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book_n	pray_v	prayer_n	read_v	2,590	5	6.8286	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54031	The consideration of a position concerning the Book of common-prayer as also of some particulars held forth for truths by one Edmund Elis, stiled a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ : with a warning of tender bowels to the rulers, teachers and people of this nation concerning their church and ministry : likewise a few words concerning the kingdom, laws and government of Christ in the heart and conscience, its inoffensiveness to all just laws and governments of the kingdoms of men / by Isaac Penington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1161; ESTC R28789	24,645	40

and in this is the Discovery of him and the Redemption from him And happy is he vvho is not defiled with Women but abideth in the true Virginity expecting and preparing for the appearance of the Bridegroom The CONSIDERATION of a POSITION concerning the Book of COMMON-PRAYER As also of some Particulars held forth for Truths c. THere is a Position laid down in some Printed Letters concerning the use of the Common-Prayer-Book tendred by one Edm. Elis who professeth himself to be a Minister of Jesus Christ to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Ford as he stileth them against which Position he entreateth me if I find upon my Spirit any thing to be objected against it to discover it in exact and punctual expressions This desire of his is set down in Print after the Letters His Position or Assertion is this That a man may Worship God in Spirit and in Truth in the use of that form of Prayer for Morning and Evening which we call the Common-Prayer Now whoever would weigh this Assertion aright must have the Ballance of the Sanctuary and must put it into the Scale with an equal hand and then looking with that eye which is given to see the Misteries of the Kingdom of God to him who is born of God the Truth or Error of it is easily discerned True Prayer is the breathing of the Child to the Father which begat it from the sence of its wants for the supply of those wants The Winde bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth So is every one that is born of the Spirit John 3.8 God by the Breath of his Spirit begets a man out of the Spirit and likeness of this World into his own image and likenesse He that is thus begotten wants Nourishment wants the Divine Warmth the Breasts of Consolation the Cloathing of the Spirit the Garment of Salvation wants the Bread of Life to feed on wants the Water of Life to drink wants strength against the enemies Assaults wisdom against his Snares and Temptations wants the arm of the Deliverer to preserve and carry on the work of Redemption daily wants Faith to deny the fleshly Wisdom that so he may Trust and Feel the Vertue of the Arm of the Deliverer wants Hope Patience Meeknesse a clear Guidance an upright Heart to follow after the Lord yea very many are the daily wants of that which is begotten by the Breath of God in its state of weaknesse until it be drawn up into the Unity of the Body where the full Communion with the Life is felt the Heart satisfied and the wants drowned Now the breathing of this Child to the Father from the sence of these wants for his Supply that 's Prayer nay though it be but a Groan or Sigh which cannot be uttered or expressed yet that 's Prayer true Prayer which hath an acceptance with the Lord and receiveth a Gracious Answer from him And he that begetteth the Child teacheth him to Pray even by the same Spirit which begat him In watching daily to the Spirit the Child is kept sensible of the Will of the Father and in his Light he sees the Way wherein he is to walk he sees also the Enemie when he is coming yea and the Snares he is privily laying and he feels his own weaknesse to withstand or escape And in this sence his Heart cries to the Father of Spirits for Preservation for him to stand by him for him to step in in the needful time even in the Season of Distress And thus watching to the Spirit the Life of a Christian is a continual course of Prayer He prayes continually This is the Living Prayer of the Living Child which consists not in a Form of Words either read out of a Book or conceived in the Mind but in feeling the Breath of its Nature issuing out from the Principle of Life in it to the Living Spring which is the Father of it who by causing his vertues to spring up in it nourisheth it to Everlasting Life But now man who is not born of the Spirit but by conceiving some of the Truths of God in the Wisdom from below hath attained to some change of Opinion and Conversation he pretends to be this Birth from above though indeed he is born but of Bloods or of the Will of the flesh or of the Will of Man John 1.13 and what God begets in and gives to his True Child he will be imitating though he be out of the Nature and Spirit where the True Child is begotten and where the True gift of the Father is received by him He will be believing though he hath not received any Proportion of the Living Faith from the Hand of the Father he will be forming Repentance and Sorrow for sin though his Heart be not turned from it he will be hoping in Gods Mercy although he be both from off the Foundation and from under the shadow of the Mercy-seat and he will be praying though he hath neither received the Spirit nor be taught by the Spirit to pray And so being from that which should guide him and teach him the truth and way of Worship as it is in Jesus he runs out into the inventions and imaginations and sets up a way of his own chusing which he having much considered of and beat out by reasonings and fenced about with Arguments he grows wise in his own eyes and now verily believes it to be the way of God and that he is able to maintain it against all opposers Thus one man he is for a Form another man he is against a Form and for conceived prayers and each think themselves able to maintain their own and to overthrow each other But Oh that that ear were open which can hear the truth that where there is any true honest upright desire after God from the simplicity of the heart it might not be thus betrayed through the subtilty of the fleshly wisdom which lies lurking in the wise reasoning knowing part to betray the poor weak Babe The natural man the reasoning man the understanding man the wise man according to the natural wisdom cannot understand the things of God Here 's no learning to pray aright to believe aright to hope aright to mourn aright to rejoyce aright c. But this wisdom must be brought to nothing 1 Cor. 1.19 and a man must become as a child to all knowledge as let in this way And he that so becomes a child is taught to pray to believe to wait to hope and all that is necessary to eternal life Now as the Father teacheth to pray so he giveth desires or words if he please according to the present need Sometimes he gives but ability to sigh or groan if he give no more he accepts that Sometimes he gives strong breathings and plenty of words to pour out the soul in before the Lord. But if a man should catch those words and lay