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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90999	Euchologia: or, The doctrine of practical praying. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Prideaux, late Bishop of Worcester. Being a legacy left to his daughters in private, directing them to such manifold uses of our Common Prayer Book. As may satisfie upon all occasions, without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3425; Thomason E1515_1; ESTC R209505	69,265	323

great ones or those of our acquaintance For if you salute your brethren only saith our Saviour what do yee more then others Do not the Publicans so When ye come into an house it is his charge to his Apostles salute it Mat 10.12 13 and if the house be worthy let your peace come upon it but if it be not worthy let your peace returne unto you Worthy and unworthy then may be saluted which the Apostle is careful to do in the beginning and ending of most of his Epistles What a catalogue of Salutations have wee in the last chapter of his Epistle to the Romans with an allowance to greet one another with an holy kisse which the jealousie of some Christians scarce approve of The Angels Salutation to Gideon Judg. 6.12 The Lord bee with thee thou mighty man of Valour from a Thresher heightned him to be a victorious General Such a Salutation it was from the Angel Gabriel Luke 1.29 that strengthned the blessed Virgin to entertaine a conference with him And when Elizabeth heard the blessed Virgins Salutation afterward Ibid. v. 41. the Babe leaped in her womb saith the Text and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost Amongst other faults of clownish and churlish Nabal who lived like a hog and dyed like a dog this is noted for one of the chiefest that a discreet servant acquainted his Mistris with Behold David sent Messengers out of the wilderness to salute our Master 2 Sam. 25.14 and hee railed on them But BoaZ his courteous Salutation to his Reapers Ruth 2.4 The Lord be with you and their civil returne againe to him The Lord blesse thee are recorded for patternes to bee imitated in like cases Let it be therefore a chief Token of your Humility and Meeknesse my loving Daughters to bee free of your Blessings and due Salutations not only to those about you in your house but to your Neighbors to strangers nay to those that you are perswaded bear you no good will Pray 15.5 For as a soft answer turnes away wrath so a kind Salutation sometimes makes enemies friends and neglected where it should bee performed turnes friends to foes From Superiours it takes off the suspicion of pride and contempt in equals or Inferiors the note of surliness and incivility In all it argueth a religious desire to put in practice that Precept of the Apostle Rom. 12.18 If it be possible as much as lyeth in you live peaceably with all men Neither is this crossed by that of our Saviour Salute no man by the way Luke 10.4 or that of the beloved Disciple concerning a false Teacher 2 Joh. v. 10 Receive him not into your houses neither bid him God speed withal adding a reason For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds For in the first Salutation is not forbidden simply but insisting upon complements that might hinder their injoyned quick dispatch of the business in hand And in the latter a fore-knowledg is presupposed that such come to beguile as the Serpent did to Eve and therefore are to be dismissed rather with a Lord rebuke thee 2 Cor. 11.3 Zech. 3.2 Jude v. 9 then with a God speed to be encouraged And this wee may take for a rule in venturing on any action If a God Speed may bee given to it with a safe conscience Go on and prosper if not they that sow the wind Hos 8.7 Job 8.14 are likely to reap nothing but the whirlwind where their spiders webs will meet with the beesome of destruction Isai 14.23 39 6 and those shall not become Garments neither shall they cover themselves with their works CHAP. IV. Of Psalmes and Hymnes and Spiritual Songs HOW those differ there is a difference amongst the Learned but that is not to our purpose Chap. 5 13. This of Saint James is Canonical If any amongst you be aflicted let him pray Is any merry let him sing What Not Ballads or Jiggs of the times but Psalmes and Hymnes and Spiritual Songs So Saint Paul instructeth the Ephesians Chap. 5.19 to be done not out of the excess of wine but of the fulnesse of the Spirit not only in consort with others but speaking to our selves when we are alone making melody in our hearts to the Lord. To the same key he tuneth the Colossians Chap. 3.16 In which sort he would have all them in whom the Word of God doth plentifully dwell in all wisdom to teach and admonish one another in Psalms as some take it with voice and Instruments of the best Musick and Hymns in praising God with the voices only and Spiritual Songs of private Meditations upon all offered occasions And is it not of especial note that our Savior for the proof of his satisfactory Redemption ranketh the Psalmes with the fulnesse of the Law and Prophets Luk. 24.44 Nay wee shall find scarce any part of the Old Testament so often cited in the New as that which we call the Psalms of David in regard he was the chiefest Authour of them Seven of these Psalmes our Savior is thought to have sang with his Disciples that is by the Vulgar account from the 112 to the 119 after the Institution of his last Supper Mat. 26.3 Mar. 14 26 when he was going towards his passion This is a plain Text that Ezekiah the King and the Princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto the Lord not in ex tempere conceptions in their solemn reformation of Gods Worship Temple but in the words of David and Asaph the Seer And did they refuse to do it No but as it followeth They sang praises with gladnesse 2 Chr. 29.30 and bowed themselves and worshipped At the praying and singing such praises unto God by Saint Paul and Silas Acts 16.25 imprisoned in the strictest manner the foundations of the prison were shaken by an earthquake the doors flew open the prisoners bands were loosed and the Keeper of the prison terrified into Christianity A man would marvel therefore what those men mean that are so fierce against Church-Musick in consort with Instruments Would they cut the strings of Davids Harp if he were now alive and turne out Asaph and his brethren for Fidlers It is well that the heavenly multitude who sang that congratulatory Antheme for the birth of our Savior Luke 2.13 Glory be to God in the Highest in earth peace good wil towards men descended not so low as these mens hearing otherwise somewhat might have been noted in it to be scarce in tune or according to the new song of these mens pricking It would grieve the heart of any pious Christian to ponder seriously that when as wee have had heretofore the monthly reading through of these Psalms with the New Testament also except the Revelation thrice every year and the most edifying passages of the Old Testament once a year to acquaint the people