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Abba father: or, a plaine and short direction concerning priuate prayer Also, sundry godly admonitions concerning time, and the well vsing of it. By Elnathan Parr, minister of the word.
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Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.
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if we begge for grace to obey God according to his commaÌ„dements thus O that my waies were directed to keepe thy statutes h Psal 119.5 5 Vowes and promises thus i Psal 51.12.13 Restore vnto me the ioy of thy saluation and vphold mee with thy free Spirit Then will I teach transgressors thy waies c. And againe k Vers 14. Deliuer mee O God and my â—ongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousnesse And againe l Vers 15. O Lord open thou my lippes my mouth shal shew forth day praise So also m Psal 119.33.34 Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I will keepe it vnto the end Giue mee vnderstanding and I will keepe thy Law yea I will obserue it with my whole heart 6 Ingeminations thus Dauid also prayeth n Psal 94.1.2 O Lord God the Auenger O God the Auenger shew thy selfe exalt thy selfe O Iudge of the world c. And diuers others of this nature which a deuout hart will easily find out and to this purpose I am perswaded it s very helpesfull to be familiarly conuersant in the Psalmes because Dauid was a man of all other of inflamed affectionâ— and most excelling this way Hee that desires to make trial of this plaine direction and to profit by it may be much holpen by two things 1. Let him indeuour soundly to vnderstand the principles of Religion or else he shall neuer be able to tell what to aske of God 2 Secondly if he can write let him make a book of clean paper and in sundry leaues write in the top the particular parts of prayer with their seuerall branches allowing a whole leafe to each part branch and then whatsoeuer excellent speciall phrase or sentence hee readeth or heareth of any of those parts or branches let him referre it to his proper leafe and place Which course if it bee taken and these plaâ—â—s diligently studied and now and then reuised read ouer wil in my opinion much enable a man vpon any occasion to pray with vnderstanding either alone or with others to their desired comfort If any shall think this way to be too busie and to require too much paines I desire them to remember that no excellent thing can be attained without labour which how great soeuer it should be should not be grutched for the attaining a faculty in this exercise which is the refuge and refreshing of the soule one of the chiefest pieces of a Christians armour o Ephes 5.18 and the meanes whereby all good things are sanctified to our comfortable vse p 1 Tim. 4.5 Seuen yeere is holden but a conuenient terme to learne the children of men earthly manuall trades let not the childe of God account twice so long time to be too much to learne the heauenly Art of outward crying Abba Father Here follow some exampâ—â— of the rules of generall 〈◊〉 particular enlargement â—â—fore deliuered for a taste to a young beginner The general enlargement from a descriptâ—â— of God Description from and begging of Audience thus O q Title Almighty God the r Effect Creatour of heauen and earth and my most mercifull Å¿ Title Father in Iesus Christ which hast gratiously t Promise promised to heare thy children when they pray vnto thee O u Begging of Audience Lord I beseech thee accept heare and grant â—â—e supplication of thy â—â—ruant by Iesus Christ 〈◊〉 such like Examples of particular enlargement 1 Confession of sin may be enlarged first â—y the Adiunct 1. The adi iunct secondly by a distribution of sinne thirdly by the effects c. Thus O Lord I confesse that I am a vile sinner First being ashamed to look vp vnto heauen and vnworthy to liue vpon earth Secondly 2. Distribution for I am guilty of the sinne of Adam and more also I haue committed actuall transgressions without number in breaking thy most holy commandements omitting my duty and doing the contrary many sinnes of ignorance which I pleade not to excuse but to condemne my self who ought to haue knowne thy will and often of knowledge which wounds my soule to remember Thirdly 2. Effect O Lord in thy iustice I haue deferued such plagues both bodily and spirituall temporall and eternall which thy righteous omnipotency can inflict vpon abominable sinners Or such like 2 Petition for pardon