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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

a Spirit Joh. 4.24 and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth Those that tell you that Statua's and Images are good memorials to mind us what we should worship you may answer Psal 19. That the Heavens declare the glory of God and all other Creatures his handy works direct us to the worshipping of him that made them Thus shall ye say unto them as the Prophet charged the Israelites to tell the Idolatrous Chaldeans in their own language The Gods that have not made the heavens and the earth Jer. 10.12 even they shall perish from the earth and from under those heavens Images for Worship saith another are but Teachers of lies Hab. 2.18 and the promoters of the Doctrine of Divels 2 Tim. 4.1 They may otherwise have an Historical use and adorne buildings but for Worship we have the Words direction not a painted Crucifix to set before the foolish Galatians Christ crucified Gal. 3.1 And for Remembrance of our Saviours Passion why should not the Breaking of bread and drinking of wine in the Sacrament of his last Supper be accounted the best Art of Memory seeing hee himself hath taught us Do this in remembrance of me Luk. 22.19 And would not any wise man take the Sermons of our Saviour and the Writings of his Apostles to be better Relicks then a chip of the material Crosse or the shewing of Saint Peters Chaines to inform us what they taught for our salvation or did for our imitation Last of all Against the Proctors for praying to Saints or Angels that which our Saviour replyed to the Lawyer may be well made use of Luk. 10.26 What is written in the Law how readest thou Can you shew me any Precept or Example of such prayer throughout all the Old or New Testaments Or can wee think in reason that Saints will bee more readie to hear or tender our wants or promote our Petitions then our blessed Redeemer and our only Mediatour and Advocate Christ Jesus The Woman of Canaan found small comfort upon earth of Saints Intercession Mat. 15.23 Send her away say they for she cryeth after us Wee believe the Saints are most happy in heaven and honour their persons and memory here on earth in appointing Holy-Dayes wherein their Doings and Doctrine are commended to our Assemblies for their pious Imitation But what they know of us or may do for us by way of Intercession in heaven is not revealed unto us Build you therefore upon certainties my Daughters Christ hath taught you to say Our Father which art in heaven and the Church wherein you were borne and baptized teacheth you accordingly That when you direct your Prayers severally to any of the Persons in whose Names you were baptized or jointly to the Blessed Trinity you direct them to One God which is Three in One and One in All. And as many as walk according to this Rule peace be on them and mercy Gal. 6.16 and upon the Israel of God which prevailing with God they shall the more comfortably and assuredly enjoy if they take with them as an Antidote Saint Johns conclusion Little children John 5.13 keep your selves from Idols CHAP. III. What wee are to ask in our prayers TO know the Necessity of Prayer and to whom we are to pray will but little avail if we are not well advised what to ask Joh 21 22 Peter may enquire what shall become of John but receive a check What is that to thee Inquire not after that which belongs not to thee do that I bid thee Follow thou me And when the mother of Zebedees children became a suiter for the preferment of them to that which they were uncapable of Mat. 20.20 wee know what a cold satisfaction they obtained from our Saviour Mar. 10.35 Ye know not what ye ask Neither the joint petition of the Apostles afterwards concerning an earthly Kingdom found better successe Acts 1.7 It is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put into his own power Those therefore that trust to speed must petition only for those things which may be convenient for them to receive and for God to grant as the entrauce to our Liturgy tells us They must ask those things which are requisite for the soul and body Otherwise their prayers may be turned into sin Psa 109.7 and instead of an expected Blesing a deserved curse may fall upon them Gen. 27.12 The caveat therefore of the preacher as well for the mouth as for the foot is to be observed of all suiters that shall present themselves before the throne of grace First learne by hearing what to doe before thou tender a fooles sacrifice without consideration in hope to obtaine Eccles 5.1 and be not rash with thy mouth and hasty with thy heart to multiply many words where few would be more to the purpose and better accepted for how can it chuse but prove lost labour to beg that of God which may not be granted by reason of his revealed will to the contrary Hence the salvation of Judas and damned spirits the foreknowledg of the day of Judgment and secrets of God in election or reprobation of this or that party must not come within the compasse of our petitions And if the tree must lye where it falleth Eccles 11.3 and the condition of the dead from worse to better be unchangeable those Masses dirges and prayers for any friend departed may very well be spared which some are so missled to purchase and others to sell at so dear a rate for who hath required this at your hands Isa 1.12 Psal 49.8 It cost more to reedem a soul therfore that must be let alone for ever upon the same ground Samuel might not pray for Saul nor Jeremiah for preventing Judahs captivity where the immutable purpose of God was once made known unto them Things then spiritual which concerne our salvation and temporal that make for our preservation in the condition God hath put us or furtheering us to a better according to his good will and disposition not our restlesse and itching ambition must bee the line and compasse of our approveable devotions And this brings in that confidence the beloved disciple speaks of That if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us Joh 5.14 and if we know that he heareth whatsoever we aske wee know wee have the petition that we desired of him Many scruples are here suggested whether we may pray for one blaspemously sinning to death or obstinately standing excommunicate or rebelliously persecuting the Church and State seeing the petition of the Psalmist is expresse Stand up O Lord God of hostes Psal 59.5 thou God of Israel to visit all the heathen and be not mercifull unto them that offend of malicious wickednesse But the Prophets prayer runs against those that God shal find so not against such as we

