Religio Quotidiana:

DAILY PRAYER THE LAW OF GOD'S CHURCH,
AND HERETOFORE THE PRACTICE OF

CHURCHMEN.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A PASTORAL LETTER TO THE CLERGY AND
LAITY OF HIS DIOCESE.

BY THE

RIGHT REVD. RICHARD MANT, D.D.,

LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR, AND DROMORE

Τὰ ̓ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ἔθη κρατείτω.-Conc. Nic.
Ask for the OLD paths, where is the GOOD way.-Jer.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

M.DCCC.XLVI

1170.

Praised be the Lord daily: even the God who helpeth us, and

poureth his benefits upon us. Ps. lxviii. 19.

Prayer shall be made ever unto him, and daily shall he be praised.

Ps. lxxii. 15.

Continuing daily with one accord in the temple. Acтs ii. 46.
Pray without ceasing. 1 THESS. V. 17.

Day by day we magnify Thee. C. P. B. Te Deum.

Seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.

HEB. xii. 2.

If he shall neglect to hear the Church,

....

MATT. Xviii. 17.

SYNOPSIS.

Page

To the Church, the Greeting of an obedient Son

ix-xii

The Church's Daily Prayer, an Apostolical Usage .... 19-21

SECTION IV., p. 22.

The Church's Daily Prayer, Practice of succeeding

Centuries

SECTION V., p. 24.

The Church's Daily Prayer, the Rule of our National

Church

SECTION VI., p. 26.

The Church's Daily Prayer, her Orders not observed by

some

92

24

26

Page

SECTION VII., p. 28.

The Church's Daily Prayer, recommended by Commen-
tators. Bishop Overall, Hamon L'Estrange, Bishop
Sparrow, Dean Comber, Dr. Nicholls, Charles
Wheatly, Archdeacon Sharp.

SECTION VIII., p. 37.

28-36

The Church's Daily Prayer, justified by Advocates.
Richard Hooker. Daily Lessons. God's Daily
Worship. Psalms and Hymns.

Puller.

SECTION IX., p. 42.

Dr. Timothy

37-41

The Church's Daily Prayer, inforced by Bishops. Archbishop Grindall, Archbishop Sandys, Bishop Jewel, Archbishop Parker, Bishop Aylmer, Archbishop Whitgift; Statutes of Archbishop Whitgift's Hospital; Bishop Andrewes, Archbishop Abbot, Archbishop Williams, Archbishop Laud, Archbishop Ussher, Bishop Bedell, Archbishop Bramhall, Bishops Leslie and Martin. State of the Church before and during the Rebellion. Bishop Taylor, Archbishop Sancroft, Bishop Ken, Bishop Sprat, Bishop Hacket, Bishop Ward, Bishop Rainbow, Archbishop Sharp, Archbishop King, Bishop Stillingfleet, Bishop Hough, Archdeacon Hewetson, Bishop Wilson, Bishop Hildesley

SECTION X., p. 81.

42-80

The Church's Daily Prayer, inculcated by Precepts of
parochial Clergy. "Whole Duty of Man;" Isaac
Barrow, John Sharp, William Beveridge, William
Stanley

81-88

SYNOPSIS.

Page

SECTION XI., p. 89.

The Church's Daily Prayer, taught by Clerical examples.
Richard Hooker, John Donne, George Herbert,
Robert Sanderson, Henry Hammond, John Fell,
John Dolben, Richard Allestry, George Wilde,
Thomas Fuller, George Morley, John Cosin, Edward
Pocock, Peter Samwaies, Lewis Alcock; The Dub-
lin Clergy; James Margetson, Edward Synge, Simon
Patrick, Michael Hewetson, William Hopkins, Rich-
ard Newton, Primate Boulter

SECTION XII., p. 111.

89-110

The Church's Daily Prayer, practised by Clergymen's Families. Lewis Alcock, Hammond, Herbert....111, 112

SECTION XIII., p. 113.

The Church's Daily Prayer, attended by Laymen. Sir Henry Sydney; Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, and his Countess; Daily Prayer at Wilton House; Lord Burleigh and Sir Philip Sydney; Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam; his New Atlantis; Sir Henry Wotton; Francis and Henry Clifford, Earls of Cumberland; Henry Hyde; Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon; William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, and Sir Charles Cavendish; Henry Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, and King Charles I.; John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater; Richard Vaughan, Earl of Carbery and his Countess; Sir George Dalstone, Sir Richard Browne, Izaak Walton, John Evelyn; Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth; James Bonnell, Robert Nelson, William Wogan; William Pulteney, Earl of Bath; Sir Richard Steele 113-143