may be enlarged First by an ingemination Secondly by the effects adorned with exclamation Thirdly by the contrary Fourthly by a testimony adorned with inrerrogation Fifthly by the meritorious cause Thus. First 1. Ingemination O Lord pardon O Lord forgiue O Lord be mercifull Secondly 2. Effects with exclamation blessed is the man whose iniquity is forgiuen and whose sinne is couered Blessed is the man that obtaineth thy fauour Thirdly 3. Contraries O Lord enter not into iudgement with thy seruant reward mee not according to my ill deseruing Turne away thine anger and make thy ioyfull countenance shine into my soule Fourthly 4. Testimony with interrogation is it not thy promise to pardon sinners that seeke thy fauour and to helpe them which call vpon thee O make good thy promise vnto thy seruant Deare Father for Iesus Christ his sake Fifthly 5. Meritorious cause remember his obedience his passion his blood the price wherby I am ransomed and bee reconciled remitting all mine offences or such like 2 Petition for faith may be enlarged First from the efficient cause Secondly from the contrary Thirdly from the effects adorned with vowing c. Thus First 1. Efficient cause O Lord I beseech thee worke in me by thy holy Spirit faith to beleeue the pardon of my sinnes It is not in my power to beleeue it must be thy worke in my soule Secondly 2 Contrary make mee to belieue good Father and helpe my vnbeliefe Thirdly 3. Effect with vowing grant mee a feeling of thy loue in my heart and that peace which passeth all vnderstanding then will I confidently come before thee and praise thee with ioyfull lips or such like 3 Petition for repentance may be enlarged First from the cause Secondly from a distribution adorned with exclamation Thirdly from the contrarie Fourthly from a comparison Thus First holy Father 1. The cause grant that my faith may shew it selfe in the sanctification of my life Secondly 2. Distribution with exclamation and to this end I humbly beseech thee renew in mee thy decaied image and giue me true repentance that I may turne from all my sinnes to serue thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of my life Make me to vnderstand mine owne vilenesse that I may earnestly pray for renouatioÌ„ Ah wretch that I am though I know my selfe to be an horrible sinner and that I haue tenne thousand times deserued damnation yet such is the flintinesse of my heart that I am not sensible of my dangerous and fearefull estate Thirdly 3.
Contrary Abba Father all things are possible to thee manifest I pray thee thy gracious power vpon my heart in mollifying the hardnesse of it Make me to relent and to haue remorse Worke in mee a godly sorrow and such hatred of all sinne that I may for euer abominate it Fourthly 4. Comparison and grant deare Father that I may be able as zealously to follow thy commandements as euer I haue delightfully followed and fulfilled mine owne vnlawfull desires or such like 4 Petition for direction in our personall calling may bee enlarged First from the cause Secondly from the contrarie Thirdly froÌ„ the effect Fourthly from the Adiunct thus First O Lord in as much as thou hast ordained that wee should all liue in some honest calling and that therein wee should shew forth our faith and holy profession I humbly intreat thee to direct me in this my vocation ... Secondly Lord make me conscionable and to abhorre idlenesse Blesse my labours grant that the world carrie not away my heart but that I may so care for the things of this life that I forget not that I am called to thy Kingdome O make me so to liue as one who through thy goodnesse expects that heauenly inheritance Thirdly let my life bee to thy glory the good of others and mine owne eternall comfort Fourthly and in as much as thou hast appointed the Crosse to thy Disciples I beseech thee to sanctifie whatsoeuer trouble it shall please thee to lay vpon me and to giue me patience and such contentednesse with thy holy will that it may not draw me from thee but vnto thee and that vnder the same I may haue cause to reioyce in the experience of thy fauors through Iesus Christ my Lord or such like 5 Petition for perseuerance may be enlarged 1 From the cause 2 From the adiunct 3 From the contraries when speciall instance may bee made of that speciall corruption which we are most subiect vnto thus 1 O Lord let it bee thy good pleasure 1. Cause continually to watch ouer me and to preserue me in the zealous performance of my duty to the end of my