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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90552	A sermon lately preached at court, before His Majesty, in ordinary attendance: by VVilliam Peterson, D.D. and Deane of Exeter. Chaplaine to His Majesty.	Peterson, William, d. 1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing P1730; Thomason E151_3; ESTC R14888	15,566	32

saith David if in a whole day I doe not so much as once speak to him or he to me But the reason why oftentimes we defer our prayers is because we are afraid lest God should heare our prayers too soone for there are none of us but are wedded to some one beloved sin or other we are loth to part with we keep it close within us as a child doth sugar saith Solomon under his tongue and swallow it down by little and little Thus Saint Augustine before his conversion prayed to God for chastitie but yet as he writes of himself in his Confessions he was afraid lest God should heare his prayer too soone desirous to have his lust yet a little better satisfied before it was quite extinguished And this is the condition of us all With the Samaritans we could be content to serve God so as we might our Images too We are loth to make an integrall separation of our selves from our sins saying with Naaman the Syrian God be mercifull unto me when I goe into the house of Rimmon Thus Lot though armed against the sin of Sodome yet unarmed against another sin Thus Herod though in other matters he could heare John Baptist willingly yet look thou speak not of Herodias But thus to give close and secret entertainment to these forbidden guests is a matter of dangerous consequence for it is in sin as Tacitus tels it is in Treason Qui deliberant desciverunt To admit any the modestest termes of parley with Gods enemies is utterly to forsake him Whilst it is called to day then let us embrace salvation for there is nothing more dangerous then delay Nay custome of sinning will so endeare thee unto sin that it will be death to part with it like a soft and gentle poison the venome whereof being insensibly pernitious worketh death and yet is never felt working Put not off thy devotions then as Foelix did Paul Goe thy wayes for this time at a more convenient time I will send for thee or as Cato did the learning of the Greeke tongue till seventy yeers old but as in the corporall so in the spirituall disease of our soules let us use prevention and so soone as we are afflicted let us pray Thirdly so long as we are afflicted we must pray We must resolve with holy Job though the Lord should kill me yet would I wait on his leisure Admit thou finde not presently helpe in thy first or second vexation or trouble yet we must learne to strengthen our faith by that experience we have had heretofore of Gods goodnesse towards us by those things wee have knowne performed let us learne to hope for those things that are promised Doe I for my owne particular acknowledge to have received much why let that make me certaine to receive more Habenti dabitur to him that hath more shall be given When I doubt what I shall have let mee search what I have had at the hands of God Let me make this reckoning that the benefits he hath bestowed are bills obligatory and sufficient sureties that he will further his present mercie and it is still a warrant of his future love because Whom he loveth he loveth unto the end Abraham we know as he did multiply petition upon petition so still he got more advantage at the hands of God At first Gods promise was to spare Sodome for fifty righteous mens sake at last hee brought him from fifty unto ten Moses must not be wearie in lifting up his hands nor we in making our Prayers and supplications unto God Naaman we know did wash seven times in Jordan before he was cleansed and shall we think then with the men of Bethulia to wait but five dayes onely and then give over No but as we must pray so soone as we can so we must pray as long as we can The first will crosse the devils nimis cito and the other his nimis sero We must not then give over at the first encounter but we must solicite God againe and again and the sixt time And so so long as we are afflicted we must pray Now followes the last circumstance Wheresoever afflicted we must pray Peter must not deny his Master in the High Priests hall nor the Eunuch forget him in the Chariot nor Paul and Silas though in place of despaire nor Jonas in the Whales belly nor Daniel in the Lions den but every where we must pray The places Christ most frequented for Prayer we reade they were these foure In Templo in Deserto in Horto in Crucem From whence I will gather these especiall Conclusions how to pray First in Templo publiquely in the Church in the midst of the congregation For albeit the true worship of God be to God in it selfe acceptable wheresoever it be who regardeth not so much in what place as with what affection he is served yet notwithstanding the majesty and holinesse of the place where God is worshipped hath in regard of us great vertue force and efficacie in that it serveth as a sensible help to stir up devotion and in this regard no doubt bettereth our best and holyest actions thereby And therefore although I exhort every where to worship God yet me thinks there is no exhortation so fit as that of David O worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse Ps 39. for every place is not so fit for Divine Service Ye shall seek the place that the Lord shall choose and thither shall ye bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices and eate before the Lord Deut. 12.5 6. Moses built a Tabernacle for God and Solomon built a Temple God must have his Synagogue his Temple where he may be called on and of that place it may be said as Jacob spake of the place where he slept God is in this place And yet I would not have you think that I doe confine God in a circle God dwels not in Temples made with hands Templum Domini will not serve the turne unlesse Dominus Templi be there For God as hee is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a respecter of persons no more he is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a respecter of places but as it was said where Helen is there is Troy and where the Emperour there Rome so where but two are gathered together in his name there he will make the third for Gods eares are open in all places Moses in the midst of the sea Job on the dunghill Jeremy in the mire the three children in the fiery furnace calling to God were heard as Saint Basil noteth And yet notwithstanding we must account his house of Prayer his especiall place of service and therefore Chrysostome and some other of the gravest Fathers did plainly teach that the house of Prayer it was a Court beautified with the presence of celestiall powers there we pray we sound forth hymnes unto God having the Angels themselves intermingled as our associates and that with reference thereunto it is