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A13949	Three small and plaine treatises 1. Of prayer or actiue 2. Of principles, or positiue 3. Resolutions, or oppositiue Diuinitie. Translated and collected out of the auncient writers for the priuate vse of a most noble ladie. By an old praebendary of the Church of Lincolne.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1620 (1620)	STC 24259; ESTC S102025	30,759	166

THREE SMALL AND plaine Treatises 1. Of Prayers or Actiue Diuinitie 2. Of Principles or Positiue Diuinitie 3. Resolutions or Oppositiue Diuinitie Translated and collected out of the Auncient Writers for the priuate vse of a most Noble Ladie By an old PRAEBENDARY of the Church of Lincolne CERTAINE PRAYERS AND short MEDITATIONS translated out of the Writings of S. Augustine S. Gregorie S. Bernard Ioannes Picus Mirandula Ludouicus Viues Georgius Cassander Charolus Paschalius and others for the priuate Vse of the L. M. B. Morning Prayer MY Soule fleeth vnto the Lord before the morning Watch Psal 130.6 I say before the morning Watch. O let me heare thy louing kindnesse betimes in the morning Psal 143.8 for in thee is my trust shew thou mee the way that I should walke in for I lift vp my soule vnto thee O Lord assist mee with thy holy Spirit in my prayers And let my cry come vnto thee Our Father which art c. A Prayer for Confession of sins S. Greg. Homil 33. in Iob. REceiue O Lord in the armes of thy mercie thy distressed handmaiden who in remorse and contrition returnes vnto thee from her sinnes Because the life of that sinner is not abhorred of thee which is accompanied with sighes and repentance Pardon then O Lord all my offences for thy deare Sons sake Amen A Prayer for the Morning ALmighty God Georg. Cassander Pres. Eccles our heauenly Father which hast brought me thy handmaiden to this present morning protect mee still with thy mighty power that this ensuing day I may fall into no sinne nor run into any kinde of danger but that my thoughts wordes and deedes may tend to the honor and glory of thy name and the eternall comfort and saluation of mine own soule through Iesus Christ my Lord and onely Sauiour Amen Another Viues O Most syncere and pure Light from whence this light of the day and of the Sunne fetcheth his beginning Thou which enlightenest euery man that commeth into the world Thou Light whome no night or euening can obscure but continuest euer in thy High-noone brightnesse Thou Word and Wisedome of so great a Father enlighten this morning my soule and vnderstanding that thy weake handmaiden may be this day as blinded to the Vanities of the world and quick-sighted only to those things which are pleasing vnto thee and leading to the wayes of thy Commandements Amen For the Mediation of Christ LOrd Iesus Greg. Hom. 7. in Ezech. that art not onely righteous but righteousnesse it selfe and art my Aduocate with God the Father iustifie thou me thy hand-maiden in the day of iudgement because I acknowledge and accuse my self as full of vniustice and pollution For it is not vpon any action or contrition of mine owne that my soule relies but only vpon a faith assurance and bolde confidence in thee mine Aduocate who liuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Against Temptations GIue me thy grace O Almighty God so to vanquish Aug. Serm. 86. de verbis Domini and ouercome the lusts and temptations of this world that I may triumph with thee ouer the Diuell and his wicked angels in the world to come Amen For Piety I Humbly beseech thee O Almighty God that this desire of reading Aug. Serm. 82. and hearing thy sacred Word which by thy holy Spirit thou hast planted in my heart may by thy grace and mercie be daily renued and augmented vnto a perfect fire of zeale and deuotion to the honor of thy Name and saluation of mine owne soule in Christ Iesu Amen A Prayer for a Noble-woman Carolus Paschalius O Lord Iesus Christ that art so far from contemning Nobilitie of birth that thy Euangelists haue diligently searched out and recorded thine owne genealogie giue me thy vnworthy handmayden the grace that I abuse not by ingratitude this thy fauour and mercie But rather as it was first acquired in my Auncestors let it still be preserued in my person by my continuall seruing of thee and doing as it shall lie in my power all workes of Charity to my neighbours Giue me grace that as thou hast plac't mee in Birth and rancke so I may be found in deuotion pietie lowlinesse of minde meeknesse and a religious care of thy worship conspicuous aboue others And if it bee ●hy gracious will to make me a mother of