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truth_n	believe_v	church_n	pillar_n	1,678	5	10.0870	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17044	Concerning publike-prayer, and the fasts of the Church Six sermons, or tractates. By Io. Br. B.D. Their severall contents are set downe in the next page.	Browning, John, d. 1648.	1636 (1636)	STC 3919; ESTC S105933	161,719	248

they are called Publike They are not they ought not to be the dictate of one alone Al as they hope for a blessing by them must blesse GOD in them every man as hee looketh for a part must beare a part even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee that is most private even Women that may not speake 1 Cor. 14. 1 Cor. 14.16 Num. 5.21 Deut. 27. may nay must answer Amen Num. 5.21 Nay to those curses Deut. 27. to every one it is commanded that All the people should say Amen and if to those curses even against themselves for such especially is the last Vers 26. as the Apostle sheweth Gal. 3.10 Gal 3.10 Then much more are they bound to do it to those blessed comprecations made for them and by them Certainly so did the Iewes the Church under the Law They sang together by course They when they praised the Lord all of them shouted with a great voice Ezra 3.11 Ezra 3.11 And when the Covenant of Restitution was made All the Congregation answered Amen Nehem. 5.13 Nehem 5.13 Was it not so in the Christian Church The Apostle commands it he supposeth it necessary for all 1 Cor. 13.16 How shall he that occupieth the place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a private man c. Every he that is a private man as in the Church besides the Ministers all are must and ought to set to his Seale and to subscribe as it were making it his owne deed by his owne Amen This as it is a command of ours so was it also the practise of the best Church even of the purest times All the people saith Iustin Martyr answered Amen All nay Iust Martyr Apolog. 2. S. Hier. praefat ad l. 2. Comment ad Gal. f. 133. C. S. Ambrose in Hexam lib. 3. cap. 2. S. Basil in Hexam hom 4. f. 53. so loud was their Amen that as S. Hierome tels us the Temples and places adjoyning were shaken by it as by a clap of thunder S. Ambrose tels us That the Church like the Sea with the beating waves resounded againe with the responds of Men Women and Children like to the rushing of mighty waters And for the Greeke Church S. Basil is as good a witnesse saying The voice of their prayers and responds was like the noise of waters beating against the Rocks They all joyned in their publike prayers even in their Reading-Psalmes as they call them for other they had none and Thanksgiving with which they were so familiarly acquainted that Women and Children had them by heart for publike use Afterward in the Church compared to the Moone Cant. 6.10 Cant. 6.10 Piety in the wane First the Quire supplied the place of the People and now the Quire being vanished all is thrust into the mouth of the Minister alone Behold by what steps we are gone downeward A man that commeth into our Churches at prayer would thinke that either the people are gathered together to heare one speak or reade or that the Minister were preaching only or else if they were Prayers either that they no wayes concerned the people or else that they not at all understood them Surely the Papists whom wee blame shall rise up against us Are our prayers so turned into Sermons onely that we entertaine them with the eare alone Where is our mouth our tongue our voice Are we ashamed to confesse God before Men in publike or will God now accept that which he never did before Fishes for Sacrifices Mutus ut Piscis Prov. Can they be our prayers to which we assent not in which we joyne not How many helps have we which our fore-Fathers knew not Our prayers the shortest I beleeve that ever were before us in a tongue knowne and familiar to us themselves most easie for us and yet made more easie by Bookes in every Mans hand amongst us Neverthelesse we still continue like the Pillars of the Church without any voice nay in this worse perchance some of us then they for they returne an Eccho Shall not they judge us Surely howsoever we may spare our mouth in mentall and private prayer yet in publike the mouth and voice hath alwayes beene judged necessary for these following Reasons 1 Because this Honoureth God He that praiseth honoureth me Psal 50.23 Psal 50.23 It is a confessing of GOD before Men Rom. 10. Rom. 10.10 2 It is a part of our Thankfulnesse unto GOD who as he made all must have all must be worshipped as with our soule and spirit so with our body also as withall our heart so withall our might Deut. 6.5 Deut. 6.5 And strength Mark 12.30 Mark 12.30 3 It is a duty of reason That we should as freely yeeld so shew our yeelding and assent to our owne Prayers 1 Cor. 14. 1 Cor. 14.16 4 The nature of Publike Prayer commands it for they are as we call them common to all and of them especially it is most true They are the fruit and calves of our lips Heb. 13.15 Heb. 13.15 Hos 14.3 5 Scripture injoyneth it as a meanes of salvation With the heart man beleeveth to righteousnesse but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation Rom. 10.10 Rom. 10.10 6 Our obedience to this Church and in it conformity with the Church of GOD exacteth it for this is the pillar of truth led and guided by the Spirit of GOD. 7 Our owne benefit requireth it for hereby namely by the voice and our outward gestures we stir up our owne devotions we drive away drowsinesse and sleepinesse we rouse up our spirits we cheere our mindes we quicken and kindle our zeale speaking as the Apostle commands to our selves Ephes 5.19 Ephes 5.19 8 The exercise of our faith requireth it for prayer is the proper act of our faith and no where so fit is that saying of S. Iames Shew me thy faith by thy workes Iames 2. Iames 2. 9 Charity in the good of others requires it for by our voices cheerefulnesse we cheere encourage and edifie one another Teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3.16 Col. 3.16 10 And lastly our heart and affection requireth it of us for if the heart the leading part be in our prayers our prayers will quickly appeare to bee hearty in our mouthes It is one of the three wonders of the face and visage that all the affections shew themselves therein nay it were a wonder they should not doe so Difficile est crimen non prodere vultu Mat. 12.34 Our heart our affections can be no more hid than fire in our bosomes Psal 39.4 David sheweth it At the last I spake with my mouth And surely that the mouth should be wanting never was it heard til our frozen age the complaint was then This people draw neere mee with their mouth Esay 29.13 Mat. 15.8 Ier. 12.2 Ezech. 33.31 Esay 29. Thou art neare in their mouth Ier. 12. They shew much love with