Commandements Grant we beseech thee Almighty God that the words which we have heard this day with our outward eares may through thy grace be so graffed inwardly in our hearts that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living Sanctify and wash these children with the Holy Ghost Prayer 1. in Baptisme that they being delivered from thy wrath may be received into the Arke of Christs Church being stedfast in faith joyfull through hope and rooted in charity may so passe the waves of this troublesome world that finally they may come to the land of everlasting life I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father Cat in common prayer booke quest 13. who is the giver of all goodnes to send his grace unto me and to all people that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to doe Daily increase in these thy servants Prayer 1. in confirm thy manifold gifts of grace the spirit of wisdome and understanding the spirit of counsaile and ghostly strength the spirit of knowledge and true godlinesse and fulfill them O Lord with the spirit of thy holy feare Almighty and everliving God Prayer 3. which makest us both to will and to doe those things that be good and acceptable unto thy Majesty The Lord so fill you with all spirituall benediction and grace that you may so live together in this life The Blessing in marriage that in the world to come you may have life everlasting Send thy blessing upon these thy servants Prayer 2. in Matrim that they obeying thy will and alwayes being in safety under thy protection may abide in thy love to their lives end Grant that this man may love his wife according to thy word Prayer 4. and also that this woman may be a follower of holy and godly Matrons Almighty God poure upon you the riches of his grace sanctifie and blesse you Prayer 5. in Matrim that ye may please him both in body and soule and live together in holy love unto your lives end Give this thy servant grace so to take thy visitation Prayer 2. in visita of the sicke Prayer 3. that after this painfull life ended he may dwell with thee in life everlasting Renew in this thy servant most loving Father whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the Devill or by his owne carnall will and frailenesse Thou most worthy Judge eternall Sentence 4. in the buriall Last prayer in buriall suffer us not at our last houre for any paines of death to fall from thee We meekly beseech thee O Father to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousnesse O Holy Ghost Visit our mindes and unto us Veni Creator Spiritus thy heavenly grace inspire That in all truth and godlinesse we may have true desire To us such plenty of thy grace In the same bymne good Lord grant we thee pray That thou mayst be our comforter at the last dreadfull day Grant we pray not with lips alone Lords pray by D. Coxe Prayer last in order Deacons But with the hearts deepe sigh and grove Make these Deacons to be modest humble and constant in their ministration to have a ready will to observe all spirituall discipline that they continuing ever stable and strong in thy Sonne Christ may well use themselves in this office Almighty God our heavenly Father Prayer 2. in Consecr of Bishops who hath given you a good-will to doe all these things c. Governe us by thy holy Spirit to frame in us a newnesse of life therein to laud and magnifie thy blessed name for ever Prayers in the fast 1625. Coll. 1. and to live every one of us according to the severall state of life whereunto thou Lord hast ordained us in godly feare and trembling before thee Grant us grace and true repentance stedfast faith Prayers in the fast 1625. Coll. 1. and constant patience that whither we live or die we may alwayes continue thine and ever praise thy holy name and by thy great mercy be pertakers of grace in this life eternall glory in the life to come Grant us a due care and conscience in our selves to use all good meanes of recovery Prayer 6. added to the Letany that neither we tempt thy Majesty by presumption in contemning of the contagion or neglecting of the meanes of avoiding removing and repressing the same neither despaire of thy goodnesse or murmure against the providence if we be not so soone eased and delivered as we desire but that we may submitting our selves in all things to thy good will and pleasure seeke thy mercifull favour for our release and succour by true faith and repentance use the meanes for ease which thou givest us with care and diligence helpe the afflicted and preserve the whole with compassionate pitty and charity and finally depend upon thy providence and waite for thy gracious deliverance with constant hope and patience Send us light in our understanding Prayers in the fast 1626. Pray 1. added to Letany Art 10. readinesse and obedience in our will We can doe nothing pleasing to God without Gods grace through Christ preventing us that we may have a good will and working with us when we have a good will In the man that is born again the understanding is inlightned Rogers on that Art Prop. 3. and the minde wholly changed and the body is made able to produce good works They that are predestinated are both justified by faith Prop. 7. on Art 17. and