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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

in passion may censure to be so for we are to hope the best of all and condemn not Luk. 6.37 lest we be condemned May not a persecuting Paul become an Elect vessel Act. 9.15 and a forsworn Peter go out and weep bitterly But of this more when we shall speak of execrations herafter What wee are to pray for Sufficient limits may be found in that heavenly pattern which our Saviour hath left for that purpose Mat. 26.75 consisting of a Preface petitions and a conclusion In the preface the first word as we have it Our minds us of unity and respect to our brethren as well as of our selves excluding dissention that frustrates our best intentions as also respect of persons in preferring the rich before the poor and censuring others as being not capable of Gods mercies equally with our selves The second word Father assures us of acceptance tells us we are all brethren and that we need not to make our addresses for our wants to others whom we may not term fathers he having will and power to supply us and dislikes that we should seeke further in hope of speeding better for wee have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear Rom. 8.15.16 but we have received the Spirit of Adoption wherby we cry Abba Gal. 4.6.7 Father This Spirit it selfe bearing witness with our spirit that we are the children of God That which followes which art in heaven makes pilgrimages to shrines and reliques superfluous and superstitious Psal 25. Psal 121. Psal 122. For it lifts up our hearts to heaven and heavenly things as the Psalmist teacheth us I lift my heart to thee and unto thee do I lift up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens Ioh. 17. Which our Saviours practice confirmeth These words spake Jesus and lift up his eyes to heaven and said Father the houre is come And tells us moreover that wee have an overseer who looks into all our thoughts words Ps 113.5 and works Who is like unto the Lord our God who hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heaven and in earth The Petitions that succeed are by some made but six but without quarrelling may be reckoned seven In which the order of them shew that spiritual things are to be first looked after Mat. 6.33 and prayed for before temporal according to that of our Saviour first seek the Kingdom of God Mat. 6.33 and the righteousnesse thereof and then temporal matters shall be added as an advantage In which respects Solomons choice pleased God in praying for wisdome 1 King 3.11 before riches and honour for what shall be best for us we shall not want if we prefer the first petition the Hallowing of Gods Name before all temporalities Of this Moses and St. Paul were so tender that the one wished to be blotted out of Gods booke of life Exod. 32.32 Rom. 9.3 The other to be accursed from Christ rather then an aspersion should be cast on God either of impotency in not being able or breach of promise as not performing what he had of his free bounty undertaken for his Church to bring to passe The Hallowing therefore and glorifying and extolling above all things of the infinite Majesty of Gods Name is the thing that we are to esteem of above our own salvation And Name here which signifies Gods Essence Attributes and Commands must be conceived to be no other but that which wee were baptized in including both Father Sonne and Holy Ghost who being of one essence must needs by the same Act of ours equally be honoured or dishonoured The second petition Let thy Kingdome come Instruct us that next after Gods glory the good of his Church must be respected and prayed for that being militant here as it ought it may triumph hereafter as it expects Any thing therefore that may derogate from this must be so far from our prayers that it be rejected as the subject of our chiefest detestations Thirdly Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven guideth all our desires and petitions to be regulated by Gods will revealed in his word the resisting or declining from which must not once come within compasse of our thoughts much lesse of our petitions And now when we descend to beg for supplies in our own behalfe The fourth Petition Give us this day our daily bread how in every word doth it lesson us to exclude exorbitances Give not as due but of thy meer bounty not to one that hath of his own but to those that of unfained necessity are forced to beg with us not for themselves only but for their brethren too who must do the like for them also rich and poor are at Gods gate of mercy must be equally supplicants and that for present supply This day our daily bread must be conferred on us by a continued liberality where under the name of bread are contained apparel dwellings all things necessary to teach moderation to be used in all Gods blessings so that superfluities make not up any part of our petitions And that these blessings be not hindered by our sins The fifth petition puts in a caveat forgive us our trespasses as wee forgive them that trespass against us The condition here expresses the obligation that lies upon us of forgiving others if wee hope to be forgiven of God our selves I say therefore saith our Saviour blesse them that curse you Mat. 5.44 do good to them that hate you pray for them that despightfully use you and persecute you So that an irreconciled petitioner in Gods Court of Requests is like as you see to find no audience And as not for the remission of his own debts so neither to be freed from the assaults and hazards of ruining temptations which makes up the sixth request to be granted of him that only can keep us from and deliver us in the strongest combates of the World the Flesh and also against the most impetuous incursions of the Divel himself desired in the seventh and last Petition All these shew so sufficiently what wee are to ask that wee need not cast about what besides wee should pray for for the Articles of the Apostles Creed shew but the condition of that Kingdome whose coming and prosperity we pray for in the second Petition And what is the loving of God above all things and of our neighbour as our selves but the substance of the ten Commandments that wee desire in the third Petition That the will of God may bee done by us here on earth as it is in Heaven by the Saints and Angels For the more assured obtaining of all which petitions the Conclusion adds this confidence For thine O Father is the Kingdome therefore thou wilt the Power therefore thou canst the Glory therefore in honour thou art in a sort by thy selfe engaged to tender the prayers of thy children subjects and

