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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39987	Forms of prayer used in the reformed churches in France before their persecution and destruction With an account of their manner of batizing, celebrating the Holy Supper, marrying and burying; with some additional remarks. Translated into English, for the use of such of the French nation as do desire to learn English; and may be serviceable to those English who are willing to improve themselues in the French language; and for the information of all of the reformed religion, and others. Unto which is also annexed the names of several learned French ministers, to evidence the truth of this translation.	Eglises réformées de France.; J. T.	1699 (1699)	Wing F1584B; ESTC R221545	24,972	145

Printed at the latter end thereof which Treatise doth also shew the Government of the African Helvetian c. Churches unto which I refer you for your better Information and Satisfaction Moreover I thought fit to shew you the great aversion which the reformed French Churches had to separation as it appears by an Article made in 1644 and is Printed in the seventh Chapter and the 205 and 366 Pages of the Discipline of the reformed Churches of France and in the 72 73 and 74 Pages of this Treatise it is declared that all such as do make different Sects and others are Excommunicated from receiving the Holy Sacrament until they do repent and unite You cannot well suppose that what the Persons before mentioned have written was done out of fear or interest for if you will truely consider the stile of their Letters you will find them to be Men of Learning and Piety and void of all manner of Hypocrisie and Dissimulation I know there are other French Churches whose Ministers do use their own constitution more because they were brought up therein then out of any motive of aversion to the English Liturgy for they go very often to Prayers and to hear the Sermons and do receive the Communion in the Church of England 'T is an amazing wonder that any sort of Men should so much value their own mode of Praying as to slight that comprehensive Prayer which our Lord both made and commanded and it grieves me that most of our English Separatists contrary to the practice of the Church and to the instruction given by our Blessed Saviour to his Disciples as it is written in the Gospel of St. Mat. in the sixth Chapter and the ninth verse and in that of St. Luk. in the 11th and 2d do too often refrain not only the use of the Apostles Creed and the Ten Commandments But also of the Lords Prayer which I fear is not only a shame to such as profess the Christian Religion but is also a great offence unto our Lord who hath expressly taught and enjoyned us when we pray to say Our Father which art in Heaven c. But as Charity Commands us to forgive one another I leave such to the mercy of Almighty God who is able to Pardon the greatest offenders This being premised together with the exemplary lives Sincere and Charitable endeavours of our English Ministry in shewing the true ground of the Antient and now reformed Catholick and. Apostolick Religion professed and taught in the Church of England may by Gods assistance be the best means of bringing over the remaining part of the English Dissenters who do not yet use the English Service nor observe its Canons and invite them by mutual love to conform and joyn with the Church of England for the obtaining of Gods Blessings of Grace Peace and Christian Charity among us or at least prove them to be inexcusable for their separating from the reformed National Church which never excludes Prayers in private Good Lord be pleased to open our Eyes that we may see what Triumph it occasions to our adversaries to behold the many divisions and bitter contentions among us upon the account of Religion and that they take more advantage from discords among our selves then from all their own Strength and Policy Wherefore because we are beset by Satan on one side and by our Popish adversaries on the other which are enslaving the Souls and destroying the Bodys of our Poor Brethren and subverting the Fundamentals of our Religion let us all joyn with one heart and render most humble thanks unto God that he hath been pleased by many eminent deliverances which he hath shewn to the Churches and Kingdoms of England and Ireland in preserving us from the Power of our Enemies And let us most humbly beseech God to be pleased of his Infinite Mercy and Goodness to prevent all their wicked designs against our distressed brethren and our selves by defeating al● their Malicious attempts and the works and power of the Devil and to convert all our Enemies and to turn their and our hearts unto him And the Lord grant that we may put away all hatred and malice evil speaking lying and slandering and pray with true and contrite hearts for the remission of all our sins and heinous offences and for the delivery of all our Persecuted Brethren from the undermining designs of their Enemies and for the Preservation of the true Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church and more especially for the Church of England and for our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King William and the Royal Family c. That he will be pleased to lead us by his Holy Spirit and enrich us with his Heavenly Grace that we may follow the good Examples of the Primitive Christians praying one for another in the same Words and Churches and helping each other in Love Charity Justice and Truth and that we may lay aside all worldly interests and set our affections on things above and that by our