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A13312	The ready path to the pleasant pasture of delitesome and eternall paradyse so called, bicause herein is declared how, and by what meanes, we shall easily obtayne the surprising pleasures of heauenly felicitie.	I. T. fl. 1570.; J. T.	1570 (1570)	STC 23621.5; ESTC S2915	39,568	120

our heauenly father and not to Aungels deade sainctes Deuils stocks stones or such lyke For it is written thou shalt worshippe the ●or● 〈◊〉 God and him onely shalt thou serne A●●●e God saith in Esay the .43 Ego sum ego sum c. I am I am and without me there is no sauiour And .45 Chapter A iust and sauing God there is none but I. And such places there are to be founde a great number which for breuitie sake I of purpose doe omitte partly bicause of the rude and simple peoples sake that they may the better remember these rules and partly bycause there is a notable treatise against the worshipping inuocation of saintes now extaunt wherin this question is fullye debated by Iohn Veron a worthye member of the Church of Christ 2 Secondly we must poure out oure supplications before God in all humilitie trusting fauourably to be accepted onely for the merites passion of Iesus Christ who is our onely satisfaction iustification and righteousnesse before the Lorde not for the worthinesse of our owne workes For Christ Iesus when we were accursed came downe from heauen to delyuer vs from the curse whervnto al we were subiect was 〈…〉 ●●crifice for our sinnes Wherevpo● 〈◊〉 ●●●h ye are saued by grace through ●●th and that not of our selues for it is the gift of God and commeth not of workes least any man should boast 3 Thirdely they which present themselues before God to request any thing of him must cast of all cruelty violence and oppression towardes other For in Esay 1. we read When you shall stretch out your handes I will turne mine eies from you and when you shal multiply your praiers I will not heare you sayth the Lorde For your hands be full of bloud Washe your selues and be cleane They must put all vnmercifulnesse out of their mindes For in the .xxj. of the Prouerbes it is written He that stoppeth his eare at the cry of the poore shall cry himselfe and not be heard This is plaine by the example of Lazarus and the riche Glutton They must plucke out of their hartes all enuye hatred malice and dissension they must forgiue the faultes of their brethren For Christ sayth When ye stande to praye forgiue your brothe● 〈…〉 haue anything against him 〈…〉 sixt of Mathew If you for● 〈…〉 euen from the bottome of your hart neyther shall your father which is in heauen forgiue you They must be humble and banishe away all pride or disdaine oute of the closet of their minde For Psalme 51 An humble and contrite heart God will not despise And Peter saith God resisteth the prowde giueth grace to the humble Examples hereof be the prowde Pharisey and poore Publicane in the gospell They must be sure stedfast and constaunt in fayth For it is said Let him aske in fayth doubting nothing Iacob 10. They must with harty sincere and true repentaunce bewayle their sinfull wickednesse and wicked wilfulnesse and haue an earnest desire to set forth the glorie of God to liue in due obedience to God and his gospell to subuert the raging affections of the corrupt fleshe vnto the heauenly pure and angelicall motions of the spirite they must be enflamed with a feruencie of spirite ioyned to continuance in supplication and not come 〈…〉 ●art and a babling 〈…〉 ●or chalenge the hart 〈…〉 and also ●●ou ●●ard apperance ●●●le●se both hast and mouth agrée ze●●●ly in one kinde of worship it cannot he pleasant vnto God nor Christ Where●●● is sayd of some this people honoreth me with their lips but their hart is farre from me Such God will spue out of hys mouth and vtterly refuse them Briefly these rules maye be thus concluded They which minde to obtayne their requestes when they yéelde vp their supplications must direct the same to God in the name of Christ Iesus but so that they themselues be in minde mercyfull in manners milde in loue charitable in affection amyable in fayth constant in lyfe obedient in spirite feruent and in hart repentaunt Nowe moreouer there be other circumstances which are to be annexed as when where for whom for what things with what iesture after what manner we ought to pray The circumstances ●●●h ought to be obserued in prayer beside the sixe rules The .xxv. Chapter FOr the first it is written indesinenter orat● pray continually that is whensoeuer you shall be assaulted with temptation eyther in prosperitie or in aduersitie call vpon God not that at all times without ceasing or intermission we should onely be occupied in prayer but that we should as godly men haue done before time appoint certayne tymes to poure out our complaintes before God also at other times in what thing soeuer we be occupied in spirite in truth in sighes in thought in worke in will call vpon God for the helpe of his grace and accesse of his mercie As the Ploughman at his labour the Marchaunt at his occupying the Scholer at his studie and so forth ought not onely at certaine houres giue himselfe