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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85529	Gods deliverance of man by prayer. And mans thankefulnesse to God in prayses. In a sermon by reason of the lecturers absence in the Church of Saint Bartholmewes Exchange, on Ash-Wendesday [sic], at the generall fast, proposed. But at that time by a company of church intruders very rudely opposed. And now at this time, for the publike satisfaction of all men faithfully in print exposed. by I. G. D.D. Rector there.	Grant, John, d. 1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1520; Thomason E141_13; ESTC R7665	17,142	34

encouragement in our Text Call upon me in the day of trouble Had not wee this gratious warrant with small comfort should wee life up our drooping heads out of these depths by solemne Covenant we Christians are the selected people of God drawne out of the Masse of corruption to be the heyres of salvation The scope of our faith and the ayme of our Christian hope is to be joyned unto the God whom wee seeke to be undistractedly and unseparably his for ever in the Lord Iesus this life of ours is but momentany the life beleeved and expected is the life of eternity this is but a breathing after that now in our attendance by faith and hope on that blessed day of eternitie which shall not have any nights interposition God hath not left us to our selves but communicates himselfe to us to uphold us in that attendance by His Word addresseth He Himselfe to us and by our Invocation is he unto us open Seeke ye my face is His expression to us thy face wee doe seeke is our hearts faiths returned answer and practice a blessed harmony in harmonious blessednesse Psalm 27. 8. In the prophesie of Hosea we find this in an accurate way of expression set downe Thou shalt call me Ishai and not Baali chap. 2. ver. 16. Ishai not Baali My Husband not my Idolized Lord God will have us intire not divided halfe his halfe not his halfe the Idoll of our hearts what ever that Idol bee mungrell Religion is to the onely true God abominable Now goe wee on with the Prophet verse 18. and so forward for I will take away the name of Baalim out of her mouth And they shall no more bee remembred by their name And in that day will I make a Covenant for them with the Beasts of the field and with the fowles of the heaven and with the creeping things of the ground And I will breake the bow and the sword and the battle of the earth and will make them to lye downe safely and here comes in the Cordialnesse of the businesse I will betroth thee unto mee for ever yea I will betroth thee unto mee in righteousnesse and in judgement and in loving kindnesse and in mercy I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulnesse and thou shalt know the Lord And it shall come to passe in that day I will heare saith the LORD I will heare the Heavens and they shall heare the earth and the earth shall heare the corne and the Wine and they shall heare Iezreel and I will sow her to mee in the earth and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy and I will say to them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say thou art my God Gods promises and our prayers thence make sure worke indeed none like it Without the Word of God and that sounding and resounding in our eares with the ministeriall application thereof to our hearts by the spirits operation wee should live and dye in the grossenesse of ignorance and without Prayer also in humble and fiduciall manner put up unto our God in the merits and mediation of Iesus Christ wee should be hopelesse helplesse destitute altogether of the consolations from above the heavenly consolations in the times of afflictions disturbances feares That prayer is a most important part of our Religious service to God ward appeares in this most clearely that the sacred booke of God under those appellations of prayer and Invocation comprehendeth even the whole service of God Let that among the rest be deepely weighed and pondred in our hearts Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved Acts 2. 21. Gods whole worship is contained under this one phrase to call upon God no duty of godlinesse is to him more acceptable no sacrifice in better part taken then is that the calling on the name of the Lord is the open profession of him without dantednesse Gen. 4. 26. Where ever Abraham the Father and patterne of the faithfull where ever he came there erected he an Altar and called upon the Name of the Lord Gen. 12. 7 8. The house of prayer is the name of Gods house and God gave it that name by his Prophet Isaiah and our blessed Iesus ratifies it Preaching we have here and Sacraments we have here but prayer gives it the denomination as the major service of God and both implying and including all the rest needs must we all if there bee any ingenuity of Christianity in us needs must wee acknowledge prayer to bee a matter of the greatest consequence even upon this consideration deeply volved and revolved in our hearts that every soule to heaven-ward setled makes the recommendation of his spirit into the hands of God his practice uncessant as being in no hands late but his that of Davids is by frequency made his Into thy hands I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth Psal. 31. 5. Gods promises are the faithfulls encourgaments and in them presenting themselves to God acceptance is to them confidently assured Prayer is that hand which we reach and stretch forth unto our mercifull God to receive from him all his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Saint Iames calls them all his givings and all his good gifts his good givings and his perfect gifts In the hand of faith prayer is a key Heaven it openeth unto us and from Heaven enricheth us with the best of treasures our wounds layes it open to the right curer of them the binder up and exquisite healer of them all up carrieth it and dispreads before our piteous God the sobbings and groanings of our disturbed hearts in an humble and holy familiarity that will have no denyall no repulse of that force it is with God when put forth a right that it makes the rods and scourges of Gods correcting hand even fall there out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 powerfully his fatherly affections and removeth his justly conceived indignations Prayer in parties and in Families well ordered is the customary sacrifice is the Morning and Evening perfume of the devoutly Religious Let my prayer writes David bee set forth before thee as incense and the lifting up of mine hands as an Evening sacrifice Psalm 141. 2. Call upon me in the day of trouble Saint Paul utters it thus pray {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} without ceasing without fainting 1 Thes. 5. 17. What ever the troubles be Our Saviour thus Watch and pray that yee enter not into tentation Matth. 26. 41. As justly wee may and sufficiently wee cannot admire the goodnesse of our God daigning his word to addresse himselfe in speech to our capacities So are we to esteeme likewise that as an high and honourable favour that he will heare us in prayer and prayses approaching unto him giving way to our importunities nay even commanding us expresly to be importunate to such prayers yea only to such are his eares opened and