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The touch-stone of prayer. Or A true and profitable exposition of the Lords prayer, according to the holy Hebrew of S. Mathews gospel to which is prefixed certaine necessary circumstances to be obserued in prayer. Also thereunto is annexed a table shewing the agreement betweene the Lords prayer, and the ten commandements of Almighty God. By T.S.
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on the crosse Thus by these examples we see that confession of sinnes must go before remissioÌ„ If thy sinne be priuate then confession to God may be priuat but if it be publique then must there bee publique confession that the Church may take notice of thy true contrition Thirdly it teacheth vs the great Doct. 3 patience of God in not confounding of vs when we haue first sinned but suffering vs so long and giuing vs space to repent This patience of God saith Saint Peter should leade vs to repentance and not to say with the foole tush God seeth it not The Prophet Dauid saith the Lord is full of mercy and of great goodnes but he also saith if a man will not turne he will bend his bow and whet his sworde And the longer hee deferreth his punishment the higher he heaueth his hand the greater will the blow bee Therefore though God haue but a leaden heele yet hath he Psal 2. an Iron scepter Thus much of the first word forgiue Vs or to vs. BY this word vs we are taught to pray for the saluation of our brethren yea of all if it were Gods will by the example of Saint Paule who could haue wished to haue beene seperate from God for his countrie mens sake the Iewes But few go so farre with Paule for if they wish their friendes any thing it is rather worldly wealth honor and dignity then the forgiuenesse of sinnes and increase of spirituall graces forgetting Christ his wordes what will it profit a man to winne the whole world and to lose his owne soule but this is the frailenes of our flesh and sinnefull nature to be more prone to earthly profiâ—s then feruently to desire heauenly blessinges Our debts Breach of the lawe is debt which is our sins INdeede sinnes are rightly our debtes Which make vs indebted vnto God by transgression of his diuine law Alas goodnesse was once ours but we in our first parents lost the very will of dooing well how much more the power to do well So that God now saith Gen. 6. the thoughts of mans heart are altogether euill Therfore sinnes are rightly ours now indeed The blessed Apostle Saint Iames sheweth this where he prooued that God tempteth none to doe euill but all such temptations are of our selues and Rom. 8. he saith further whence are wars sedition and enuyings are they not euen of your selues yea the Apostle Paule The confession of Paule differeth from the pretended Catholique that chosen vessell could say I know in me that is in my selfe dwelleth no good thing and howsoeuer to will is present with me yet I finde by the law of God that I do that which I should not doe Debts Well may our sinnes the breach of the law be called Debts telling vs of our neglect of duty and of our playing the bankrupts with the graces of the good spirit of God as also to bind vs to the iudgement seat of God laying before vs the haynousnesse of our sinnes and the ritch mercy of God in Christ who when we had nothing to pay forgaue vs all The second part of the fift Petition As we forgiue our debters This forgiuenesse of our brethren it is a sure testimony that God in the first place hath forgiuen vs and so saith Saint Iohn by this we know we are translated from death to life because we loue the brethren and Christ his commandement is be yee mercifull as your heauenly father is mercifull O how can they looke for mercy which continue in malice for Christ hath said it therefore it is true With what measure you meate to others it shall be measured to you againe Therefore let not the sunne go downe on thy wrath for what knowest thou ô man whether thou shalt liue till to morrow and if thou shouldst dye in malice thou dyest not in God for God is loue In the feare of God consider this and first be reconciled vnto thy brother and then come and offer thy gift for if saith the Wiseman one pray and another curse which will God heare Nay such as bee full of cruelty and reuengement what in this Petition do they pray for but this that Gods curse and vengeance might light on them therefore whosoeuer thou art that cariest malicious minde to thy brother thou art altogether vnfit to say this prayer or any holy prayer Yea and God will not heare thee when thou callest vnto him when thou stretchest forth thy hands he will hide his eyes And though Isai 1. 15. thou make many prayers yet will he not heare thee because thy Mic. 3. 1 hands are full of bloud Therefore take the aduise of Christ First be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift But here may arise a doubte whether that God will heare me or no seeing I confesse my selfe to be a sinner 1. Pet. 4. 17. and Salomon saith God heareth not sinners How therefore will He is a sinner that beleeues not the gospel this stand with this petition very well for by sinners in that place is meant such as be not incorporate into Christ and such as delight and continue in their sinne 1. Ioh. 2 and such men indeede God will Rom. 4. 25. not heare But they that haue put on the righteousnesse of Christ by Heb. 9. 26. a true and a liuely faith them will God heare and for their sinnes was Christ the reconciliatioÌ„ Therfore Iere. 50. 20. with Ieremie let vs say and beleeue That Gods mercie maketh sinners pure for God imputeth not sinne to his faithfull children Psalm 32. 2. Obiection Yea but how saith S. Iohn that they which are borne of God sinne not and That hee that committeth sinne is of the deuill but euery man sinneth and euery one committeth sinne Answere That is true But if you well obserue the words before and consider the drift of S. Iohn you shall plainely see that he meaneth such as are of the deuil as perseuer with willingnesse in sinne euen such as in whom sinne raignes in their mortall bodyes But vnder that power of sinning cannot the children of God be because the spirit of God checketh and correcteth their euill and corrupt affections For this victory ouer sinne and death hath Christ giuen vs that beleeue Giuing vs both a will and a feruent 1. Cor. 15. 57. desire to doe his commaundements And this is his commandement that we beleeue in Iesus Christ and loue one another for he tbat keepeth this commandement 1. Ioh. 3 23. 24. dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby know we that he abidetb in vs euen by the spirit which he hath giuen vs. The 6. petition And leade vs not into temptation but The word Temptation is of a verbe that signifieth to lift vp shewing that God somtimes prooues â—is childreÌ„ further higher by degrees as he did Abraham Gen. 〈…〉 also Heb. 11. For first he tempted but
