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A68217	The history of the woman of great faith Recorded by Saint Matthew, ch. 15. v. 22. &c. and by Saint Mark, ch. 7. 24. where three very strong encounters are beaten back by her vnmatchable faith. Treatised and expounded for some help to the weake in faith. By Robert Horn, a Minister of Iesus Christ.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 13822; ESTC S116726	104,742	350

the name and sace of Christians for how can such pray for others who passe days and nights without any prayer for themselues they rise in the morning without all acknowledgement to God that kept them and at night they go to their beds as beasts to their dennes without praying to him that must keepe them and so deserue to bee branded with this marke of an Atheist they call not vpon God Psal 14.4 But these onely are not vnder reproofe who pray so seldome if at all but they also who though they pray daylie and often to God yet forget the Churches particular affliction the Churches of Germanie and of the Palatinate long in teares and bloud now almost consumed in the fire of warre were for all this neuer spoken for vnto God by such when they made prayer and supplication vnto him and how many now doe earnessly call vpon God for health to Cambridge One of the two famous Schooles of the Prophets in this Kingdome so long shut vp and made desolate by a wasting Pestilence how many I say are they that haue prayed for the opening againe of that fountaine so shut vp and for the seeding of it with Scholars These coales sent from betweene the feet of the Almightie burne to a flame in other parts of this land yet how few shed one teare to quench them And as one saith though God discharge not his great Cannon vpon London as in the yeare 1625 which hath beene too much forgotten yet his smal shot plays vpon it by 60. vnder or aboue in the weeke buried of the destroying Pestilence and yet how many either there or abroad mend their prayers I say not their liues for it Further they are here reproued who in their enuious prayers speake not onely for themselues to God or if they goe a little further it is not farre from the doores of their owne house praying onely for Christians of their own bloud or kinne These are churles in religion such as Nabal in the world who said Shall I take my bread and the flesh which I haue killed for my shearers and giue it to men whom I know not whence they bee 1 Sam. 25.11 Thus Nabal and so those spirituall Nabals say these are strangers neither of our house nor flesh and what be they to vs that wee should so much and earnestly seeke their wealth by praying for them And thus our fathers daughter the Church is a stranger and of no kinne to such bastard Israelites Lastly they are reproued who brew mischiefe that their enemies may drinke it and so plot euills against those against whose euills they should pray and pay good for euill Matth. 5.44 Rom. 12.21 But they are farre from this rule of charitie who curse their brethren in their persons or estate some wish them a heauie death and that being down they may neuer rise againe and for their cattell their prayer is they may die of the rot or goe away as an vntimely fruit and for the substance of their house that it may melt away as Snow before the Sunne but some when they should pray for the Saints Eph. 6.18 bitterly curse them onely for this because they are Saints so prophane husbands deale with their religious Wiues and wicked Parents their godlie children and carnall Ministers with the best in their charges But must we pray one for another it is for instruction Vse 2. teaching vs that though they bee our enemies persecutors and slanderers that vexe vs yet wee must pray for them that God would turne their hearts though they wrong vs wee must not them though it lay in our hand to do it rather we must pitie them and pray God to forgiue them as Christ and his Martyr Stephen did Christ did it when they were nailing his hands and his feet Luc. 23 33 34. and Stephen did it when the stones were clattering about his eares Act. 7.59.60 and wee must do it not onely in cold blood but euen when the wrongs are fresh and newly done vs. I speake this because some will bee perswaded while the iniurie is of some standing to take vp But not so while they feele the nailes with Christ or with Stephen the weight of the stones that flie about them For lust of reuenge driues them as with winde and tide to another coast then that of the hauen of peace But against this lust we must fight by the spirit of loue which with the cloke of charitie as farre as it can will couer all defects Pro. 10.12 Say then that men haue much offended vs we must much forgiue them and for a signe of loue pray God to forgiue them further yet wee inferre from this doctrine that if it bee against the rule of charitie not to pray for our enemies it is certainly against the rule of it and of nature not to pray for our friends and how greatly against all rules of charitie and nature when husbands wiues parents children of one blood and of one bed when they that dwell in the same towne in the same street and in the same house shall refuse or bee negligent to do this dutie to those so neere vnto them for if these shall not pray one for another who should They haue denied the faith who prouide not for their own in temporal things 1 Tim. 5.8 and do they keepe the faith that in spirituall so faile them The reason of the disciples entreating for this woman followeth For she crieth after vs. THIS reason which the disciples gaue for their entreating of the Master on the Womans behalfe shewes that Christs silence did not breed in her as in many it would a sullen and dogged pettishnes which rather as a little water cast vpon a Smiths forge did make the flame of her faith to ascend vp higher but caused her as before to speake in her faith to Christ so now to crie vnto him in it Christ in that silence had put vpon him the person of the deafe Iudge therefore she gets him by her importunitie to doe her iustice against her aduersarie the deuill in her daughter Luc. 18.3.4 Doct. In which example we are taught to importune the Lord in our prayers and to keepe a good edge vpon them whatsoeuer our repulses bee Iacob kept his hold in seeking a blessing till he preuailed though with a foile Gen. 32.26.31 the shield of Faith in his hand he turned euery way as the Angel offered at him So Moses prayers kept edge and his hands held vp in them were steady till the going downe of the Sunne till the day failed him Amalek was destroyed he gaue not ouer praying Exod. 17.12 Both of them kept to prayer till their prayers had done worthily for them So the Prophet Dauid was earely late at his prayers waiting for Gods promise Hee rose with the earely morning to pray vnto God and his eyes preuented the night watches Ps 119.148 Morning euening and at noon he prayed and cryed out in