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A12554	A paterne of true prayer A learned and comfortable exposition or commentarie vpon the Lords prayer: wherein the doctrine of the substance and circumstances of true inuocation is euidently and fully declared out of the holie Scriptures. By Iohn Smith, minister and preacher of the Word of God.	Smyth, John, d. 1612.	1605 (1605)	STC 22877.1; ESTC S117609	137,387	190

22.2 The duties of our speciall callings must bee performed in conscience to Gods commandements Ephes 6.1 After actiue obedience Submission a part of Gods will which consisteth in doing Gods commandements followeth passiue obedience in suffering his chastisements which generally may be termed submission that is when the creature is content to resigne himhelfe ouer wholy to the will of the Creator and to say as Dauid said 2. Sam. 15.26 Behold here am I let him doe to me as seemeth good in his eyes this vertue doth especially respect the time to come and the Lords secret will that if the Lord haue in his secret counsell determined such and such euils and afflictions to befall vs we can be content with patience to beare them how many and how great soeuer they be so be that thereby God may be glorified After the kinds of obedience follow the qualities of obedience viz. cheerefulnes or willingnes and sincerity or perfection Cheerefulnes in obedience a part of Gods will 2. Cor. 9.7 Iam. 1.5 Ioh. 4.34 Cheerefulnes or willingnes is highly regarded of God and accordingly endeuored of the children of God God loueth a cheerefull giuer saith the Apostle and God himselfe giueth freely and vpbraideth no man saith Iames and he liketh that in his children which himselfe practiseth Christ saith that it was meate and drinke to him to doe the will of his heauenly father yea and in suffering for our sinnes he protesteth great willingnes for he did willingly lay downe his life and it was not taken from him against his liking and therefore Dauid prophecieth of him Psal 40.8 that seeing it was written of him in the volume of the booke that he should doe Gods will therefore he was content to doe it And this is that eccho which Dauids heart gaue to Gods voyce Psal 27.8 God said seeke ye my face Dauids heart answered Lord I will seeke thy face and although it cannot bee denied but that the flesh is very weake yea repugnant and refractary yet the spirit is willing Rom. 7.22 and the children of God do delight in the law of God according to the inner man Sinceritie in obedience a part of Gods will Psal 119.106 Finally perfection or sinceritie also is required as another necessarie qualification of obedience which consisteth in a true purpose of the heart ioyned with an earnest endeuour to the vtmost of grace to obey euery one yea the very least of Gods commaundements making conscience of idle words 1. Cor. 4.4 Rom. 7.24 and vaine thoughts yea of the stirring of concupisence and which is most of all of originall sinne and Adams transgression imputed This vertue of sinceritie is much despised and persecuted by the world when men intitle it by straunge names as humor spiced conscience precisenes puritanisme alas that euer the diuell should so preuaile For example take a man that is very well content with the state obeying the Magistrate ciuill and ecclesiasticall in al the ceremonies of the Church yet if he doe not sweare and drinke and quarell and so forth but reproue the swearer the dronkard the hackster and the rest This man is as odious to the multitude as the veriest disciplinarian in the land and he shall partake as well in the foresaid titles of disgrace as the other Now in the fourth place follow the things which in this petition are to be prayed against The deprecation of this petition Obstinacie opposed to Gods will Pro 23.35 whereof the first is obstinacie which is a purpose and resolution to continue in the course of wickednes wherein a man liueth the sinne of the drunkards of whom the wise man speaketh which are resolued still to seeke after drunkennes also the sinne of the Shepheards and Watchmen of Israel of whom the Prophet Esay speaketh Who say Esay 56.12 To morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant in wine and strong drinke and couetous oppression Ierem. 44.16.17 The extremitie of this sinne is recorded in the rebellious Iewes by the Prophet Ieremie who being admonished of their sinnes and of obedience to Gods commaundements made answere that they would not heare the word of the Lord which Ieremie spake but they would doe what themselues listed The Apostle calleth this sinne a hard and irrepentant heart Rom. 2.4.5 and the despising of Gods bountifulnes patience and long suffering which is directly opposite to the obedience of the Gospell In the second place followeth disobedience Disobedience opposit to Gods will which is euery transgression of the morall law or of any other speciall precept Disobedience hath foure specialties 1. Vngodlines irreligion or prophanenes when men regarde not Gods worship but liue as if there were no God no heauen no diuell no hell no conscience of such Atheists the world hath millions who make no more account of Gods Sabbaths than of the market or faire no more reckoning of a sermon than of a fable of Esop that for gaining a peny sweare and forsweare and what not those impious wretches are more fearefull and damnable sinners than the world esteemeth them seeing they by their practise declare themselues directly to forget God who is then especially remembred Rom. 1.18 when hee is worshipped Against this sinne Gods wrath is reuealed from heauen 2. Vnrighteousnes or iniustice which is when any violence or wronge is offered to our neighbours person or gifts as his dignitie goods life or chastitie 3. Rebellion when men peremptorily resist Gods will knowne particularly and euidently vrged vpon their conscience or performe not obedience to a speciall precept Example hereof wee haue in Saul who was commaunded by God vtterly to destroy the Amalekites and all their goods now he saued Agag the King and the fattest of the sheepe and oxen and so flatly rebelled against this precept the punishment of this sinne was most fearefull vpon him which argueth the fearefulnes of the sinne And the Prophet Samuel saith 1. Sam. 15.23 that it is a sin as great as witchcraft or idolatrie and although now the Lord giueth no speciall precepts to men yet hee doth particularly vrge vpon the conscience of some men generall commaundements as when in the Ministerie of the word the spirit of God cryeth aloude in the heart of the drunkard to forsake his drunkennes and for that sinne hee is prickt in conscience and perswaded to forsake it the which sin if he still practise and doe not forsake then he rebelleth flatly against God and is obnoxious to a fearefull punishment 4. Vnfaithfulnes when men in their speciall callings doe not seeke Gods glory 1. Cor. 4.2 1. Cor. 10.31 nor the benefit of the Church or common-wealth or the good of some societie or when men liue idly or negligently This sinne the Apostle taxeth in the Thessalonians that they liued disorderly and in the Ephesians 2. Thes 3.6 ● Ephes 4.28 whom he termeth theeues for that they did not