THE FAITH OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONCERNING GOD'S WORK ON MAN'S WILL. PUBLICLY CONFIRMED BY THE SUBSCRIPTIONS OF ALL the Famous Martyrs, and Divines thereof.  
Faithfully gathered out of the Authentic Records of the CHURCH.  
By Francis Tayler B. in D. and Rector of CLAPHAM in SURREY.  
LONDON. Printed by I. L. for Nicholas Bourne at the South entrance to the Royal Exchange. 1641.   

TO Sir EDWARD DERING, of Surenden-Dering, in the County of Kent, Knight and Baronet; and one of the Knights chosen by that County to serve in the Commons House of Parliament.  
SIR,  
THat little interest I have in Kent, was the first motive that incited me to desire your worship's acquaintance. And the report of your zeal, for the establishing of Religion, and our lawful liberties, increased this desire. The courteous entertainment and familiarity you have since vouchsafed me, hath made me bold to present this ensuing Treatise to the view of the world under your protection, whom God hath enabled to judge truly of it & to defend it. The truth is, that of late years, the Law and the Gospel have been so dressed, both in the Pulpit & in the Press, that we neither knew what we believed, nor what we had. Our interest in heaven and in earth, were like to be both alike unknown unto us in a little time. The Proverb is, Evil manners beget good Laws. So our good God can bring good out of will. The Mystery of Babylon hath wrought among us by upholding the Arminian tenets under colour of pulling down Puritans, to take away the faith of Protestants. Andrews, Bilson, Whitakers, Perkins, Calvin, Beza, have been strange names. Peter Lombard, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, have been too familiar in our Universities and Pulpits. The silence enjoined in Pulpits and Presses, hath burst out on the wrong side, while the right side might neither speak nor write. Our hope of correcting these disorders next under our great God, and our most gracious Sovereign, is in the two Honourable Houses of Parliament, Of one of which your Worship is a member. My suit then is, that your last works may be better than your first, and that as you have been a means to discover our by-paths; so you will be an instrument to reduce us to our first love. Let us know what we have believed, that know not what we do believe. If you please to move the Honourable House, that the Records of our Church may be searched by certain grave Divines, and the writings of our elder and soundest Writers now out of date, may be reviewed, and a sum of our Religion ever since the reformation professed, collected out of these; I suppose it will be a great means to quiet our troubles, and appease our differences at home, and to regain us a good opinion with other Churches abroad; Some of which have thought so ill of us, as that they have forbidden their young Students to come into England, as I have heard from a young man of excellent parts, who adventured to come hither, being sent from Berne into Holland: I have endeavoured to give some light to this business in this Treatise, wherein I show the judgement of our Church in one main point, upon which, all, or the most part of Arminianism depends. I could wish I might be a shoeing-horn to draw on men better able to do the like, against all new opinions of Arminianism, Socinianism, and Popery, which are thought to grow secretly among us, and show themselves by fits in Preaching and Printing. I beseech Almighty God to incline the hearts of all to whom he hath given parts, to further this great work, of settling the grounds of our Religion by a sweet Harmony. This will be for God's glory, the honour of our Church, the good of our posterity, and the stopping of the mouths of our Adversaries, who trumpet out our dissensions for their own advantage. Sir, my request is, that you would favourably accept this small Present, and that God would bless it to the furtherance of the public good. So praying for the true welfare of you, and all yours, I rest,  
Clapham Febr. 20. 1641. At your Worship's service in the Lord, FRANCIS TAYLOR.   

Fourteen books publicly allowed, out of which all these proofs are taken.  

1. The Book of Common Prayer.  
2. The Book of Ordination.  
3. The Book of Articles with the Commenmentary of Mr. Thomas Roger's Chaplain to Archbishop Bankcroft.  
4. The first Book of Homilies.  
5. The second Book of Homilies.  
6. The Catechism allowed by authority.  
7. Prayer on August. 5.  
8. Prayer on November 5.  
9 The thanksgiving for the ceasing of the plague, 1604.  
10. Prayers for ceasing of the rainy weather, 1613.  
11. Prayers on the King's day, March 27.  
12. Prayers in the Fast, 1625.  
13. The thanksgiving for the ceasing of the plague that year.  
14. Prayers in the Fast, 1626.    

Fourteen heads to which all the proofs in this Treatise are to be referred.  

1. Our own insufficiency to any good.  
2. God's omnipotency showed in our conversion.  
3. God's special grace.  
4. God's working in infants.  
5. The giving of internal grace to men.  
6. The receiving of grace.  
7. The internal effect of grace.  
8. The purification of the heart.  
9 The external effect of grace.  
10. God's governing us.  
11. God's preserving us in godliness and from sin.  
12. The progress of the regenerate.  
13. The prayers of holy men.  
14. God's grants.    

To the Reader.  
WOnder not (Christian Reader) that so much pains hath been taken to search the authentic records of this our famous Church of England, for the work of God upon the will of man. That over-large power given by the Adversary to the will of man hath been the navell-string, whereby the misbegotten bats of Arminianism have been nourished, while they lay lurking in the womb of nature. It is in vain to talk of predestination out of faith foreseen, if there be no power in man's will to believe. It is as if a Physician should foresee, that a man mortally sick would of himself recover, but give him nothing to recover him. How can God foresee, that such a man mill believe who hath no power to do it, unless God give it him? God's general intention to save all men by Christ will not serve the turn, unless there be in every man a power to apply Christ's death unto them. Otherwise it is like Physic prepared for a dead man that cannot take it. To say that faith is wrought in us only by Gods moral suasion, is ridiculous if it be not in our power to do as we are exhorted in all things. To teach that God's work in man's conversion is such as may be frustraed of the saving effect by man's will resisting, when God hath done as much as he nseth to do in regenerating men, is absurd, unless it be left every way indifferent to man to believe or not to believe, and he have power indifferently to do either. It seem as strange to affir me that the regenerate may totally fall from grace, unless he be left altogether to his own will, and made his own only keeper. To dream of attaining to a perfect keeping of God's law here on earth without a great power in man's will, were to set a man quite beyond the Cape of all good hope. It is not then an unnecessary labour to play the midwife and to cut this navell-string of freewill, and send these Arminian imps abroad into the wide world to cry for food. Undermining was ever held a more sure and less dangerous way to overthrow cities; then the tempest of Canons. If the foundation of Arminianism berased by the plain doctrine of our Church, the walls of it must with Dagon fall down before the Ark. The proofs are all upon record. The words are therefore set down, lest the Adversary should complain of forgery, or the reader be to negligent to search them out himself. The Lord guide us all to the knowledge of his truth, dispel the mists of errors, confirm his servants in love and peace on earth, and bring us to glory in heaven.  
Thine in Christ jesus, FRANCIS TAILOR Clapham.   

The faith of the Church of England concerning God's work on man's will.  
The Preface.  
IN all disputations the first thing to be done, is to set out the right state of the question. Which if it be misunderstood, men fight with their own shadows. We agree often in words, when we differ in the sense. Our conclusion that we must drive at throughout the whole work must be this, that God works always powerfully and effectually upon the will of man in the regeneration of a sinner. Nothing is difficult but the term of effectual working, whereby we do not understand only in a general sense, that some effect or other follows upon God's work: nor yet that regeneration follows after God's work oftentimes, for so it may though it be not an effect of it. Neither do we intent, that God so takes advantage of the time, place, affection, and disposition of a man, that he offers grace to him in such a point of time, as he knows that man's will is inclined to receive it, for this were to commend God's wisdom in regenerating of us, but to deny any work of his power in it, and to make regeneration not Gods work, but the work of man's will. Our meaning plainly is, that in the work or regeneration, God works so powerfully upon man's will, that regeneration infallably follows, as an effect of it, and that this kind of working powerfully is only found in such as are elected before, and all in whom God works thus, are by that powerful work of his regenerated. So that the cause of their regeneration is not any way their own will, but God's powerful working in them by his spirit. Neither doth God work thus in any other, but such as prove converts, for if he did work so powerfully in others, they would have been regenerated also. In a word there is a particular powerful work of God's Spirit in his elect only, whereby they all, and only they are truly regenerate. In others there may be illumination, and some weak motions to goodness in their wills, but always in effectual, because they are left to man's will, and God doth not so work in them, as he doth in his elect. Where God powerfully works, there regeneration necessarily follows, where he doth not, there it cannot follow. We will reduce all to fourteen heads, all which confirm the former conclusion against the power of man's will, and demonstrate Gods powerful work. The proof of each is the words of the records. Sometimes we shall make use of the title in some prayers given to God, because we doubt not, but the wisdom of the Church in her prayers would give such titles to God, as were most answerable to the things in those prayers desired of God. The conclusion is, let the Reader well weigh the heads themselves, and the arguments brought to prove them, and conclude in his own soul, which is the doctrine of the Church of England.   