children and a mistresse of a family let me appeare a patterne and ensample of deuotion and pietie to all that are about mee And make mee and them so to liue in thy feare that we may die in thy fauour through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour Amen A Prayer for a Wife Charolus Paschal ALmighty God which haste giuen me to be a comforter and an helper vnto my husband endue my soule with those heauenly Graces wherwith I may be most enabled to serue thee and please him Knit our mindes as well as our bodies in an indissoluble band of syncere affection Giue either of vs sanctified hearts zealous towards thee thankefull towards our Soueraigne syncere and louing one towards another Crowne withal if it be thy will these chaste intentions with thy fructifying Grace that wee may become the happy Parents of such Oliue branches as may one day aduance thy glory in this Church and Commonwealth In a word so incorporate vs both by faith in Christ vnto thy kingdom of Grace that we may at the last attaine vnto thy kingdome of glorie Amen A prayer for one attendant neere the person of a Prince Carolus Paschal ALmighty God by whose gracious prouidence it commeth that my Lord and Husband is thus employed in that neernesse of attendance vpon his Royall Maiestie giue him grace so to serue thee that hee may the better serue him and by making him thy Saint continue him his seruant Fill his mind with all wisedome knowledge and other vertues befitting his ranck and calling that he may seeme no more elected by the King then selected by thee for these employments Make him vigilant carefull and industrious in his Masters afaires Make him to accompt it his onely happinesse to serue thee his onely vertue to obserue him and all the rest as glittering vanity That after a troublesome but long life in a Kings Court his soule may bee carried by the Angels vnto thy Court where one day is better then a thousand Grant this for thy deare Sonnes sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditation Count MIRANDVLA his twelue Thoughts or weapons against all the temptations of Sinne. Thinke Io. Pici Mirandulae Doctr. Salutif 1 THe pleasure thou art tempted vnto but short and momentarie 2 And euen this is attended with loathing and anxietie 3 And yet that for this thou must loose Heauen 4 That thy life is but as a dreame and shadow 5 Thy death is suddaine and at thy doore 6 Thy time of repentance casuall and vncertaine 7 Thy

the Holy Ghost 2 A minde free from other thoughts and desirous of the truth 3 Knowledge of the Scriptures Creedes Catechismes Principles and other Axiomes of Diuinitie 4 A considerations how our meaning suites with other points of Christianitie 5 The weighing of circumstances antecedents and consequents 6 Knowledge of Histories Arts and Sciences 7 Continuall reading meditating and praying 8 Ioint and vniarring expositions of the Fathers 9 Consenting decrees of auncient Synods and Councels 10 Knowledge in the tongues Because therefore lay-men and women Papists Brownists and Anabaptists are wanting in all or some of these helpes they bring foorth many times such lame and prodigious interpretations Pap. If wee make the Scripture not the Church the rule of our Faith how shall we beleeue the Creed the Trinity the Sacraments the vnity of Essence the three persons in the Deity c. words neuer read in the Bible and yet necessarily to be apprehended of vs vpon paine of damnation Prot. I say that all these things are set downe in Scriptures either in so many syllables or at leastwise by necessarie inferences and deductions And wee doe not therefore beleeue them because they are onely taught by the Church but because they are rooted and grounded in the holie Scriptures the onelie stay and pillar of our affiance To summe vp therefore all this Chapter 1 The Church doeth prepare vs but the Scripture onely doeth force vs to beleeue 2 The whole Church cannot any part thereof may erre damnablie 3 Wee are taught the Scriptures to bee the word of God by the Holy Ghost mouing in our hearts and not by the Church sounding in our eares 4 Lay-men are to reade not to interprete Scriptures 5 The misse of some rules causeth wrong expositions of Scriptures 6 All things necessary to bee beleeued are either found in or collected and inferred from the Scriptures CHAP. 3. Of Iustification Pap. HOW then doe you learne out of the Scriptures that you are to be iustified and saued before God Prot. I am to bee iustified before God by an Act single in it selfe but double in our apprehension which is By Gods not imputing vnto me my sinnes and