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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45346	A sermon preach'd before Her Majesty the Queen Dowager in her chappel at Somerset-House, upon the fifth Sunday after Easter, May 9, 1686 / by William Hall.	Hall, William, d. 1718?	1686 (1686)	Wing H447; ESTC R30723	19,128	42

into Heaven and prepare us to entertain that supreme Author of all Sanctity and Grace the Third Person of the ever Blessed Trinity who descended upon the Apostles in fiery Tongues and will come to enflame our Souls with the fire of Love but during also the series or continuance of your Days to the end that by addicting your selves to an Employment as necessary as advantageous to a Christian your joy may be full Vt gaudium vestrum sit plenum To this purpose I design God willing this day to set before you in the First Part of my Discourse the Excellency of Prayer together with the Advantages you may reap from it In the Second the absolute Necessity of Prayer with a short Method how to Pray as we ought Amen Amen si quid petieritis Patrem in nomine meo dabit vobis c. Amen Amen I say to you if you shall ask the Father any thing in my Name he will give it you Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full But that God may bless and crown my Endeavours that he may seal this solemn Promise of granting what we ask and make it good in My behalf I must desire you to joyn your Prayers with mine that what I shall say may be to his Honour and Glory to the good of all our Souls And to this end let us with our best Devotion implore his Divine Assistance by the Intercession of the most Holy Virgin-Mother AVE MARIA c. I Am throughly persuaded D.A. that there cannot be given a more elevated Idea of the Excellency of Prayer then by shewing 1. That it came from Heaven 2. That it conducts us to Heaven 3. That it makes us find Heaven upon Earth 1. It came from Heaven where it was even before the Heavens before those material Orbs that now rowl over us were call'd from the dark and profound Abyss of unessential Nothing Before the Angels were establish'd in Glory God himself was taken up with Prayer not as the word commonly signifies with us Petition or Impetration in as much as that Supreme and Independent Being could neither Pray in this Sense to others or make such Addresses to it self His Prayer was the Contemplation of his own Divine Essence His Prayer was that Expression or Consubstantial Word which from all Eternity as an Eternal Coeternal Beam shone from the Father His Prayer was and is a Reflection upon his own unlimited Perfections in that compleat Resemblance of himself his Son When this Word descended from the Bosom of his Eternal Father without either Change or Separation to cloath himself with our Flesh in the chast Womb of the Virgin-Mother I find he came among us to teach us what he put in practice himself the holy Exercise of Prayer It is written of his House that it is to be Consecrated to Divine Service or Prayer Domus mea Domus Orationis vocabitur And which was his first House but the Womb of his Virgin-Mother where he dwelt nine Months in that divine Employment The first Chapter of his Prayer-Book or first Lesson he read was to comply with the sacred Decrees with the holy Will of his Eternal Father as the Royal Prophet says of him Psal 40.10 In capite Libri scriptum est de me c. In the beginning of the Book it is written of me that I should do thy will I 'le follow thy Orders my God I 'le engrave thy Law in the middle of my Heart When he came into the World at the appointed time he employ'd in that holy Exercise of Prayer the space of Thirty Years This Light of the World shed not a Beam upon benighted Man he broke not from the sacred Cloud whereinto he had retir'd Nubes latibulum ejus till the Revolution of that time was ended And as if he thought it not enough to spend whole Thirty Years under the Roof of Mary he repairs to a Desert a lonely and melancholly Desert where for Forty Days and Forty Nights not granting his Body the satisfaction of the least Repast free from the noise and bustle of the World he is totally addicted to Contemplation Our B. Saviour was as well God as Man he needed not by consequence a private House or Desert to become more recollected more retir'd 't was to give us an Example to teach us where we ought to Pray that he chose those solitary Places 't was to encourage us to an imitation of his holy Life to render our Prayers more efficacious more meritorious he selected such Conveniences as might be an help to our Prayers Methinks he acquaints us with his divine Intentions from the Desert with an Exemplum dedi vobis I have given you an Example that you do as I have done Ah! my Lord 't is too much honour for such poor Creatures as we are to be permitted to address our Prayers to thee but what a happiness is it to be invited to Pray in Company with our God When he left the Desert he left not the practice of Prayer he quitted not this sacred Employment in the midst of the most pressing Concerns of his Mission And altho' he equally Pray'd in all Places and at all Times the Evangelists have taken a particular care to acquaint us that after he had labour'd and toyl'd all the Day in Preaching Teaching and inviting Sinners to a sincere Repentance he employ'd the most part of the Night in the Practice of Prayer Erat pernoctans in oratione Dei As he liv'd in a continual Exercise of Prayer he expir'd upon the Cross as we may say in the Arms of Prayer he consecrated to that purpose the three last hours of his Life he drew the Curtains of the Night upon the face of this World he shrowded it with darkness more seasonable more proper for Prayer Ah what comfort must a serious Meditation upon those three last mysterious Hours our B. Saviour was dying in upon the Cross bring to the Soul of a repenting Sinner He made there an Application of his most bitter Passion of his most dolorous Crucifixion of his most painful Death to the Distempers of our diseased Hearts He Prayed then that as the whole Series of his Life was spun out for our Good for our Instruction so his Death for our sakes might conduce to the entire Remission of our Sins He offer'd the infinite Price of his inestimable Blood for the Redemption of Mankind He begg'd of his Eternal Father to cancel the Debts we had contracted to blot out of his remembrance our Transgressions at the same time that he interceded at the Throne of his Mercy for the blind and ungrateful Jews Pater ignosce illis quia nesciunt quid faciunt Nor may we doubt but as he pour'd forth his Soul in Prayer with his last Breath saying to his Eternal Father Into thy hands I commend my spirit so he bequeathed the Spirit of Prayer as a Legacy to us both to