sanctified by the Spirit and shall be glorified in the life to come Grant that the King may through thy grace in all honour Prayer for March 27.1 Pr. added to Letany Last prayer save one vertue and godlinesse continue his glorious reigne over us many yeers Blesse the Kings royall allyance with the dew of thy heavenly Spirit that they ever trusting in thy goodnesse and protected by thy power may after death obtain eternall glory The Scriptures have power to turn through Gods promise Hom. of exhort to read Script Part. 1. In the same place Part. 2. and be effectuall through Gods assistance In reading Gods word he profits most that is most turned into it that is most inspired with the holy Ghost Read not the Scriptures without daily praying to God that he would direct your reading to good effect In the same place Ser. of Salu. Part. 1. In the same place Serm. of Truth Part. 1. Sermon against adultery In the same place Let us pray to God that we may speak think beleeve live and depart hence according to the wholsome doctrin of the Scriptures True faith is not ours but by Gods working in us A true and lively faith is the gift of God God gave the Fathers then grace to be his children as he doth us now We are sanctified and made holy by the blood of Christ through
disobey the Gospel of truth preached They which be indued with so excellent a benefit of God that is predestination be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season Artic. 17. they though grace obey the calling they be made like the image of Christ In Christ Jesus of the meere will and purpose of God some are elected Mr. Rogers comment Prop. 5. and not others unto salvation Adversaries unto this truth Hereby is discovered the impiety of those men Mr. Rogers in the same place which think that God beheld in every man whither he would use his grace well and beleeve the Gospel or no and as he saw a man affected so did predestinate chuse or refuse him Such as be ordained to everlasting life Expos of Prop. 6. if they live long in this world they one time or other be called unto the knowledge of salvation by the preaching of Gods word they obey that calling through the operation of the Holy Ghost working within them The predestinate are both justified by faith Prop. 7. sanctified by the Spirit and shall be glorified in the life to come Divers be the effects of mans predestination Expos of Prop. 7. but chiefely it bringeth to the elect justification by faith in this life and in the life to come glorification c. as testify all the Churches in their confessions The word of God is the savour of life unto eternall life unto all those Hom. of inform of such as take offence at some places of Script Part. 2. Hom. of almes deeds Part. 2. whose hearts God hath purified by true faith God of his speciall favour toward them whom he hath appointed to salvation hath so offered his grace especially and they have so received it fruitfully that the spirit of God mightily working in them now unto obedience to Gods will they declare by their life and good deeds which cannot come but of the Spirit of God and his especiall grace that they are the undoubted children of God appointed to everlasting life All spirituall gifts and graces come specially from God Sermon for Rogat week Part. 3. Faith is the gift of God and by his power we are kept through faith unto salvation We shall never be able to avoyd sinne without the speciall grace of him Sermon of Repentance Part. 2. Ioh. 15. Now. Cat. quest 150. that doth say without me ye can do nothing All those whom God hath chosen he hath restored unto holinesse of life and innocency CHAP. IIII. Of Gods work in infants IT is evident out of the first Chapter that men are as dead to God by nature as infants and as unable to repent and beleeve Now children are not spiritually quickned by power of any morall swasion but by an effectuall divine operation as the books in sundry places affirme SAnctifie these children and wash them with the holy Ghost Publike Baptisme Prayer 1. We call upon thee for these infants that they coming to thy holy Baptisme Prayer 2. may receive remission of their sins by spirituall regeneration O mercifull God grant The short prayers after the promise made by the sureties that the old man in these children may be so buryed that the new man may be raised up in them Grant that all carnall affections may die in them and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in them Grant that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our office and ministry may also be endued with heavenly vertues CHAP. V. Of the giving of internall grace to men THose places that affirme that God gives grace as faith and repentance and the like prove that God doth more then perswade externally or give some power that men may beleeve or repent because they say that God gives the things themselves God is not the giver of that which we attain to only by his perswasion nor chiefly to be commended for it but he that attains to it as on the contrary the devill was not the authour of Adams sinne nor chiefly to be condemned for it because he did but perswade him to it Adams own will did it and himself was most to be blamed for it So in all Logick and Law the actour is the principall the Counsellers are instruments and accessaries And Kings were ever held above their Councell and more praise worthy for doing well then they for advising Now that God gives us those graces let us heare out of the Records Lord from whom all good things doe come Collect. 