CHAP. I. Of our own insufficiency.  
WE will begin with our own insufficiency to any good, and show what matter the books allow us to set it out, so fare forth as arguments may be taken from thence to prove an effectual work of God upon the will of man in the work of regeneration. Where in general I observe, that the books put no difference in unregenerate men, but make all their wills alike dead in sins and trespasses, unable to believe until they be quickened by God. Which takes away the new Arminian conceit, that where the Gospel is preached, there is a power given to all that hear it even before regeneration, to believe if they please, by the use of which power some do believe, & others that have as much power will not use it to believe in Christ. The books that make all alike dead in sins, auke to goodness, till they be actually regenerate acknowledge no such difference. This is but a trick to avoid the odious names of natural power in the will, and Pelagianisme. It is a monstrous opinion in nature, that a thing should have a natural inbred motion wrought in it, before any life be wrought in it, so is it in grace, that their should be a power wrought in man's will, whereby of it own free inclination it should be able to live spiritually, or not to live as it list, yea which is more absurd, be able to move itself in the highest spiritual action that can be, before it be actually regenerate, or have in it any true spiritual life. Now let the words of the book declare man's insufficiency, and let every one collect from thence Gods-powerfull operation in man's conversion.  
FAith giveth life to the soul, 
Sermon of good works. Part. 1.  and they be as much dead to God that lack faith, as they be to the world, whose bodies lack souls.  
Sin is come into the world, 
Sermon two of the Passion.  and so come that it cannot be avoided. It cannot be chosen, but we must needs fall often.  
That which is born of the Spirit, 
Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 3.  is spirit: as who should say; Man of his own nature is fleshly, and carnal, corrupt and naught, sinful and disobedient to God, without any spark of goodness in him, without any virtuous or godly motion, only given to wicked thoughts, 
Sermon for Rogat. week. Part. 1. 2 Cor. 3.5. Sermon of Repentance. Part. 1.  and evil deeds.  
Paul brings in his belief, we be not (saith he) sufficient of ourselves, as of ourselves once to think any thing: but all our ableness is of God's goodness.  
We must beware and take heed, that we do in no wise think in our hearts, imagine, or believe, that we are able to repent aright, or to turn effectually unto the Lord by our own might and strength. 
joh. 15.5.  For this must be verified in all men, without me ye can do nothing. 
2 Cor. 3.5.  Again, of ourselves we are not able as much as to think a good thought.  
We are all by original corruption of our nature, 
Now. Cat. quest. 69.  of such blindness, wickedness and frowardness, that we can neither understand, nor are able or willing to do our duty required by the law.  
We by nature are so unwary to foresee, 
Now. Cat. quest. 224.  and so weak to resist temptations, that we cannot but be overcome, unless God do assist us with his grace, and arm us with his strength.  
The corrupt inclination of man was so much given to follow his own fantasy, 
Sermon of good works. Part. 2.  that all the admonitions, exhortations, benefits, and threaten of God could not keep him from his inventions.  
Neither could the notableness of the place being the beginning of God's law make us to mark it, 
Hom. against peril of idolatry. Part. 1.  nor the plain declaration by recounting of all kind of similitudes cause us to understand it, nor the oft repeating and reporting of it in divers and sundry places, the oft reading and hearing of it could cause us to remember it, nor the dread of the horrible penalty to ourselves, our children and posterity after us, fear us from transgressing of it, nor the greatness of the reward to us, and our children after us, move us any thing to obedience and the observing of the Lords great Law against idolatry.  
So that if either the multitude or plainness of the places might make us to understand, 
In the same Hom.  or Gods earnest charge that God giveth in them, move us to regard, or the horrible plagues threatened to idolaters; might engender any fear in our hearts, we would forsake this wickedness.  
When God leaveth us to our own wit, will, 
Sermon of falling from God. Part. 1. Part. 2.  and strength, than he gins to forsake us.  
When God gives us over, he suffers us to bring forth such fruits as we will, all naughtiness and vice, and that so abundantly, that they shall clean overgrow us, choke, strangle, and utterly destroy us.  
They that live not after God perceive not this great wrath of God towards them, 
Part. 2.  that he doth let them alone to themselves.  
When thou art called to repentance, 
Hom. of Repentance. Part. 3.  neglect not the good occasion, that is ministered to thee, lest when thou wouldst repent, thou hast not the grace to do it. 
Sermon for Rogat. week. Part. 1. Hom. of information of them, that take offence at some places of Script. Part. 2.  For to repent is a good gift of God.  
In the power and virtue of the holy Ghost we are made meet and able to receive God's gifts and graces  
Godly men when they fall into sin, through God's great grace and infinite mercy rise again, and fight against sin.   

CHAP. II. Of God's Omnipotency showed in our Conversion.  
THis Argument is one of the strongest: for if God use his omnipotency in converting of a sinner, than there is no question, but God doth more than persuade, and that the work must needs be effectual, unless any man's will can resist God's omnipotency. Let us therefore hear the books pronounce sentence and agree to it.  
God which declarest thy Almighty power most chief in showing mercy and pity, 
Collect. 11. Sunday after Trinity.  give unto us abundantly thy grace, that we returning to thy promises may be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure through Jesus Christ our Lord.  
From Satan's rage and filthy band, 
Lord's prayer. By D. Cox. Serm. of Sacrament. Part. 1. Hom. for Whitsunday. Part. 1. In the same place.   
Defend us with thy mighty hand.  
We are marvellously incorporated into Christ, by the operation of the holy Ghost.  
It is the office of the holy Ghost to sanctify, and regenerate. Which work the more it is hid from our understanding, the more it ought to move all men to wonder at the secret and mighty working of God's holy Spirit, which is within us.  
Did not God's Spirit miraculously work in David, Matthew, Peter, and Paul? Such is the power of the holy Ghost to regenerate men, and as it were to bring them forth a new, so that they shall be nothing like the men that they were before.  
The Apostles rejoiced, 
In the same place.  that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christ. This was the mighty work of the Holy Ghost, who because he giveth patience and joyfulness of heart in temptation and affliction, hath therefore worthily obtained this name in holy Scripture to be called a Comforter.  
Let us humbly beseech God so to work in our hearts by the power of his holy Spirit, 
In the same place.  that we being regenerate, and newly borne again in all goodness, righteousness, sobriety, and truth may in the end obtain eternal life.  
To new create a man from a wicked person to a righteous man is a greater act (saith S. Augustin) then to make such a new Heaven and Earth, 
Serm. for Rogat. week. Part. 1.  as is already made.  
God is able to do abundantly beyond our desires and thoughts according to the power working in us. 
Part. 3.   
Almighty God give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, 
Coll. 1. Sunday in Advent.  and put upon us the armour of light.  
Lord of all power and might graft in our hearts the love of thy name. 
Coll. 7. Sunday after Trin. Coll. on All Saint's day. Song before Even. prayer.   
Almighty God which hast knit together thy elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord.  
Praise ye the Lord which gives all grace, for he is a Lord of great might.   

