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A76443 Devotions of the ancient church in seaven pious prayers with seaven administrations. Collected for a private use, and now at the desire of some judicious persons, made publick. Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661. 1660 (1660) Wing B2008; Thomason E1835_1; ESTC R209866 73,655 224

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of Sin That as he is thus made partaker of the death of thy Son so he may be partaker of his resurrection So that finally with the residue of thy holy Congregation he may be inheritour of thine everlasting Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. An exhortation to the Parents Godfathers or sureties For as much as these children have promised by you to forsake the Divell and all his works to believe in God and to serve him you must remember that it is your parts and duties to see that these infants be taught so soone as they shall be able to learne what a solemn vow promise and profession they have made by you And that they may know these things the better you shall call upon them to heare Sermons and chiefly you shall provide that they may learne the Creed the Lords Prayer and the Ten Commandements in the English tongue and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his soules health and that these children may be vertuously brought up to lead a godly and Christian life remembring alwayes that Baptisme doth represent unto us our profession which is to follow the example of our Saviour Christ and to be made like unto him that as he died and rose againe for us so should we which are baptized die from sin and rise againe unto righteousnes continually mortifying all our evill and corrupt affections and dayly proceeding in all vertue and Godlynes of living THe Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all everrmore Amen Now in case of necessity as when the childe is in danger of death the lawful Minister may briefly call upon God for his Grace and the childe being named by some one that is present may only cast Water upon the Childe and use the Form of words in Baptisme saying N. I Baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen And let no man doubt but the Childe so Baptized is lawfully and sufficiently Baptized and ought not to be Baptized again THE COMMUNION The Exhortation before it DEarely Beloved in the Lord ye that mind to come to the holy Communion of the body and blood of our Saviour Christ must consider what St. Paul writeth to the Corinthians how he exhorteth all persons diligently to trie and examine themselves before they presume to eate of that bread and drink of that Cup. For as the benefit is great if with a true penitent heart and lively Faith we receive that holy Sacrament for then we spiritually eate the flesh of Christ and drinke his blood then we dwell in Christ and Christ in us we be one with Christ and Christ with us So is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily for then we be guilty of the body and blood of Christ our Saviour we eate and drinke our own judgement not considering the Lords body We kindle Gods wrath against us We provoke him to plague us with divers diseases and sundry kinds of death Therefore if any of you be a blasphemer of God and hinderer or slaunderer of his word an adulterer or be in malice or envy or in any other greivous crime bewaile your sins and come not to this holy Table least the divell enter into you as he entred into Judas and fill you full of all iniquities and bring you to destruction both of body and soule Judge therefore your selves bretheren that ye be not judged of the Lord. Repent you truely of your sins past have a lively and stedfast Faith in Christ our Saviour Amend your lives and be in perfect charity with all men So shall ye be meete partakers of those holy mysteries And above all things yee must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our Saviour Christ both God and man who did humble himselfe even to the death upon the Crosse for us miserable sinners which lay in darkness and shadow of death that he might make us the children of God and exalt us unto everlasting life And to the end we should alwayes remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ thus dying for us and the innumerable benefits which by his pretious blood shedding he hath obtained to us He hath instituted and ordained holy Mysteries as pledges of his love and continuall remembrance of his death to our great and endlesse comfort To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost let us give as we are bounden continuall thanks submitting our selves wholy to his holy will and pleasure and studying to serve him in true holynes and righteousnes all the dayes of our life You that thus do truely and earnestly repent you of your sinnes and be in love and charity with your neighbours and intend to lead a new life following the Commandements of God and walking from henceforth in his holy wayes you may draw neere and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort according to these comfortable words of our Saviour to all that truely turne unto him Come unto me all yee that are weary Mat. 11. 28. and heavie laden and I will refresh you So God loved the world that he John 3. 16. gave his only begotten Son to the end that all that believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life Or that of St. Paul This is a faithfull 1 Tim. 2. 5. saying and worthy of all men to be received that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners Or that of St. John If any man sinne we have an 1 John 2. 1 2. advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sinnes In confidence of whose mercy let us make an humble and penitent confession of our sinns before Almighty God asking pardon for them and his efficacious blessing upon this his own ordinance meekly kneeling upon our knees Let us Pray ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ maker of all things judge of all men wee acknowledge and bewaile our manifold sinnes and wickednes which we from time to time most grievously have committed by thought word and deed against thy Divine Majesty provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us But we do earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the burthen of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us most mercifull Father for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newnes of life to the honor and glory of thy name And O Lord we do not presume to come to this thy table trusting in our own righteousnes but in thy manifold and great mercies We be not worthy so much as to gather up