5. Sunday af-Easter Collect. 7. Sunday after Trinity Sunday 23. Prayer 1. in Matrim Lords prayer by D. Cox Lord which art the author and giver of all good things God the author of all godlinesse O eternall God giver of all spirituall grace the author of everlasting life Thine Holy Ghost into us poure with all his gifts most plenteously See more to the same purpose in the Homily for Rogation weeke Part. 1.2.3 Now. Cat. quest 249. O God from whom all holy desires Even pray Coll. 2. all good counsailes and all just works doe proceed That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Councell and all the Nobility with grace The Letany The Letany Also Coll. 13. after Trin. That it may please thee to give to all thy people encrease of grace to heare meekely thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit Thou in thy gifts art manifold Come holy Ghost eternall God whereby Christs Church doth stand In faithfull hearts writing thy law the finger of Gods hand Wee beseech him to grant us true repentance Absolution Short prayafter the Creede Coll. Quin. sunday Coll. 7. sun after Trin. Prayer for Church mil. Reason 2. of Confirm Indue thy Ministers with righteousnesse Send thy Holy Ghost and poure into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity Graffe in our hearts the love of thy name Inspire continually the universall Church with the Spirit of truth unity and concord Confirmation is ministred to them that be baptised that by imposition of hands and prayer they may receive strength and defence against all temptations to sinne and the assaults of the world and the devill Arme and make strong thy feeble hoast Lords pray by D. Coxe with faith and with the Holy Ghost Every good and heavenly gift as faith hope Hom. of fast Part. 2. charity cometh onely and solely of God God give us grace to follow Christs example in peace and charity in patience and sufferance Pass Ser. 1. Thou hast received Christs body to have within Resur serm thee the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost for to dwell with thee to endow thee with grace to streng then thee against thine enemies By the assistance of Gods holy Spirit we be replenished with all righteousnesse In the same place by his power we are able to subdue all our
nor devill against us doe prevaile In the same hymne And grant O Lord that thou being our leader and our guide We may eschew the snares of sinne and from thee never slide Onely thy grace must be my stay Humble suit of sin least that I fall downe flat And being downe then of my selfe cannot recover that Lord keepe our King and his councell Prayer to the Holy Ghost before Serm. Hom. of faith Part. 3. Hom. of Inform of them which take offence c. Part. 1. In the same place and give them will and might To persevere in thy Gospel which can put sinne to flight It is God that must be our defence and protection against all temptation of wickednesse and sinne Noah and Lot godly men which otherwise felt inwardly Gods holy Spirit inflaming them in their hearts with the feare and love of God could not by their owne strength keepe themselves from committing horrible sinnes We must therefore acknowledge our owne infirmity and weaknesse and pray more earnestly to God incessantly for his grace to strengthen us and to defend us from all evill It is of the goodnesse of God Serm. for Rogat week Part. 3. that we faint not in our hope unto him It is verily Gods worke in us the charity wherewith we love our brethren If after our fall we repent it is by him that we repent which reacheth forth his mercifull hand to raise us up If any will we have to rise it is he that preventeth our will and disposeth us thereto Pray God to defend and maintaine you in marriage Hom. of Matrim Now. Cat. quest 206. that ye be not overcome with any temptations We pray that God would strengthen the members of his Church with his aide and power as his souldiers that they may earnestly fight against and subdue the devill the world and the lusts of the flesh We pray God not to suffer us to be overcome with any wicked temptation but that he will deliver us quest 224. and save us from all evill Direct our steps in thy word Psal for Even and so shall our feet be kept from falling and no wickednesse shall have dominion over us Deliver us from the power of wicked spirits Even prayer there and from all sinne the workes of darknesse and from all other perils bodily and ghostly CHAP. XII Of the progresse of the Regenerate THe servants of God that are regenerate though they be able to doe spirtuall actions by vertue of that grace they have received yet so unperfectly that they cannot make any great progresse in godlinesse without further helpe of Gods grace they acknowledge that they have of Gods assistance to bring into action their good cogitations so violently are they opposed by the remainders of fleshly corruption Now if the regenerate have need