CHAP. III. Of God's special grace.  
THe doctrine of God's special grace overthroweth the foolish conceit of some common grace wrought in all those that hear the Gospel, whereby they may believe if they will, yet often do not. It is a special and effectual grace, that works in our regeneration, that works not in others, that are not regenerate. Hear therefore the words of the books.  
BY thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our hearts good desires. 
Coll. on Easterday. Exhort. to such as come negligently to the Communion. Article. 10.   
These things if ye earnestly consider, ye shall by God's grace return to a better mind: for the obtaining whereof we shall make our humble petitions, while we shall receive the holy Communion.  
The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn, and prepare himself by his own natural strength, and good works to faith and calling upon God, wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant & acceptable to God without the grace of God preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.  
Adversaries unto this truth, 
Mr. Roger's commentary on it. Prop. 2.  ere such as hold that men believe not, but of their own freewill: and that it is in a man's freewill to believe or not to believe, to obey or disobey the Gospel of truth preached.  
They which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God (that is predestination) be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season, 
Artic. 17.  they though grace obey the calling, they be made like the image of Christ.  
In Christ Jesus of the mere will and purpose of God some are elected, 
Mr. Roger's comment. Prop. 5.  and not others unto salvation.  
Adversaries unto this truth.  
Hereby is discovered the impiety of those men, 
Mr. Rogers in the same place.  which think that God beheld in every man, whither he would use his grace well, and believe the Gospel or no, and as he saw a man affected, so did predestinate, choose, or refuse him.  
Such as be ordained to everlasting life, 
Expos. of Prop. 6.  if they live long in this world, they one time or other be called unto the knowledge of salvation by the preaching of God's word: they obey that calling through the operation of the Holy Ghost working within them.  
The predestinate are both justified by faith, 
Prop. 7.  sanctified by the Spirit, and shall be glorified in the life to come.  
Divers be the effects of man's predestination, 
Expos. of Prop. 7.  but chiefly it bringeth to the elect justification by faith in this life, and in the life to come glorification, etc. as testify all the Churches in their confessions.  
The word of God is the savour of life unto eternal life unto all those, 
Hom. of inform. of such as take offence at some places of Script. Part. 2. Hom. of alms deeds. Part. 2.  whose hearts God hath purified by true faith.  
God of his special favour toward them whom he hath appointed to salvation, hath so offered his grace especially, and they have so received it fruitfully, that the spirit of God mightily working in them now unto obedience to Gods will, they declare by their life and good deeds (which cannot come, but of the Spirit of God, and his especial grace) that they are the undoubted children of God appointed to everlasting life.  
All spiritual gifts and graces come specially from God. 
Sermon for Rogat. week. Part. 3.  Faith is the gift of God, and by his power we are kept through faith unto salvation.  
We shall never be able to avoid sin without the special grace of him, 
Sermon of Repentance. Part. 2. joh. 15. Now. Cat. quest. 150.  that doth say, without me ye can do nothing.  
All those whom God hath chosen, he hath restored unto holiness of life and innocency.   

CHAP. FOUR Of God's work in infants.  
IT is evident out of the first Chapter, that men are as dead to God by nature as infants, and as unable to repent and believe: Now children are not spiritually quickened by power of any moral suasion, but by an effectual divine operation, as the books in sundry places affirm.  
Sanctify these children and wash them with the holy Ghost. 
Public Baptism. Prayer. 1.   
We call upon thee for these infants, that they coming to thy holy Baptism, 
Prayer. 2.  may receive remission of their sins by spiritual regeneration.  
O merciful God grant, 
The short prayers after the promise made by the sureties.  that the old man in these children may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.  
Grant that all carnal affections may die in them, and that all things belonging to the Spirit, may live and grow in them.  
Grant that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our office and ministry, may also be endued with heavenly virtues.   

CHAP. V Of the giving of internal grace to men.  
THose places that affirm, that God gives grace, as faith and repentance and the like, prove that God doth more than persuade externally, or give some power, that men may believe or repent, because they say, that God gives the things themselves. God is not the giver of that which we attain to only by his persuasion, nor chief to be commended for it, but he that attains to it: as on the contrary, the devil was not the author of Adam's sin, nor chief to be condemned for it, because he did but persuade him to it, Adam's own will did it, and himself was most to be blamed for it. So in all Logic and Law the actor is the principal, the Counsellors are instruments and accessaries. And Kings were ever held above their Council, and more praise worthy for doing well, than they for advising. Now that God gives us those graces, let us hear out of the Records.  
Lord from whom all good things do come. 
Collect. 5. Sunday af-Easter. Collect. 7. Sunday after Trinity. Sunday 23. Prayer. 1. in Matrim. Lord's prayer by D. Cox   
Lord which art the author and giver of all good things.  
God the author of all godliness.  
O eternal God giver of all spiritual grace the author of everlasting life.  
Thine Holy Ghost into us pour with all his gifts most plenteously.  
See more to the same purpose in the Homily for Rogation week, Part. 1.2.3. Now. Cat. quest. 249.  
O God from whom all holy desires, 
Even. pray. Coll. 2.  all good counsels, and all just works do proceed.  
That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council, and all the Nobility with grace. 
The Litany The Litany Also, Coll. 13. after Trin.   
That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit.  
Thou in thy gifts art manifold, 
Come holy Ghost eternal God.   
whereby Christ's Church doth stand:  
In faithful hearts writing thy law,  
the finger of God's hand.  
We beseech him to grant us true repentance. 
Absolution. Short prayafter the Creed. Coll. Quin. sunday. Coll. 7. sun. after Trin. Prayer for Church mil. Reason 2. of Confirm.   
Endue thy Ministers with righteousness.  
Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity.  
Graft in our hearts the love of thy name.  
Inspire continually the universal Church with the Spirit of truth, unity and concord.  
Confirmation is ministered to them, that be baptised, that by imposition of hands, and prayer they may receive strength, and defence against all temptations to sin, and the assaults of the world and the devil.  
Arm and make strong thy feeble host, 
Lords pray. by D. Cox.   
with faith, and with the Holy Ghost.  
Every good and heavenly gift, as faith, hope, 
Hom. of fast Part. 2.  charity, cometh only, and solely of God.  
God give us grace to follow Christ's example in peace and charity, in patience and sufferance. 
Pass. Ser. 1.   
Thou hast received Christ's body to have within 
Resur. serm.  thee the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost for to dwell with thee, to endow thee with grace to strengthen thee against thine enemies.  
By the assistance of God's holy Spirit we be replenished with all righteousness, 
In the same place.  by his power we are able to subdue all our evil affections.  
God is present in his chosen all whole in Majesty together with all his power, 
In the same place.  wisdom, and goodness.  
From God as from a giver, 
In the same place. Hom. for Whitsunday.  come these graces and gifts, kindness, meekness, patience.  
Some men will say, How shall I know, that the Holy Ghost is within me? As the tree is known by the fruit, so is also the Holy Ghost.  
The fruits of the Holy Ghost are love, 
Part. 1.  joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance.  
Of ourselves we be crabbe-trees, 
Hom. of man's misery. Part. 2.  that can bring forth no apples. We be of ourselves of such earth, as can but bring forth weeds, nettles, brambles, briers, cockle and darnel. Our fruits be declared, Gal. 5. We have neither faith, charity, hope, patience, chastity, nor any thing else that good is, but of God, and therefore these virtues be called there the fruits of the Holy Ghost, and not the fruits of man.  
We ought first to crave things that properly belong to the salvation of the soul, 
Hom. of prayer. Part. 3.  as the gift of repentance, the gift of faith, the gift of charity and good works, patience, lowliness, hope, joy, love, peace, which things God requireth of all those that profess themselves his children.  
This holy company (of Saints in heaven) confesseth constantly, 
Rogat. serm. Part. 1.  that all the goods and graces, wherewith with they were endued in soul, came of the goodness of God only. It is meet therefore to think, that all spiritual goodness cometh from God above only.  
We must needs agree, 
In the same place.  that whatsoever good thing is in us of grace, nature or fortune, is of God only, as the only author and worker.  
Let us confess that of ourselves cometh all evil and damnation, 
Hom. of man's misery. Part. 2. Rogat. serm. Part. 2.  and of God all goodness and salvation.  
If we confess that all grace of the soul is of God, and is his gift only, it will teach us to thank God for them: it will abate our pride, when we perceive, that nothing comes of ourselves, but sin and vice: it will keep us from despising such as have fewer gifts: it will make us to have recourse to God for all grace.   

CHAP. VI Of the receiving of grace.  
IF by another special grace of God, we do receive the grace and favour, that God offers us in his holy word, than there is no question, but God doth work effectually, where he doth regenerate. Let us therefore hear, what the Church teacheth us in that behalf.  
ALmighty God give us the grace, 
Coll. Sund. 2. after Easter. Coll. S. Andrews day.  that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, to wit, of the death of Christ.  
Almighty God which didst give such grace unto thy holy Apostle S. Andrew, that he readily obeyed the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him without delay: grant unto us all, that we being called by thy holy word, may forthwith give over ourselves obediently to follow thy holy commandments through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.  
Grant us grace to follow thy son Jesus Christ. 
Coll. S. Matthews day. Prayer for Church militant. Prayer 3. in Confirm.   
To all thy people give thy heavenly grace, and specially to this congregation here present, that with meek heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy holy word.  
Let thy fatherly hand we beseech thee, ever be over these children, let thy holy Spirit ever be with them, and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word, that in the end they may obtain the everlasting life.  
Send thy heavenly blessing so upon these thy ministers, 
Prayer last in ord. Priests.  that thy word spoken by their mouths may have such success, that it may never be spoken in vain. Grant also that we may have grace to hear and receive the same, as thy most holy word.  
By faith given us of God we embrace the promise of God's mercy, 
Serm. of Salvation. Part. 3. Hom. for Whitsunday. Part. 1.  and of the remission of our sins.  
Let us humbly beseech God so to work in our hearts by the power of his holy Spirit, that we being regenerate and newly borne again in all goodness, righteousness, sobriety, and truth, may in the end obtain eternal life.  
God of his great mercy so work in all men's hearts by the mighty power of the Holy Ghost, 
Part. 2.  that the Gospel may be truly preached, truly received, and truly followed in all places.  
By the work of the Holy Ghost we receive this grace of God, whereunto we are restored. 
Now. Cat. quest. 149.    