also faithfully for their part by you that be their sureties profess the faith of Christ and promise that they will forsake the Divel and all his works and constantly believe Gods holy word and obediently keep his commandements Minister Doest thou in the name of this Childe promise to forsake the Devil and all his works the vain pomp and glory of the world with all covetous desires of the same the carnal desires of the flesh so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them Answer I will forsake them all Minister Doest thou in the name of this Childe profess this Faith to Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord and that he was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary that he suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried descended into Hell and also did rise again the third day that he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty and from thence shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quick and the dead And doest thou in the name of this childe believe in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the communion of the Saints the Remission of sins the Resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life after death Answer All this I stedfastly believe Minister Wilt thou be Baptised And do you dedesire in the name of this Infant that he may be Baptized in this faith Answer That is my desire Now dearly beloved forasmuch as all men be conceived and born in sin and that our Saviour Christ saith none can enter into the Kingdome of God except he be regenerate and born anew I beseech you to call upon God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ that of his bounteous mercy he will grant to these children that thing which by nature they cannot have that they may be baptized with water and the Holy Ghost and received into Christs holy Church and be made lively members of the same that our Lord Jesus Christ would vouchsafe to receive them to lay his hands upon them to bless them and release them of their sins to give them the Kingdome of Heaven and everlasting life Let us Pray ALmighty and everlasting God which of thy great mercy didst save Noah and his family in the Ark from perishing by water and also didst safely lead the children of Israel thy people through the red Sea figuring thereby thy holy baptisme and by the baptisme of thy welbeloved Son Jesus Christ didst sanctifie the flood Jordan and all other waters to the mystical washing away of sin we beseech thee for thine infinite mercies that thou wilt mercifully look upon these children sanctifie them and wash them with the Holy Ghost that they being delivered from thy wrath may be received into the Ark of Christs Church and being stedfast in faith joyful through hope and rooted in Charity may so pass the waves of this troublesome world that finally they may come to the land of Everlasting life there to reign with thee world without end And O Lord who art the aid of all that need the helper of all that flee to thee for succour the life of them that believe and the resurrection of the dead we call upon thee for these Infants that they coming to thy holy baptisme may receive remission of their sins by spiritual regeneration Receive them O Lord as thou hast promised by thy welbeloved Son saying ask and you shall have seek and you shall finde knock and it shall be opened unto you So give now unto us that ask let us that seek find open the gate unto us that knock that these Infants may enjoy the everlasting benediction of thy Heavenly washing and may come to thy Eternal Kingdome And O Heavenly Father we give thee humble thanks that thou hast vouchsafed to call us to the knowledge of thy grace and faith in thee Increase this knowledge and confirm this faith in us evermore Give thy Holy Spirit to these Infants that they may be born again and be made heirs of everlasting Salvation and as the way to attain it grant that the old Adam in these children may be so buried that the new man may be raised up in them and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in them That they may have power and strength to have victory and to triumph against the Devil the world and the flesh And grant that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our office and ministrie may also be endowed with heavenly vertues and everlastingly rewarded through thy mercy And seeing we hear thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins did shed out of his most precious side both water and blood and gave commandment to his Disciples that they should go and teach all Nations and baptize them in the Name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost regard we beseech thee the supplication of thy congregation and grant that these thy servants which shall be baptized in this water may receive the fulness of thy grace and ever remain in the number of thy faithful and elect children through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen N. I Baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Amen We receive this child into the Congregation of Christs Flock * If they that bring the Children do defire it the Minister may add viz. and do signe him with the signe of the Crosse that so hereafter he may not be ashamed to confesse the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his banner against Sin the world and the Devill and to continue Christs faithfull Souldier and servant unto his lives end Amen Seeing now deerly beloved Brethren that these children have received the Sacrament of Regeneration and thus visibly grafted into the body of Christs Congregation Let us give thanks unto God for these benefits and with one accord make our prayers unto Almighty God that they may lead the rest of their life according to this beginning OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as wee forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deilver us from evill For thine is the kingdome the power and the glory for ever Amen Wee yield thee hearty thanks most mercifull Father that it hath pleased thee to make this infant partaker of this Sacrament of Regeneration and thus to receive him for thy child by adoption and to incorporate him into thy holy congregation And humbly we beseech thee to grant that he being dead unto Sin and living unto righteousness and being buried with Christ in his death may crucifie the old man and utterly abolish the whole body
