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A11258	The touch-stone of prayer. Or A true and profitable exposition of the Lords prayer, according to the holy Hebrew of S. Mathews gospel to which is prefixed certaine necessary circumstances to be obserued in prayer. Also thereunto is annexed a table shewing the agreement betweene the Lords prayer, and the ten commandements of Almighty God. By T.S.	S., Tho.	1602 (1602)	STC 21523; ESTC S114099	35,229	130

thee the agreement of the Lordes prayer with the ten commaundementes And whereas in reading thou shalt see this marke * At the beginning of any sentence looke on the margent and it sheweth thee the writer from whence that sentence was borrowed and because that some may thinke my enterprise bould yea and this my doing to be altogether needelesse in as much as I haue but busied my selfe with that which my betters haue both learnedly taught and writ the which notwithstanding we still continuing in our security and carelesnesse thinking in our prosperity we shall neuer be cast downe putting farre from vs the euill day which amongst many is the most desperate disease to the soule that can be Also considering with my selfe the duty I owe to God remembring how euery one must giue an account how he hath vsed his talent yea religion bindeth me to haue a louing care of the saluation of my brethren and the duty and loue I beare to the church wherein I liue and of which I am a member these and many more such like reasons cause me to say the loue of God in Christ Iesus constraines me to speake that I doe and with the Apostles in the Acts I cannot chuse but speake the things I haue heard and seene Neyther gentle reader let this worke seeme to thee superfluous because some learned haue entreated of the same matter before we see by lamentable experience how soone their learned labours are forgot and how seldome put in practise therefore we cannot heare a good thing too often nor learne it too well And I beseech God for his sonnes sake to take the scales from our eyes that our affections may be illuminated and we being strengthened in the inner man may the better discharge so waighty a duty as praier is Read this booke christian brother with a single eye not onely so much to know as to practise and to be penitent for that which hath beene amisse and that humility and meeknes dwelling in thy soule God may guide thy iudgement and teach thee in his way and that thou Psal 25 vse this booke no otherwise then it was meant to thy good and comfort which God grant vnto thee Amen Thy louing brother in Christ Iesus Tho. S. QVisquis amas Christum sanctè componere vota Discas Diabolum sic superare potes Ipse licet nobis minitetur vulnera Daemon Saepe precare Deum vulnera nulla feres Contrà nos tumidae minitantur praelia Gentes Exitiumque parant Perdere nemo potest Nam Dius exaudit iustorum tempore duro Cum clamant gemitus auxilium que feret Corda leuate Deo mundanas spernite curas Impediunt votum pondere corda premunt Sanctificet que fides semper pia dicta precantis Haec mentem sanctam redere sola solet Hac iter ad vitam hac magnitecta Tonantis Scandimus eloqvio Pax vbi sola manet Sintque manus purae nobis sint pectora pura Sic Dominus precibus cuncta petita dabit Christus discipulos docuit pia verba referre Hoc docet exemplo nos quo que verba pia Quis poterit Christi magnae praeconia laudis Dicere pro meritis dicere nemo queat Qui monstrare viam voluit qua culmina coeli Scandimus atque patri sacra referre suo Non pudeat sanctos sanctam didicisse loquelam Omnia nam sanctis obuia sunt precibus Vt docuisti tuos olim mitissime Christe Discipulos verbo nos quoque pasce tuo Tempora concedas vitae faelicia nobis Sit tibi sitque patri gloria lausque tuo Oratio absque fide est quasi corpus sine anima W. P. To the secure and carelesse saith S. Iames. Yee lust and haue not because yee aske not Iam. 4. verse 2. To the lasciuious and carnall Yee aske and receiue not because yee aske amisse verse 3. To the regenerate Christian saith S. Iohn This is the assurance that we haue in him that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth vs. John 5. verse 14. 15. Before we crie will hee answere and whilst wee speake will he heare vs. Jsa 65. vers 24. ❧ Obseruations to praie aright Eight lessons or necessary obseruations to be learned of all that will pray aright AS no exercises can be wel performed without some circumstances obseruations necessarylie thereto belonging whether we respect exercises of the body or of the minde So prayer being an exercise ordained of God then the which nothing is more profitable can in no good measure on our part be performed without some necessary circumstances thereto belonging The consideration whereof hath caused me to place before the Lordes prayer these eight necessary circumstances belonging to To whom we must pray prayer The first whereof is to whom we must pray For as it is ridiculous to vtter Circū ∣ stance 1 much speach vnto them who are neither carefull nor capable of that we say and as it is great simplicity for any to deliuer a supplication vnto the cooke which perteineth to the king so much more folly is it for any to pray vnto Angell or Saint Papists in so doing like the Athenians seeing we may iustly doubt whether they heare or can giue vs what we want And if any so doe he is as blinde as the Athenians to pray to an vnknowne God Therefore we must pray to him that is willing to helpe vs which also is incomprehensible in all places to heare vs and alsufficient able to giue vs els cannot our prayers be made in faith And if they be not in faith the Apostle saith whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne But prayer to Saints cannot be of faith therefore such prayers are sinne Againe we can pray to none but to them we beleeue in But we must beleeue onely in God Therefore pray to him onely Our sauiours wordes which ought to be without contradiction teach vs that plainely Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God Mat. 4. and him onely shalt thou serue And that this is a part of Gods worship and honour to be prayed vnto heare what the Prophet saith in the person of God Call vpon me Psa 50. and I will deliuer thee and thou shall glorifie me and looke into the verse before and thou shalt finde he that giues this commandement is the most high and blessed Trinity The second Circumstance THe second obseruation is to We must pray in the name of Christ know through whom or in whose name to offer vp our praiers and that is in Christes name so doth 1. Tim. 2. 3. the Apostle Paule teache vs. There is one God and one mediator betweene God and man the man Christ Iesus And the Apostle Iohn saith if any 1. Ioh. 2. 1. man sinne we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous And Christ him selfe hath witnessed whatsoeuer we shall aske the father Ioh. 16. in his name we shall