CHAP. VII. Of the internal effect of grace.  
THE books attribute the internal effects of grace to God also. For howsoever that grace that is given us in regeneration have some power to produce spiritual thoughts; yet because our spiritual life is not so complete, as our natural life, and is much hindered from good inclinations by the corruptions of our flesh remaining, so that it cannot do that good it would without a fresh supply of Gods assisting grace, therefore the help of God is still implored, and the praise of the effect given to him. Now if in a man regenerate there be need of more grace to help that act, which he hath already, then certainly the first work of grace, whereby a dead man is made alive spiritually, must needs be the only effectual work of God's Spirit. For if he cannot think what he would, now he hath grace, at all times without further help, then certainly before he had grace, he could do nothing pleasing to God. This head of the internal effects of grace is the largest of all the rest. We will therefore divide it into two parts. First, we will treat of the internal effect of God's grace in general in the regenerate. Secondly, of the particular effects of it.  
For the First.  
The effect of grace in general is set down in these places.  
O God from whom all holy desires, 
Collect. 2. Even. Pray.  all good counsels and all just works do proceed.  
That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Counsel, 
Litany.  and all the Nobility with grace.  
That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace, 
Litany.  to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit.  
O God from whom all good things do proceed. 
Coll. Sund. 5. after Easter. Sund. 7. after Trin. Sunday 13. after Trin. Coll. Sund. 23. after Trin. Prayer 1. in Matrim. Veni Creator.   
O God the Author and giver of all good things.  
Almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh, that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service.  
God our refuge and strength, which art the author of all godliness.  
O eternal God giver of all spiritual grace, the author of everlasting life.  
Thou in thy gifts art manifold,  
whereby Christ's Church doth stand:  
In faithful hearts writing the law,  
the finger of God's hand.  
Thine holy Ghost into us pour, 
Lords pray. by D. Cox.   
with all his gifts most plenteously.  
Whatsoever is good proceedeth from God as from the principal fountain, 
Rogat. Ser. Part. 1.  and the only author. All good things come down to us from above from the Father of light.  
The Title of the Sermon is,  
That all good things cometh from God.  
In Christ God the Father doth bless us with all spiritual and heavenly gifts. 
Part. 3.   
God is the giver of all good things. 
Now. Cat. quest. 249.   
The particular effects of grace are seen either in mortifying of vice, or exercising of virtue in the heart. I will begin with those places that speak of mortifying of vice.  
Almighty God mortify and kill all vices in us. 
Coll. Innoc. day. Cat. in the Common Prayer book quest. 15.18 Complaint of a sinner.   
A Sacrament is an external and visible sign, of an internal and spiritual grace given unto us. This grace in Baptism is a dying unto sin, and living unto righteousness.  
Now let those drops most sweet  
So moist my heart most dry,  
That I with fin replete  
May live and sin may die,  
That being mortified  
This sin of mine in me,  
I may be sanctified  
By grace of thine in thee,  
So that I never fall  
Into such mortal sin,  
That my foes infernal  
Rejoice my death therein:  
But vouchsafe me to keep  
From those infernal foes,  
And from that lake so deep,  
Whereas no mercy grows.  
Make us to follow the doctrine of john the Baptist, 
Coll. on S. john Bapt. day. Prayer 1. added to Set. Fast. 1625. Prayer. 4. Thanksg. for ceasing plague, 1604.  that we may truly repent according to his preaching.  
Give us thy heavenly grace, that we may truly and earnestly repent.  
As thou gavest the Ninivites repentance through thy grace, so now visit the hearts of thy people in this land with thine heavenly grace and holy Spirit, that they may speedily and sound return unto thee from all their wicked ways, in true repentance and a living faith in Jesus Christ.  
See the like in the Evening prayers set forth in the rainy weather, 1613. Homily of falling from God. Part. 2. Homily against wilful rebellion. Part. 1. Collect. 1. in Thanksgiving. Novemb. 5. and the next prayer there:  
Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit, 
Collect. on Circumcis. of Christ.  that our hearts and all our members being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, may in all things obey thy blessed will.  
Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, 
Coll. on Easter tuesday.  that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth.  
Grant that we forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, 
Coll. on S. james day.  may be evermore ready to follow thy commandments.  
To withstand Satan's invasion  
Give power and strength to every age. 
Lords Pr. by D. Cox. Prayer to the holy Ghost before the Serm. Coll. before Epis. Fast. 1625. Thanksgiving following. Coll. 1. Prayer. 2. There after the Gospel. Prayer against rebel. in the Hom. Cain Com. Pray. book. quest. 24.   
O holy Ghost visit our coast,  
Defend us with thy shield:  
Against all sin and wickedness,  
Lord help us win the field.  
Create and make new hearts within us O Lord.  
Give unto us such effectual grace, that every one of us beholding the plague of his own heart, we may abhor our corruptions, and turn ourselves away from our evil ways.  
Give us grace that we may not any more provoke thine indignation against us by our transgressions.  
Make soft and tender the stony hearts of all those that exalt themselves against thy truth.  
Our souls are strengthened and refreshed with the body and blood of Christ, as our bodies are with bread and wine.  
By the strength of the holy Ghost sinful flesh is subdued and tamed, 
Now. Cat. quest. 144.  and corrupt desires are bridled and restrained.  
We pray that God will with the moving of his holy Spirit, 
Quest. 208.  so change and fashion all the wills of us all to the will of his Majesty, that we may will or wish nothing, that his divine will misliketh.  
Thus much for the effects of grace in mortifying of vice, now follow those that belong to the executing virtue in the soul.  
That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, 
Litany.  and diligently to live after thy commandments.  
By thy special grace preventing us, 
Collect. on Easter day. Sund. 4. after Easter.  thou dost put into our hearts good desires.  
Almighty God which dost make the minds of all faithful men to be of one will, grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing, which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise.  
Grant us thy humble servants, 
Coll. Sund. 5. after Easter. Sund. 3. after Trinity. Sund. 6. after Trinity.  that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good.  
Lord to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray.  
O God pour into our hearts such love toward thee, that we loving thee in all things may obtain thy promises.  
That thy servants may obtain their petitions, 
Sund. 10. after Trinity.  make them to ask such things as shall please thee.  
Grant we beseech thee, 
Sunday 13.  that we may so run to thy heavenly promises, that we rail not finally to attain the same.  
That we may obtain that which thou dost promise, 
Sunday 14.  make us to love that which thou dost command.  
Grant thy people grace with pure heart and mind to follow thee the only God. 
Sund. 18.   
Grant we beseech thee unto thy Church to love that he believed. 
Coll. on S. Barthol. day. Coll. on Sim and judes' day. Prayer at begin. of Commandments. Prayer after each command. After the last commandment. Prayer of the Priest in the name of the communicants. Prayer. 2. after receiving the communion. Prayer. 2. in the short ones after the communion. Prayer. 3.   
Grant us so to be joined together in unity of Spirit by their doctrine, that we may be an holy Temple acceptable to thee.  
Cleanse our hearts that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnify thy holy name.  
Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.  
Lord writ all these thy laws in our hearts we beseech thee.  
Grant us therefore gracious Lord so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood.  
We most humbly beseech thee O heavenly Father so to assist us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship.  
O Almighty Lord and everliving God, vouchsafe, we beseech thee to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy Commandments.  
Grant we beseech thee Almighty God, that, the words which we have heard this day with our outward ears, may through thy grace be so graffed inwardly in our hearts, that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living.  
Sanctify and wash these children with the Holy Ghost, 
Prayer. 1. in Baptism.  that they being delivered from thy wrath may be received into the Ark of Christ's Church, & being steadfast 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.  
I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father, 
Cat in common prayer book quest. 13.  who is the giver of all goodness, 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.  
Daily increase in these thy servants, 
Prayer. 1. in confirm.  thy manifold gifts of grace, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel, and ghostly strength, the spirit of knowledge and true godliness, and fulfil them, O Lord, with the spirit of thy holy fear.  
Almighty and everliving God, 
Prayer. 3.  which makest us both to will and to do those things, that be good and acceptable unto thy Majesty.  
The Lord so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace, that you may so live together in this life, 
The Blessing in marriage.  that in the world to come, you may have life everlasting.  
Send thy blessing upon these thy servants, 
Prayer. 2. in Matrim.  that they obeying thy will, and always being in safety, under thy protection, may abide in thy love to their lives end.  
Grant that this man may love his wife according to thy word, 
Prayer. 4.  and also that this woman may be a follower of holy and godly Matrons.  
Almighty God pour upon you the riches of his grace, sanctify and bless you, 
Prayer. 5. in Matrim.  that ye may please him both in body and soul, and live together in holy love unto your lives end.  
Give this thy servant grace so to take thy visitation, 
Prayer 2. in visita. of the sick. Prayer 3.  that after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlasting.  
Renew in this thy servant (most loving Father) whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the Devil, or by his own carnal will and frailness.  
Thou most worthy Judge eternal, 
Sentence. 4. in the burial. Last prayer in burial.  suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee.  
We meekly beseech thee (O Father) to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness.  
O Holy Ghost  
Visit our minds and unto us, 
Veni Creator Spiritus.   
thy heavenly grace inspire:  
That in all truth, and godliness,  
we may have true desire.  
To us such plenty of thy grace, 
In the same bymne.   
good Lord grant we thee pray:  
That thou mayst be our comforter,  
at the last dreadful day.  
Grant we pray not with lips alone, 
Lords pray. by D. Cox. Prayer last in order Deacons.   
But with the hearts deep sigh and grove.  
Make these Deacons to be modest, humble, and constant in their ministration, to have a ready will to observe all spiritual discipline, that they continuing ever stable and strong in thy Son Christ, may well use themselves in this office.  
Almighty God our heavenly Father, 
Prayer. 2. in Consecr. of Bishops.  who hath given you a goodwill to do all these things, etc.  
Govern us by thy holy Spirit to frame in us a newness of life therein to laud and magnify thy blessed name, for ever, 
Prayers in the fast. 1625. Coll. 1.  and to live every one of us according to the several state of life, whereunto thou Lord hast ordained us in godly fear, and trembling before thee.  
Grant us grace, and true repentance, steadfast faith, 
Prayers in the fast. 1625. Coll. 1.  and constant patience, that whither we live or die, we may always continue thine, and ever praise thy holy name, and by thy great mercy be partakers of grace in this life, & eternal glory in the life to come.  
Grant us a due care and conscience in ourselves to use all good means of recovery: 
Prayer. 6. added to the Litany.  that neither we tempt thy Majesty by presumption in contemning of the contagion; or neglecting of the means of avoiding, removing and repressing the same: neither despair of thy goodness, or murmur against the providence (if we be not so soon eased and delivered as we desire) but that we may (submitting ourselves, in all things to thy good will and pleasure) seek thy merciful favour for our release and succour, by true faith and repentance: use the means for ease, which thou givest us with care and diligence: help the afflicted and preserve the whole with compassionate pity and charity: and finally depend upon thy providence, and wait for thy gracious deliverance with constant hope and patience.  
Send us light in our understanding, 
Prayers in the fast. 1626. Pray. 1. added to Litany. Art. 10.  readiness and obedience in our will.  
We can do nothing pleasing to God without God's grace through Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have a good will.  
In the man that is born again the understanding is enlightened, 
Roger's on that Art. Prop. 3.  and the mind wholly changed, and the body is made able to produce good works.  
They that are predestinated are both justified by faith, 
Prop. 7. on Art. 17.  and sanctified by the Spirit, and shall be glorified in the life to come.  
Grant that the King may through thy grace in all honour, 
Prayer for March 27.1. Pr. added to Litany. Last prayer save one.  virtue, and godliness, continue his glorious reign over us many years.  
Bless the King's royal alliance with the dew of thy heavenly Spirit, that they ever trusting in thy goodness, and protected by thy power, may after death obtain eternal glory.  
The Scriptures have power to turn through God's promise, 
Hom. of exhort. to read Script. Part. 1. In the same place. Part. 2.  and be effectual through God's assistance.  
In reading God's word he profits most, that is most turned into it, that is most inspired with the holy Ghost.  
Read not the Scriptures without daily praying to God, that he would direct your reading to good effect. 
In the same place. Ser. of Salu. Part. 1. In the same place. Serm. of Truth. Part. 1. Sermon against adultery. In the same place.   
Let us pray to God, that we may speak, think, believe, live, and departed hence according to the wholesome doctrine of the Scriptures.  
True faith is not ours, but by Gods working in us.  
A true and lively faith is the gift of God.  
God gave the Fathers than grace to be his children, as he doth us now.  
We are sanctified and made holy by the blood of Christ through the holy Ghost.  
God grant that these words against adultery may not be spoken in vain.  
God by his holy word endueth his people assembled in his Church, 
Hom. of right use of Church.  with the effectuous presence of his heavenly grace.  
God doth endue his people assembled in his Church, 
Hom. against peril of idol. Part. 1.  with the effectual presence of his grace by his word and promises to the attainment of worldly commodities, and all heavenly gifts, and life everlasting.  
God vouchsafe to purify our minds through faith in Christ, 
Hom. of inform of such as take offence at some places of Script. Part. 2.  & to instill the heavenly drops of his grace into our hard-stony hearts to supple the same, that we be not contemners and deriders of his word, but that with all humbleness of mind and Christian reverence, we may endeavour ourselves to hear and to read his sacred Scriptures, and inwardly, so to digest them, as shall be to the comfort of our souls, and sanctification of his holy Name.  
Man is first made good by the Spirit and grace of God, that effectually worketh in him, 
Hom. of Almsdeeds. Part. 2. Hom. of Almsdeeds. Part. 2. In the same place. In the same place.  and afterwards bringeth forth good fruits.  
The grace of God worketh all in all.  
Whatsoever can be named good and profitable for body or soul, comes only of God's mercy and mere favour, and not of ourselves.  
God attributes that unto us, and to our do, that he by his Spirit worketh in us, and through his grace procureth for us.  
God grant that we may always show ourselves thankful for Christ's death, 
Passion. Sermon. 2.  abhorring all kind of wickedness, and applying our minds wholly to the service of God, and the diligent keeping of his commandments.  
It is God's Spirit which engendereth a burning zeal towards God's word. 
Hom. for Whitsunday. Part. 1. In the same place. In the same place.   
Nicodemus knew not the power of the holy Ghost in this behalf, that it is he which inwardly worketh the Regeneration, and new birth of mankind.  
It is the holy Ghost and no other thing that doth quicken the minds of men, stirring up good and godly motions in their hearts, which otherwise of their own crooked and perverse nature they should never have.  
The fruits of faith, 
In the same place.  charitable and godly motions, if man have any at all in him, they proceed only of the holy Ghost, who is the only worker of our sanctification, and maketh us new men in Christ Jesus.  
The Spirit of Jesus is a good Spirit, 
Part. 2.  an holy Spirit, a lowly Spirit, a merciful Spirit. If any man live uprightly, he hath the holy Ghost within him.  
If the Saints in heaven were asked, 
Serm. for Rogat. week. Part. 1.  who should be thanked for their regeneration, justification, and salvation, they would answer with David. Not to us Lord, but to thy Name give all the thanks.  
If they be asked, 
In the same place.  whence came all their glorious works, they would say with Esay, O Lord it is thou of thy goodness, that hast wrought all our works in us, not we ourselves.  
They be justiciaries and hypocrites, 
In the same place.  which rob Almighty God of this honour, and ascribe it to themselves.  
Let us confess, 
Serm. for Rogat. week Part. 2.  that all spiritual graces behoveable for our soul come from God, without whose goodness no man is called to faith or stayed therein.  
God grant us all grace so to hear his word that we may fulfil it. 
In the same place.   
God give us grace to know those things, 
Part. 3.  and to feel them in our hearts. This knowledge and feeling is not in ourself: by ourself it is not possible to come by it. Let us therefore meekly call upon the Holy Ghost, that he would assist us and inspire us with his presence, that in him we may be able to hear our salvation. For without his lively and secret inspiration we cannot so much as name Christ. Much less should we be able to believe.  
In God's Spirit shall we be meet vessels to receive the grace of Almighty God: 
In the same place.  for it is he that purgeth and purifieth the mind by his secret working. He sitteth in the tongue of man to stir him to speak his honour. He only ministereth spiritual strength to the powers of our soul and body. It is God's Spirit, that maketh us to hold the way, which God hath prepared for us, and to pray boldly to God. If any gift we have, whereby we may work to the glory of God, and profit of our neighbour, all is wrought by this Spirit.  
The holy Spirit will confirm us in all things. 
In the same place. Hom. of Matrim.   
Married persons must crave continually of God, the help of his holy Spirit so to rule their hearts, and to knit their minds together, that they be not dissevered by any division of discord.  
It is God that worketh in us both the will, 
Serm. of Repen. Part. 1.  and the deed. Phil. 2. For this cause although jeremy had said before, If thou return O Israel, return unto me, saith the Lord, yet afterwards he saith, Turn thou me O Lord, & I shall be turned, for thou art the Lord try God. jer. 6. And therefore that holy writer and ancient Father Ambrose doth plainly affirm, that the turning of the heart to God is of God. Ambros. de vocat. gent. lib. 8. cap. 9 As the Lord himself doth testify by his Prophet, saying, And I will give thee an heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.  
God vouchsafe by his holy Spirit to work a true and unfeigned repentance in us. 
In the same place.   
If we repent, 
Hom. against wilful rebel. Part. 1. Next pray. after Coll. Nove. 5. Now. Cat. quest. 43. quest. 128.  God will either take away evil Princes, or of evil make them good.  
Make us now and always truly thankful in heart, word, and deed, for all thy gracious mercies, and this our special deliverance.  
We must on the Sabbath rest from our own works, and yield ourselves wholly to God's governance, that he may do his works in us.  
From Christ's resurrection cometh unto us an endeavour, virtue, and strength to live well and holily.  
Christ endueth us with strength by the virtue and power of his resurrection to rise from the deadly works of sin, 
quest. 129.  and live to righteousness.  
The Spirit of God is called holy, 
quest. 142.  for that by him the elect of God and the members of Christ are made holy: for which cause the scriptures have called him the spirit of sanctification.  
It is only God which strengtheneth man and by whose grace the sinner conceiveth this hope, 
quest. 164.  mind, and will.  
Christ with the inspiration and virtue of the Holy Ghost doth regenerate and newly form us to the endeavour of innocency and holiness, 
quest. 173.  which we call newness of life.  
Faith is the gift of God, 
quest. 180.  and a singular and excellent gift.  
The Holy Ghost hath wrought faith in my heart by the preaching of the Gospel. 
quest. 249.    

