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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

Master Abraham I pray thee send me good speed this day and shew kindness to my Master Abraham Gen. 24.12 with what follows In prosecution of which businesse he refused to eat or drink before he had received a contenting answer and then forgot not his thankfulness to God but bowed himself to the earth and worshipped ver 52. O for such servants amongst us Christians we want not meanes but care and conscience and giving them good example to make them so Job herein out of the Land of Uz from among the reputed Gentiles may bee a further patterne to Masters of Families themselvs How early was he and perseverant Job 1.5 to look after his revelling childrens exorbitances to offer sacrifices for them and sanctifie them For it may be saith he that my sons have sinned and cursed or as one translates it little blessed God in their hearts And thus did Job continually Of Eli wee find nothing but that of himself he was a good old man and harmlesse yet for want of taking a rounder course with his scandalous sons 1 Sam. 2.12 what a break-neck did he draw upon himself and family It is well David in setling his family bethought himself better perchance upon the grief that some of his darling children had been unto him not a wicked person unfaithful Psalm 101 froward slanderous proud stubborn deceitfull shall find intertainment or countenance at his hands Nay saith he mine eyes look upon those that are faithful in the Land ver 8 that they may dwell with me who so leadeth a godly life he shall be my servant Nay if Captain Cornelius be observed to fear God sincerely and to be constant in his Devotions he shall not be destitute of houshold servants and of a devout soldier whom hee may securely imploy in matters of the highest concernment Act. 10.7 Such a guide is good example to goodness and Domestick instruction to prevent destruction This consisteth especially in a strict oversight by holding every one under our charge to their daily Devotions and designed tasks And these Devotions must be first in set and such forms as all may best be acquainted with and easily made their own to bear their part in them Next The time and place for this concurrence must be so ordered wherein most if not all may bee present Where the often repetition of the same set formes may make such an impression that the rudest and little ones may have them by heart which the best gifted will confesse to be most useful and commendable and impossible to be learned from voluntary and affected varieties which vanquisheth in the uttering and can hardly be recalled by those that first so hastily conceived them Now Houshold Prayers are usually Morning and Evening For Morning Prayer it will be found by experience that by reason of divers distractions a concurrence cannot be so well had as immediately before Dinner Then the Master of the Family or fittest amongst the company designed by him may proceed in this manner 1. With the general Confession Almighty and most merciful Father c. to be repeated by all after him devoutly kneeling Then 2. Those two knowne prayers the one for Peace O God who art the Author of peace and lover of concord The other for Grace and protection that followes O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God may be fitly added In the third place interpose those interchangeable Scriptures with the Lords Prayer in the midst of them as they are ordered in the Leiturgy Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Our Father c. O Lord shew thy mercy upon us c. to the end O Lord make clean our hearts within us 4. After that mixt Petition We humbly beseech thee O Father for pardoning our Infirmities averting deserved punishments strengthning us with confidence and continuance in holinesse and purity May be 5. Adjoyned that prayer that petitioneth our faulty prayers may be graciously accepted O God whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and forgive And so the common Blessing The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 13.14 and the love of God c may make up the Conclusion Evening Prayer to be celebrated either immediately before Supper or else before the family depart to their rest proceeds in like manner 1 With the Confession Almighty and most merciful Father c. or else for variety that other Confession before the receiving of the Communion Almighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things judge of all men c. 2. Then come in the two Collects O God from whom all holy desires c. and Lighten our darknesse c. answerable to the two morning Collects 3. After The Lord have mercy upon us c. and the Lords Prayer recited as in the morning you may take those short requests repeated interchangeably From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions c. to the end And then We humbly beseech thee O Father c. O God whose nature and property c. and The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. are to be added as before in Morning Prayer A plainer and a more warrantable course for Houshold Prayers let them set forth that have found it For mine owne part I must confesse that my long studies amongst much variety hath not met with the like for words and matter so judiciously fitted Neither can I be perswaded but those learned men and Martyrs who were Compilers of our Service Book came any way short for Gravity Learning or Piety of those men who stand in this age so much upon their Gifts and take upon them as the saying is to correct Magnificat But I must not digresse you have in the former directions the ordinary Houshold prayers for Morning and Evening through all the week Sundayes and Holy-dayes are supplyed publickly in the Church which I would have you religiously to frequent yet Wednesdayes and Frydayes in the week your houshould prayers may profitably admit this alteration in Morning Prayer only On Wednesdayes let your beginning be 1. O Lord open thou our lips with those mutual correspondencies and Glory be to the Father c. wil follow 2. Then let the Apostles Creed bee repeated by all standing with him that officiates I believe in God the Father Almighty c. 3. The Prayer before the Commandments may bee repeated kneeling Almighty God to whom all hearts be open all desires known c Then 4. The Commandments may be repeated by him that officates standing to which the rest kneeling should as usually they do in publick prayers expresse their desires saying Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts c. In the fifth place may bee added the prayer for the whole estate of Christs Church militant here on earth as you have it Almighty God whose kingdom is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole

