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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36374	Reform'd devotions, in meditations, hymns, and petitions, for every day in the week, and every holiday in the year divided into parts.	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.; Birchley, William, 1613-1669. Devotions in the ancient way of offices.	1687 (1687)	Wing D1946; ESTC R10442	174,240	506

REFORM'D DEVOTIONS IN MEDITATIONS HYMNS AND PETITIONS FOR Every DAY in the Week AND Every HOLIDAY in the Year Divided into Two PARTS The Second Edition Ex Aedibus Lambeth May 7. 1686. Imprimatur Jo. Battely LONDON Printed by J. A. for Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Pauls Church-yard 1687. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LADY ANN BOSCAWEN MADAM WHen the best Things of the World are presented to the Great this is a piece of Justice done both to those Honourable Persons and to the things that are presented for thus much is undoubtedly due to the deserts of both And when such exalted persons are pleased to receive those things and approve by using them this becomes an advantage to both They have the service of what is most useful in its kind and their using it recommends it to others For the inferiour ranks of Mankind commonly derive their Estimates of things from the Opinions and Practices of those that are above them It is because I account this Book very Excellent in its kind and worthy to be recommended as such to the World which makes me presume Madam to dedicate it to so high a Person as your Honour I hope if you please to acquaint your self with it that I shall have the honour to be approv'd in my Judgment of it and It may have the great advantage to be recommended by you I know that your accomplisht Mind is disposed to approve of what is ingenious and devout Here presents it self to your Honour Divine Truth in a decent and fashionable Attire it were not fit for any one to make you a Visit in a careless Undresse The Beauty here is not conceal'd and disguised by too much external Ornament nor expos'd to Contempt by too little This Book you may be pleas'd to observe is fitted to possess mens Minds with that pure and peaceable Wisdom which is from above to excite Devotion in the coldest and most careless Hearts and to possess with a love of Devotion our too nice and witty Age since here it appears so rational and ingenious even in its highest flights Madam I must readily acknowledge the Hand that makes you this Present is too mean and unworthy but since you have not thought me too mean to receive Obligations from you I must not believe my self thereby excus'd from bringing all such Testimonies of Respect and Gratitude as I am able Yet I most humbly crave your Pardon for this Presumption as what it were still greater presumption to expect without seeking it And doing thus it were a very guilty despair on the other hand if I should not hope to obtain it from a goodness such as yours Your Honour cannot want any Noble Quality in an answerable degree who derive your high Birth from two Illustrious Families and are furnisht in them with so many excellent Presidents While I present this Book to you I present also my Prayers to Almighty God to the giver of every good and perfect Gift that by his Blessing it may become to your Honour a very profitable Entertainment That it may nourish in you those good Advances of Piety and Vertue which adorn your Youth That it may help to maintain still that prudent constancy which has shown it self able to conquer the violent current of present Wickedness while such a number of unthinking Sinners are carryed along with the fatal stream I pray that the God who has blest you with Beauty and Wealth and Honour the three greatest Gifts of this World may still continue favourable ●ou in the Dispensations of 〈◊〉 Providence and after a ●…g and happy Life may re●●●ve you to Heaven Thus 〈◊〉 Prayers shew what I am ●…dy in any other possible way express that I am MADAM Your Honours Most Humble most Obedient And devoted Servant T. D. THE PREFACE SOme Account of the Following Book I am bound to give in point of Justice both to it and my self and something may be said tending to promote the Vsefulness of it Which things will be the matter of this Preface and in such matter it will not be impertinent to detain the Reader for a little while It was a Book of Devotions dispos'd into the Form and Method of the Roman Breviary and though the matter of it was not the same with that yet therein were the Truths of Christian Religion frequently mixed as in the Belief of that Church with those erroneous Doctrines which in latter Ages have been added to Christianity What I thought to be such by the direction of Holy Scripture and the Articles of our Church which are drawn from thence according to the usual Interpretation made of it by the most pure and primitive Ages of Christianity that I have taken away and connected the Sence with what those Rules suggested to be truth Therefore has this Book the Title of Reform'd Devotions And I dare say if Holy Scripture may be the Rule to judge by in these matters as it must be in all such matters the Book is now more truly corrected and amended than it was in any of the former Editions though it pretends to have been four times printed and twice with that Advantage In the fourth and last Edition which is dated Roan 1685. it is said to be corrected and augmented and there is added to it in that a whole Office for the Virgin Mary which being very different from the former Book and much inferiour to it in all Respects and more corrupted I have wholly left it out and having made use of that part of the former Book which provided for all the Saints Dayes I should have wanted a good Reason for so regarding one particular Saint if I had used that part of the Book distinct And there being enough of the other to serve my Method I did not trouble my self to pick out the best Sentences of that to mix with the rest This I did out of one Office in the other Book because in the present Method I had no occasion for it distinct and because the greatest part of that Office related to the Souls suppos'd to be in Purgatory I am justified in the reforming of this Book and purging out those fore-mention'd Doctrines by the Authority of our Nation which did for the sake of them a few years ago condemn the Book to a publick burning And because there was a great deal of it very good Sence and that compos'd in a very devout strain and an ingenious style and mixt with several curious Hymns I thought it was worthy of a Reformation and as well too good to be thrown away whole as too bad to be used whole Which I doubt not all ingenious and devout Readers will acknowledge upon perusing what is here presented when I shall have said that the most of it is but what I found in that Book Yet I subscribe to the Wisdom and Justice of that Condemnation which it underwent as it was for the better it was in some respects since many offensive