see that yee walk circumspectly saith the Apostle not as fools Eph. 5.15 16. but as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are evil 5. Sobriety Psa 119.1 for blessed are they that are undefiled in the way and walk in the Law of the Lord which will be a sure guide unto them 6. Peaceableness with their fellow Travellers See that ye fall not out by the way saith Joseph to his brethren which wee most commonly do through vain glory Gal. 5.26 that the Apostle taxeth provoking one an other and envying one another when common calamities or blessings invite us most to unity 7. Cheerfulnesse that sweetneth all the crosses in the way and encourageth us to go on with assrance of the crowne that is set before us Those that sigh and cry for the abominations of the times and see as it were Gods hand lifted up to strike Ezech. 9.4 Rev. 7.3 shall find some marked as in Ezekiel and the Revelation which we shall discern in our selves as we find a conformity between our Actions and Petitions For may not he that as a true Nathaniel without guile finds himselfe Humble in himself Matth. 5 mourning for his owne sins and the iniquity of the times meek to his companions hungring and thirsting to do good to all men Merciful to the miserable Pure in his intentions patient in induring injuries for righteousnesse sake safely conclude that a Mark of Blessednesse is stampt upon him which is the chiefest scope our prayers aim at But what need we go further in this behalf then the Lords Prayer If we find our unbyassed affections striving to compasse the 1. Hallowing of Gods name above all things 2. The promoting of his Kingdom and Church 3. The doing his wil in observance of his word 4. The acknowledging with all thankfulnesse our daily bread and all other necessaries for this life to come from his bounty 5. Our readinesse to forgive all other their trespasses against us that wee may receive remission of all our sins from him 6. Our desires to be freed from all temptations of the flesh and world in which wee should perish being left to our selves And 7. Of protection from the violences and stratagems of that roaring Lion 1 Pet. 5.8 who is daily ranging about seeking whom he may devour Should not such hearty desires which cannot arise from our own strength ascertaine us that the hearty recital of this prayer of the Sons composing hath found favour with the Father to our best advantage in due time to be accomplished Thus have you my dear children the necessity of prayer and to whom it is to be directed the things that we are to pray for and the awful reverence to be used in asking the Impediments that may hinder it and Helps that may make it effectual The Tokens whereby we may conclude that our prayers have found grace to be accepted To put a happy period therefore to this Preparation when we settle our selves to pray 2 Th. 5.17 which the Apostle tels us must be without ceasing 1. The infinite Majesty of God 2. Our own vilenesse 3. The fraud and fury of our adversaries the Flesh the World and the Divel 4 The weight of the businesse wee go about being our utter making or marring 5. The Interest we have in our Saviour Christ Jesus who hath made an Attonement for us 6. The Inevitableness of the account we are to make and the uncertainty of the time we shall be called to it 7. And lastly The strictness of the judgement and unchangeableness that wil pass upon it must most circumspectly and religiously be pondered and laid to heart that so we may profess with the Psalmist Psal 6.8 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping the Lord hath heard my Petition the Lord will receive my prayer Which how you may frame more particularly I shall endeavour to give you plain Directions in that which followes THE SECOND PART Concerning PRIVATE PRAYER PRayers are known to be either Private or Publick Those are to be accounted Private which touch not only on private occafions but as they are differenced from solemne prayers at publick Meeting in the house of God And may be reckoned to be 1. Personal or prayers in secret 2. Houshold or prayers in a Family 3. Blessings or occasional Salutations 4. Psalms Hymns or spiritual Songs appliable to divers occurrences 5. Ejaculations framed on all sorts of conceits or objects 6. Lamentations for sin or miseries 7. Excitations or Incouragements to all kind of Christian cheerfulness and resolution CHAP. I. Of Personall or Prayers in secret IT is a question proposed by the Apostle What man knoweth the things of man 1 Cor. 2.11 save the spirit of man which is in him And cannot be answered otherwise then it is else where by himself Rom. 8.15 16. That the Spirit of Adoption whereby wee cry Abba Father beareth witnesse with our spirit that we are the children of God This Spirit is consciencious to our infirmities Rom. 8.15 16. and most secret sinnes For which if our hearts condemn us God is greater then our hearts to punish or to pity as his justice 1 Joh. 3.20 21 or mercy leads him but if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God The book of conscience in such cases is especially to be consulted with Hence were all those zealous strains of the heavenlie enspired Psalmist Psal 139.1 2 3 4 O God thou hast searched me out and knowne me thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before Thou art about my path and about my bed and spiest out all my wayes For lo there is not a word in my mouth but thou O Lord knowest it altogether To the same purpose is that considerate acknowledgment in an other place Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse mee from my secret faults keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins lest they get the dominion over me so shal I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence Psal 19.12 13 14. Here is a growth of sin as of an infant in the womb from scarce sensible motions to close committed offences which if they meet not with some publick check they will dare by degrees to appear in publick and amount at length to that great offence that seareth the conscience 1 Tim. 4.2 and makes it regardlesse of hell or heaven This Cocatrice not crushed in the egge will soon become a most dangerous flying serpent which can be quelled only with personal prayers Isa 14.49 opposed to the temptations terrors and assaults wee are most molested with Now these are only known to God and our selves and the Father that observeth in secret our retired suits will reward us openly to his own glory and our best advantage This Jacob was fully perswaded of and therefore upon the affrighting newes of