daies which without thy helpe I cannot doe 2 For the daies are euill and dangerous 2. Adiunct the occasions and examples of sinne are infinite Lord keepe mee in the faith that I fall not away and preserue mee from the sinnes of these times 3 And more then this 3. Contrary Satan is my deadly enemie seeking to deuoure my soule and I am weake O Lord thou knowest Deare Father confound Satan and confirme my faith so bridle him that he may not haue power ouer me so strengthen mee that I may bee alwaies able to resist and repell him when thou shalt thinke it good to suffer him to tempt mee O Lord forsake mee not faile not of thy promised helpe that I may not faile in my faith and obedience make mee to preuaile and by the might of thy spirit to haue victory in Iesus Christ And whereas I am compassed about with many infirmities specially with ... O Deare God and Father strengthen me here and giue mee power to rule and gouerne my affections and to subdue them all to the obedience of thy holy word through Iesus Christ my Lord. Or such like 6 Petition for the Church may bee enlarged 1 Generally 2 Particularly 1 Generally by desiring the fulfilling of all the promises made vnto it as 1. Defence 2 Destruction of enemies 3 Conuersion of the elect 4 Confirmation of the conuerted 5 Comfort of the afflicted by Common calamities of Body Mind Speciall as persention In affliction of body as sicknesse 1 That God would sanctisie it to the furtherance of their repentance 2 That hee would giue them patience 3 That he would recouer them if it bee his will if otherwise 4 That hee would prepare theÌ„ for a peaceable departure In affliction of mind that God would 1 Pardon their sins 2 Giue them repentance 3 Encrease their faith 4 Defend them from Satan and 5 Giue them an happy issue In Persecution that they may be 1 Assisted with the holy spirit and that they may 2 Boldly glorifie God in witnessing to the truth euen with the losse of their liues 2 Particularly by making mention of the Churches of England Scotland and Ireland that God would 1 Pardon our crying sinnes 2 Hold backe his heauie iudgements deserued 3 Continue his Gospell 4 Preserue our dread Soueraigne Lord King Iames our Noble Queen the hopefull Prince 〈◊〉 c. 5 Blesse the Honourable Councell Nobility Gentry Iudges Iustices the Ministers of the Word and Sacraments the Comminalty And here we are to remember our families parents friends yea our very enemies c. 2 Thankes-giuing may be enlarged by an enumeration of benefits according to the distribution of them before meÌ„tioned and may be notably amplified by the contraries in considering how miserable wee should be in the want of those blessings all or some c. In the conclusion we may remember to aske preseruation for the day or night followingâ— aptly falling into it 〈◊〉 from the mention of the benefits bestowed vpon our bodies in the thankes-giuing 1 For the day taking occasion by similituder to desire grace to walke soberly as in the day 2 For the night by similitude to desire to be preserued from the works of darknesse and from eternall death and that God would giue protection and comfortable refreshing Both for night and day to bee amplified from the shortnesse of â—ife and suddennesse of death and to adde something for preparation thereunto For the life of a Christian â—ought to be a continuâ—ll meditation of death And thus reuerently to shut vp all with the Lords prayer A SHORT PRAIER according to the same order gathered out of diuers places of holy Scripture by which as by a pâ—terne may bee conceiued both the manner and the vse of a Note-booke to be made and kept of those things which we reade concerning the seuerall parts of Prayer O a The preface in a description of God and a begging of audience Lord my God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ b Ephes 3.14 I beseech thee haue respect to the prayer of thy seruant and to his supplication to hearken to the cry and to the prayer which thy seruant prayeth before thee this day c 1. Kin. 8.28 d Confession of sinne O my God I am ashamed and blush to lift vp my face to thee my God for â—ine iniquities are encreased ouer my head and my trespasse is growne vp vnto heauen e Ezra 9.6 f 1. Petition for pardon O Lord forgiue g Dan. 9.19 and cause thy face to shine vpon thy seruant for the Lords sake h Dan. 9.17 Take away all mine iniquitie and receiue me graciously so will I render the calues of my lips i Hos 14.3 k 2. For saith O stir me vp to take hold vpon thee l Esa