CHAP. VIII. Of the purification of the heart.  
Moral persuasion goes before any intent in man to purify his own heart. If then this latter act of purifying the heart, which must necessarily follow the intention of purging be attributed to God, then must he needs doc more in the cenversion of a sinner then morally to persuade him to purge his own heart. Now that this act is ascribed to God, the books can witness.  
O God make clean our hearts within us. 
Short prayers after the Creed. Litany.   
From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy, from envy hatred and malice, Good Lord deliver us.  
Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit, 
Coll. on circumcision of Christ.  that our hearts being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, etc.  
Create and make in us new and contrite hearts. 
Coll. 1. day of Lent. Coll. 3. on good Friday. Coll. on Tuesday in Easter.   
Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word.  
Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may, etc.  
Grant that we may be presented to thee with pure and clean minds. 
Collect. on the Purif. of the virgin S. Mary. Coll. on S. Matthews day. Coll. on S. Luke's day. Hom. of Inform. of them which take offence etc. Part. 2. end. Serm. for Rogat. week Part. 3.   
Grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires, and inordinate love of riches.  
May it please thee by the wholesome medicines of Luke's doctrine, to heal all the diseases of our souls.  
God therefore for his mercy's sake vouchsafe to purify our minds through faith in his Son Jesus Christ, and to instill the heavenly drops of his grace into our hard stony hearts to supple the same, that we be not contemners and deriders of his infallible word.  
In God's Spirit shall we be meet vessels to receive the grace of Almighty God. For it is he that purgeth and purifieth the mind by his secret working.   

