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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27562	A sermon concerning the excellency and usefulness of the common prayer preached by William Beveridge ... 27th of November. 1681.	Beveridge, William, 1637-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing B2100; ESTC R974	27,675	46

so upon composing our thoughts and preparing our selves for the due performance of it Our minds being thus brought into a right frame and temper for it we all both Minister and People prostrate our selves before the most high God confessing upon our knees the manifold sins and wickedness that we have committed against him Which Confession is so contrived that all and every person in any Congregation whatsoever may joyn in it For it runs in general terms And yet so too that every particular person may and ought in his own mind to confess and acknowledg his own sins which he knows himself to be guilty of As where we say We have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done At the saying of this every one should call his own sins to remembrance what Duties he knows himself to have omitted and what Vices he knows himself to have committed and confess them accordingly unto God And when we have thus confessed our sins to God we presently implore his Mercy in the pardon of them and his Grace that for the future we may forsake them And whilst we are thus upon our knees humbly confessing and bewailing our sins before the Lord our God the Minister stands up and in the Name of God declares and pronounceth to all those who truly repent and unfeignedly believe his Gospel The Absolution and Remission of all their sins Which though spoken also in general terms yet every particular person there present ought to apply it to himself so as to be fully perswaded in his own mind that if he doth but sincerely repent and believe the Gospel he is perfectly absolved from all his sins by God himself according to the promises which he hath made to Mankind in Jesus Christ our Lord. And now looking upon our selves as absolved from our sins upon our Repentance and Faith in Christ and by consequence as reconciled to God we take the boldness to call him Father humbly addressing our selves to him in that Divine Form of Prayer which he himself hath given us Which done we lift up our hearts and voices unto God for his assistance of us in what we do in the words of David the Minister crying out O Lord open thou our lips and the People answering And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise The Minister again O God make speed to save us the People O Lord make haste to help us And then immediately we all lift up our bodies too stand upon our feet and so put our selves into a posture of praising and magnifying the Eternal God Father Son and Holy Ghost for his infinite goodness and mercy towards us for which purpose the Minister first saith or sings the Gloria Patri Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost and the people to shew their consent answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen But not thinking this to be enough the Minister calls upon the people again saying Praise ye the Lord and the people answer The Lords name be praised and then we go on to praise him together saying or singing the 95 Psalme Venite exultemus Domino O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our Salvation c. and so proceed to the Psalms appointed for the day After every one of which to testifie our belief in the most sacred Trinity and our acknowledgment of that infinite love and goodness which every one of those Divine Persons hath manifested to us we repeat that incomparable Hymne Glory be to the Father c. Our hearts being thus raised up to God in praising and admiring of him we are now in a fit temper and disposition to hear what he shall speak unto us And therefore have a Chapter read out of the Old Testament and that in its ordinary course except upon Sundays and Holydays when more people attending the Publick Worship of God then can conveniently come upon other days we read some Select Chapter proper for the day and such as is judged most edifying to all that are there present And having thus heard God speaking unto us in his holy Word we presently fall upon praising of him again for so unspeakable a mercy saying or singing in the Morning the Te Deum one of the most Heavenly and Seraphick Hymns that was ever composed by Men or else the Song of the Three Children which is nothing but a Paraphrase upon that which David sang so often upon Earth and which the Holy Angels sing continually in Heaven even Hallelujah Praise ye the Lord. Wherein we being all sensible how far short we our selves come of praising God sufficiently we call upon all the Creatures in the World to do it Bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever In the Afternoon we sing either the Magnificat or else the 98 Psalme both which being taken out of Gods own Word cannot but be very pleasing and acceptable unto him After this our Souls being got upon the wing again and soaring aloft in the contemplation of the Divine perfections we are now rightly qualified to hear and receive the Sublime Mysteries of the Gospel And therefore have a Chapter read to us out of the New Testament After which we being revived with the good Tydings of the Gospel and filled with admiration at the infinite goodness of God therein revealed to us we break forth again into praising and adoring of him in the song of Zacharias or else the 100 Psalm in the Morning and at Evening either the 67 Psalm or else the Song of Old Simeon still concluding with the Gloria Patri Now having thus heard some part of the Word of God read to us and expressed our thankfulness unto him for it to signifie our assent not only to what we have heard but to the whole Scripture we all with one heart and voice repeat the Apostles Creed wherein the summ and substance of it is contained And so profess our selves to continue in the number of Christs Disciples and that as we were at first Baptized so we still believe in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost God Blessed for evermore Hitherto we have been mostly taken up with confessing our sins to God imploring his mercy in the pardon of them hearing his most holy Word acknowledging his goodness to us and praising and magnifying his name for it By which means except we have been extreamly wanting to our selves our hearts cannot but be so united and fixed upon God that we are now rightly disposed to make known our wants and present our Petitions before him This therefore is the next thing we set upon But seeing that neither Minister nor People can possibly do it aright without the assistance of God himself therefore each of them first pray for his special presence with the other The one saying