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book_n	old_a	prophet_n	testament_n	5,085	5	8.1969	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25464	Pater noster, Our Father, or, The Lord's prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture, history, and fathers, methodically cleared and succinctly opened at Edinburgh / by Will Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1670 (1670)	Wing A3223; ESTC R27650	279,663	493

his Dog or as a Physitian beholding faciem Hypocraticam on his patient a deadly countenance orders him to be pleased in all things there being no hopes of recovery so riches may be given even to fatnesse untill the man have collops of fat upon his flanks yet wanting Gods presence they have no blessing which prayer procureth yea importuneth Behold Davids Throne Endors Air Nabals Mutton Ehuds Parlour Araunahs Barn and Tyres Ships if they want God are unhappy where contrarily Iacobs stone Iobs Dung hill Ieremiahs Pit Daniels Den Pauls Prison Silas Stocks having God are comfortable retirements It is a good observe of our Royal Interpreter that though we abound in all kinds of flesh or sowl yet cheap or dear years are so accounted from the abundance or scarcety of Corn that being called victual à victu because we feed upon it as if all other dishes were but as sawce to this and yet even that without our Fathers favour and good liking is but a killing portion Holy Augustin opening the miracle of the Loaves calleth the five loaves the old Law or the five Books of Moses and the two fishes either the Doctrine of the Prophets and the Baptist or both the Old and New Testaments the grasse upon which the multitude sat signifies the slighting of all things earthly It is to be wondered that our Saviours giving of thanks was not heeded yet that may be included in the two Testaments for without an allegory it is a character of the blessed man that be meditates in the Law of God the blessed consequence whereof is that what soever he doth shall prosper 2. That poverty ought to provoke prayer The young Ravens when forsaken either through the negligence sorgetfulnesse or foolishnesse of the old because of their whitenesse cry unto God for food and hath it whether by creating vermine for them out of their own dung I know not but it is sure they receive meat and shall man despond the needy man conceit himself forsaken For in this sense this is the poor mans prayer The Monkish vow of poverty is against the Law of Nature though they should keep it and also of Religion both allowing us with Ionathan to taste honey lest we faint and with Isaac to dig wells to procure water and seing to eat grasse like the Oxe is not our bread but our curse we may and ought with Abel to plow against hunger and here to pray for a dayes sufficiency of bread Besides Oeconomick there is a Politick or natural poverty as blindnesse lamenesse sicknesse madnesse against all which intensnesse in Prayer is necessary But particularly to keep more closs to our Text against poverty and want or scarcety of bread For 1. It is to the best of men a great temptation to evil Agur praying against it urgeth two arguments 1. Least he should steal an ordinary effect of want 2. Lest he should take the Name of God in vain an effect of theft in the Jewish Law for in want of clear probation the suspected purged himself by oath and was acquitted from restitution Therefore as in want of bread our Saviour was tempted to distrust so in Agur it might occasion perjury and theft as in the Levit it did arrogancy and idolatry so every way is it to be prayed against 2. It is oft trod upon by men and this breeds ill blood The former note produced ill thoughts against Gods Law this eyes ungodly speeches against man When David is become like an Owl it may cause much mischief to whoot at him as is evident in his design against Nabal and when Daniel the Prince is called Daniel of the captivity upbraiding him with his thraldome he is a Daniel who can sustain the affront and bridle his tongue not answering the taunt Quid enim paupertas for what is poverty but a certain deformed leannesse or plenty but a certain f●●nesse and how hard is it for the fat not to point at and shame the poor and the lean again since a worm will wriggle when trod upon to envy malign and to his power bite the very nose from the face of him whom Parasites or Smell-feasts call beautifull Yet noli flere weep not poor man if God hath given thee this gift for poverty is his donation he will if it be imbraced give many blessings A father a mother will dandle most their blind their lame their diseased child The three Children fed on Pulse and drank Water yet were not sindged in the fiery furnace when those who it may be did eat of the Kings meat were immediatly consumed Grata paupertas patient poverty is so acceptable to God that chooseth rather to be at course fare then to countenance Herods i. e. the oppressours bloody banquet And his company shall make thy quarter-loaf of the nature of the Tarentines feast Quod jejunium appellabant for they when besiedged were by the Rhegians supported and supplied by food which by publick Edict was spared in fasting each tenth day and this succour was so happy as to cause the Romanes raise their siedge in grateful memory whereof the Tarentines kept a feast which they called a Fast and such a feast doth the holy poor continually celebrat having fellowship with the Father and the Son which Son our Iesus undertaking to deliver man abhorred not a poor Virgins womb choosing not the belly of a rich great or full sed Queen and when born slighted the Pallice the Downy Bed the fine Linnen of Egypt and imbraced the Manger yea in life had poor Fisher-men his attendants and after his ascension appointed them not grandees to be his Ambassadours to reconcile the greatest to their God who are commanded to be poor in spirit so highly doth the contempt of this world please him True riches being neither Gold Silver nor p●eciou● Jewels but Vertue and the peace of a good Conscience which rich men often wanting occasioned this Provech viz The rich is either a wicked man or a wicked mans heir Thou art not yet so poor as thou was born being then in greater indigency then ever poveity it self can redact thee unto yet then God supplied thee with food convenient which did make firm thy flesh though slubbry and consolidat thy bones though brittle and see we not the poor to have generally sounder bodies comlier faces fairer children then the rich accommodat thy self therefore to thy necessity as the Philosopher advised and be wise knowing there is a providence in all things and a blessing for the true observer Heliogabulus caused mens flesh to be sacrificed upon his altars to his heathen gods and the beholding of the treats of some might make the poor man conjecture his own samished table to be a curse unto his house but if he reflect upon the lives of them who by oppression gripping and crushing is put out to make up these culinary offerings