluation not because I woud exclude your Lordes whom I duly honour but to haue it presented to them by you and you in knowing and performing the true honours and duties here remembred to be more honourable both to them and others and them by this and your example to learne and do the honours and duties they owe to others Neither do I omitte the inferiour of your kind to be grateful vnto you though the vertuous among you I honour with double honour that liue in state But because vertue or vice is often learned from the higher I wish you the first and you therin to be imitated and made a Rule And so in al dutie I shal euer rest Your Maiesties dutiful subiect and Ladiships true seruāt and frend R. B. P. The Table of the contentes The first Chapter containeth praiers concerning Iustification which is not by faith alone The 2. Chapter Iustification and merite of Almes Sacrifice suffering persecution Praiers of Sainctes other good deedes in grace The 3. Chapter of the Communion of the Militant Church with the Triumphant in honour praier protection and first of our B. Ladie S. Marie the Mother of God The 4. Chapter of the same The 5. Chapter of Praier and honour to the holie Angels and their Protection The 6. Chapter of praier and honour to al the Sainctes in heauen in general their protection The 7. Chapter to Sainctes in particular deceased before the Passion of Christ The 8. Chapter of praier honour vnto and the patronage of Sainctes in particular after the Passion of Christ The 9. Chapter the old Lytanies of the Church The 10. Chapter Reuerence of holie Reliques The 11. Chapter praiers for one departed out of this life The 12. Chapter praiers for al faithful deceased The 13. Chapter praiers before receiuing the B. Sacrament