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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38583	The reasonableness of our Christian service (as it is contained in the Book of Common-Prayer) evidenced and made clear from the authority of Scriptures and practice of the primitive Christians, or, A short rationale upon our morning and evening service as it is now established in the Church of England wherein every sentence therein contained is manifestly proved out of the Holy Bible, or plainly demonstrated to be consonant thereto / composed and written by Thomas Elborow, vicar of Cheswick ; and since his death made publick by the care and industry of Jo. Francklyn ...	Elborow, Thomas.	1678 (1678)	Wing E324; ESTC R31410	96,665	240

may act their parts over us and we may live peaceably and quietly under them For all persons any ways afflicted for enemies persecutors and slanderers and we are to beg of God for them the same good things as we would beg for our selves 4. Giving of thanks wherein we are to bless God for all mercies already received vouchsafed to our own persons to all who relate to us to the Church and State whereof we are members to all mankind We are to give unto God the retribution of thanks for all spiritual blessings for giving us his Son and holy Spirit for affording all means to bring sinful men from their vitious courses unto himself for suffering us to be born within the pale of the Church to be brought up in Christian Religion where we have the advantages of the Word Sacraments and all the means of eternal life put into our hands We are to render to God our thanks for his patience and long-sufferance in waiting for our repentance for his calls and invitations outward by his Word inward by his Spirit to bring us to repentance for his good great and gracious work wrought upon any of us in bringing us clear off from prophane worldly and carnal courses to lead Godly and Christian lives We are also to praise God and to give him the retribution of our thanks for temporal blessings for the peace and prosperity of the Church and Nation for all remarkable deliverances vouchsafed to either for all the good things of this life in general and in particular for health food raiment friends all preservations and deliverances and for all mercies whatsoever which cannot easily be enumerated Vnder all the forementioned heads the main body of the Service constantly used in our Christian Assemblies is contained which Service is to be concluded with the Priests blessing and benediction without which the Assemblies cannot well be dismissed or dissolved These few considerations I thought good to recommend unto you not so much to instruct the knowing as to inform the ignorant who either enter not Gods house at all but it may be are worse imployed when they should be there which is an evil they consider not of and so they offer God no Sacrifice at all or else they enter it without any devotion or reverence which is another evil that they consider not of and so they offer to God a Sacrifice of fools or being entred it may be do not understand their own offering which they are to offer up and so they offer to God they know not what serve him they know not how nor wherefore But to correct those evils that persons may come to the house of God come as they should come and knowingly and understandingly do what there is fit to be done I have presented these considerations to those who do evil in Church-Assemblies and consider not when they do it These Christian Reader with the following Notes made upon our Service-Book I freely offer to thee hoping that thou wilt as kindly accept them as I do freely offer them and I pray God to direct thee and to give thee a right understanding in all things Farewell RUBRICK The Order for Morning Prayer daily throughout the Year EXPLANATION Note 1. THat Prayer is a devout ascent of the Soul to God whereby we petition him for such things as we need both for our support and duty and we ought to be frequent in this devout exercise because it is not only the great duty but the greatest priviledge of a Christian commanded by Christ's Precept and commended by Christ's Example who was frequent in Prayer not so much for himself as for our benefit and instruction Note 2. That Prayers especially publick in the Church-Assemblies are to be ordered set and prescribed because in the Church which ought to be the School of comliness things are to be done decently by observing every due and proper Scheme and Figure which the action shall require and according to the order and appointment of Ecclesiastical Governours 1 Cor. 14.40 It is much to be wondred at that any persons of sober judgments and well ground in Religion can imploy their time so ill as to devise and study objections against prescribed Prayers in the publick Service of God Because set forms were prescribed by God in the Old Testament Numb 6.23 24 25. Deut. 26.5 Christ in the New not only enjoyned a set form to be used by his Disciples Luk. 11.2 but he whose every action should be our instruction used one himself It was also the practice of the Jews from the time of Ezra and long before constantly to use set forms of Prayer by way of Liturgy neither did they use them only as a necessary provision for the Ignorant but as a secure hedge and fence to their Religion by this means to keep all mixtures and corruptions out of their Church and they had 18 Prayers or Benedictions set and composed according to the matter and form of which some say the Lords Prayer was instituted and it is very probable that in imitation of the Jews the Pagans might use set forms at their Sacrifices and most certainly they did which forms were first approved of by the Priests before they were used and when they did use them they read them out of a Book that they might neither stray in the matter of their Prayers nor offend in the manner And that the Church of Christ hath in all ages used a prescribed and set Form I think is not to be question'd After Christs ascension and before the Holy Ghosts descension they continued all with one accord in Prayer and Supplication Act. 1.14 which Prayer was certainly in a set form for as yet the Holy Ghost was not come down upon them neither were they qualified for Prayer above the ordinary rate of other men and when the Holy Ghost did come down with his extraordinary gifts those gifts continued not long and therefore an early provision was made for set forms to be constantly used to supply the defects of them which Liturgies as ours is were framed up according to St. Paul's prescribed pattern 1 Tim. 2.1 consisting 1. Of Supplications for the averting of all hurtful things sins and dangers 2. Of Prayers for the obtaining of all good things which they wanted or stood in need of 3. Of Intercessions for others for Kings and all in Authority for the whole Church 4. Of Thanksgivings for mercies already received in all which they prayed not only for themselves but in a greater diffusion of their charity for all mankind And all were prescribed 1. That the people might the better joyn with the Minister and say Amen to the Prayer 2. That the peoples wants might be the better enumerated the people themselves be the better edified all absurdities in Prayer might be avoided and all might with one mind and one mouth glorifie God Rom. 15.6 RUBRICK At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud voice