leading Holy and Peaceable lives we may promote the Honour and Olory of God and of his Son Jesus Christ by ou● Words and Actions and induce the Papists and all other divided Christians to do the same Finally let us beg of God that he will bring over the Turks● Jews and Infidels to acknowledge our Lord and to receive his Faith and Doctrine and to call upon and Praise his Holy Name and by his assistance and merits we may be instrumental in obtaining the salvation 〈◊〉 their and our own Immortal Souls which is the humble and chief aim of Your Faithful Servant J. T. The FORM OF Church-Prayers On the Week-days the Minister makes such an Exhortation as seemeth good to him accommodating it to the time and to the subject which he treats of in his Sermon On the Lords-day before the Reader comes into the Church the People usually sing some part of the Psalms until he see it a fit time to begin in this manner OUR help is in th● Name of God wh● hath made Heaven and Earth Amen And after says these following words Let us give attention with reverence and fear to the holy Word of God contained in the Chapter which he read● and sometimes one or two more which are take● out of the Old or New Testament Then he says these Preparatory words Let us sing to the praise and glory of God for the Edification and to the Consolation of our souls And upon that he gives out a Psalm which is sung by him and the Congregation That being ended he reads one or two Chapters more Thus reading and singing alternately till the Church be full and the Minister come into the Pulpit then the Reader repeats these following words Hearken with reverence and faithful obedience unto the holy Commandments of God contained in the 20th Chapter Exodus which he reads Then the Minister begi● by this following Prayer Our help is in the nam● of God who hath ma●● Heaven and Earth

Naming the Bridegroom and the Bride N. N. knowing that God hath ordained it thus will you live in the Holy State of Matrimony which God hath so greatly honoured have you such an intention as you do here declare before this holy assembly desiring that it should be confirmed They Answer Yes The Minister I take you all that are here present as Witnesses desiring you to remember it yet if there be any who know any impediment in it or that either of them be Married to any other let him declare the same If no Person opposes it the Minister says thus Since there is no Person that opposes it and that there is no impediment Our Lord God confirm that holy design which he hath given you let your begining be in the Name of God who hath made Heaven and Earth Amen The Minister speaking to the Bridegroom says thus N. Do you confess here before God and this holy Assembly that you have taken and do take M. here present for your Wedded Wife and do you promise to keep her in Loving and faithfully maintaining her as the duty of a Loving Husband towards his VVife requireth Living Holily with Her keeping Faith and Loyalty in all things according to the word of God and of his Holy Gospel Answer Yes After speaking to the Bride the Minister says M. Do you confess here before God and this holy assembly that you have taken and do take N. here present for your Lawful Husband do you promise to obey him serving and being subject unto him living a holy life Keeping saith and loyalty with him in all things as a faithful and loyal wife ought to do towards her husband according to the Word of God and of his holy Gospel Answer Yes Then the Minister doth say The Father of all mercy who hath called you by his Grace to this holy State for the love of his Son Jesus Christ who did sanctify Marriage by his holy presence and where●t he wrought his first Miracle before his Apostles give you his holy Spirit to serve and honour him together with one accord Amen Hear the Gospel in which our Lord shews how he would have holy Matrimony to be kept and how it is firm and indissolvable as it is written in the 19th of St. Matthew The Pharisees also came unto him tempting him and saying unto him Is it lawful for a man to put away his Wife for every cause and he answer●● and said unto them have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them Male and Female and said for this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother and cleave unto his Wife and they twain shall be one Flesh wherefore they are no more twain but one Flesh what therefore God hath Joyned together let no man put asunder Believe these Holy Words which our Lord hath spoken as they are contained in the holy Gospel be assured that our Lord God hath joined you in holy Matrimony Therefore live holily together in Love Peace and Unity keeping true Charity Faith and Loyalty one toward another according to the Word of God Let us all pray to our Father with one accord God Almighty who art good and wise and hast foreseen from the begining that it was not good for Man to be alone and therefore didst create an help meet for him like unto himself and hast ordained that two should be one We most humbly pray and beseech thee since it hath pleased thee to call these here present unto the holy State of Matrimony that thou would be pleased of thy bountiful grace to give them thy holy Spirit that they may live in true and stedfast faith according to thy good will that they may overcome all Evil Affections and edify others in all Honesty and Chastity give them thy Blessings as thou didst to thy Faithful Servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob That they having an Holy Seed may praise and serve thee instructing and nourishing them up to thy Praise and Glory and to the Edification of our