all the women went out after her with Timbrels and with Dances none being so scrupulous in those dayes as to take exceptions at them And Miriam said Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath criumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he throwne into the sea O what an excellent Emulation it is betweene men and women when they contend who may praise God most for his Blessings bestowed upon them In the same straine of praises is the consort of Deborah and Barak for the overthrow of General Siserah Judges 5. Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel when the people willingly offered themselves c. In comparison of which piece the highest touch of Heathen Poetry sounds but flat and livelesse Neither must the good-wives of Bethlehems praising of God for the birth of Obed King Davids grand-father be thought not worthy to be imitated upon the like occasion Rut. 4.14 15 And the women said unto Naomi Blessed be the Lord which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman that his name may bee famous in Israel And he shall be thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy Daughter in Law which loveth thee which is better to thee then ten sonnes hath born him Thankful Hannahs Hymn is tuned to the same key for the birth of her son Samuel And Hannah prayed and said 1 Sam. 2.1 My heart rejoiceth in the Lord my horn is exalted in the Lord my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation But eminent above all the rest is that Magnificat or Song of Praise and Thanksgiving of the most blessed Mother-maid Luke 1.46 retained in our Leiturgy to be alwayes repeated Wherein Humility in her greatest advancement referring all to Gods glory and reflecting still upon the Churches good is most lively set forth He hath looked upon me a poor wretch regarding the low and inconsiderable estate of his Hand-maiden passing by the flourishing Pomp of the rich and mighty He hath remembred his mercy for the redemption of Israel according to the promise made to our forefathers and therefore My soul doth praise and magnifie the Lord and my spirit rejoyceth not for any worth found in my self but in God only my Saviour O that the proud ones of these times would but think upon this This one patterne might be sufficient to take down their haughty looks and new fangled attires by minding them that the blessedst amongst all women was otherwise affected In the like straine is that Benedictus of holy Zachary Luke 1.68 Blessed or praised be the Lord God of Israel for hee hath visited and redeemed his people c. And that Psal 100. O be joyful in the Lord all yee Lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a Song O go your way into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name And it is worth the noting that as the Book of the hundred and fifty Psalms begins with Blessed is the man or many blessings are upon that man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly but kissed the Son and ordered his walks to God to which the first fifty Psalmes especially lead him Neither stood in the way of sinners which the second fifty beats him from as most dangerous So the third fifty plucks him and his from the Seat of the scornful lift him up with Psalms of Degrees and Hallelujahs to thank and praise the Maker and Preserver of all things sealing all up with this conclusion Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Wherefore let not the Te Deum We praise thee O God we acknowledg thee to be the Lord or the Benedicite the following Canticle O all ye works of the Lord blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever be thought superfluous in our Leiturgy for not having that Canonical Authority which the former Scriptures have lest our Sermons and unpremeditated praises and prayers should be in that respect excepted against and so Preaching be discredited as bordering too neer sometimes upon Apocrypha Let it be sufficient then that such holy prayers have ground in Scripture from which as the Articles of our Creed they are deduced and framed to the capacitie and memories of all that cannot bee more edifyingly instructed So Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost so often repeated to uphold the Doctrine of the sacred Trinitg against the ancient and moderne Hereticks and that Angelical Rapture used after receiving of the Lords Supper Glory be to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men We praise thee we blesse thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give thanks to thee for thy great glory O Lord c. are such collections whereby young men and maidens old men and children may praise the Name of the Lord Psa 148.12 as the Psalmist exhorts them to do With whom we may safely conclude in that which our Leiturgy takes up for an entrance Psalm 95. O come let us sing unto the Lord c. with the Postscript of that good wish Psal 40.19 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say alwayes The Lord be praised CHAP. VII Of Comminations or Cursings COmmination in our Leiturgy is a part of Church-Discipline whereby Gods judgments are denounced against notorious offenders to terrifie them from their desperate courses and to put a stop to others that they follow not them in their damned wayes which by their owne mouthes they have pronounced accursed This is grounded on the twenty seventh of Deuteronomy with little alteration of words or matter for the applying it to our time And to the same end serve the Woes denounced by our Saviour Matth. 23 against the hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees which will never be out of date as long as the same sins are fomented and thought good policie and not heartily repented of amongst Professors of Christianity With this Commination the Church-Excommunication hath a neer affinity whereby obstinate notorious offenders are excluded from the benefit of the Saints communion and delivered unto Satan as the incestuous Corinthian was by Saint Paul to the destruction of the flesh 1 Cor. 5.5 that the Spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus These warrantable practices of Primitive Discipline considered as they ought should breed a restlesse horror in the consciences of those that lye under such censures Gal. 6. For Be not deceived God is not mocked who will not have his Church neglected whose priviledges of binding and loosing here on earth are enrolled in heaven Mat. 18.18 And if we account it a slight matter to bee reckoned of Gods people as an Heathen or Publican at the last admittance of the faithful and obedient