of Gods grace to make a progresse how much more have they need of his effectuall grace that have no power to regenerate themselves as we say or at least not so much as the regenerate have to proceed as our adversaries must say unlesse they will put no difference betwixt spirituall death and spirituall life Let us now heare the testimony of the bookes in this particular Grant that we being regenerate Collect. on Christmas day and made thy children by adoption and grace may daily be renued by thy holy Spirit Nourish us with all goodnesse Sund. 7. after Trinity Sunday 14. after Trin. Prayer 3. in Baptisme Prayer in priv Bapt. Almightie and everlasting God give unto us the encrease of faith hope and charitie Encrease this knowledge and confirme this faith in us evermore Give thy holy Spirit to this infant that he being born again and being made heire of everlasting salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ may continue thy servant and attain thy promise Daily increase in these thy servants Prayer 1. in Confirm thy manifold gifts of grace the spirit of ghostly strength and true godlinesse and fulfill them O Lord with the spirit of thy holy feare Defend O Lord Prayer 2. there this childe with thy heavenly grace that he may continue thine for ever and daily increase in thy holy Spirit more and more untill he come unto thy everlasting kingdome O Lord increase our faith in us Prayer to holy Ghost before Ser. Prayer 3. in order of Priests and love so to abound c. We humbly beseech thee by the same thy Sonne to grant unto all us which either here or else where call upon thy name that we may shew our selves thankfull to thee for these and all other thy benefits and that we may daily encrease and go forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Sonne by thy holy Spirit Almightie God accomplish in you the good work Prayer 2. in Consecr of Bishops which he hath begun that ye may be found perfect and irreprehensible at the latter day Regard not the horrour of our sinnes Prayer in fast 1625. Coll. 1. but our unfained repentance Perfect that worke which thou hast begun in us Give unto us every day more earnest and unfeignned repentance Prayer 6. added to Letany there plant in our hearts by the grace of thy holy Spirit a setled feare of thy name and full resolution to lead the rest of our life in the carefull obedience of thy holy will in our callings and faithfull hope of a better life to come Lord we beleeve but do thou encrease our faith Prayer for season weather there our devotion our repentance and all Christian vertues Thou didst most graciously accept our undeserved repentance before thee Prayer against pestil in the fast 1626. we beseech thee to give us the grace of greater humiliation and to shew as yet further mercy Neither doth the holy Ghost think it sufficient Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 1. inwardly to work the spirituall and new birth of man unlesse he do also dwell and abide in him Whether the Prince be good or evill Hom. against wilfull rebel Part. 1. Thanksgiv Nov. 5. Pr. after 1. Coll. let us pray for him for his continuance and increase in goodnesse if he be good and for his amendment if he be evill Increase in us more and more a lively faith and fruitfull love in all obedience CHAP. XIII Of the prayers of holy men SVch as are indued with true grace already yet pray to God still for grace By which grace they do not entend a power to do well if they please for this they have already yea they had it before they did actually beleeve and by vertue of this power did beleeve as our adversaries say The grace then that Gods servants pray for that they may obey God is an actuall inclination of their will already regenerate to the effecting of those good desires that are in their souls Neither must we suppose that their prayers aime only at an indefinit power of doing well but at a
evill affections God is present in his chosen all whole in Majestie together with all his power In the same place wisdome and goodnes From God as from a giver In the same place Hom. for Whitsunday come these graces and gifts kindnesse meeknesse patience Some men will say How shall I know that the Holy Ghost is within me As the tree is knowne by the fruit so is also the Holy Ghost The fruits of the Holy Ghost are love Part. 1. joy peace long suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faithfulnesse meeknesse temperance Of our selves we be crabbe-trees Hom. of mans misery Part. 2. that can bring forth no apples We be of our selves of such earth as can but bring forth weeds nettles brambles bryers cockle and darnell Our fruits be declared Gal. 5. We have neither faith charity hope patience chastity nor any thing else that good is but of God and therefore these vertues be called there the fruits of the Holy Ghost and not the fruits of man We ought first to crave things that properly belong to the salvation of the soule Hom. of prayer Part. 3. as the gift of repentance the gift of faith the gift of charity and good works patience lowlinesse hope joy love peace which things God requireth of all those that professe themselves his children This holy company of Saints in heaven confesseth constantly