The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God John Cosin (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ... Name be praised, from the rising up of the sun, unto the going down thereof. "Of thy children. C The End of the Third Hour. THE SIXTH HOUR OF PRAYER; OR, MID-DAY. THE ANCIENT CUSTOM OF PRAYERS AT THE SIXTH HOUR, OR NOON-DAY. For many reasons (saith S. Cyprian) is the sixth hour of prayer observed by devout Christians, as being a time that hath been specially consecrated and advanced thereunto, both in the Old and New Testament. And at noon-day will I pray, and that instantly: and He Ps. 55.18. shall hear my voice. There they crucified Him; and it was about the sixth hour. Mat. 27. gg" At which time our Saviour offered His last prayers upon the altar of His cross. Peter went up into his house to pray about the sixth hour. Acts 10.9. Clem. Const, lib. viii. cap. 34.b Let your prayers be made also at the sixth hour; for at that time was our Lord and Saviour crucified upon the cross for us. Terttjl. de Jejun. cap. 10. The sixth hour hath been ever accounted a solemn time for devotion and prayer0. De Orat. Dom. 34. (al. 25.) hora sexta capiendi cibi causa prius in Opp. ii. 174. edit. Goldh. superiora ad orandum ascendisse, quo b... 5e, &ti iv avry 4ffrav-magis sexta diei finiri officio huic possit, pc607. edit. Coteler. i. 420. quse illud absolutura post orationem c Atqui facilius invenias Petrum videbatur. Opp. ii. 190. edit. Leopold. SIXTH HOUR-S. Cyprian. de Orat. Bom. Besides, we observe the sixth hour, not only for that we find holy men before us to have done the like, both in the Old Testament, as Daniel in his chamber; and in the New, as Peter upon his house: but also for that our Lord Jesus Christ was at this hour exalted upon the cross, like the serpent in the wilderness, that whosoever turneth to Him might be healedd. S. Basil. in...