Neighbours and the advancement of thy Holy Gospel Hear us most merciful Father through our Lord Jesus Christ thy most Dear Son Amen Our Lord replenish you with his Grace and Goodness and grant you a long and holy life together Amen FINIS POSTSCRIPT AS I have mentioned the differences between the Protestant Dissenters and the Church of England and the great respect paid her by the reformed Forreign Churches So I think fit to conclude by hinting to the Romanists Quakers c. That the Differences between Reform'd Forreign Churches and the Church of England are not so material and great as some have maliciously reported The present Controversies of Papists with Papists and of Quakers among themselves are considerably greater in my Opinion and the Breach between our English Presbyterians and Independents I take to be wider As for that amazing Point of Absolute Predestination it is not so much disputed amongst the Reformed as the Roman Churches One Order of Monks hath hotly engaged another The Jesuists and Jansenists have written so many hectoring and swelling Volumes upon that knotty Subject that a small Library will scarcely contain them Whereas in my poor Apprehension it would be much better to practice the Doctrines we profess than to quarrel about them and to use the words of the Learned Let us confessing that nothing can be done without the Providence of God Adore in humility the Secrets which are hid from us without our enquiry beyond our measure and rather apply to our use that which is shewn us in the holy Scriptures for to be in repose and security The World had been much happier if all who follow that Judicious Divine Mr. Calvin as well as others had embraced this sound this useful and pious instruction As for the Government of the Church by Bishops the Learned Calvin had neither a seasonable time or opportunity to use it It was not feasible or practicable for him to maintain it for how could he establish Protestant Bishops where Popish Bishops were setled But I Appeal to the world if the Calvinian Clergy hath not generally shewn a great Veneration both for the Orders and Persons of our Bishops whether they have not admired their Books and received holy Orders from them And for a further Demonstration of their entire Agreement few of them if any have ever refused a Prebendary a Deanery or any Episcopal Preferment But were there a real Disagreement in any point with what Forehead could a Romanist object it The Arch-Bishop of Paris uncharitably Damns the Arch-Bishop of Cambray the Bishop of Meaux and others joyn with him whilst the Prelate of Cambray doth not want a Party who adhere to him The Pope and his Cardinals are stunn'd atit and for all the Infalibility they pretend to they cannot easily tell on which side to determine The great God compose all Divisions amongst Christians of what Denomination soever let us humbly beseech him to inspire continually the Universal Church with the Spirit of Truth Unity and Concord and grant that all those who confess his Holy Name may agree in the truth of his holy word and live in Unity and Godly Love grant this O Father for Jesus Christ's sake our only Mediator and Advocate Amen FINIS FOR the satisfaction of all such persons that doubt of the Truth of this preceeding Translation they may please to observe that it hath been Examined by us and found to be faithfully translated from the French Form of Prayers which was in use in the Reformed Churches in France among our Ancestors and in our days whose Names are here subscribed Ministers of the French Church in the Savoy T. Satur P. Larriviere C. G. Lamothe Ministers of the Old French Church in London C. Piozet Ch. Bertheau Dubourdieu Minister of the Old Frnnch Church in Soho A. Gilbert Minister of the French Chappel at the Palace of St. James C. Pegorie Minister of the French Church near Leicester Fields La Place Minister of the French Church in Newport-Market Soho Blanc Minister of the Old Patant French Church in Soho Gally Degaujac A French Minister of an English Church J. Lions Minister to several French Churches in and about London Ministers of the New French Churches in London and in Hungerford-Market J. Doules J. Lombard Peter Degaleniere John Graverol P. Roussilions De Milly Melin Minister and Reader of the New French Church in London This Translation hath been carefully compared with the Original and Corrected by S. Lyons a French Minister

Administration of the Sacraments and other Ecclesiastical Rites and Ceremonies used in the Churches and Chappels of Zurick And the aforesaid People as I have been well informed do endeavour to liv● up to the strict Rules o● Justice and Piety whic● their Lord and Master hat● enjoyned and required fro● them And it is to be remarked that there were and sti●● are other Forms of Public● Prayers used in the Reformed Churches where th● Doctrine and Discipline Luther hath prevailed Which are sufficient prove and to convinc● People that set Forms 〈◊〉 Prayer were and are used in other Ancient Churches besides those of England or Rome and to demonstrate that such as reject Forms are in that respect Dissenters from Luther and Calvin as well as from that of England and also to shew the unannimous agreement of the Churches before recited and of the French Reformed with the Church of England besides these Prayers will infallibly point out to us the frequent use of the Lords Prayer the Apostles Creed and the Ten Commandments which were placed in their Churches and still are the main subjects of their Catechism which wa● taught every Lords Day and the two former are repeated when ever they assemble for the Publick Service At