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A25834	Secret and family prayers with brief helps for the more devout receiving of the Lords-Supper And better observation of the Lords-day, as also to further the needfull duties of catechizing, visiting the sick, and personal instruction. Fitted for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Cartmel in Lancashire.	Armstrong, John, 1634 or 5-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing A3708A; ESTC R214879	44,221	112

with his own Blood By the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one both night and day with tears S. Luke 12. 42. Who then is that faithfull and wise Steward whom his Lord shall make Ruler over his Houshold to give them their portion of meat in due season Col. 1. 28. Whom we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all Wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Mal. 2. 7. For the Priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hosts S. Mark 4. 34. And when they were alone he expounded all things to his Disciples Hebr. 5. 12. Ye have need that one teach you again which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God and are become such as have need of Milk and not of strong Meat 1 Cor. 4 1. Let a man so account of us as of the Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God Hebr. 13. 17. Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you 1 Thess 5. 12 13. We beseech you Brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake and be at peace among your selves A brief Explication or Profession of our Faith taken out of Scripture for the better understanding and improvement of the Apostles Creed I Believe that there is one only true God who is a Spirit infinitely glorious and being One in Nature is yet Three in Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost which are three and one after a wonderfull and mysterious manner The Father God the Son God and the Holy Ghost God and yet not three Gods but one God infinite in Being Wisdom Power and Goodness the Maker Preserver and Disposer of all things the must just and most mercifull Lord of all I believe that Mankind being fallen by sin from God and Happiness under the wrath of God the curse of his Law and the power of the Devil God so loved the World that he gave his only Son to be their Redeemer who being God and one with the Father became Man also in the same Person by taking to him our Nature as to which he was conceived by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and born of her without sin and named Jesus Christ and having lived on earth without sin and wrought many miracles for a witness of his Truth he gave up himself a Sacrifice for our sins and a Ransom for us in suffering death on the Cross and being buried he rose again the third day and afterward ascended into Heaven where he is Lord of all in Glory with the Father And having ordained and appointed that all that truly repent and believe in Him and love him above all things and sincerely obey him and that to the death shall be saved and that they that will not shall be damned and commanded his Ministers to publish thus much and to preach the Gospel to the World he will come again and raise the bodies of all Men from death and will judge all men according to what they have done in the Body I believe that God the Holy Ghost the Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son was sent by them to inspire and guide the Prophets and Apostles that they might fully reveal the Doctrine of Christ and by multitudes of evident Miracles to be the great witness of Christ and of the Truth of his holy Word and also to dwell and work in all that are drawn to believe that being first joyned unto Christ their Head and into one Church which is his Body and so pardoned and made the Sons of God they may be a peculiar People sanctified to Christ and may overcome the world the flesh and the devil and being zealous of good Works may serve God in Holiness and Righteousness and may live in the special love and Communion of the Saints and in hope of Christs appearing and of everlasting life I do heartily take this One God in the Trinity of Persons for my only God and my chief good And this Jesus Christ for my only Lord-Redeemer and Saviour And this Holy Ghost for my Sanctifier and Comforter and the Doctrine by him revealed and witnessed by his Miracles and now contained in the Holy Scriptures I do take for the Law of God and the rule of my Faith and Life And repenting unfeignedly of my sins I do resolve through the grace of God sincerely to obey him both in Holiness to God Righteousness to Men and in special love to the Saints and in Communion with them against all the temptations of the devil flesh or world and this to death The Catechism or Christian Doctrine and Practice Note that the first eight Questions and Answers contain the foregoing Profession and the four last do express the Particulars contained in the two words Holiness and Righteousness and in the Ten Commandments Question 1. What do you believe concerning God THere is one only God in three Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost who is Infinite in Being Power Wisdom and Goodness the Maker Preserver and Disposer of all things and the most just and mercifull Lord of all 1 Cor. 8. 4 6 1 John 5. 7. 1 Tim. 1. 17. Psal 139. 7 8 9 Isa 40. 17. Revel 4. 8. Psal 147. 5. Nehem 9. 6. Psal 135. 6. Revel 15. 3. Exod. 34. 6. Quest 2. How did God make man and who Law did he give him God made Man for himself after his own image in Righteousness and true Holiness and gave him a righteous Law requiring perfect obedience upon pain of death Prov. 16. 4. Gen. 1. 26 27. 2. 16 17. Rom. 6. 23. Deut. 27. 26. Gal. 3. 10. Quest 3. Did man keep or break this Law Man being tempted by Satan did wilfully sin and so fall from God and Happiness under the wrath of God the curse of the Law and the power of the Devil so that we are by Nature dead in sin and prone to do more evil continually and to grow worse and to depart yet further from God Gen. 3. Rom. 5. 12 18. 3. 23. 6. 23. Eph. 2. 12. Hos 14. 1. Eph. 2. 2 3 5. Gal. 3. 10 13. Acts 26. 18. Gen. 6. 5. 2 Tim. 3. 13. Hos 13. 2. 2 Tim. 2. 16. Quest 4. How was Man redeemed God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son to be their Redeemer who being God and One with the Father did take to him our Nature and became Man being conceived by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and born of her and called Jesus Christ and having lived on earth without sin and wrought many Miracles