Articles of the Christian Faith And thirdly that I should keep Gods holy will and Commandements and walk in the same all the dayes of my life Question Dost thou not think thou art bound to believe and do what was promised for thee Answer Yes verily and with Gods help so I will and I pray God give me his grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Question Rehearse the Articles of thy belief Answer I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Question What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy belief Answer First I learn to believe in God the Father who hath made me and all the world Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankinde Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the Elect people of God Question How many Commandements be there Answer Ten. Question Which be they Answer THe same which God spake in the twenty Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage I. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandements III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy maid-servant thy cattle and the stranger that is within thy gates for in six dayes the Lord made Heaven and earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it V. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt do no murther VII Thou shalt not commit adultery VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not beare false witness against thy neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his Maid nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his Question What dost thou chiefly learne by these commandements Answer I learne two things my duty towards God and my duty towards my neighbour Question What is thy duty towards God Answer My duty towards God is to believe in him to feare him and to love him with all my heart with all my mind with all my soule and with all my strength To worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him to honour his holy name and his word and to serve him truely all the dayes of my life Question What is thy duty towards thy neighbour Answer My duty towards my neighbour is to love him as my self and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me To love honour and succour my father and Mother To honour and obey the King or supream Magistrate and his Ministers To submit my self to all my Governours teachers spirituall pastours and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters to hurt no body by word nor deed To be true and just in all my dealing To beare no malice nor hatred in my heart To keepe my hands from stealing and my tongue from evill speaking lying and slandering To keepe my body in temperance sobernesse and chastity Not to covet or desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truely to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life unto the which it shall please God to call me Question My good childe know this that thou art not able to do these things of thy self nor to walke in the commandements of God and to serve him without his speciall grace which thou must learne at all times to call for by diligent prayer Let me heare therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer Answer OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name Thy Kingdome come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And leade us not into temptation But deliver us from evill For thine is the kingdom the power and the glory for ever Amen Question What desirest thou of God in this prayer Answer I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who is the giver of all good to send his grace unto me and to all people that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to do And that he would send us all things that be needefull both for our soules and bodyes And that he will forgive us our sinns and save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keepe us from all sinne and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ And therefore I say Amen So be it Question How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church Answer Two onely as generally necessary to salvation that is to say Baptisme and the supper of the Lord. Question What meanest thou by this word Sacrament Answer I meane an outward and visible signe of an inward and spirituall grace given unto us ordeined by Christ himself as a meanes whereby we receive the same and a pledge to assure us thereof Question How many parts be there in a Sacrament Answer Two the outward visible signe and the inward spirituall grace Question What is the outward visible signe or forme in Baptisme Answer Water wherein the person baptized is dipped or sprinkled with it In the Name of the Father and
excellent prayer pag. 28. Psalm 95. O come let us sing c. pag. 34. We praise thee O God c. pag 35. Luk. 1. 68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel c. pag. 37. Psalm 100. O be joyful in the Lord c. pag. 38. Luk. 1. 46. My soule doth Magnify the Lord c. pag. 39. Psalm 98. O sing unto the Lord a new song c. pag. 40. Luk. 2. 29. Lord now letest thou thy servant depart c. pag. 41. Psam 67. God be Mercifull unto us and blesse us c. pag. 41. The Creed I believe in God c. pag. 42. The Nicen Creed I believe in one God c. pag. 43. The Creed of Athanasins commonly so called Whosoever will be saved c. pag. 45. The Ten Commandements 49. Some Choice sentences out of Scripture used at the beginning of prayer c. pag. 51. Prayers for raine faire wether in time of dearth and famine in time of war in time of any common plague or sicknes and thanksgivings for the returne of each pag. 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59. A thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth pag. 59. The Seven administrations 1. Baptisme pag. 63. 2. Communion pag. 75. 3. Visitation of the sick pag. 91. 4. Catechisme pag. 117. with confirmation pag. 128. 5. A day of fasting or Humiliation pag. 131. 6. Matrimony pag. 141. 