all that we are or have is due to thee from whom all is received and therefore we do not impute any thing to our selves or our own acquisition In this Faith we pray and confide that what we pray for shall be granted RUBRICK Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answ And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Psal 51.15 O God make speed to save us Psal 70.1 Answ O Lord make hast to help us Psal 40.13 RUBRICK Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Isa 42.8 1 Cor. 10.31 Rom. 11.36 Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord Psal 146.1 Answ The Lords name be praised EXPLANATION The forementioned Versicles with the Responses are Canonical Scripture and taken most-what out of the Book of Psalms by which we acknowledge our dependance upon God and that we are unable of our selves to perform any Religious duty well unless God enable us They are used interchangably by Minister and People to testifie mutual Love to strengthen affection to stir up devotion to kindle and enflame it one in another to oblige us to greater attention and this praying by way of Response is grounded upon the Scripture and conformable to the practice of the earliest and purest times of Christianity And for the form of giving glory to God Father Son and Holy Ghost it is very ancient by which we avouch our Doctrine and Faith of the Trinity against all opposers as we have received from Christ and his Apostles so we baptize believe and give glory to God Father Son and Holy Ghost and this we do not without Scripture-warrant Mat. 28.19 Rom. 11.36 It is the Christians Hymn and shorter Creed some who professed Christianity had corrupted this form of giving glory to God and had framed up another form in favour of their own new opinions and perswasions in Religion differing from that of the Ancient Christians both in words and sense but the ancient form which was before and is still used was again restored upon the restauration of which those words were added As it was in the beginning c. that is in the first beginning of the true Religion professed and solemnly owned by the name of Christian Now certainly very meet it is that we should give glory to God because it is appropriate to God alone Psal 115.1 It is his peculiar right which he lays claim to Isa 42.8 for he is the King of Glory The Heavens declare it Psal 19.1 the Angels chant it Luk. 2.14 Seraphims resound it Isa 6.3 and man is no less obliged to it then those coelestial Spirits are No place on earth is more proper for it then God's house where every man should speak of his honour and there is no better posture to do it in then standing for by it we shew our chearful readiness to give glory to God and our pious resolution to stand fast in the Faith of the Holy Trinity And for those words Praise ye the Lord they are the same with Hallelujah set at the end of the five last Psalms in the Psalter and used in this place to be as an impression invitatory to the following Psalms and the following Response The Lords name be praised is according to what we find written Psal 106.48 RUBRICK Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following except on Easter-day upon which another Anthem is appointed and on the nineteenth day of every month it is not to be read here but in the ordinary course of the Psalms PSAL. 95. Ver. 1. O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation 2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and shew our selves glad in him with psalms 3. For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods 4. In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hills is his also 5. The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land 6. O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker 7. For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand 8. To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness 9. When your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works 10. Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do err in their hearts for they have not known my ways 11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest 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 EXPLANATION With this Psalm the ancient Church used to begin her Service it was the invitatory Psalm with which they usually began before the Congregation was well met together at the hearing of which all hastned to Church and it is very well appointed to be used in this place before all other Psalms because it is the fittest to conform us to the right use of all the rest and to furnish out Gods Service with all due reverence Glory be to the Father c. is added at the end of this and of every Psalm that we may reduce that to practice which is the scope of every Psalm that is Give Glory to God RUBRICK Then shall follow the Psalms in order as they are appointed And at the end of every Psalm throughout the year and likewise at the end of Benedicite Benedictus Magnificat and Nunc dimittis shall be repeated Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen EXPLANATION The Psalter was anciently divided into several portions called Nocturns by which division the Psalms were read every week and this was a custom peculiar only to the Latine Church for in the Syrian and Greek Churches the Psalter was read over every twenty days Our Church allows a months space for the reading over the Book of Psalms and her meaning is that they should be read in publick according to ancient practice by way of Response Now the reasons why the Psalms are so frequently read over and why in this manner I conceive to be these Because the Psalms do contain in them the choice and flower of all things profitable which may be met withall in the Holy Scriptures and do more movingly express them by reason of the Poetical form wherein they are written No part of Scripture doth more admirably set forth all the considerations and operations which belong to God nor so magnifie the Holy meditations and actions of Divine