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A17916	Lachrimæ: or lamentations over the dead wherin is described the earnest zeale of the godly, in mourning for the sins of the people, who are dead in trespasses and sinnes. By Nathanael Cannon, minister and preacher of the word at Hurley, in Berkshire.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1616 (1616)	STC 4577; ESTC S113390	19,337	64

which are to bee vsed for the encrease of our faith and the perfecting of our loue vnto the Almighty Meanes to beget zeale The first is Prayer The second is the Word The third is the Sacraments These are excellent meanes through which God will answere vs and prosper the new birth of the soule vnto vs. 1. For the first is it not the very ioy of the heart is it not the good Samaritan which wil bind vp our wounds and heale our sicknesse is it not the cure of affliction Is any man afflicted let him pray I am chap. 5. vers 13. doth not our prayer interpret vnto vs the mercies of God doth not Iacob preuaile ouer an Angell by his prayer Hos chap. 12. vers 4. Haue not Moses Iosuah Abraham Elias and other of Gods petitioners what they will as it were at the hands of God out of their feruent prayers is there not a heauen vpon earth by the lifting vp of innocent hands is not prayer our greatest comfort in our greatest misery O if it were not for this Satan might trample vpon vs sinne might swallow vs vp affliction might burie vs aliue and our corruptions so farre preuaile against vs that wee might truely crie with the Apostle O wretched men that wee are who shall deliuer vs Obiect It is most true that prayer is very comfortable fit to beget zeale but euery man hath not the gift Answ The holy Ghost taketh away that obiection when hee saith that the spirit of prayer shall helpe our infirmities Rom. chap. 8. vers 26. Now then who will not thus aske that hee may haue and thus seeke that hee might finde the mercies of God in such abundant measure Obiect But I haue often addressed my selfe vnto the Lord in my prayers and haue sought the Lord but had no feeling and that hath made mee to giue ouer Answ It is in heauenly wisdome that God doth somtimes abate our feeling and apprehension of his mercy and that because when wee doe recouer strength wee shall the more cleaue vnto the Lord and thinke more dearly of his grace when wee haue it for no man knowes so well what the benefit of health is as hee that hath beene sometime sicke and no man hath so much cause to speake of deliuerance as he that hath bin in greatest dangers for in these men there is not onely a view of the action of mercy gone before but there is also an application which fastens God vnto their soules for euer after Againe it is not thy case onely to want this feeling at some times but euen thy Christ hath in our nature been thus perplexed O God my God saith he why hast thou forsaken me Againe his Church so deare vnto him as that they are the very members of Christ Iesus they haue this cause of complaint sometimes Cant. chap. 3. vers 1. In my bed by night I sought him but I found him not this was not because the Church wanted the knowledge of faith but that sometimes shee wanted the knowledge of experience shee had not alwaies that feeling as sometimes shee had and yet who will doubt of the mercy of God towards his Church Wee see that there may bee fire vnder the ashes although there be no flame so there is faith at all times in the hearts of Gods children although sometimes they want feeling Now then if thou wouldest haue a zealous heart for Gods glory vse this meanes of prayer and vse it often euening and morning at home and abrode it will with Elias make thee cast downe thy loose mantles of pleasures and profits when thou shalt bee taken vp into the heauens as it were in thy feruent prayers The 2. meanes to beget zeale to encrease it in our hearts is the blessed word of God that whereby we are taught Psalm 119. vers 33. That which is a lanthorne vnto our feet and a light vnto our pathes this sets forth the mercies of God and this declares the iudgements of God in both which alphabets when we grow skilfull wee shall loue God we shall feare God yea with Dauid wee shall hunger after the Lord and as the Hart brayeth after the riuers of waters especially when shee hath been hunted so will our soules long after the Lord our God Psal 42. vers 1. If the Scriptures be our studies and our recreations we shall then bee for God indeed and his word will bee sweeter to vs then hony or the hony combe his law will be our delight we will studie his statutes both day and night Now then apply thy selfe vnto this thou that desirest that the Sonne of righteousnesse should shine vpon thy soule and thou shalt finde these meanes are like the steps of Iacobs ladder bringing thee by degrees vnto the knowledge of God and making such loue vnto the Lord in thy prayers and exercises of holy Scripture that it shall appeare thou art both sanctified and mortified that thy desire is to bee with Christ which is best of all Phil. chap. 1. vers 23. The 3. and last meanes is the frequent vse of the blessed Sacraments For the first which is Baptisme thou oughtest to thinke vpon it often and therein as in a glasse to behold thy selfe thou shalt see therein a double condition first what thou wert by nature secondly what thou art by grace thou shalt find that Baptisme is a lauer of regeneration vnto thy soule and it wil teach thee an excellent vse namely newnesse of life for if any man bee in Christ hee must be a new creature 2. Cor. chap. 5. vers 17. The other Sacrament which is the Lords Supper is as a loue-token betwixt God and thy soule The King saith the Spouse hath brought mee into his bed chamber Cant. chap. 1. verse 3. meaning that God had shewed her iewels and rich furniture whereof she should be partaker In this Sacrament the Lord doth shew himselfe vnto vs As often as you receiue this do it in remembrance of me As who should say Remember what I haue done for you my body hath been broken my blood hath beene shead for the remission of your sinnes now then thinke vpon this what ioy may it bring vnto you when as by meanes of faith men may feede vpon Christ how will it satisfie doubts how will it qualifie feare how will it build vp the soule and beget zeale in such measure as that the man that vseth these meanes shall truely stand forth in Gods cause with life with goods with Christian resolution knowing that hee must needs take Gods part and ioyne with the righteous in Gods cause and separate himselfe from Gods enemies yea grow vp to such a heartie zeale as that nothing shall please vs which is displeasing to the Almighty Then may we truly be called the children of God when wee feare him and nothing but him when we hate euill for the feare of the Lord is to hate that which is euill Pro. chap. 8. vers 13. 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