7. An Exhortation at the Buriall pag. 153. Some prayers used upon the Fifth of November pag. 161. A prayer formerly used by the Speaker of the house of Commons in Parliament pag. 169. A prayer for the Parliament used in the house pag. 174. The substance of the Ancient manner of Ordination in the Church of England pag. 177. The Articles of the Church of England An Advertisement PAge 80 81 82. some Prayers at the Communion in relation to the Nativity Resurrection and Ascension of our Saviour Pentecost Trinity-Sunday are intended only for their proper festivals but may be used at the discretion of the Minister Page 27. line 18. read glory and triumph into thy kingdome of Heaven p. 29. l. 21. dele any hurt by p. 31. l. 13. dele in their lawful affairs p. 118. l. 4. r. and I heartily thank our Heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour p. 123. l. 27. r. be merciful unto us and p. 199. dele 100. DEVOTIONS OF THE ANTIENT CHURCH A Prayer for the Morning I. ALmighty God and in thy Son Jesus Christ our most mercifull Father we acknowledge we have erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost sheep we have followed too much the corrupt desires of our own hearts and have offended against thy holy lawes by leaving undone those things which we ought to have done and doing those things which we ought not to have done So that in us dwelleth no good thing We beseech thee to have mercy upon us who are miserable offenders to spare us who do confesse our faults and restore us who are penitent for them according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant O most mercifull Father for his sake that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name And O Lord in regard we heare out of thy word that thou desirest not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turne from his wickedness and live and hast given power and commandement to thy Ministers to declare and pronounce to thy people being penitent the forgiveness and remission of their sinnes And that thou wilt pardon all them that truely repent and unfeignedly believe thy holy Gospell We beseech thee to grant us true repentance and thy holy Spirit that those things may please thee which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to thy eternall joy where our lips shall be opened and our mouth continually shew forth thy praise in giving glory to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost world without end And O Lord our heavenly Father who art the author of peace and lover of concord in the knowledge of whom standeth our eternall life whose service is perfect freedom mercifully heare us now we call upon thee defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not feare the power of any adversaries but by thy being with us and shewing thy mercy upon us and granting us thy salvation thy chosen people may be still joyfull in thee peace may be given and continued in our time O Lord and thy inheritance even thy people may be blessed and saved and taught to put their trust in thee there being no other that fighteth for us but only thou our God and do thou make cleane our hearts within us that thy holy Spirit be not taken from us And seeing O Lord thou hast safely preserved us hither to this day defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sinne neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy Governance to do allwayes that which is righteous in thy sight And we humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to looke upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy names sake turne from us all those evills that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and purenes of living to the honor and glory of thy name And O Lord who art the Governor of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be mercifull unto them that truely repent wee beseech thee to save and deliver us out of the hands of our enemies abate their pride aswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all p●rills to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victories And seing thou hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three be gathered together in thy name thou wilt grant their requests fulfill now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Through Jesus Christ our Lord in whose name and words we further pray saying OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed by thy name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as wee forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill for thine is
forefathers Abraham and his seed for ever Or Psalm 98. O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things With his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory The Lord declared his salvation his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God Shew your selves joyful unto the Lord all ye lands sing rejoyce and give thanks Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a Psalm of thanksgiving With trumpets also and shawms O shew ●our selves joyful before the Lord the King Let the Sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein Let the floods clap their hands and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord for he is come to judge the earth With righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity Luke 2. 29. (e) This or the next were wont to be read at the Evening after the second chapt LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy Word For mine eyes have seen thy salvation Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Or Psalm 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The repetition of this ancient doxology had this pious intention viz. to keep the mystery of the blessed Trinity in the mindes of the vulgar who else may be in danger to forget it Which with the other according to the rule were to be read by the Minister alone and not interchangeably by the people though the common practice had prevailed otherwise The Creed (f) This was wont to be read after the second chapter both at morning and evening I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the Resurrection of the Body and the life everlasting Amen The Nicene Creed (g) This was used to be read in the morning I Believe in one God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of Light very God of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made who for us men and for our salvation came down from Heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made man and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead whose kingdom shall have no end And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church I acknowledge one Baptisme for the remission of sins And I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come Amen The Creed of Athanasius commonly so called (h) This was appointed