orderly with Gods Word which must be the ground and rule of all preaching praying and Christian conversation Now such a Reformation is directed to us that wee know not where we are or what to expect but that the longest liver shall never be acquainted by this new method in our Church Service with the whole counsel of God Acts 20.27 and if the Minister please not the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament and Lords Prayer in the New shall never bee known to the simple people But concerning the divers uses and applications of the Psalmes in private that notable Treatise of an ancient Father placed before our Psalmes in Meter may bee a profitable Directory wherein 99. Cases are set down what Psalmes wee may distinctly use for our greatest comfort For you my Daughters it may be sufficient to take into your particular Devotions those seven Psalms termed by the Ancients Penitentials which are the 6 32 38. 51 102 130 143. and were usually repeated weekly each on its set day which was a pious course But if this may bee thought to be otherwise supplyed in the Family Confessions before mentioned in your daily Morning and Evening Prayer it may bee worth your private Observation to consider the several works of the six dayes in the Creation as they are registred in Genesis with the celebration of the Sabbath chap. 1. and then to select seven Psalmes which may serve as a most sweet and pertinent explanation of each of them In this accommodation for Light the first dayes work you have the 27 Psalm The Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I fear c. For the second dayes work which were the Heavens the 19. Psalm The heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy-work For the Earth with the Sea of the third dayes framing how consonant is the 14 Psalm The earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein for he hath founded it upon the sea and prepared it upon the flouds c. In the same order the Sun and Moon and Stars which were created and set in the Firmament the fourth day are taken into especial consideration in the 8. Psalm When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained Behold what an excellent use hee makes of it for a patterne to direct us what we should do in contemplating all the rest of the Creatures Lord what is man that thou art mindful of him and the Son of man that thou visitest him The like use is made upon the consideration of the fishes of the Sea and of the fowls of the air which were the work of the fifth day in the 104. Psalm Ver. ●5 And for the sixth day wherein Man was created with the beast and the rest of the Inhabitants of the Earth to serve him how fit is the 139 Psalme to bee thought upon O God Ver. ●5 thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising thou understandest my thoughts long before c. My bones are not hid from thee though I be made secretly and fashioned beneath in the earth Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book were all thy Members written And last of all the 92 Psalm bears this Title A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath Day conformable to which we have the seventh and Lords day wherein we may observe that which an unwise man doth not well consider Ver. 6. and a fool doth not understand 1. What is to be done in celebrating of it Ver. 1. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto the name of the Most Highest 2. At what set times especially Ver. 2. Morning and Evening To tell of thy loving kindnesse early in the Morning and of thy truth in the night season 3. With what solemnity Upon an Instrument of ten strings and upon the Lute upon a loud Instrument any that may consort with or quicken our praises Prayers or Thanksgivings 4. Upon what ground Because God hath made us glad through his works and therefore this day should be especially set apart for to rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of his hands which is intimated in the fourth Commaudment it self In six dayes the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is What should this mean but that especially upon this day with all Praise and Thanksgiving all these things were to be considered in pious meditations and distinct Prayers Praises and Thanksgivings to be inferred thereupon according to every mans private Devotions and capacities besides the publick Service 5. In what manner must this be done Our Psalmist also here furnisheth us with a Gloria Patri O Lord how glorious are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep And 6. Tells us that those that pass this over as a slight business are but unwise men and fools who prick up as the green grasse quickly to be mowen down and made fodder for beasts whereas the truly religious and due observers of the Lords Day according to his own holy Ordinance 1 Shal have their strength exalted as the horn of an Unicorn 2. Be annointed with the fresh oyl of Gods blessed Spirit 3. Flourish like a Palm tree that prospereth under pressures and 4. Spread abroad like a Cedar in Libanus in spite of winds and tempests 5. Shall see their enemies danted and put to confusion according to their desire Whereas 6. They themselves shall be firmly fixed and flourish in Gods house and bring forth more fruit in their age then the vigour of their former dayes hath yeilded There be that apply the 150 Psalmes in this manner That the first fifty should especially stir us up to hearty repentance The second to the consideration of Gods Mercy and Justice The third to the contemplation of Eternal happinesse to bee intertained with Hallelujahs and Thanksgivings But if you answer to this Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent Psal 139.5 we cannot attain unto it Take then in a shorter way those three Psalms which may well bee called the Sermons of David In the first of which which is the 37th you have a plaister against fretting at the prosperity of the wicked and perplexed estate of those that in all mens judgements deserve better In the second being the forty ninth a purge for swelling up-starts whose state is held no better then that of the beasts that perish this is set forth more at large in the seventy third to beat us off from all worldly vanities and to bring us to hold fast by God Psal 73.27 37.38 for that will only bring us true peace at the last These Sermons will not over-burden your memories with tediousnesse but be easily learned by you and taught your children And seeing you have the