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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

on his own charges and thence concludeth verse 14. Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel Which words if perused with unpartial eyes they set up a partition betwixt the two callings as not then concurring in the same persons And here take notice of a strange and incredible alteration within this last ten years in England that either men are suddenly grown more able than before or else the Ministry is become more easie than in former ages Some ten years since when those of the Clergy were excluded the Commission of the peace this principall reason is rendered in the Act why ministers should not be admitted Justices of the Peace because preaching of the word is enough to take up the whole man so that they must be wanting to the calling of their ministeriall function if attending at the same time another employment And yet see now on a suddain some conceive themselves able sufficiently to follow a manual trade all the weeke and also qualified for preaching on the Lords day after I say again either men in our age are mounted on a suddain to be more dextrous and knowing or the ministery is stooped to be more facile and obvious or which I fear is the truest men are grown more daring impudent and prophane than in the days of our Fathers Oh let such remember what is written in the Prophetical Epistle of St. Jude placed last and next to the Revelation as containing the prediction of such things as should happen in the Church towards the end of the world vers. 11. and perished in the gain-saying of Korah What gain-saying this was we all know Num. 16. 4. partly consisting in challenging Moses and Aaron to take too much upon them partly in presuming to perform the High Priests office Their perishing also is notoriously known the earth swallowing them up and this excellent note deserveth our best heed in it because stragling out of the body of that History Num. 26. 11. notwithstanding the Children of Korah dyed not God in like manner no doubt may and will out of pity preserve the Children of Korah such seduced persons whose simplicity is practised on by the subtility of others but oh let those look to it who are Ringleaders herein that Gods justice may be no looser in the main he will take off from the children and lay load on the Fathers Pardon well meaning persons imposed on by others and severely censure their Conductours if not seasonably compounded with him by serious repentance And here I request the unpartial Reader seriously to peruse the following passage being the words of Mr. Bilney at the stake as he stood ready to seal the truth with his blood Having made a brief repetition of the Articles of his faith coming to these words I believe the Catholick Church paused awhile then proceeded Good people I must here confess to have offended the Church in preaching once against the prohibition of the same at a poor Cure belonging to Trinity Hall in Cambridge where I was Fellow earnestly intreated thereunto by the Curate and other good people of the Parish shewing that they had no sermon there of long time before and so in my conscience moved I did make a poor collation to them and thereby ran into the disobedience of certain authority in the Church by whom I was prohibited Howbeit I trust at the general day charity that moved me to this Act shall bear me out at the Judgement-seat of God Many things herein are considerable First Bilney at this time was a Master of Arts at least and able to discharge the place Secondly being Fellow of that Colledge which was Patron to the Church he had some obligation in conscience to see the place provided for Thirdly invited by the Curate and the Parish it seemeth to amount to a sufficient calling Lastly the long want of the Word in that place might make him compassionate their condition Notwithstanding this four-fold-cable to draw on Bilney to this performance he saith he did it but once he made not a common and constant practice thereof Secondly he did not please or delight himself in the memory of what he had done nor maketh he mention thereof in a rejoycing much less in a bragging manner but onely by way of necessary excuse as somewhat troubled at the deed done but hoping as well he might that God beholding the act as qualified with the aforesaid circumstances and proceeding from a pious intention would acquit him from any guilt therein Let such lay this to their hearts who wanting the tithe of Bilney his ability undesired by the Minister of the place yea sometimes against his will do not with Bilney but once but make an usual practice and common custom to preach against the prohibition of the Church whose ancient Canons have ordered it that none except Probationers by way of Trial may preach the word It is to be feared that many who run before Bilney into the Pulpit will scarce halt after him to follow him to the stake However let us Ministers make a scrutiny in our own souls what may be the reason that we are fallen into such disgrace So that God in his justice hath permitted our function formerly fenced about from common feet with an awfull reverence now for any to enter upon it Psal. 80. 12. Why hast thou broken down our hedges hast broken them that is hast permitted others to break them Sure something is in it more than we ministers generally take notice of that God hath exposed us and our calling to contempt Tully in his first Oration against Catilin being himself then Consul of Rome inquiring into the causes of the many distempers and distractions of the state and the presumption of bold persons to disturbe the same ingenuously confesseth nos nos dico aperte consules desumus We we speaking of Mark Anthony and himself we Generals are wanting in our places In like manner we may say nos sacerdotes Presbiteri Ministri how would we be tearmed nos dico aperte desumus We Priests and Ministers are wanting to God or to our selves or to our Congregation or to all that God in his just judgement deals with us as with Israel 2 Kings 10. 32. begins to cut us short pareth us in our Profession abateth us in our honour diminisheth us in our dignity Let us search out the cause diligently and having found it zealously endeavour to remove it otherwise if we honour God he will honour us but if we proceed in our sins he will proceed to pour more shame and disgrace upon us till our calling whose reputation begins daily to lessen become at last though to the confusion of such as contemn it a very shame and reproach And now I trust that none can take just exception at what I have freely but without spleen or malice spoken of the blame worthy practices of such who intrude themselves into our Profession having