to be read about thirteen times in the year to the people if it were now read once a month it were very convenient WHosoever will be saved before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick faith Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly And the Catholick faith is this that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance For there is one person of the Father another of the Son and another of the Holy Ghost But the God-head of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is all one the glory equal the Majesty coeternal Such as the Father is such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost The Father uncreate the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghost uncreate The Father incomprehensible the Son incomprehensible and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible The Father eternal the Son eternal and the Holy Ghost eternal And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal As also there are not three incomprehensibles nor three uncreated but one uncreated and one incomprehensible So likewise the Father is Almighty the Son Almighty and the Holy Ghost Almighty And yet they are not three Almighties but one Almighty So the Father is God the Son is God and the Holy Ghost is God And yet they are not three Gods but one God So likewise the Father is Lord the Son Lord and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we be compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every person by himself to be God and Lord. So are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion to say there be three Gods or three Lords The Father is made of none neither created nor begotten The Son is of the Father alone not made nor created but begotten The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son neither made nor created nor begotten but proceeding So there is one Father not three Fathers one Son not three Sons one Holy Ghost not three Holy Ghosts And in this Trinity none is afore or after other none is greater or less then another But the whole three persons be coeternal together and coequal So
evermore from all perils to glorifie thee which art the onely giver of all victory through the merits of thy onely Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In time of any common plague or sickness O Almighty God which in thy wrath in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst save the rest have pitty upon us miserable sinners that now are visited with great sickness and mortality that like as thou didst then command thine Angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this O God whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive receive our humble petitions and though we be tyed and bound with the chain of our sins yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us for the honour of Jesus Christs sake our only mediator and advocate Amen A thanksgiving for rain O God our Heavenly Father who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man we give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in our greatest necessity to send us at the last a joyful rain upon thine inheritance and to refresh it when it was dry to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants and to the glory of thy holy Name through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A thanksgiving for fair wea●her O Lord God who hast justly humbled us by thy late plague of immoderate rain and waters and in thy mercy hast relieved and comforted our souls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather we praise and glorifie thy holy Name for this thy mercy and will alwayes declare thy loving kindness from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A thanksgiving for plenty O Most merciful Father which of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapness and plenty we give thee humble thanks for this thy special bounty beseeching thee to continue this thy loving kindness unto us that our land may yield us her fruits of increase to thy glory and our comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A thanksgiving for peace and victory O Almighty God which art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies we yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed we acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies toward us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague O Lord God which hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavy and dreadful visitation and now in the midst of judgement remembring mercy hast redeemed our souls from the jaws of death we offer unto thy fatherly goodness our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee alwayes praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of the congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this WE humbly acknowledge before thee O most merciful Father that all the punishments which are threatned in thy law might justly have fallen upon us by reason of our manifold transgressions and hardness of heart yet seeing it hath pleased thee of thy tender mercy upon our weak and unworthy humiliation to asswage the noisome pestilence wherewith we lately have been sore afflicted and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings we offer unto thy divine Majesty the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for such thy preservation and providence over us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Thanksgiving for women after Child-birth O Almighty God we bless and praise thy name that thou hast of thy goodness given safe deliverance unto this woman thy servant and hast preserved her from the great pain and peril of Child-birth grant we beseech thee most merciful Father that she through thy help may both faithfully live and walk in her vocation according to thy will in this life present and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After which this blessing may be pronounced to her AS thy help hath been hitherto in the name of the Lord who hath made Heaven and earth even so the Lord himself still be thy keeper and thy defence upon thy right hand the Lord preserve thee from evil yea it is even he that shall keep thy soul the Lord preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore Amen Seven ADMINISTRATIONS 1. Baptisme 2. Communion 3. Visiting the Sick 4. Catechisme with Conformation 5. Day of fasting or Humiliation 6. Matrimony 7. An Exhortation at the Burial