Mat. 26 and not sleepe as Peter did least we fall into temptation Seauenthly with what affections we must pray WIth zeale and feruencie so Circū ∣ stance 7 saith Paule be feruent in praier Also the Apostle Iames the prayer Ro. 12. of a righteous man auayleth much if it be feruent With the Publican wee Iam. 5 must knock our brest and with Dauid say Lord enter not into Iudgement Psalm 133. 2. with thy seruant With Abraham pray vehemently to cry with Ier. 14. 7. Ieremy our iniquities testifie against vs with Daniel O Lord heare O Lord Dan. 9. helpe O Lord consider and howsoeuer our affections are maruelously dulled by reason of the frailenesse Rom. 7. of the flesh yet to wil is present and the spirit will be willing though Mat. 26 the flesh be weake and this is our comfort the spirit doth not onely teach vs what to aske but maketh intercessions for vs with sighes and Rom. 8. 26. groanes which cannot be expressed The eight and last lesson to learne to pray aright is the necessity of The necessity of prayer prayer FOr although this be the last yet it is not the least for this well considered Circū ∣ stance 8 will make vs diligent to learne all the former I meane how necessary prayer is for all Christians and especially for this last age of the world wherin we liue if we obserue but the time it is in the last dayes wherein Satans mallice is so much the more increased by howmuch the more his time is diminished the place wherein we liue beeing the We haue 3. continual enemies the world the flesh and the deuill place where our enimy hath many and great partakers the flesh the diuell are two maine captaines the world * I mean the wicked of the world are the souldiers which are seruant to both If therefore we consider the pollicie of our arche enimy Satan his rage his watchfulnesse his strength yea the world which are at his command and on the other side behold the flesh which euer giueth vs battell at home as also the frailenesse of our owne flesh and weakenesse of our owne nature how vnable it is to withstand him if these things were considered they would keepe vs not onely from sleeping in so great a ieopardy but to bee watchfull and call by prayer to God for mercy the which if we doe wee shall make him and his great armie to fly So saith Iames the blessed Apostle Resist the Deuill and he will flye from thee God giue vs faith and loue in him so shall we be more then conquerors Thus louing brother thou seest First who to pray vnto not to 1. Heathens false Gods as Heathens doe Secondly by whom and through whome to offer vp our yrayers neither 2. Papists by the virgin Mary or any saint as the Papists doe Thirdly what to pray for not 3. Balamists worldlings with Balaam altogether to set our mindes on mony nor with carnalists for worldly pleasure Fourthly the causes that moue 4. We must learne this lessō before our praiers can be heard vs to prayer which is the very foundation of prayer From which motiue causes we learne these lessons First to pray in obedience to Gods commandement Secondly with faith in his promises Thirdly in humilitie of spirit then shall we be sure to receaue a reward Fiftly where to pray not like 5. Iewes Brownists Iewes no where but in the temple nor like Brownists neuer in the temple but pray thou without any superstitious conceit of the place lifting vp pure hands to God Sixtly when and how long to 6. Temporisers pray continually not with temporisers to vse holy exercises only when religion bringeth gaine pleasure Seuenthly with what affection to 7. Laodicean like professors pray not like our Laodician professors who pray with such zeale that they can say nothing if you take their booke from them else when they read their prayer they be halfe a sleepe before it be ended 8. Not to liue idlely as Dauid did 8. Secure Christians 2. Sam. 11. 12. 3. nor to sleepe as Ionah and Peter did Math. 26. 40. for Satan is watchfull and goeth about seeking continually whome he may deuoure These obseruations I thought good to set downe for thy better vnderstanding of the Lords prayer because therein I purpose to be very briefe setting downe such doctrins as naturally arise from the true signification of the words in the text the holy and ancient Fathers haue Forma est per quā res est quod est inquit Rā in dial called it formula precationum the forme of prayers and Logitians say forma dat esse And surely this holy Prayer is the patterne whereby wee may frame our prayers and if they be not agreeable to this prayer they be no lawfull prayers The holy prayer of our Sauiour Mathew 6. Chap. verse 9. OVr father which art in heauen halowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done as in heauen so also in earth Giue vs this day our daylie or continuall bread And forgiue vs our debts as we forgiue our debters And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill for thine is that kingdome the power and the glory for euer and euer Amen VVHich prayer I deuide into foure parts into a preface in these wordes Our Father which art in heauen Secondly into six petitions wherof three belong vnto God and three vnto vs. The three that belong vnto God are in these wordes 1. Halowed be thy name 2. Thy kingdome come 3. Thy will be done as in heauen so also in earth The latter 3. which concerne vs are 1. Giue vs this day our daylie or continuall bread 2. And forgiue vs our debts as we forgiue our debters And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euil 3. Part into a conclusion for thine is that kingdome the power the glory 4. Part the seale of faith Amen The first part of the praier which is the preface I deuide into 4. Branches First that God is a father Secondly that he is our father Thirdly that he is Fourthly the place which is heauen For the first that God is a father it needes no proofe the scriptures are so manifest we are boūd by our Christian faith to beleeue that God is a father almighty in this generall sence he is the father of good and bad But in a more peculiar sence he is our father both by creation adoption and this doth the Prophet tell the Iewes and in them vs that we ought not to repaie God for so high maruelous workes with ingratitude Do Deut. 32. 6. ye so reward the Lord O ye foolish people and vnwise is not he thy father that bought thee and that made thee also Isai 63. 16. Isaijah saith doubtlesse thou art our father though Abraham know vs not