the same Gods imputing vnto mee Christs righteousnesse and withall by his creating of faith in my heart by the Holy Ghost to assure my Soule that God for the Actiue and Passiue obedience of Christ Iesus hath accomplished those two former Actes of not imputing my Sinne and of imputing vnto mee Christs righteousnesse Pap. A verie easie no doubt and reasonable religion which you haue learned out of the Scriptures Heere is no burthen left for your owne backe you cast all vpon Christs shoulders by the meanes of these two fine wordes Not imputing and imputing and a third swimming notion of your own conceipt which any man may haue with a little imagining termed by you faith it would be knowne therefore where your Church hath found out these words of Art in the holie Scriptures Prot. We do in all humilitie confesse that the globe of our sinnes and the world of that righteousnesse which is to appeare in the presence of Gods Iustice is too massie for vs to sustaine that are but dust and ashes and supportable only by that Atlas Verba Lutheri ep ad Henr. 8. tom 2. ep p. 290. Christ Iesus vpon whose shoulders not our conceits but the goodnes of God hath plac't and pressed them But that these wordes imputing and not imputing are such Greeke vnto you I doe impute it to your not reading of Scriptures and taking vp your religion by trust and credit from such Fripperers and Brokers as by lending your soules a false opinion of merits and good workes do diue into your purses and eat vp your estates by way of interest Not to trouble you as I might with a thousand places aske Dauid Psal 32.1 whether not imputing of sin and S. Paul Rom. 4.45 whether the imputing of Christs righteousnesse doth not make vs blessed and iustified For the words vse your owne eyes and inspection And for the meaning I referre you to a August tom 8 in psalm 31. S. Augustines vpon the one and b Amb. in ep ad Rom. c. 8. S. Ambrose his commentarie vpon the other passage Now that you fondlie imagine that Faith this heauenly hand that reacheth at this double Act and applies it to our owne Soules is such an apprehension as you may command when you please out of your owne phantasie it is such a poore opinion that no Soule warmed with the least touch or feeling of religion but contemnes with a most holie scorne and reproach I tell you and if you once haue it your conscience will tell you no lesse this Faith is the richest iewell in Gods cabinet Ephes 2.8 and can neuer be compas'd by any endeuour of ours vntill the Holy Ghost comes downe from heauen to set and enchase it in our hearts with his owne fingers as it were And being once obtained it new moldes and fashions the whole nature of man so as the vnderstanding becomes more enlightned to know God the will to obey God the affections to loue God and our brethren Nor can it bee preserued to the comfort of our conscience without daily praying meditating doing good workes reading the Scriptures hearing good Sermons and perusing of deuout and godly Treatises My beliefe therefore is this Gods not imputing of sinne and imputing of righteousnesse is the worker The Merits of Christ the procurer Faith wrought by the holy Ghost the instrument or applier good workes or my inherent righteousnesse poore as it is a consequent onely effect and follower of my iustification Pap. I haue heard some of your side raile against the very name of inherent righteousnesse which you seem now to acknowledge embrace Do Protestants therefore challenge any other righteousnesse besides that of Christs which is imputed Prot. They doe acknowledge a Sanctification or inherent righteousnes in the same sence as the auncient Fathers tooke the Word but not as Iesuits of late mistake it We haue righteousnesse inherent or subsisting in vs according to the which we shall be iudged but not according to the which wee shall be iustified You make your righteousnesse to goe before as the cause we ours to come after as the effect of Iustification You suppose yours so absolute as to euict from God all wee expect from ours is but to testifie vnto men that we are iustified You bragge of a perfection of degrees wee onely teach a perfection of parts in our righteousnesse For as in the dawning of the day euery part of the heauens is enlightened though none as yet in a full and compleat splendour so after the Act of Iustification apprehended by faith euery facultie of the soule is sanctified and made righteous the vnderstanding the will the affections the thoughts the words the deedes but none of those so exactly perfect as to implead a Iustification at the throne of