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The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…
The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in the former part of homilies. Set out by the authority of the Queens Majesty: and to be read in every parish church agreeably.The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in the former part of homilees. Set out by the aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie: and to be read in euery parishe church agreeably.
Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richard Jugge, and John Cawood, printers to the Queens Majesty, 1571Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge, and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Queenes Maiestie, 1571
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And it is the devout lifting up of the mind to God, without the uttering of the hearts grief or desire by open voice. Of this prayer we have example in the first book of the kings in Anna the mother of Samuel, when in the heaviness of 1her heart she prayed in the temple, desiring to be made fruitful. She prayed in her heart (saith the tert) but there was no voice heard. After this sort must all Christians pray, not once in a week, or once in a day only: but as saint Paul writeth to the Thessalonians, without ceasing. 2And as Saint James writeth, The continual prayer of a just man is of much force. The second sort of prayer is spoken of in the Gospel of Matthew, where it is said, When thou prayest, enter into thy secrete closet, and when thou hast shut 3the door to thee, pray unto thy father in secrete, and thy father which seeth in secrete, shall reward thee. Of this sort of prayer, there be sundry examples in the scriptures, but it shall suffice to rehearse one, which is written in the Acts of the Apostles. Cornelius a devout man, a captain 4of the Italian army, saith to Peter: that being in his house in prayer, at the ninth hour there appeared unto him one in a white garment. &c. This man prayed unto God in secrete, and was ⟨p. 277⟩rewarded openly. These be the two private sorts of prayer. The one mental, that is to say, the devout lifting up of the mind to God: And the other vocal, that is to say, the secrete uttering of the griefs & desires of the heart with words, but yet in a secrete closet or some solitary place. The third sort of prayer, is public or common. Of this prayer speaketh our Saviour Christ, when he saith, If two of you shall agree upon earth upon any thing, whatsoever ye shall ask, 5my father which is in heaven shall do it for you, for wheresoever two or three be gathered together in my name, there am I in the middest of them. Although God hath promised to hear us when we pray privately, so it be done faithfully and devoutly (For he saith, Call upon me in the day