CHAP. IX. Of the external effect of grace.  
IF the external effects of grace come not altogether from the spiritual power put into us at the first, nor from the persuasions of the Ministers, but God is said to work in us the deed as well as the will to do well, and we taught to pray to God for such effectual grace, as may produce good effects outwardly, than it follows that the grace itself cannot be wrought in us only by moral persuasion, but must be wrought in us by divine operation. Now whither the outward effects of grace be wrought by Gods assisting spirit or no, let the authentic records of our Church speak.  
O Lord open thou our lips, 
Short prayers after the Lords Pr. Litany.  and our mouth shall show forth thy praise.  
That all Bishops, Pastors, and Ministers of the Church, may both by their preaching and living, set forth and show true knowledge and understanding.  
That it may please thee to give the Magistrates grace to execute Justice, and to maintain truth. 
Litany.   
That it may please thee to give us an heart diligently to live after thy commandments. 
Litany.   
That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word, 
Litany.  and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit.  
That it may please thee to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit, 
Litany.  to amend our lives according to thy holy word.  
Grant that we evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living. 
Prayer in the Litany before the prayer for the King. Prayer for the King. Prayer for the Bishops. Coll. on 1. Sund. after Epiph. Coll. on 5. Sund. after Epiph. Coll. on 1. Sunday in Lent. Coll. on Sun. before East.   
So replenish the King with the grace of thy holy Spirit, that he may always walk in thy way.  
That Bishops and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge may truly please thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing.  
Grant that thy people which call upon thee, may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil what they know, they ought to do.  
Lord we beseech thee to keep thy Church continually in the true Religion.  
Give us grace to use such abstinence, that our flesh being subdued to the spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions.  
Mercifully grant that we both follow the example of Christ's patience.  
Receive our prayers, 
2. Coll. on good Friday  that every member of thy holy Congregation in his vocation, and ministry may truly and godly serve thee.  
As by thy special grace preventing us, 
Collect. on Easter day.  thou didst put in our mind good desires, So we beseech that by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect.  
Grant that we may daily endeavour ourselves, 
Coll. on 2. Sund. after Easter. Coll. on 3. Sund. after Easter. Coll. on 1. Sunday after Trinity.  to follow the blessed steps of Christ's most holy life.  
Grant unto all them that be admitted into the fellowship of Christ's religion, that they may follow all such things as be agreeable to their profession.  
Because the weakness of our mortal nature can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping of thy commandments we may please thee both in will and deed.  
Grant us Lord we beseech thee, 
Coll. on 9 Sund. after Trinity.  the Spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful, that we which cannot be without thee, may by thee be able to live according to thy will.  
Almighty and merciful God of whose only gift it cometh, 
Coll. on 13. Sund. after Trinity.  that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service.  
Because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, 
Coll. on 15. Sund. after Trinity. Coll. on 17. Sund. after Trinity.  lead us to all things profitable to our salvation.  
Lord we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent, and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all goods works.  
Lord we beseech thee to keep the Church in continual godliness, 
Coll. on 22. Sund. after Trinity.  that it may be devoutly given to serve thee in good works.  
Grant unto us all, 
Coll. on S. Andr. day.  that we being called by thy holy word, may forthwith give over ourselves obediently to fulfil thy holy commandments.  
Grant that we may follow thy holy doctrine that Saint Paul taught. 
Coll. on Convers. of S. Paul. Coll. on S. Barn.   
Let us not be destitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them always to thy honour and glory.  
Make us so follow the doctrine, 
Coll. on S. john Bapt.  and holy life of Saint john Baptist, that we may truly repent, and constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice and patiently suffer for the truth's sake.  
Make we beseech thee all Bishops and Pastors diligently to preach thy holy word, 
Coll. on S. Peter.  and the people obediently to follow the same.  
Grant that we forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, 
Coll. on S. james.  may be evermore ready to follow thy commandments.  
Grant us grace to follow thy holy Saints in all virtuous and godly living. 
Collect. on All Saints. Prayer after every command. Ser. against peril of idol. 2. Part. Serm concerning Pr. 1. Part. 1. Part. of Serm. for Rog. week. In the same place.   
Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law.  
Let us beseech God that we may flee from all idolatry.  
God for his great mercy sake so work in our hearts by his holy Spirit, that we may always make our humble prayers unto him as we ought to do.  
Let us call upon the father of mercy, that we may be assisted with the presence of his holy Spirit, and demean ourselves in speaking and hearing to the salvation of our souls.  
If we should ask the Saints in heaven, whence came their glorious works which they wrought in their lives, Esay saith, O Lord it is thou of thy goodness, that hast wrought all works in us.  
Grant that this thy rod, 
Prayers for the Fast. 1625. 2. Prayer added in the Litany. Thanksgiving. 1625. Collect. 1. In the same book. 3. Prayer after the Gospel.  may by thy heavenly grace speedily work in us the fruit and effect of true repentance, unfeignedly turning and converting unto thee, and perfect amendment of our whole lives.  
Give us such effectual grace, that we looking every one of us into the plague of his own heart, may abhor our own corruptions, and turn from our evil ways.  
We most humbly beseech thee to pour thy heavenly grace into our hearts, that we may learn to turn unto thee from our wicked ways.   

