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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86083	The Lords Prayer unclasped: with a vindication of it, against all [brace] schismatics. Hereticks, cal'd [brace] enthusiasts. Fratra cilli. / By James Harwood, B.D.	Harwood, James.	1654 (1654)	Wing H1098; Thomason E1497_1; ESTC R208634	132,974	361

Of all kinde of pictures Nebuchaanezars whose head was of gold armes of filver belly of brasse legs of iron feet of clay The Ferriman rowes one way looks another way It 's commendable in his sea-calling not in the calling of Christians Sodoms Apples were fair to the eye but being touch't turned to ashes O what a misery is this to seem to be and not to be Pageants please spectators eyes you have another to please even your Father which is in heaven who tries the heart and searches the reins I approve of a glorious profession let not that be all beware of hypocrisie a white Devill makes as fair shew and comes to the Church and as ost with a white apron as in a white surplice Either be what thou seemest to be orelse shew thy self in thy own colours Straight what crookt conversation conscience that without doors this within else the one will be odious to man both to God Bear 't in minde man judges of the heart by thy words and deeds and thou maist decived him God judges of thy words and actions by thy heart and him thou canst not deceive Though some of you amongst so many it 's to be feared some be akin to the Adverb Quasi as it were but such so zealous yet it 's my hopes there 's but a few such dossemblers among you I should be sorry there should be above one Judas in the house of Jesus A second meditation this Amen gives birthdome and I thus deduct it from it Amen which signifies Christ is as a so w as from everlasting so to last and everlastingly Parallel thy prayer with its Author yea sample the one by the other there is no end of him let there be no end of thine O pray continually Mane the verb gives us it in command Let us hold out our prayers as Joshua did his spear lift up our voice unto the Lord as Moses did his hand let the waters of Eloim be our prayers embleme ever overflowing let the continue motion of the Sun move us continually to move in the sphere of prayer Why should I not lengthen my devotion to God since Gods calling on me and so oft ere I would give heed assures me I shall not be heard for a word when I call on him God hath cal'd on us a thousand times and we would never hear him turn'd deaf ear to him and think we to have God at a whistle when we call Too much we take upon us too little we set by the Lord shall we be so coy Why then should he be so kinde He cals we care not and for a call is there cause for us to exact his audience Dust and ashes is too presumptuous to deny so oft to expect an answer and for no more Must we turn deaf ear to God and must God be bound to hear us for a word With the sweat of our browes we are to earn our bread And for a word and away think we to get bread of life of the Lord of life Away unworthy wretches let the septuplate sound of the Trumpets prompt us on to lift up our voice like a Trumpet to the Lord and aloud and oft The fearfull Hare for the safegard of her life makes many doubles doubra lesse there must be doubling of our Prayers to winde us our of danger of death and Death stand we not in awe of thee I fear not to die but to dye eternally which let my prayers increase as the waters did under the threshold of the Temple Ezek. 47. Then will I not doubt by this sea of deep sounding supplications to be ferried over and set a shore at the gates of New Jerusalem I come to a second Reason 2. Hold out your prayers since its importunity will prevail Have you not heard if one word will not a second onset may do it if not a second a third O! continuall droppings of supplications can cause Gods heart thou hast hardned against thee give again Gutta cavat lapidem the stone is hollowed with incessant drops the unjust judge is move with the importunity of the poor widow shee 's not heard at first cries again again neglected and again cries out upon the unrighteous judge whose ears so much she troubles for her cause he never weighs till all he begs he grants That the parable imports is importunity seldome gets a may say and if not with the unrighteous Judge much lesse with the Judge of heaven and earth This is it hath made me resolve upon it to fall to prayers again and if I gain not what I goe about not to let God rest at quiet till my suit be signed 3. This is Gods own counsell pray continually what shall his counsell be no command a shame so much should be injoyned and so little done here is a long task and a lazie genration some never laying their hands to this labour I mean praying in private neither with their private families nor in their private closets Some disdaining to joyne with us in Common-prayers I mean in the Church in publick What 's the cause Where 's the defect wherein smell they either of Heresie or Superstition would God any loved me so well they would tell me and where and wherein I am not so obstinate but I would give him hearing and thanks if he deserve it In time I may meet with such a Goliah but I trust I need not fear his weavers beam But as for those cry out of all printed prayers I cannot but cry out of them and tell them to their teeths while they cry out of superstition in many things they are too superstitious and in speciall while they imagine there 's no printed prayer meet to have an Amen but it made and extemporary I have heard of two sorts of prayers have been mightily discommended by a Sect suppose themselves none-such and I would be sorry to be such as they are Prayer in print for private use our printed prayers used in publick For the first what thinkest thou all have the gift of prayer There 's one spirit but divers gifts every one the Text plain it hath not all of them what then must he do wants the gift of expressing himself to God by prayer these humorous heads debar such poor souls from pen'd prayers and leave them in a worse case than the Philistims lest the Israelites without an instrument to whet their blunted goads and mattocks For the second Church prayers why relishest thou not a pew-pew-prayer as well as a pulpit-pulpit-prayer O! the ones in print but the other is pend and by the spirit I tell thee and note it an extemporary pulpit-pulpit-prayer made by the Minister in respect of thee is a set form of prayer and my reason to prove it is this for that thy spirit is bound to say Amen to what he hath dictated And now since both are set forms in respect of the people this i th' pulpit that i th' pew why maist not thou say Amen

