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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39987	Forms of prayer used in the reformed churches in France before their persecution and destruction With an account of their manner of batizing, celebrating the Holy Supper, marrying and burying; with some additional remarks. Translated into English, for the use of such of the French nation as do desire to learn English; and may be serviceable to those English who are willing to improve themselues in the French language; and for the information of all of the reformed religion, and others. Unto which is also annexed the names of several learned French ministers, to evidence the truth of this translation.	Eglises réformées de France.; J. T.	1699 (1699)	Wing F1584B; ESTC R221545	24,972	145

Life declaring unto them that they must abstain from this holy Table for fear of defiling and polluting of this holy Food which our Lord Jesus Christ doth not give but to his faithful servants Therefore according to St. Paul's Exhortation let every one of you examine his own Conscience to know if he doth truly sincerely repent resolving hereafter to live holily according to the Will of God and above all if he puts his Trust in the Mercy of God wholly seeking his salvation in and through Jesus Christ and renouncing all Enmity and Hatred have a true desire and resolution to live in brotherly Love and Charity with his Neighbours If we have this Testimony in our hearts before God let us not at all doubt but that he will receive us for his Children and that the Lord Jesus invites us unto his Table and to this holy Sacrament which he hath communicated unto his Disciples And although we are conscious of our great Frailty and Misery in not having a True Faith being inclined to Incredulity and Diffidence and in not being so entirely devoted to serve God with such zeal as we ought being daily struggling with the Lusts of our Flesh yet seeing our Lord hath by his Grace engraven his Gospel in our Hearts and hath given us the desire and will of Turning our selves from our Carnal Lusts to follow his lust holy Commandments Let us be assured that our Sins and Imperfections will not hinder us from being received by him and made Worthy Partakers of that Spiritual Table For we do not come there presuming that we are perfect or just in otr selves But on the contrary by seeking our Life in Jesus Christ we do confess we are dead therefore let us understand that this Sacrament is a Remedy for the poor spiritually sick and all the worthiness which our Lord requires of us is that we should examine our selves and be grieved for our Sins and to place our Delight Joy and Contentment in him alone Let us therefore first believe these promises which Jesus Christ who is the infallible truth hath declared with his own Mouth Namely that he will make us true partakers of his Body and Blood that we may so entirely enjoy him as to live in him and he in us and altho we do see nothing but Bread and Wine yet let us not doubt but that he will Spiritually accomplish in our Souls all that he hath outwardly shewn us by these visible signs which is to say that he is the Heavenly Bread to feed and nourish us to Eternal Life So let us not be ungrateful to the infinite bounty of our Saviour who displays all his Riches and Benefits on this Table in order to Communicate them unto us for in giving himself unto us he signifies to us that all he hath is ours Therefore let us receive this Sacrament as a Pledge that the virtue of his Death and Passion is imputed to us for Righteousness as if we had suffered in our own Bodies Let us not be so perverse as to refrain from this Table when Jesus Christ hath so kindly invited us by his word but weighing the dignity of this precious gift let us present our selves unto him with such fervent Zeal as may make us capable of receiving him Wherefore let us raise up our hearts and minds on high where Jesus Christ is in the Glory of his Father from whence we do expect him for our Redemption and let us not amuse our selves with these Earthly and Corruptible Elements which we see with the Eye and touch with the Hand nor seek him there as if he were in the Bread and Wine for then our Souls will be disposed to be nourished and quickned with his substance when they shall be raised above all Earthly things into Heaven the K●ngdom of God where our Saviour dwells let us then content our selves in our having the Bread and Wine for Signs and Tokens seeking Spiritually the truth where the word of God promises that we shall find it After the Minister hath admonished the People to come with reverence and in good order He distributes the Bread and gives the Cup to the People and in the mean time they sing some Psalms or read some part of the Holy Scripture that is agreeable to that which is signified by the Sacrament And after he makes use of the thanksgiving as hath been before-said THEIR FORM OF Solemnization OF Matrimony YOV must observe that before the Celebration of the Marriage They do publish it three Lords Days successively in the Church that if any Person knows any Lawful impediment he or she may come to declare it in good time or if any other Person have any interest therein he or she may there oppose it That being done both Parties come and present themselves at the begining of the Sermon then the Minister says Our help is in the Name of God who hath made Heaven and Earth Amen After that God our Father had Created Heaven and Earth and all that in them is He created and made Man after his own Image who should have Dominion and Power over all the Beasts of the Earth the Fish of the Sea and Fowls of the Air Gen. 2. And the Lord God said It is not good that the Man should be alone I will make him an help meet for him And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his Ribs and the Rib which the Lord God had taken from Man made he a Woman signifying that the Man and the Woman are but one Body one Flesh and one Blood therefore shall a Man leave his Father and his Mother and shall cleave unto his Wife which he ought to love as Christ loved his Church which are the true Faithful Christians for whom he Dyed The Wife ought also to serve and obey her Husband in all Holiness and Honesty for she is subject and is in the Power of her Husband so long as she lives with him this Holy Marriage which is instituted by God is of that Nature that by it the Husband hath no Power over his Body but the Wife nor hath the Wife any Power over her Body but the Husband Therefore being joyned by God they cannot be parted unless it be for sometime by consent of both to apply themselves to Fasting and Prayer bewaring they be not tempted by Satan to incontinency wherefore they are to come together again to avoid all uncleanness Every Man ought to have his Wife and every Woman her Husband So that all those who have not the gift of continency are to Marry that the Holy Temple of God which is our Bodys should not be defiled and corrupted for seeing that our Bodys are the Members of J●sus Christ it would be a great reproach to make them Members of an Harlot therefore we must keep them in all Holyness for if any defile the Temple of God him will God destroy You then