CHAP. X. Of Gods governing us.  
SEeing after we are regenerated and have spiritual life wrought in us, we still need Gods help to govern us, it must needs follow that being spiritually dead by nature, we could not be made alive by a moral suasion, but by a powerful work of God. That we still need Gods governing grace, appears by authorised books.  
GRant that our do may be ordered by thy governance, 
Morning Prayer. Coll. 3.  to do always that is righteous in thy sight.  
We beseech thee, 
Coll. on 5. Sunday in Lent.  that by thy great goodness thy people may be governed and preserved evermore both in body and soul.  
Lord from whom all good things do come, 
Coll. on 5. Sund. after Easter.  grant us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same.  
Lord make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy name, 
Coll. on 2. Sund. after Trinity.  for thou never failest to help and govern them, whom thou dost bring up in thy steadfast love.  
Grant that the course of this world may be so ordered by thy governance, 
Coll. on 5. Sund. after Trinity.  that thy congregation may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness.  
O Almighty Lord everliving God vouchsafe, 
Short Pray. after Com. Prayer 2.  we beseech thee to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments.  
Defend, O Lord, 
Prayer in Confirm. Hom. of Matrim.  this child with thy heavenly grace, that he may continue thine for ever  
Married persons must crave the help of God's Spirit so to rule their hearts, that their minds be not desevered.  
Use oft prayer to God, 
In the same Hom.  that he would be present by you, that he would continue concord and charity betwixt you.  
We pray that God by his holy Spirit would illuminate and govern the hearts of all such, 
Now. Cat. quest. 206.  as be of his Cuurch, wherein he reigneth specially, as in his kingdom.  
As thou hast by Gods guiding, 
quest. 251.  first conceived this mind and will, so shalt thou by his grace attain to a happy end of this thy godly study and endeavour.   

CHAP. XI. Of God's preserving us in godliness, and from sin.  
AS the power of God manifests itself at first in regenerating us, so may it evidently be discerned afterwards in resisting Satan's temptations and keeping us in the ways of piety. If an effectual work of God be sometimes needful to keep us from gross idolatry in heavy temptations, then is it much more needful to keep us from evil thoughts, and in pious meditations with delight. Our flesh is quickly weary of good ways and easily inclining to evil after we are regenerate. If now besides the strength of that working grace, which God put into us at first there be need of an effectual help of grace still: then was there at first, when we were able to do nothing, need not of a stock, that we might use well or ill, but of an effectual work of grace, to work faith and repentance in us. Now what need we have of Gods preserving help let the books speak.  
VOuchsafe, 
Te Deum.  O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.  
From all evil and mischief, 
Litany.  from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
From fornication, and all other deadly sin, and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servant, 
Litany.  Charles our most gracious King and Governor.  
Lord make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy name. 
Coll. Sund. 2. after Trin. Sund. 7.   
Nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same.  
Lord we beseech thee grant thy people grace to avoid the infections of the devil. 
Sund. 18.   
Lord we beseech thee to keep thy household the Church in continual godliness. 
Sund. 22.   
Almighty God confirm and strengthen you in all goodness. 
Absolv. at the Communion. Cat in book of Com. Pr. quest. 13. Pr. 3. in vis. of the sick. Veni Creator.   
I pray unto God, that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily, and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness.  
Preserve and continue this sick member in the unity of thy Church.  
Strength and establish all our weakness  
so feeble and so frail,  
That neither flesh the world nor devil  
against us do prevail. 
In the same hymn.   
And grant, O Lord, that thou being  
our leader and our guide:  
We may eschew the snares of sin,  
and from thee never slide.  
Only thy grace must be my stay 
Humble suit of sin.   
lest that I fall down flat,  
And being down, then of myself  
cannot recover that.  
Lord keep our King and his council, 
Prayer to the Holy Ghost before Serm. Hom. of faith. Part. 3. Hom. of Inform. of them which take offence etc. Part. 1. In the same place.   
and give them will and might  
To persevere in thy Gospel,  
which can put sin to flight.  
It is God that must be our defence and protection against all temptation of wickedness and sin.  
Noah and Lot godly men, which otherwise felt inwardly Gods holy Spirit inflaming them in their hearts with the fear and love of God, could not by their own strength keep themselves from committing horrible sins.  
We must therefore acknowledge our own infirmity and weakness, and pray more earnestly to God incessantly for his grace to strengthen us and to defend us from all evil.  
It is of the goodness of God, 
Serm. for Rogat. week Part. 3.  that we faint not in our hope unto him. It is verily God's work in us, the charity wherewith we love our brethren. If after our fall we repent, it is by him that we repent, which reacheth forth his merciful hand to raise us up. If any will we have to rise, it is he that preventeth our will, and disposeth us thereto.  
Pray God to defend and maintain you in marriage, 
Hom. of Matrim. Now. Cat. quest. 206.  that ye be not overcome with any temptations.  
We pray that God would strengthen the members of his Church with his aid and power, as his soldiers, that they may earnestly fight against and subdue the devil, the world, and the lusts of the flesh.  
We pray God not to suffer us to be overcome with any wicked temptation, but that he will deliver us, 
quest. 224.  and save us from all evil.  
Direct our steps in thy word, 
Psal. for Even.  and so shall our feet be kept from falling, and no wickedness shall have dominion over us.  
Deliver us from the power of wicked spirits, 
Even. prayer there.  and from all sin, the works of darkness, and from all other perils bodily and ghostly.   

CHAP. XII. Of the progress of the Regenerate.  
THe servants of God that are regenerate though they be able to do spiritual actions by virtue of that grace they have received, yet so unperfectly, that they cannot make any great progress in godliness without further help of God's grace, they acknowledge that they have of God's assistance to bring into action their good cogitations, so violently are they opposed by the remainders of fleshly corruption. Now if the regenerate have need of God's grace to make a progress, how much more have they need of his effectual grace, that have no power to regenerate themselves, as we say, or at least not so much as the regenerate have to proceed, as our adversaries must say, unless they will put no difference betwixt spiritual death and spiritual life. Let us now hear the testimony of the books in this particular.  
Grant that we being regenerate, 
Collect. on Christmas day.  and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy holy Spirit.  
Nourish us with all goodness. 
Sund. 7. after Trinity. Sunday 14. after Trin. Prayer 3. in Baptism. Prayer in priv. Bapt.   
Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity.  
Increase this knowledge, and confirm this faith in us evermore.  
Give thy holy Spirit to this infant, that he being born again, and being made heir of everlasting salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, may continue thy servant, and attain thy promise.  
Daily increase in these thy servants, 
Prayer 1. in Confirm.  thy manifold gifts of grace, the spirit of ghostly strength, and true godliness, and fulfil them, O Lord, with the spirit of thy holy fear.  
Defend O Lord, 
Prayer 2. there.  this child with thy heavenly grace, that he may continue thine for ever, and daily increase in thy holy Spirit more and more, until he come unto thy everlasting kingdom.  
O Lord increase our faith in us, 
Prayer to holy Ghost before Ser. Prayer 3. in order of Priests,   
and love so to abound, etc.  
We humbly beseech thee, by the same thy Son to grant unto all us which either here, or else where call upon thy name, that we may show ourselves thankful to thee for these and all other thy benefits, and that we may daily increase and go forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Son by thy holy Spirit.  
Almighty God accomplish in you the good work, 
Prayer. 2. in Consecr. of Bishops.  which he hath begun, that ye may be found perfect, and irreprehensible at the latter day.  
Regard not the horror of our sins, 
Prayer in fast. 1625. Coll. 1.  but our unfeigned repentance. Perfect that work which thou hast begun in us.  
Give unto us every day more earnest and unfeignned repentance: 
Prayer 6. added to Litany there.  plant in our hearts by the grace of thy holy Spirit a settled fear of thy name, and full resolution to lead the rest of our life in the careful obedience of thy holy will in our callings, and faithful hope of a better life to come.  
Lord we believe, but do thou increase our faith, 
Prayer for season. weather there.  our devotion, our repentance, and all Christian virtues.  
Thou didst most graciously accept our undeserved repentance before thee: 
Prayer against pestle. in the fast. 1626.  we beseech thee to give us the grace of greater humiliation, and to show as yet further mercy.  
Neither doth the holy Ghost think it sufficient, 
Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 1.  inwardly to work the spiritual and new birth of man, unless he do also dwell, and abide in him.  
Whether the Prince be good or evil, 
Hom. against wilful rebel. Part. 1. Thanksgiv. Nou. 5. Pr. after 1. Coll.  let us pray for him, for his continuance and increase in goodness, if he be good; and for his amendment, if he be evil.  
Increase in us more and more a lively faith, and fruitful love in all obedience.   