BAPTISME Welbeloved in the Lord Hear the words of the Gospel written by St. Mark in the Tenth Chapter AT a certain time they brought Children to Christ that he should touch them and his Disciples rebuked those that brought them But when Jesus saw it he was displeased and said unto them Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for to such belongeth the Kingdome of God Verily I say unto you whosoever doth not receive the Kingdome of God as a little Childe he shall not enter therein And when he had taken them up in his arms he put his hands upon them and blessed them Friends you hear in this Gospel the words of our Saviour Christ that he commanded the children to be brought unto him how he blamed those that would have kept them from him how he exhorted all men to follow their innocencie You perceive how by his outward gesture and deed he declared his good will toward them for he embraced them in his arms he laid his hands upon them and blessed them Doubt you not therefore but earnestly believe that he will likewise favourably receive these present Infants that he will embrace them with the arms of his mercy that he will give unto them the blessing of Eternal life and make them partakers of his everlasting Kingdome Wherefore we being thus perswaded of the good will of our Heavenly Father towards these infants declared by his Son Jesus Christ and nothing doubting but that he favourably alloweth this charitable work of ours in bringing these Children to his holy Baptisme let us proceed accordingly in it Welbeloved friends ye have brought these children here to be Baptized ye have heard the gracious promise made by Christ unto them which he for his part will most surely keep and perform wherefore these Infants must
shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God even the Father 24 when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power For he must reign till he hath put all enemies 25 under his feet The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death For he 26 hath put all things under his feet but 27 when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all 28 things under him that God may be all in all Else what shall they do which 29 are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all Why are they then baptized for the dead And why stand 30 we in jeopardy every houre I protest 31 by your rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord I die dayly If after the manner of men I have fought with 32 beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not Let us eat and drink for to morrow we die Be not deceived evil communications 33 corrupt good manners Awake to righteousness and sin not for some 34 have not tbe knowledge of God I speak this to your shame But some man will say how are the dead raised up And 35 with what body do they come Thou fool 36 that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body which 37 shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased 38 him and to every seed his own body All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one 39 kinde of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and another of birds There are also celestial bodies and 40 hodies terrestial but the glory of the celestial is one the glory of the terrestrial is another There is one glory of the sun 41 and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory So also is the resurrection of the dead it 42 is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption It is sown in dishonour 43 it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power It is 44 sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body And so 45 it is written The first man Adam was made a living soul the last Adam was made a quickning spirit Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual 46 but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual The first man is of the earth earthly the second 47 man is the Lord from heaven heavenly As is the earthly such are they that are 48 earthly and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly And 49 as we have born the image of the earthly we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Now this I say brethren 50 that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all 51 sleep but we shall all be changed In a moment in the twinkling of an eye 52 at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall he changed For this corruptible must put on incorruption 53 and this mortal must put on immortality So when this corruptible 54 shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory O Death where is thy 55 sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and tbe strength 56 of sin is the law But thanks be to God 57 which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast immovable alwayes abounding in the work 58 of the Lord for asmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Welbeloved seeing we all know that with God do live the spirits of them that d●part hence in the Lord and that the souls of them that be elected after they be delivered from the burthen of the flesh be in joy and felicitie let us labour hereafter so to live in his fear that when he shall be pleased to accomplish the number of his elect and to hasten his kingdome or shall deliver us out of the miseries of this sinful world we may by his gracious goodness with all those departed in the true faith of his holy name have our perfect consummation bliss both in body soul in his eternal and everlasting glory And seeing we have heard that our Lord Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life in whom whosoever believeth shall live though he die and whosoever liveth and believeth in him shall not die eternally who also hath taught us by his holy Apostle Paul not to be sorry as men without hope for them that sleep in him let us endeavour so to be here raised from the death of sin to the life of righteousness that when we shall depart this life we may rest in him as our hope is this our brother doth and at the general resurrection at the last day we may be sound acceptable in his sight and receive that blessing which his welbeloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear him saying Come ye blessed children of my Father receive the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world Which God of his mercy grant us all The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with us all now and evermore Amen Prayers for the Fifth of November These Prayers following framed or approved by the reverend Bishops of that age do demonstrate how causelesly that conjunction of Prelacy and Popery hath been of late years continued to their reproach Prayers and Thanksgivings for the happy deliverance of his Majesty the Queen Prince and States of the Parliament from the most traiterous and bloody intended Massacre by Gunpowder November 5. 1605. I. ALmighty God who hast in all ages shewed thy power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy Holy and Eternal truth against the wicked conspiracies and malicious practises of all the enemies thereof we yield unto thee from the very ground of our hearts all possible praise and thanks for the wonderful and mighty deliverance of our gracious Soveraign King James the Queen the Prince and all the