Pharisee bid stand afarre off as oft as he pleases A word we all use left since all is to use it so many severall interpretations into severall tongues should * uncloath denude it of it deserved due and diminish its sense which is so much yea its sense is so signifying and its matter so much and it self so hard to be understood that at this time I have proffered to be it interpreter to you and tell you all it means And thus I am led to the third part of my method See what is meant by Amen to tell you what is meant by Amen And what it is it signifies this done I have done I finde this Amen in chief set at latter end of our promise past to keep Gods commandements and there placed and by a Prophet 2. Set at latter end of Church service and so placed by the Church in the * Common-Prayer-Book Church Rubrick 3. Set at latter end of our Lords Prayer and so placed by our Lord. For the first I finde this Amen Amens first sense set at letter end of our promise past to keep Gods Commandements and by the Prophet And so Amen is Nota faciendi voti a note of a vow This is made apparent by that place Jer. 11.5 though the Text the So be it the marginall note is Amen And it is the Herald doth blaze Jerremiah's vow of obedience to keep Gods Commandements While then you cry Amen The Extract you Vow obedience to Gods Commandements Now to vow so oft The Taxation and break as oft is a foul fault This is to heap sin upon sin while we vow we will serve God and serve the Devill Thou hadst better never promise then never performe and say nought than say Amen and not minde to what that one word hath bound thee Amen is soon said but bindes to much And as nudum pactum a bare promise in honesty bindes to pay so this only Amen to perform that in foro mvndi this in foro Coeli that to man this to God I would have men mark how far ingaged and to cast up what their word is past for to God to doe Amen hath made us all debtors to God The Supplicat Now God of his mercy and Christ for his merits clear our score Secondly I finde this Amen set at latter end for the most part of our Church service and so placed by the Church in the Church Rubrick And so this Amen is Nota assensus a note of assent And serves to shew or declare what the Priest hath said the people assent to And thus this word Amen is used Deut. 27. from the 15. to the end of the Chapter Amen then is as much as all said I assent to in the Church service faid by the Priest And let me tell you what I think it is this How it is a laudable fashion and commendable custome in our congregations That when we have said Church Service being agrreeable with holy Bible for the people to cry Amen at end Beleeve me as it is the Clerks office so your duties to cry Amen your Amen is the man conjoynes Priests and peoples hearts together nay know 't he that hath not a mouth to cry Amen I dare say wants an heart to call on God It is a small request if we say service for you to say Amen it is a great benefit for a little disbursement when one only word interests you in all the prayers we have made My desire is when I say service to hear the whole Congregation say Amen St. Avstin Audiri veluti Coeleste tonitru populum reboantem Amen I desire to hear the people founding Amen as thunder from heaven O! it sheweth that the prayer sayed by the Minister whereunto the people answer Amen omnium esse communem to be common to all thou losest thy part by leaving out Amen and know 't he that will not lend God his tongue to say Amen it 's not probable God will be so free hearted to him as to grant him that of which there is not the least testimoniall he desired it To conclude he must play the Clerk that would profit by what uttered by the Priest Here is an happy way found out for the good of our ignorant yet know 't to your comfort by saying though but in some sort understandingly Amen The Preachers service is made yours you may come to gain as much by saying Amen as he that saith all the words at large in the Common-prayer-book An inducement sufficient to cause all to say Amen We have our task set out to read Service this is yours to say Amen Church-service is half lest undone while you neglect to say Amen and the far greater part for the people have unacted their part * Ministers We put in our replication while we say service your rejoynder is unput in without Amen Now Lord grant that while we speak to thee for us our selves and for the people The Supplicat the people may joyne with us and that their Amen to our prayers may testifie their good and godly meaning Thirdly I finde this Amen set at latter end of our Lords Prayer Pater noster Amens third sense is tripartite and so set and placed by Christ himself Now in speaking upon this Pater noster Amen this shall be my method First I will shew you three severall significations it may admit of Secondly in a my sterie I could tell you this Amen and these three significations might shadow out and in some sort the Trinity in unity yea the Trine unity that one God and the three Persons Thirdly I will give you its compleat character Fourthly Since the Text is so short give me leave to extract an heavenly fancy from the letters in this last word of our Lords Prayer Fistly The first sense of my pater noster Amen He end all with two divine Meditations First let me give you the three significations of my Pater noster Amen and first of the first 1. This pater noster Amen may here be taken pro juris jurandi nota for a testimony upon oath thus Mat. 5.18 it is as much as Verily and it is Englished oft by Truly or Verily Yet when thus Englished incipit non desinit commonly it begins ends not the sentence Yet in this place dum desinit affirmat asseveratione while we end with this word we protest all said is our minde And now see when you have made an end of praying this word Amen vowes you take your oath on it that your prayer is your very hearts desire Amen that is Lord what I have prayed for I take an holy on 't I defire it The Taxation A parlous protestation and gives all those a vehement knock over shins who say one thing and mean another With the Hawk in windy words towring into the air when their aim and end is on the earth The word being