CHAP. XIII. Of the prayers of holy men.  
Such as are endued with true grace already, yet pray to God still for grace. By which grace they do not intend a power to do well if they please, for this they have already, yea, they had it before they did actually believe, and by virtue of this power did believe as our adversaries say. The grace then that God's servants pray for, that they may obey God, is an actual inclination of their will already regenerate, to the effecting of those good desires, that are in their souls. Neither must we suppose that their prayers aim only at an indefinite power of doing well, but at a certain event of spiritual power given them by God, as appears by those frequent expressions of the end of their desires in such phrases, as these, That we loving that thou requirest may obtain that thou promisest. That we may continue thy servants, and attain thy promises. That they may so please thee in this world, that in the world to come they may have life everlasting. And many such like. Their prayers do seek more for the furtherance of the will, then for the illumination of the understanding. And of such a will, as is made good already. They must needs then aim at a greater power of the will to good, and a more effectual direction of good thoughts to good actions, because they seek for a certain effect, which they ask in faith, and God gives in mercy. If they then yet pray for effectual grace, than could they not be converted at the first without it. What they pray for, let us now observe.  
HOwbeit ye cannot have a mind and a will thereto of yourselves, 
Order of Priests Exhort.  for that power and ability is given of God alone. Therefore ye see, how ye ought and have need earnestly to pray for his holy Spirit.  
Let us earnestly call for grace, 
Hom. of Swearing. Part. 2.  that all vain swearing and perjury set apart, we may only use such oaths as be lawful and godly, and that we may truly without all fraud keep the same according to Gods will and pleasure.  
Let us pray that Kings may ever in all things have God before their eyes, 
Serm. of obedience.  that they may have zeal to God's glory, that they may rightly use their sword and authority, that they may most faithfully follow the Kings in the Bible.  
Let us pray for ourselves that we may live godly in holy and Christian conversation. 
In the same Hom.   
Let us beseech God that we being warned by his holy word, 
Hom. against peril of idolatry. Part. 2. Hom. of Prayer. Part. 3.  forbidding all idolatry may flee from all idolatry.  
It is needful daily to pray for the ministers, that they may effectually preach the Gospel to the people, and bring forth the true fruits thereof to the example of all other.  
The confessing that all grace of the soul is God's gift only, 
Hom. for Rogat. week Part. 2.  will make us to have recourse to God for all grace, as the wiseman did for chastity, Wisd. 10. saying, After I knew that otherwise I could not be chaste, except God granted it, I made haste to the Lord, and earnestly besought him from the bottom of my heart to have it.  
Now if the aid of prayer be taken away, 
Hom. of Matrim.  by what means can married persons sustain themselves in any comfort? For they cannot otherwise either resist the devil, or yet have their hearts stayed in stable comfort in all perils and necessities, but by prayer.  
If thy wife be wicked, 
In the same Hom.  chafe not in anger, but pray unto Almighty God for her.  
By prayer we may obtain God's help, 
In the same Hom.  his grace, and defence, and protection to continue without discord in marriage to a better life to come. Which grant us he that died for us all.  
These things being considered let us earnestly pray unto the living God our heavenly Father, 
Serm. of Repent. Part. 1.  that he will vouchsafe by his holy Spirit to work a true and unfeigned repentance in us.  
We pray that God's name may be called upon with pure mind by men of all ages, 
Now. Cat. quest. 203. quest. 209.  etc.  
We pray that whatsoever betides us, we may receive it with contented and gladsome hearts, and that we may in all things be serviceable and obedient to God, and that we rebel not, nor repine not against Gods will.  
I being of myself most weak and unable thereunto, 
quest. 249.  must continually and earnestly sue by hearty prayer to God the giver of all good things for increase of faith, and grace to please God.   

CHAP. XIIII. Of God's grants.  
WHat God grants unto his people, that he doth not permit them to do, or give leave that they do it themselves by strength of nature, or some former grace received without any further help of God, for God not hinder us from doing any good, but give us free leave in his word: So that there needs no new grant of leave to do well, or to use well the strength we have received. But Gods granting is giving some new spiritual strength or grace to use well the grace we have received. If such grace be yet effectually granted to good men, than could they not at first be made good without God's effectual operation. We shall be brief in this last point, because all the prayers we have cited before are but expressions of God's people's desires, and of God's satisfaction, which he gives unto the same.  
GRant O most merciful Father, 
Confession.  that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life, to the glory of thy holy name. Amen.  
Grant this day that we fall into no sin, 
Coll. 3. Morning Pray. Coll. Sund. in Advent.  neither run into any kind of danger.  
Blessed Lord God which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning. Grant us that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.  
Lord we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people which call upon thee, 
Coll. Sund. after Epiph  and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same through Jesus Christ our Lord.  
Receive our supplications and prayers, 
Coll. on good Frid.  which we offer before thee, for all estates of men in thy holy congregation, that every member of the same in his vocation and ministry may truly and godly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Grant unto all them that be admitted into the fellowship of Christ's religion, 
Sund. 3. after Easter  that they may eschew those things that be contrary to their profession, and follow all such things as be agreeable to the same.  
Grant we beseech thee Almighty God, 
Coll. on Ascens. day.  that like as we do believe thy only begotten Son our Lord to have ascended into the heavens: so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend and with him continually dwell.  
Grant us by thy Spirit to have a right judgement in all things, 
Coll. on Whitsunday.  and evermore to rejoice in his holy Comfort.  
Grant we beseech thee that we which have S. 
Coll. on convers. of S. Paul.  Paul's wonderful conversion in remembrance, may follow and fulfil thy holy doctrine that he taught, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  
Grant that we may with pure and clean minds be presented unto thee by Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Coll. on Purif. of virg. Mary. Gen. confess. before receiving the Commu.   
Grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life, to the honour and glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   

The Conclusion.  
THus have I shown out of the authentic records of our Church, what is the judgement thereof about the power of man's will, and Gods effectual work upon the same in man's regeneration. True it is, many of these places speak of men already regenerate. Which is so fare from weakening the argument, that it makes it the stronger. For if that man that in the judgement of the Church is alive in grace be so imperfect, that he have often need of new and effectual grace, and help of God to go forward, how much need had he then of an effectual work of God's grace in regenerating him, who by the judgement of the same Church was dead in sins and trespasses before, yea as dead to grace (for so are the words of the Homilies) as they are to the world, that want souls. It may be thought superfluous to collect so many testimonies, divers whereof differ but in words and agree in sense. This have I done because of the weight of the cause, and the rather because the public doctrine of the Church is by some said to be on the other side. It may be some few testimonies might have been slighted, but such variety, out of so many several records, must needs show to every indifferent person the constant doctrine of the Church which way it runs. It may also stop the mouths of such as pretend a few seeming and misconceived places to the contrary. I might have made a world of Syllogisms, if I would have proceeded scholastically. But I had rather lay down the naked doctrine of the Church for learned and unlearned to peruse, reduced to divers heads all tending to one end, and that for the ease and better understanding of the reader. If it be said, that I have sometimes set down the same words in several places, the answer is at hand. I did it for sundry reasons. One while the place was fruitful, and out of divers words did afford divers reasons belonging to several heads. Another while the place could not well be understood without coherence, so that I was compelled to set down the words precedent, though I had made use of them elsewhere. Lastly, sometimes the words were doubtful to which head they did belong, or rather seemed to me to belong to both, and so have I placed them accordingly. If any yet object further, that the places may admit of another interpretation, and may at least some of them so be understood, as they may make for the adverse part. I answer there are many of them plain enough, that cannot easily be misconstrued. Other places must be interpreted by them that are plain. The Scripture itself the voice of our Father is wrested daily to a contrary sense, and no marvel if the voice of our Mother the Church may be so abused also. Let the Reader by that reason and grace, that God hath given him, endeavour to understand which is the right sense of the words. I have added nothing of mine own, save the state of the question at first, and the relation that every argument or head hath to the question in the beginning of every Chapter. Less I could not add without injury to the cause. More I would not, lest I should be tedious to the Reader, or lie more open to the exceptions of such as are otherwise minded, who cannot now except against my words without wounding the Church, whose words I have faithfully reported.  
Thus I commend the cause to God whose it is, and to the Church of God whom it concerns, beseeching God so to work in every member of it by his effectual grace, that we may consent in judgement, and agree in affection on earth, till we come to perfection in heaven.  
FINIS.