Baptizing an Infan● the Minister doth sprinkl● water on its Forehead whe● the Name is given an● that Church makes use of God-Fathers and God-Mothers who do undertak● most of the same charge o● those in the Church of England The French Protestant● have also a particular Form of Prayer for Baptizing ●uch Persons of riper years as desire and duely prepare themselves to receive it The time and manner of their receiving the Holy Sacrament is generally after the Morning Sermon which is performed with much decency and r●spect but for the most part they did receive it standing in France partly because their Flocks being large and their opportunities of receiving not frequent they might the sooner give place one to another And partly because they would not follow the manner of the Papists among whom they lived and who kneeled at the Communion in order to adore their Host● or a Wafer yet they do never oppose kneeling whe● it doth not tend to Idolatry But supposing the● lookt upon kneeling as on● extreame they took to b● sure sitting for the other● But as to the sence of it they do agree with th● Church of England a● you may more plainly s● towards the latter end o● their Catechism which 〈◊〉 often annexed to their Form of Prayers after th● Singing Psalms at th● latter end of the French New Testament In the time of Persecution before the general destruction of their Churches the Protestants in France had but one hour allowed them in the Morning and another hour in the Evening for the meeting of the thirty People to bury the Dead which was the greatest Number then permitted to attend the Corps unto the Grave unto which they were obliged to commit them without paying such decent respects which are usually done to the Corps of other Christians to make a difference between the Bodys of Deceased Christians and of such Animals as have nothing but meer sence tho' they are sometimes put into th● Earth yet never deserv● a solemn interment This Ceremony which used's to Deceased Christians it also to put the living in mind of Mortality and therefore after the return of the People from the Grave to the Deceased's late House or to the place where they at first met the Minister did make an Exhortation to admonish the living and to comfort the afflicted for the loss of their Friend At first when they were allowed to bury publickly the Minister followed after the Dead and at the interment the Minister made such an Exhortation as before mentioned In this Book are also comprehended the Forms of Prayer used upon Fasting Days and at the Celebration of the Holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper and also at Marriage Altho' their Prayers are short they comprehend most things for most conditions of men so composed that the whole Congregation may joyn with the Minister in praying for all necessaries and for Gods Love and Mercy in Jesus Christ toward them and in giving thank for the same Their affinity to the Antient Catholick and no● reformed Church of England is further demonstrated by several reformed French Churches in and about London whos● Ministers have not only received the Ordination o● the Church of England but do also make use of he Liturgy and are conformable to her Orders an● Constitutions Moreover the Protestants of Geneva Swi●zerland Germany c Esteem her Doctrine an● Discipline to be Apostolical and Orthodox And the Characters which our Episcopal Divines bore in the Synod of Dort doth plainly shew the great veneration they had for the reformed Church of our Kingdom And especially Monsieur le Moines Letter written at Leyden in September in the Year of our Lord 1680 confirms the same He was at that time and in that Vniversity Professor of Divinity and the Letters of Monsieur de Langle one of the Ministers of the reformed French Church at Charenton and of Monsieur Claude another French Minister of the same Church both written at Paris do the like and the last was wrote by one of the most Illustrious Men of the reformed French Church in his time In which he mentions that he hath often explained his Opinion concerning the Government of the reformed Episcopal Church which appears from a larger Discourse upon it in the 336 Page of his defence of the Reformation Which Letters do likewise ascertain the giving o● their Pulpits and committing the charge of their Flocks to such Ministers as had received Episcopal Ordination and particularly to Monsieur du Plessis and Monsieur Wicart who were ordained by the Right Reverend the Bishops of London and Lincoln the former was afterward received Minister of a reformed French Church in the Province of Paris and the latter also Preached afterwards in the Protestant Church of Charenton in the same Province and is now Dean of Winchester These Letters were all sent to the Right Reverend Henry present Lord Bishop of London in which you may not only see the particular sentiments of those Reverend Ministers but also the general Opinion of the reformed Churches then in France concerning the Government and Discipline of the English Church and of the Divisions that were then between her and the Presbyterians and others Which Letters were written in French and from the Originals Translated into English and Printed in the life time of the Authors they being Annexed unto the Treatise of the unreasonableness of separation or an Impartial account of the History of the Nature and Pleas of the present separation from the Communion of the Church of England written by the Reverend Doctor Stillingfleet now Lord Bishop of Worcester one of these Books was sent by the Lord Bishop of London unto Monsieur Claude in 1681 with the said Letters