the entrance into each the people were asked if any of them knew any impediment or notable crime in any of them now presented for the which they ought not to be admitted and were desired in the name of God to come forth and declare it and if any were objected the person accused was not to be ordained until such time as he had fully cleared himself of it The place where it was to be done was in the face of the Church or congregation on the Lords day or some other day of publick meeting the manner of the Ordination as followeth First for the Deacons THey were first commended unto God by the prayer of the whole congregation then some fitting portions out of holy Scripture were read before them containing their duties viz. 1 Tim. 3. from the 8. ver to the end of the Chapter Acts 6. from the 2. to the 8. After this the office of a Deacon was declared unto them many serious questions asked them some in matter of belief as whether they did believe they had an inward call by the motion of the Holy Ghost to take upon them that office and ministration and that their outward was according to the will of Christ that they did believe all the Canonical books of holy Scripture Some in matter of practice as whether they would frame their own lives and the lives of their families as examples unto others and would reverently obey their Governours and superiours hearkning to their admonitions c. To these there were solemn engagements for them accordingly in the presence of the congregation The manner of Ordaining was thus The Deacons being upon their knees the Bishop laid his hands severally upon the head of each of them saying Take thou Authority to execute the office of a Deacon in the Church of God committed unto thee In the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Amen Then was delivered to each of them the New Testament saying Take thou authority to read the Gospel in the Church of God and to preach the same if thou be thereto ordinarily commanded And as an initiation of them one of them by appointment did read a portion out of the Gospel that day The oath of Supremacy administred unto each and the seasonable and sitting prayers both before imposition of hands and after and that they were that day to receive the Communion may be found in the book it self of which is here intended only a summary thus much for the inferiour office of the Deacon upon the experience and trial of whom in it for the space of a year except for reasonable causes it should be thought otherwise and being found faithful and diligent they might be admitted unto the higher ministries in the Church viz. unto the order of Priesthood or Presbyters which followeth The ordination of Presbyters NOw secondly for the manner of ordering of those admitted into the Ministry of Priesthood or Presbyters it was thus after the Sermon or exhortation wherein their office and duty was to be shewen unto them they were solemnly presented by a principal person for that end the consent and approbatition of the people was asked in these words following Good people these be they whom we purpose God willing to receive this day unto the holy office of Priesthood and after due examination we finde not to the contrary but that they be lawfully called to their function and ministrie and that they be persons meet for the same but yet if there be any of you which knoweth any impediment or notable crime of any of them for the which he ought not to be received into this holy ministrie now in the name of God declare the same c. And if any were objected the person was not to be ordained till he had cleared himself of it Those that were to be ordained were first commended as before unto God by the prayers of the whole congregation of which this was one viz. That God who is the giver of all good things and by his holy spirit had appointed diverse orders of Ministers in his Church would be pleased mercifully to behold these his servants now called to that office that he would replenish them so with the truth of doctrine and innocency of life that both by word and good example they might faithfully serve him in this office to the glory of his name and profit of his Church or congregation c. After Prayer some select portions out of holy Scripture containing their duties were read before them viz. Acts 20. 17. to the 36. From Mileto Paul sent messengers to Ephesus and called the Elders of the Church c. or 2 Tim. 3. 1. to the 8. If a man desire the office of a Bishop he desires a worthy work a Bishop must be blameless c. Mat. 28. 18 19 20. containing the Apostles commission from our Saviour or John 10. 11. to 17. chap. 20. 19. to 24. And then an Ancient Hymn said or sung as may be seen more at large in the book of Ordination These things premised then followed the Ordination it self first a grave solid exhortation and admonition directed to the persons to be ordained with divers serious questions and solemn engagements taken of them and I conceive 't is more profitable to have things of this nature punctually set down without any variation whereby all come to be a like obliged and each may have an often serious review of what was charged upon him and engaged by him then to have them left to the ordainers sudden transient expressions which cannot be well called to minde by either and for the same causes a set form of Prayer at these solemnities is the most prudent The Exhortation given by the Bishop to the persons ordained YOu have heard brethren as well in your private examination as in the exhortation and in the holy lessons taken out of the Gospel and of the writings of the Apostles of what dignity and of how great importance this office is whereunto ye be called And now we exhort you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ to have in remembrance into how high a dignity and to how chargeable an office ye be called that is to say the messengers the watchmen the pastours and the stewards of the Lord to teach to premonish to feed and provide for the Lords family to seek for Christs sheep that be dispersed abroad and for his children which be in the middest of this naughty world to be saved through Christ for ever Have alwayes therefore printed in your remembrance how great a treasure is committed to your charge for they be the sheep of Christ which he bought with his death and for whom he shed his blood The Church and congregation whom you must serve is his spouse and his body And if it shall chance the same Church or any member thereof to take any hurt or hinderance by reason of your negligence ye know the greatness of the fault and also
