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A85035	A triple reconciler stating the controversies whether ministers have an exclusive power of communicants from the Sacrament. Any persons unordained may lawfully preach. The Lords prayer ought not to be used by all Christians. By Thomas Fuller, B.D.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2472; Thomason E1441_2; ESTC R202064	51,442	150

we now to answer those Cavils which this age hath devised against the Lords prayer a subject not unnecessary in our days Indeed when one had made a large discourse in the praise of Hercules and expected great commendation for the same his Audience onely answered his expectation with this question quis unquam vituperavit Herculem whosoever spake in the disparagement of Hercules Intimating thus much that his pains might very well be spared in a needless subject all the world acknowledging the worth and valour of Hercules The same will be said of the ensuing part of my sermon ut quid haec perditios what needeth this wast of words and time were ever any so impious so prophane as to doubt much less deny the divine inspiration and dayly necessary and profitable use of the Lords prayer Ans. Thirdly I believe it is almost unprecedented in former ages which maintained a constant reverence and esteem thereof as the Lords prayer and Lord of prayers But alas we are fallen into such an impudent age wherein many begin to slight it of whom I will say no more than this If they begin to think meanly of Gods prayer what cause hath God to think basely of theirs And now I remember what John the Baptist said to our Saviour Matth. 3. 14. I have need to be baptized of thee and comest thou to me In humble allusion whereunto I may say my prayers have need to come to Christ to mediate and intercede to God for them and to present them with his merits to the Throne of grace And now his prayer comes to me so the all disposing providence of God hath ordered the matter that in the prosecution of my Text I must be a weak Advocate in the defence thereof The best is it mattereth not who is the Pleader when God is the Clyent and what is wanting in my weakness and worthlesness will be abundantly supplyed in the might and merit of the subject which I undertake First it is objected that it is a set form of prayer and therefore doth pinnion and confine the wings of the Dove which ought to be at liberty and freedom to make choice of his own expression of it self It is said Rom. 8. 26. The spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered It is therefore presumption in man to make himself Gods Interpreter and to dictate those words whereby his Spirit is to impart and communicate it self to the Throne of grace It was charged on the Rebellious Israelites Psal. 8. 41. That they limited the holy one of Israel no better is their practice who offer to score out both the path pace to Gods Spirit in prayer by pre-designing the Numericall words which are to be used thereby Gods servants are said to be led by the spirit Ro. 8. 14. And so also if ye be led by the spirit Galatians 5. 18. But this is leading the spirit when men will guide their Conduct-our and draw up a set form whereby the same shall be directed Ans. That set forms are no restrainings of the holy Ghost in us appeareth by the practice of our Saviour himself Matth. 26. 44. And went away again and prayed the third time saying the same words namely the same words which he uttered the second time viz. O my Father if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink it thy will be done See we here he who made the tongue to speak who was the frauder and confounder of all languages who needed not by premeditation to press words for his service seeing millions of volunteeres proffered themselves to be used by him See I say him pleased notwithstanding to resume the same individual terms which he had uttered before Secondly next to our Saviour who may be presumed most able to pray then the High Priest Aaron and his two inspired Sons Eleazer and Phineas Yet God in their publick blessings left them not to the liberty of their own expressions Num. 6. 23. Speak unto Aaron and unto his Sons saying on this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel saying unto them the Lord bless thee and keep thee the Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace I confess they were not confined to these words on all ennergencies and occasions having the latitude allowed them that in the Temple they might varie from this form according to their own discretions Witness the blessing of Eli to Hannah 1 Sam. 1. 17. Go in peace and the God of Israel grant thee thy Petition which thou hast asked of him But otherwise God had ordered them not to decede from this form and as Moses was to make all things according to the pattern in the Mount Heb. 8. 5. So no doubt the Priests conformed themselves in their prayer to every word syllable and etter of Gods prescription neither detracting thence nor adding thereunto Thirdly the Ministers conceived prayer under the Gospel is a stinted and premeditated one to such people his Auditours who ay Amen thereunto Their fancies and which is more their hearts do or should go along with the Ministers words so that he boundeth their meditations Hither shall they come and no further If any say that notwithstanding this Obligation to the words of the Minister they may make their own Salleys and excursions by Gods spirit in their hearts to enlarge themselves and as it were to comment in their sighs and groans on the Text of the prayers of their Ministers it is said that no less liberty is allowed them in all premeditate forms of prayer where on the plain song of the set words the devotion of their hearts may descant to their own spiritual contentment Fourthly none will deny but Songs and Hymns are prayers of thanksgiving both those which David made in the Old Testament and those that were used by Christians in the Primitive times Ephes. 5. 19. Speaking to your selves in Hymns and spiritual songs Colos. 3. 26. Admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual songs Now surely such Ditties would be bad and Notes worse and the Harmonie rather ridiculous to move laughter than melodious to raise Devotions if the singers thereof were not predirected to the very words and syllables of what they sung and chanted in the Church Excellent was the expression of Doctor Preston in point of preaching and is applyable equally to prayer He would have a Minister take such pains in studying his sermon as if he relyed not only on Gods assistance but when he cometh to preach the same so wholly to cast himself on divine asisstance as if he relyed not at all on his own studies Proportionable whereto a Christian soul may compile and compose his prayer as trusting nothing to the Spirit and yet in the minute of the utterance thereof to God so quit and renounce all efficacie of premeditation as consisting onely in the concurrence of Gods

