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A08806	A godly learned exposition, together with apt and profitable notes on the Lords prayer written by the late reuerend orthodoxe diuine, and faithfull seruant of Iesus Christ, Samuel Page ... ; published since his death, by Nathaniel Snape, of Grayes Inne, Esquire.	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.; Snape, Matthew.	1631 (1631)	STC 19092; ESTC S924	210,836	387

and euery perfect gift is from aboue from the father of lights If thou goe to the earth and say to it giue me bread it will answer thee as Iacob answered Rahel when shee said giue me children Am I in Gods stead If thou goe to the King and say da mihi panem will he not answere thee as the King of Israel answered the poore petitioner in the famine of Samaria If the Lord doe not helpe thee whence shall I helpe thee There is no fruit of our praying and crying till our petition come to this giuer I will heare saith the Lord I will heare the heauens and they shal heare the earth the earth shall heare the Corne and the Wine and the Oyle and they shall heare Israel There is no giuer but he and all those who on earth doe giue are but his stewards and giue in his name and for his sake When the heathen went to Iupiter for raine to Aeolus for windes to Neptune for safety and good passage at sea to Ceres for corne to Bacchus for wine c. What did they worse I may say they did not so ill as the Church of Rome now in the inuocation of Saints for the heathen had not the way to the father by Iesus Christ reuealed to them his name is now knowne to vs and the Church of Rome pretendeth to know and confesse and honour it they confesse vnum est Orco poena polo gloria vita solo Yet hauing the knowledge and of God in the face of Iesus Christ in some measure they seeke out other benefactors to whom they say da nobis What difference is there betweene the heathen women in child-bearing crying out Casta faue Lucina and the Popish women calling vpon the Virgin Mary to helpe them in their throwes and pangs as the supreme Midwife of the Church So they inuocate Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch in pestilence Raphael in dolore oculorum Apollonia in dolore dentium Michael in warre c. Is not this to turne God out of his place and to giue his power of giuing all good things away from him to creatures Indeed they haue no reason to goe to God for any thing or to say to him da nobis because they giue not him the honour due to his holy and vndoubted rights But Christ our Sauiour doth direct vs to whom wee shall goe for our bread and we haue none in heauen to repaire to but to him and none in earth that we esteeme with him and to him onely we say da nobis 3 This prayer to God to giue doth teach vs to confesse and to depend vpon the prouidence of God not onely his generall prouidence by which hee regardeth the whole creature but his particular prouidence by which euery particular creature is conserued and supported it is he that cloatheth euery Lily it is hee that feedeth euery sparrow it is hee that numbreth all the haires of our head And though we must labour and sweat for our bread though wee haue rich reuenues and plentifull meanes for our reliefe yet there is no trust to be giuen to these outward helpes our helpe is in the name of the Lord who hath made heauen and earth This prouidence of God hath an eye to behold our wants hath a store of all sorts of blessings to furnish him with fit gifts to bestow where he thinketh fit hath bowels of compassion to pittie our wants and hath an open hand to distribute his fauours amongst the sonnes of men This prouidence of God is the Barne and Wine-presse of the faithfull to feed them it is their harbenger to lodge them it is their Physitian to heale all their diseases 4 This Da doth teach vs to loue the goodnesse of God to vs of whom our bread is to bee had of gift what a stirre had he in the Gospell to get vp his neighbour at night to lend him some bread to entertaine a stranger withall but we may come at all times to God and to pray him to giue Euen they that will giue nothing themselues nor part with a bit of their great loafe to their hungry brother but like Na●al grudge to part with any thing from themselues yet they cry vpon God to haue their bread giuen to them by him They that sell and make prize of all offers in Church and Common-wealth and will not open their mouthes in a charitable or iust mediation for their neighbour but in Iudas his tune quid mihi dabis yet they come to God for their bread of gift this is the cheapest and frankest vtterer of his fauours that euer was to whom we pray it is he that saith Ho euery one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come ye buy and eate yea come buy wine and milke without money and without price Wherefore doe you spend money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not hearken diligently vnto me and eate yee that which is good and let your soule delight in fatnesse How are we said to buy and yet to haue all these things freely giuen but because wee doe giue vp our prayers for our bread and we buy them with our petitions as Christ petite pulsate quaerite This is more then the holy father of Rome will say for his indulgencies and pardons praying will not carry them they that will haue them must pay for them and many hard shifts his agents are put to to vent his spirituall treasures and to force them vpon the poore people that had rather want them then come to their price But God who is rich in mercy and needeth nothing of our goods God who is good and doth good standeth not vpon such termes with vs his sonne who is in his bosome and best knoweth both his meanes and his minde bids vs call for our bread of gift This should moue vs to a reuerent regard of our duty of obedience to him to worship and serue him onely to haue no other God but him to defie idolatry to honour his name to sanctifie his Sabboth He hath not less himselfe without witnesses in that he doth good and giues vs raine from heauen and fruitfull seasons filling our hearts with food and gladnesse 5 Da teacheth vs the necessitie of prayer wee must aske of God Christ in our flesh would lose nothing for want of asking who in the daies of his flesh offered vp prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares vnto him that was able to saue him from death And his father that loued him as twice from heauen he proclaimed yet saith to him Thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thee aske of me and I shall giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance c. When he meant Salomon a good turne the freest and greatest offer that was euer made to man yet he put him to it aske what I shall giue thee When