without many vain repetitions and broken impertinent expressions have quite left off the Duty it self T is true some few may attain an habit of uttering their Desires freely and becomingly upon any occasion yet the most though well-minded People are so defective both in their Conceptions and Utterance that they greatly need the Assistance which is here offered them and ought by no means to be discouraged from performing thus safely and piously their known Duty towards God especially considering that when we pray for such things as are contained in the Scriptures which are from the Spirit of God and when by the same Blessed Spirit helping our infirmities we are enabled to Pray for those things fervently and sincerely we do truly pray by the Gift or Assistance of the Spirit whether the Prayer we use be written in a Book or imprinted in the Memory or suddenly uttered and such a Prayer is acceptable unto God who looks not at the outward varied expressions of the Tongue but the inward holy Affections of the Heart And so our Saviour pray'd in or by the Spirit when he repeated the same requests at several times and so still do all plain and honest-hearted People when they devoutly use that form of Prayer which he hath taught us or any other after that manner judiciously composed The Prayers Directions and Catechisms of the following Book I have for the most part collected out of several approved Authours of great Judgement Learning Piety and Christian experience only fitting them with needfull Alterations and Additions for your easier use and benefit And in the whole you have comprehended those things which make for your greater Holiness here and Happiness hereafter which are often more fully explained by the publick Ministry of the Word and which agree with the sense of the most and best Christians in the truly Catholick or universall Church beginning at Jerusalem and dispersed throughout the whole Christian World Yet I doubt not but many deceivers and deceived who have cast off the Ordinances of Christ and lately taken up a new Religion of their own devising building their Altars of false Worship besides the Altar of the Lord these will be ready to revile me for my pains to call me Deceiver as some did the Apostles themselves to prate maliciously against me and to oppose and gainsay what I am doing that they may hinder your being benefited thereby But I beseech you do you hold fast the form of sound Words or Christian Doctrine which you have received in Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus adhere to the Spirit Ministry and Ordinances of Christ keep in the Communion of his Saints and People and as you have the true Religion so be true unto your Religion by living accordingly and my Soul for yours by the Grace of God you shall not miscarry Be not offended at the bad lives of some there will be tares among the good Wheat 'till the Harvest Be not offended at the errours and heresies of others of your own selves says the Apostle shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them And again There must be Heresies among you that they which be approved may be made manifest among you There will be unstable and unlearned People who will boldly wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction But remember how God hath given Pastours and Teachers for the Work of the Ministry c. That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive Therefore be not carried about with divers and strange Doctrines for it is a good thing that the heart be established with Grace Hold fast the Profession of your Faith without wavering Mark them that cause Divisions and avoid them Let not your soul come into their secret out of Curiosity least when you forsake his ways God justly forsake your Understandings and leave you to your selves and so you be led by your corrupt Natures to close sooner with that which is evil then with that which is good And if at any time you cannot fully answer such objections as cunning Deceivers may make against any thing contained in this Book or in our holy Religion do not as some have done therefore presently turn to them without any more ado do not think that because you cannot answer them that no body else can do not suffer your selves and your Religion to be so soon so sadly and shamefully parted but in the name of God I most humbly and most earnestly beseech you take the pains to acquaint me with them or with my consent and assistance to consult such faithfull and able Ministers of Christ as will help you most clearly to see the weakness and falshood of those arguments which so much puzled you before Remember I beseech you that this is the advice of one whom God by his gracious Providence and Holy Spirit hath made your Overseer and the Guide of your Souls of one who hath the same care for your Salvation that he hath for his own Who can as truly rejoyce to see the fruit of his labours in your Holy Walking as you can to reap a plentifull Harvest after your Labours or to see your Children do well according to your care and trouble about them Of one concerning whom with others Christ hath said He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me Remember that this is the advice of one who is always near you and is in some measure acquainted with your Condition and is ever ready to direct and assist you as your Necessities shall require Remember that this is the advice of one who is devoted to the Work of the Ministry and the Service of your Souls and so may more reasonably then others that are not so set apart expect as it is his daily Prayer to be led of God in the ways of Truth and Holiness that he may lead you in them to and to be blessed of God that he may be made a Comfort and a Blessing unto you Remember further that this is the Advice of one who having lived long among you sincerely loves you and hath no other design upon you but by all Good means to promote your Happiness and to prevent your utter Undoing of one lastly who is ready to spare neither Cost nor Pains for your real Good as in other things so in helping you to practice what is contained in this Book which I intreat you to accept of and to use as a testimony of my Unfeigned Desires of your Eternal welfare recommending both it and you to the Blessing and Protection of Almighty God and ever remaining Your Servant for Christs sake J. A. Eph. 6. 18 19. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and Watching thereunto with all Perseverance and Supplication for all Saints And for