with a Commission to preach Surely the Rulers presumed on their modestie and humilitie that they would decline the proffer seeing in that Age none adventured to teach without lawfull authoritie as largely God willing shall be proved hereafter Mean time let us proceed to the Collection of some natural observations from the words After the reading of the Law and the Prophets Doct. 1. It is good reason that Gods word in the Church should have precedency of mens meditations For Gods word is all gold and prized above it by David Psal. 19. 10. the best mens meditations but silver and guilt and that silver having much allay therein which debaseth the metal though it maketh it to work the better to mens understandings rendering the sublime puritie of Gods word more easie and intelligible when expounded explained and applied by the pains and endeavours of Ministers Wherefore as the Master of the Feast John 2. would have the best wine brought first and then what was worse So fit it is that the virgin attentions of the people in the Church should first be fed with the pure and sincere word of God as it is in the Text and afterwards their appetites may be entertained with less daintie diet the sermons and studies of their Ministers Doct. 2. It was an ancient custome in the Church that Gods word was publickly read therein And here let us endeavour to raise the just reputation of the word publickly read some conceive that the Word preached is as much holyer than the Word read as the Pulpit is higher than the Desk Yea such will say my self or son or servant can read a Chapter as well at home as any the most accomplished Minister in England But let such know that he which doth not honor all doth not honor any of Gods ordinances it is just with God that preaching of the Word should prove uneffectual to such as slight and neglect the reading thereof Doct. 3. Blessed be the goodness of God who hath bettered the Bill of fare of Christians by allowing our souls a second Course of the New Testament And properly may the New Testament be termed a second course which commonly hath dishes fewer than the first for there quantitie finer for the qualitie of the meat and here far be it from me to make comparisons which are odious in themselves and so much the more odious the more eminent the persons or things are that be compared betwixt the Old and New Testament As Moses in holy zeal by clashing the first Table against the second brake both so some prophanely despightfully abuse Old and New Testament about preeminence betwixt them But acknowledging them both best in this respect as to us the New Testament excels as far as a blessing performed is better than a blessing promised and a Saviour tendered in possession more comfort than in reversion The Rulers of the Synagogue Doct. 4. No considerable societie can long comfortably subsist without some government to order the same Ten are but a few men yet Moses by the Counsel of wise Jethro his Father in Law Exod. 18. 25. made Rulers of tens Better is a Tyranny than an Anarchie for where every man doth what is good in his own eyes where there is equalitie amongst all there will be equitie but amongst few men Doct. 5. It is lawfull for Ministers to make use of the help of others not onely in their sickness and necessarie absence but also when their own persons are present First because we must as well mend our nets as always catch fishes as well studie for new supply as always preach And seeing nature hath given us as well two ears as a tongue we must as attentively listen to the parts and pains of others as contentedly utter our own meditations Secondly such varietie will not onely be pleasant but profitable to our people In the mouth of two or three witnesses let every truth be established When the People shall hear the same matter in a different manner one truth Salvation by Gods mercies alone and Christs merits dressed in several motives and methods and expressions The nails will be driven the faster by many Masters of the Assembly and though it be faultie for itching ears to heap up Teachers to themselves yet sometimes such exchange of Preachers increase the edification of an Auditorie Doct. 6. They may have courtesie and civilitie in them who notwithstanding may be devoid of grace and true sinceritie These Masters of the Synagogue began very mannerly proffer Paul and Barnabas the courtesie of the place but all ended at last in blasphemie and persecution Doct. 7. None are to preach but such who are lawfully called thereunto The Rulers of the Synagogue gave a licence to Paul and Barnabas who intrude not without their leave and desire How many now a days in despight of the Rulers of the Synagogues the undoubted Patron the lawfull Incumbent the Guardians of the Church publickly chosen storm the Pulpit by their meer violence without any other Call or Commission thereunto Be it first premised that we protest our Integritie not to invade the due Right of any Christian with Abraham Gen. 14. 23. We will not take a shoo-latchet which is none of our own To which purpose we lay down the following Rules allowing as much libertie as may be to all Gods servants First Parents Masters of Families may and must privately teach their own Children and Servants Teach them and thou shalt be taught Instruct them and God will instruct thee never had Abram in all probabilitie so soon known Gods intentions to destroy Sodom but because Gen. 18. 19. he would command his children to keep the Law of God Even Mothers ought to do this who have a legislative power over their Sons Prov. 1. 8. Forsake not the law of thy Mother It is remarkable that great grace which God did to a Mother that her private precepts namely Bathsheba to her Son Lemuel Prov. 31. were afterward made Canonical Scripture for Gods whole Church Yet let me advise Parents when modestly undertaking in their own houses to explain Scripture not to make fountain but Cistern expositions thereof viz. not to be the inventers but the declarers not the devisers but the remembrancers of inter pretations Children and servants I have heard such a godly Preacher or have read in such a learned comment thus to expound this passage of Scripture But if he should adventure of himself to tender unto them an explication let it be done with an humble reservation and submission to the better judgements of those whose proper profession it is to expound the same Hoever he may more safely deal in Application than in Explication of Gods word the general precepts promises and threatenings whereof he may effectually applly to himself and those of his familie under his inspection Secondly Judges on the Bench may and must in their charges teach the Countie there assembled inserting Scripture in their discourses such