his will as also to exhort him to be charitable to the poor according to his ability And if the sick person feeling his conscience troubled with any weighty matter shall make a special confession of it and shall desire to receive a declaration of forgiveness in the name of Christ from the Minister he may do it after this manner OUr Lord Jesus Christ who hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare remission of sins to all which truly repent and believe in him of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences and in his name and by his authority committed to me I pronounce unto thee forgiveness of all thy sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen After which the Minister may pray after this manner ALmighty Everlasting God maker of mankinde which dost correct those whom thou dost love and chastisest every one whom thou dost receive we beseech thee to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thy hand and to grant that he may take his sickness patiently and recover his bodily health if it be thy gracious will or otherwise whensoever his soul shall depart from the body it may be without spot presented unto thee and seeing according to the multitude of thy mercy thou dost so put away the sins of those that repent that thou remembrest them no more open thine eye of mercy upon this thy servant who most earnestly desireth pardon and forgiveness Renew in him most loving Father whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the Divel or by his own carnal will and frailness Preserve and continue this sick member in the unity of the Church consider his contrition accept his tears asswage his pain as shall seem to thee most expedient for him And for asmuch as he puts his trust only in thy mercy impute not unto him his former sins but take him unto thy favour send him help from thy holy place and evermore mightily defend him let the enemy have no advantage of him nor the wicked approach to hurt him O Lord look down from Heaven behold visit and relieve this thy servant look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy give him comfort and sure confidence in thee defend him from the danger of the enemy and keep him in perpetual peace and safety And we beseech thee to extend thy accustomed goodness to him who is grieved with sickness visit him O Lord as thou didst visit Peters wifes mother and the Captains servant so visit and restore to this sick person his former health if it be thy will or else give him grace so to take this visitation that after this painful life ended he may dwell with thee in life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord in whose name and words we call upon thee saying OUr Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the Kingdome the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen Here if the sickness of the person can permit it the whole 71. Psalm containing seasonable matter may be read unto him IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness incline thine ear unto me and save me Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to help me for thou art my house of defence and my castle Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb my praise shall be alway of thee I am become as it were a monster unto many but my sure trust is in thee O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long Cast me not away in the time of age forsake me not when my strength faileth me For mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take their councel together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him Go not far from me O God my God haste thee to help me Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to do me evil As for me I will patiently abide alway and will praise thee more and more My mouth shall dayly speak of thy righteousness and salvation for I know no end thereof I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy righteousness only Thou O God hast taught me from my youth up until now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works Forsake me not O God in mine old age when I am gray headed until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to all them that are yet for to come Thy righteousness O God is very high and great things are they that thou hast done O God who is like unto thee O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turn and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again Thou hast brought me to great honour and comforted me on every side Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulness O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee and so will my soul whom thou hast delivered My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil The BLESSING THe Almighty Lord which is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in thee to whom all things in Heaven and earth and under the earth do bow and obey be now and evermore thy defence and make thee to know and feel that there is none other name under Heaven given to man in whom and through whom thou mayest receive health and salvation but only the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour glory for ever Amen THE CATECHISME Question WHen was your name given you Answer At my Baptisme Question What was then promised for you Answer These three things first that I should forsake the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of the wicked world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh Secondly that I should believe all the