to prayer but also when he is most occupied ought in he 〈…〉 with God through prayer in ●●●●es but especially in the church in the congregation of christians For when many togither in one spirit yéelde vp their prayers then are they moste acceptable to God and gracious to Christ our Sauiour 3 For the thirde we ought to praye for the good and prosperous estate of godlye Princes and magistrates and principallye it belongeth to our bounden duties to beseech God in the bowels of mercye to preserue for the glorye of his holy name our good and gracious soueraigne Ladie Quéene Elizabeth in these troublesome times from all daunger in most happie estate and felicitie which I beséech him to doe for Iesus Christ his sake in whome he is well pleased to the subuersion of hir enimies the mayntenaunce of true relygion and confusion of cursed Sathan Then we ought to pray for the good estate of Gods holy Ministers for our selues for 〈…〉 ●hey 〈…〉 flesh but 〈…〉 ●●e they be 〈…〉 out of the prison of the body For 〈◊〉 ●●ther they raigne with Christ or dye wy●h Deuilles where there is no redemption 4 For the fourth we may praye for things pertayning to the necessitie of the body and of the soule and for eternall saluation in Iesus Christ alwayes in all prayers hauing respect to our own selues and to the will of God that we aske nothing which eyther is not competent for our estate or not agreable to the glory of God. 5 For the fifte we may vse any comely iesture eyther knéeling or standing or sitting as present occasion shall moue vs so that we haue an humble minde and contrite hart in all our prayers 6 For the sixt we may vse the forme of prayer that Christ hath taught vs or any other not repugnaunt to the same or vse such wordes as the present estate wyll gyue occasion vnto as Christ did in the 〈…〉 ●s not alwayes ne● 〈…〉 ●●ng ●recisely that prayer 〈…〉 ●●mn● only called the lords pray●● 〈◊〉 or things as certayne circum●●●●es considered let vs now search out the effect of prayer which may easily be perceyued by examples taken out of scripture Iosuae 10. By prayer the Sunne stoode in the middle of heauen the space of a whole day Moyses by prayer wrought meruellous effectes Samson Samuel Elias Dauid Ezechias Salamon Anna Cornelius Paule and Silas wonderfullye preuayled by force of prayer as in scriptures manifestly is declared But of these things no man meanely conuersant in scriptures can be ignoraunt Therfore without longer discourse I will make an ende And here I beséeche thée good reader to call to minde the threates of God against obstinate sinners the plagues of God executed against rebellious persons the daungerous and miserable estate of harde harted christians and so perhaps thou shalt be touched with feare of anguishe and extreme misery Then ponder in thy minde wha● 〈…〉 hartie prayer wh● 〈…〉 hath prouided for them 〈…〉 ●ble suire to him in I●●● 〈…〉 eternall felicitie thou shalt enioy 〈◊〉 earnest supplication thou craue 〈◊〉 ●●nde his grace mercy And last of all in consideration of these things let prayer be thy continuall exercise and dayly practise For prayer is the quietnesse of them which be tormoyled the rest of them that are molested the hauen of them which suffer shipwracke the comfort of the sorowfull the salue of the sinfull the shielde of the fearefull the hope of the helpelesse the holde of the harbourlesse the helpe of the hopelesse the solace of the comfortlesse Prayer is in welth a safegarde in health a preseruatiue in griefe a gracious comfort in warre a sword in peace a garden of delites in bondage libertie in sorow swéetnesse in death lyfe in penurie a storehouse of all things necessarie And to conclude prayer is the readie path to the pleasaunt pasture of eternall Paradise FINIS The purpose of the Author Tomo 5. lib. De precatione Psalm 2. Num. 16. Exod. 14. Deut. 6. Math. 4. Ephe. Mar. 11. 1. Petr. 5. 〈…〉 great 〈…〉 ●●pe 〈…〉 are 〈◊〉 ●●las princely 〈◊〉 ●●de what foyzen fertyle springs 〈◊〉 from the learned skill ●f those that trauell earnestly to clyme Parnassus hill Beholde what youthfull yeres can doe through great studie and paine Beholde what knowledge tender age by labour can attaine This little booke so well compact deserueth worthy prayse Which the Authour hath published a mirror in these dayes A mirror yea a looking glasse for so I may him name Bycause by sacred scripture he his first attempt doth frame The stile of some is praysed much that fayned stories write Collected out of Poets workes for that they doe delite And please 〈…〉 who 〈…〉 Some 〈…〉 that 〈◊〉 some 〈…〉 Then wa● doth 〈◊〉 for due rewarde deserue that vertuously Doth vse his tallent which he hath obtayned painefully Eternall prayse as I doe iudge and fame that aye shall dure For vayne delites doe vanishe all when vertue shineth pure The worde of God mans soule doth féede the scripture bringeth light But fonde and foolish tales are naught Therfore as willeth right The Authors enterprise commende conceiue his good intent Commende his trauell which he hath in sacred scripture spent Then truly shall you stirre him vp as now he hath begonne So to procéede and faythfully this kinde of race to runne FINIS