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Who? In the 1500's in England, Lancelot Andrewes compiled for his own use "Private Prayers," which formed the structure he used to poured out his heart to God. Why reinvent the wheel? How might his "method" help us in the 21st Century?
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At his funeral, John Buckeridge said of Andrewes, "his life was a life in prayer to God." It was not uncommon for Andrewes to spend five hours a day in prayer, and "when his brother Master Nicholas Andrewes died, he took that as a certain sign and warning of his own death, and from that time till the hour of his death, he spent all his time in prayer. The prayer book, when he was in private, was rarely seen out of his hands."
"Of the character of Andrewes, the devotions are necessarily the monument. They represent as a whole what he was and what he aspired to be; what men knew of him and what they could not know....."
"They show us the background, the spring, the force and inspiration of his public life and activity, the root of what men recognized in him: his piety, a serene and filial faith, a profound penitence, a living hope, a passionate love of God and a longing to be to be true to all who knew of Him...."
".....a large, detailed, imaginative charity, alive to all the varied conditions, needs and interests of peoples and individuals, resting on a keen alertness to all that experience had brought with it and the obligations created by it...."
".......a gratitude alive to all that God had done for him, whether immediately or through men and through nature; and a genial appreciation of life, its joys and its sorrows, and a belief in the possibility of its consecration."
Extracted from the Introduction to THE PRIVATE DEVOTIONS OF LANCELOT ANDREWES by F. E. Brightman
It takes just one example to sense the humble heart of this man. Consider the following:
The very Truth I ask, mercy preventing and following, to learn me what things soever I know not, that ought to be known unto the soul's health:
to keep me safe in the truths I know; to assist me in the things wherein, as a man, I am deceived;
to confirm me in the truths wherein I waver, and to deliver me from things false and noisome, and to make those things, which more than aught else are pleasing in the sight of the Truth itself, in such sort to come forth out of my mouth, that they may be acceptable unto all the faithful:
through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Lancelot Andrewes
"Of the character of Andrewes, the devotions are necessarily the monument. They represent as a whole what he was and what he aspired to be; what men knew of him and what they could not know....."
"They show us the background, the spring, the force and inspiration of his public life and activity, the root of what men recognized in him: his piety, a serene and filial faith, a profound penitence, a living hope, a passionate love of God and a longing to be to be true to all who knew of Him...."
".....a large, detailed, imaginative charity, alive to all the varied conditions, needs and interests of peoples and individuals, resting on a keen alertness to all that experience had brought with it and the obligations created by it...."
".......a gratitude alive to all that God had done for him, whether immediately or through men and through nature; and a genial appreciation of life, its joys and its sorrows, and a belief in the possibility of its consecration."
Extracted from the Introduction to THE PRIVATE DEVOTIONS OF LANCELOT ANDREWES by F. E. Brightman
It takes just one example to sense the humble heart of this man. Consider the following:
The very Truth I ask, mercy preventing and following, to learn me what things soever I know not, that ought to be known unto the soul's health:
to keep me safe in the truths I know; to assist me in the things wherein, as a man, I am deceived;
to confirm me in the truths wherein I waver, and to deliver me from things false and noisome, and to make those things, which more than aught else are pleasing in the sight of the Truth itself, in such sort to come forth out of my mouth, that they may be acceptable unto all the faithful:
through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Lancelot Andrewes