me c. S. Mat. 26. 41. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that have not known thee and upon the Families that call not on thy Name S. Mat. 6. 6. But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly 1 Cor. 11. 26 27 28. For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. But let a Man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. S. Luke 22. 19 20. And he took Bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying this is my Body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me Likewise also the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood which is shed for you We may sometime begin our Closet Prayers admiring with S. Augustine Gods glorious Perfections WHAT art thou O my God what art thou I beseech thee but the Lord my God for who is Lord besides our Lord or who is God besides our God O thou Supreme most powerfull most mercifull most just most secret most present most beautifull most incomprehensible most constant and yet changing all things immutable never new and never old and yet renewing all things ever in Action yet ever at rest heaping up yet needing nothing creating upholding filling protecting nourishing and perfecting all things Thou lovest and yet thou art not transported thou art angry yet never art unquiet thou art jealous yet void of fear thou dost repent yet art thou free from sorrow Thou requirest profit at our hands yet who hath any thing but of thy Gift Thou payest debts when thou owest nothing Thou forgivest debts and yet thou loosest nothing And what shall I say O my God my life my joy my holy dear delight or what can any Man say when he speaketh of Thee and wo be to them that speak not of Thee but are silent in thy Praise for even they who speak most of Thee may be accounted to be but dumb Have mercy upon me O Lord that I may speak unto thee and praise thy Name Amen A Prayer for all Conditions of Men. Note that one alone may say We and Our and Us as usually in the Lords Prayer because of the Communion of Saints O God the Creator and Preserver of all Mankind we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of Men that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them thy Saving Health unto all Nations More especially we pray for the good estate of the Catholick Church that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of Truth and hold the Faith in unity of Spirit in the bond of Peace and in Righteousness of life And we also commend unto thy Fatherly Goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in Mind Body or Estate that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their severall necessities giving them Patience under their Sufferings and an happy Issue out of all their Afflictions and this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the King and Kingdom ANd that in one Blessing we may all of us be blest I beseech thee O thou who art the Maker and Saviour of all Kings and Nations of the earth to bless our dread Soveraign Lord King CHARLES with the richest Blessings of thy Grace Strengthen him with the faith of Abraham endue him with the mildness of Moses arm him with the magnanimity of Joshua exalt him with the humility of David assist him with the counsel of Hushai beautifie him with the wisdom of Solomon and replenish him with the Goodness and Holiness of them all that so he may be a powerfull Protector of his People a religious Defender of thy sacred Faith a bountifull comforter of thy Holy Church a glorious Triumpher over all his enemies a gracious Governour of all his Subjects and a happy Father of children to rule this Nation by Succession in all ages O let his Reign be prosperous and his Days many let Peace and Plenty Love and Piety Justice and Truth and all Christian vertues flourish in his time Let his People serve him with honour and obedience and let him so love and serve Thee here on Earth that he may hereafter everlastingly reign with Thee in Heaven through Jesus Christ our Lord. Here may be added the Prayers or Thanks-givings in the Book of Common Prayer upon their severall Occasions Sometimes also the Creed may be repeated with that pithy Ejaculation said before it Lord I believe help my unbelief And the Ten Commandments with that short Prayer after them Lord have mercy upon us and write all these thy Laws in our Hearts we beseech thee Here also may be said the Morning or Evening Collect respectively on our own and the behalf of those that belong to us O Lord our Heavenly Father Almighty and Everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this Day defend us in the same with thy Mighty Power and grant that this Day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy Governance to do alwaies that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lighten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great Mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this Night for the love of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen A general Thanksgiving O Most gracious God I give thee humble and hearty Thanks for all thy Goodness and Loving kindness to me and to all men I bless thee for my Creation Preservation and all the Blessings of this life but above all for thine inestimable love in the Redemption of the World by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of Grace and for the hope of Glory And I beseech thee give me that due sense of all thy Mercies that my heart may be unfeignedly thankfull and that I may set forth thy Praise not only with my lips but in my life by giving up my self to thy Service and by walking before thee in Holiness and Righteousness all my days through Jesus Christ my Lord to whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen A devout Prayer which may be used at any time by one alone GRant me O gracious Lord in what lawfull undertaking soever a pure intention of Heart and a stedfast regard of thy Glory let Christ be my pattern thy Word my rule