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death_n	good_a	life_n	see_v	9,943	5	3.4753	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86523	A briefe exposition of the Lords Prayer: wherein the meaning of the word is laid open to the understanding of weake Christians, and what the carriage of their hearts ought to be in preferring each petition. / By Mr. Tho. Hooker preacher of Gods word.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2642; Thomason E273_1; ESTC R212190	49,778	95

come that hee would intrench about us and give us Armour and weapons to resist it and give us dominion over our enemies and that if wee be overcome hee would rescue and recover us out of them This is the sum of this Petition Now wee come to the frame of the heart that we should bring before God Quest that so wee may be fit to receive the good we sue for at the hand of God Now wherein doth it appeare The frame of heart and disposition of Soule Answ that best be-seemes us in the putting up of this Petition appeares principally in four things First when wee desire that the Lord would not let us bee drawne aside nor led into temptation wee must labour to avoid all occasions as may bee too strong for us or like to prevaile over us In vaine wee desire to bee delivered from evill when wee rush into evill and into temptations Hee that should take pitch into his hand and pray not to defiled put fire into his bosome and pray not to be burnt it is a sleighting of Gods mercy and a provoking of God to wrath rather then a begging of mercy We would count it a madnesse for a man to cast himselfe into the Sea and desire to be saved to make our selves sick that God may make us whole againe It is nothing else but as we may say to make God worke so to runne into evill and to pray to the Lord to deliver us from evill it is provoking and mocking of the Lord the wise mans rule is here memorable Prov. 23.23 If a man be given to his appetite let him put his knife to his throat If thou lovest the wine looke not upon it a man that is given to his apetite it is in vaine to pray against it and yet nourish it but thou must put thy knife to thy throat abstaine from that which may provoke it for if we please our appetite it will be a temptation to us Psal 30. The promises and the providence of the Lord go together He will succour us and relieve us but it must be in the way of providence we must be in the way He that goes out of the way and craves Gods assistance shall never have it but hales on evill on himselfe Matthew 10.18 our Saviour speaking of offences saith If thy hand cause thee to offend cut it off and if thine eye cause thee to offend pluck it out That is were thy sinnes as neere to thee as thy right hand in regard of profit or thy right eye in regard of pleasure cut them off pluck them out fling them away rather then be foiled by them In vaine wee crave the assistance of the Lord and in the meane time lay blocks before us it is presumption therefore no marvell if many times the Lord leaves a man in the lurch because he doth not that he praies for It is enough to cause the Lord to curse us when we do not avoid occasions of evill he that will not fall into the pit let him not come neer the brinke of it he that will not be snared by evill let him not come neer the occasions of evill Secondly if we be weake of our selves and cannot prevent the occasions of evill yet bee carefull to seeke all such meanes as may be succourable and helpfull to us if we cannot helpe it but that these will surprize us let us seeke the meanes that may succour us in our need The sicke man that craves succour of the Lord must use the meanes the Lord hath appointed happily thou findest temptations pressing on in thy calling thou canst not avoid it the more the occasions are the more seek for the meanes that may fortifie thee Hee that will be healed let him seeke the Physician he that is out of the way and would be set in the right way let him inquire it out and not sit still and say Lord have mercy upon me c. but seeke unto God in the use of the meanes It was that which Joshuah did chapter the seventh he called upon God but yet the Lord did not help him but said Why doest thou so Israel hath sinned looke to that in vaine it is to pray that the enemie may not prevaile and labour not to get sinne out of the camp but doe that and then the overthrow of the Enemies will bee farre enough from thee Thirdly when wee have found the meanes labour to bee content to bee ordered by all the meanes and helps that God hath been pleased to ordaine for our good It is a madnesse to crave as Balaam Oh that I might die the death of the righteous and not live their life to see the way and not to walke in it Jer. 42. they said to the Prophet Inquire at the mouth of the Lord and whatsoever he commandeth that wee will doe but when they heard and knew it they would not In vaine it is to crave the pardon of sinne when we looke not to the promise to desire sinne to be subdued and yet not to abide the meanes that should doe it but if a man faith he will not be counselled but will have his proud heart and will walke in all his owne waies how can he say deliver me from this proud heart when he will not have counsell take place When a man is in horrour of heart when conscience flies in his face it is in vaine to whine then and yet not to be ruled by the Word of God but be as vaine as ever as loose as ever and as iddle as ever Thou beggest one thing and desirest another and so long never put up this Petition Fourthly wee must relye upon the Lord for a blessing and successe in all wee pray for or do We must so use the meanes as if there were no promise to helpe us and yet so depend on God for all as though the meanes could doe nothing Observe all thy occasions and say counsell and advise is good but the Lord must set them on man lives not by bread only but by the blessing of God in the meanes goe to the Spirit of the Lord and see there a greater power then in all meanes 2 King 2. If thou canst see me taken up then shalt thou have my Spirit double upon thee The meaning is if thou seest the God that takes me up then he will give thee his Spirit looke to God above all meanes and he that is thus disposed praies aright to be delivered For thine is the Kingdome VVE have done with the sixe Petitions three concerning God his Name Kingdome Will three concerning our selves concerning things of this life and of a better to wit justification sanctification we come now to the conclusion and considerin it two things First the thanksgiving Secondly the conclusion of faith in the word Amen In the thanksgiving is included both a reason of the Petition as also a forme of thanksgiving as who should say wee doe not presume wee can do