and Israel be ignorant of vs yet thou art our father and our redeemer thy name is for euer Obiection CHrist calleth God father is he therefore his father as he is ours Answere NO For he is our father by his creating and adopting vs in Christ But he is Christes father Nota. ☞ by eternall generation he the naturall sonne of God but wee by grace Therefore well did he euer make this distinction I thanke thee ô my father for so hee is in the most peculier manner Also where he saith I go to my father your father my God and your God What doth he teach but that God is his father by eternall generation and ours by adoption Now from this word Father let vs learne fiue lessons First let vs learne to pray in faith For saith Theophilact faith is the very foundation of prayer and he 1. Of stedfastnes in his promises goeth further and saith Nisi enim crediderit homo quòd hoc quòd petet accepturus est in suam vtilitatem vanaest oratio quam facit Except a 2. Of our loue man beleeue he shall receaue that 3. Of our honoring him which hee shall aske for his profit that prayer which hee dooth make is vaine The very worde in 4. Of feare to his maiestie the originall which is * The word Father putteth vs in mind AB of ABAH to will it sheweth that God willeth our good And what will a father deny his sonne 5. Of obedience dutie Mat. 7. 7 that is for his good saith our Sauiour yea saith the Lorde can a woman forget her childe and not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe though it could be yet will I not forget thee saith the Eternall Secondly it teacheth vs to haue a louing affection when we come to appeare before a mercifull Father and not as a seuere Iudge therefore saith Dauid and with him let vs say My soule thirsteth Psa 42. after the liuing God when shall I come to appeare before the presence of God Thirdly the name Father teacheth vs honor If I be your Father Mal. 1. saith God where is my honor Fourthly Feare If yee call him 1. Pet. 1 13. Father which without respect of persons iudgeth euery man according to his workes passe the time of your dwelling in feare Fiftly obedience As obedient children fashion not your selues to the 1. Pet. 1. 4. former lustes of ignorance Lastly this word Father telleth our consciences that God is apeased for our sinnes and that Christ hath fully satisfied his fathers wrath for vs so we are not only friendes but also coheires with Christ therefore the spirit boldneth vs to call God ABBA father herein is the great loue of our mercifull father maruelously set forth euen in this that when we were Rom. 5. 8. 9. yet sinners he sent his sonne to die for vs. How much more being iustified by his bloud we shall be saued and seeing he hath giuen vs Christ how shall he not giue vs all things O Christian remember thy duty Applica ∣ tion ☞ God hath beene twise a father to thee but thou not once worthy the name of a sonne Thus much of the first worde Father now for the AFFIX our I haue shewed before how God is our Father both by creation and adoption It followeth to set downe what lessons wee may learne from this worde our which are in number foure First it teacheth vs charity for The vse 1 loue seeketh not her owne but we must seeke to edifie one another to be like minded one towards another to pray one for another Therefore dooth Christ teach vs to pray one for another saying Our Father not my Father Secondly it doth teach vs to agree in saith and doctrine with our brethren Thirdly it teacheth vs humility to say with Peter there is no respect of persons with God And with Paul there is neither Iewe nor Graecian bond nor free male nor female but wee are all one in Christ Therefore said Iob If I contemned the iudgement of my seruant Iob. 31. 13. when he contended with me what then shall I do when God standeth vp and visiteth me what then shall I answere Lastly it teacheth vs to beware of Sectes and Scismatickes which haue indeed the spirite of Babell saying I am holyer then thee stand from me or with the proud Pharisie I thanke thee Lord I am not like this Publican The third part of the Preface Which art FOr the first word Which SHE an abstract of ASHER the relatiue of the roote of the verbe ASHAR of which commeth also ASHRE Blessed or blessings giuing vs to vnderstand thus much that God is the fountaine whence all blessings come And if we be blessed it is by receiuing it from God for when God and wee are relatiues I meane when we are his sonnes in Christ then doth he impart of his blessings vnto vs as ASHRE NES VI Psal 32. 1. PESHANG Blessed is he whose sinne is forgiuen Art THis word Art is not in the originall but is necessarily יהוה vnderstood and this adiunct of Future י Preterp ה Present ו time in the Present-tense yea in all tenses agreeth to God euermore as the learned well know The letters in the name * Theo. Beza in Apoc. 1. Iehouah doe Reuel 1. 14. note to vs as much as S. Iohn in the Apocalips Which is which was and which is to come The Present Preter-perfect and the Future tense The consideration of this eternitie Doctrin of God strengtheneth vs in faith if we obserue the Apostles words all the promises of God in Christ are Yea and Amen With God there is no shadowe nor variance of change for whome he loueth he loueth to the end Iesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same is for euer The vse of this is that we should not wauer in faith nor be inconstant Vse in religion but faithfull in all our promises then haue we a blessing for Christ saith be faithfull vnto death and I will giue thee the crowne of life In Heauen AS in the first word of this preface we are taught that God is our father therefore willing to heare vs. So in this last word heauen we are put in minde of his might that he is able to helpe vs. Psal 99. 2. Dauid saith the Lord is great in Sion he is high aboue all people Christ saith My father is greater Ioh. 10. then I and none is able to take my sheepe out of his hands therfore feare not Satans subtiltie nor his childrens tirranie Secondly we must not admit any base or earthly conceit of our father in heauen for the Prophet Isaijah saith Gods thoughts are not our thoughts neither are his wayes our wayes But as the heauens are higher then the earth so are his wayes higher then our wayes Thirdly the place heauen must teach vs that when we come to speake to