Rogat serm Part. 1. that all the goods and graces wherewith with they were endued in soule came of the goodnes of God onely It is meet therefore to thinke that all spirituall goodnesse cometh from God above onely We must needs agree In the same place that whatsoever good thing is in us of grace nature or fortune is of God onely as the onely author and worker Let us confesse that of our selves cometh all evill and damnation Hom. of mans misery Part. 2. Rogat serm Part. 2. and of God all goodnesse and salvation If we confesse that all grace of the soule is of God and is his gift onely it will teach us to thank God for them it will abate our pride when we perceive that nothing comes of our selves but sinne and vice it will keepe us from despising such as have fewer gifts it will make us to have recourse to God for all grace CHAP. VI. Of the receiving of grace IF by another speciall grace of God we doe receive the grace and favour that God offers us in his holy word then there is no question but God doth worke effectually where he doth regenerate Let us therefore heare what the Church teacheth us in that behalfe ALmighty God give us the grace Coll. Sund. 2. after Easter Coll. S. Andrews day that we may alwayes most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit to wit of the death of Christ Almighty God which didst give such grace unto thy holy Apostle S. Andrew that he readily obeyed the calling of thy Sonne Jesus Christ and followed him without delay grant unto us all that we being called by thy holy word may forthwith give over our selves obediently to follow thy holy commandements through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Grant us grace to follow thy sonne Jesus Christ Coll. S. Matthews day Prayer for Church militant Prayer 3. in Confirm To all thy people give thy heavenly grace and specially to this congregation here present that with meek heart and due reverence they may heare and receive thy holy word Let thy fatherly hand we beseech thee ever be over these children let thy holy Spirit ever be with them and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word that in the end they may obtaine the everlasting life Send thy heavenly blessing so upon these thy ministers Prayer last in ord of Priests that thy word spoken by their mouthes may have such successe that it may never be spoken in vaine Grant also that we may have grace to heare and receive the same as thy most holy word By faith given us of God we imbrace the promise of Gods mercy Serm. of Salvation Part. 3. Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 1. and of the remission of our sinnes Let us humbly beseech God so to worke in our hearts by the power of his holy Spirit that we being regenerate and newly borne againe in all goodnesse righteousnesse sobriety and truth may in the end obtaine eternall life God of his great mercy so work in all mens hearts by the mighty power of the Holy Ghost Part. 2. that the Gospell may be truely preached truely received and truely followed in all places By the worke of the Holy Ghost we receive this grace of God whereunto we are restored Now. Cat. quest 149. CHAP. VII Of the internall effect of grace THE books attribute the internall effects of grace to God also For howsoever that grace that is given us in regeneration have some power to produce spirituall thoughts yet because our spirituall life is not so compleat as our naturall life and is much hindred from good inclinations by the corruptions of our flesh remaining so that it cannot do that good it would without a fresh supply of Gods assisting grace therefore the help of God is still implored and the praise of the effect given to him Now if in a man regenerate there be need of more grace to help that act which he hath already then certainly the first work of grace whereby a dead man is made alive spiritually must needs be the only effectuall work of Gods Spirit For if he cannot thinke what he would now he hath grace at all times without further help then certainly before he had grace he could do nothing pleasing to God This head of the internall effects of grace is the largest of all the rest We will therefore divide it into two parts First we will treat of the internall effect of Gods grace in generall in the regenerate Secondly of the particular effects of it For the First The effect of grace in generall is set down in these places O God from whom all holy desires Collect. 2. Even Pray all good counsels and all just works do proceed That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Counsell Letany and all the Nobilitie with grace That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace Letany to heare meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit O God from whom all good things do proceed Coll. Sund. 5. after Easter Sund. 7. after Trin. Sunday 13. after Trin. Coll. Sund. 23. after Trin. Prayer 1. in Matrim Veni Creator O God the Authour and giver of all good things Almightie and mercifull God of whose onely gift it cometh that thy faithfull people do unto thee true and laudable service God our refuge and strength which art the authour of all godlinesse O eternall God giver of all spirituall grace the authour of