the way of our obedience God onely giueth increase to the field to bring forth corne for the vse of man and when it is come vp vpon the ground hee ripeneth it and when it is come to an haruest he disposeth it to the vse of man therefore Da nobis None of all the gods of the heathen could doe this he onely crowneth the yeare with plenty A fruitfull land he maketh barren abundance is from his full hand and famine or dearth of victuals are his rods The heathens worshipped them for gods that were the first ingenuous deuisers of any profitable inuention for the vse of man Ceres that taught the husbanding of grounds for Corne and Bacchus for Vines Vulcan or rather Tubalcaine that was the father of them that wrought in Iron Had they knowne the authour of euery good and perfect gift and who it is that giueth bread they would haue gone no further but Da nobis panem and haue sought their bread from this father which is in heauen 2 We aske da nobis not mihi this is communio charitatis The extent of this nobis is great for as vnder the name of bread all the necessaries of life are contained The King obserueth it well that we doe esteeme our yeares deare or cheape according to the price of corne so vnder this personall note nobis we comprehend all men all creatures that are supported with food First I say all men euen the wicked and reprobate for though they be neuer so vngodly yet during life on earth they must eate and if their owne meanes and labours be not sufficient to sustaine them our charity must supply what is wanting wee must not hide our selues from our owne flesh we haue all one Our father in heauen the common father of our nature therefore Da nobis wee pray to God to feed them also this is proximum tuum vt teipsum though he be but natura not relgiione proximus I adde that nobis doth also include our beasts and cattel that are created for our vse and seruice by the feeding whereof we are relieued who haue the seruice of their labour and the flesh of their bodies to ease and feed vs they must not be left out in this nobis for these are appurtenances to vs. In the King of Niniuehs edict for a generall fast their beasts were forbidden to eate or drinke for the sinne of man they suffered to augment their masters sorrow and to adde comfort to their owners they must also feede with them therefore da nobis doth include them as a part of our selues belonging to vs. The wise man saith that A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast we cannot shew our care of those helpefull creatures to vs better then in praying to him for them who as Dauid saith saueth both man and beast And euen amongst these beasts which are made for the vse and seruice of man though some of them bee noxious and offensiue now to man rebelling against his domination to punish his rebellion against God yet there is also a good vse to be made of them for man and to that they must be preserued they must be nourished in life that may be helpfull to man in their death Thus farre doe I thinke nobis in this petition extended Giue vs food all things necessary for our own persons for our children that are ex nobis for our brethren that are pars nostri for our neighbours circa nos for our enemies that are contra nos for our cattell pro nobis 3 Our bread 1 This bread wee are taught to call ours and wee learne it of God himselfe for in the very words of that curse which he put vpon man for his disobedience he calleth it so for if we sweate for it and then eate of it nothing doth more assure it ours in the vse of it And that is a legall right that we haue to it by our labour in our vocation The Apostle thinking it iust that he which will not labour should not eate doth include it both fic and lawfull that hee should eate that will labour 2 It is called our bread because it is necessarie for supportation of life for though man doe not liue by bread onely yet not without bread that is without fit food and so all things that we haue are called ours in respect of their vse for our seruice 3 It is called our bread by right of donation for when it is giuen it is ours the giuing of it to vs doth make it so to be So Saint Gregorie Ecce nostrum dicimus tamen dari petimus noster enim est qui accipitur tamen dei est cum ab illo datur for we haue no right to it but by the gift of God whose hand we open by this petition that he may fill vs with his plenty 4 That which we haue in gift of God and in present possession yet is not ours till the blessing of God bee vpon it for the possession without the vse doth not make it ours therefore the miserable wretched man that hath possession of much and starueth himselfe with denying the same to his owne vse cannot call his bread his owne 5 They that haue and possesse bread that is all things necessary for life haue no hold thereof that they may call it theirs except God keepe it and preserue it for them it is subiect to fire and water to theeues and robbers except God make it ours we may sit to eate and haue the bread taken from our table euen the morsells taken and pluckt out of our mouthes therefore da nostrum we pray to God that it may bee ours lest it be taken away from vs. 6 We call it ours because though wee haue it and keepe it and it abide by vs yet we may be smitten with sicknesse and disabled to take vse of it or it may be receiued euen into our bodies and we not nourished by it for that iudgment God also hath in his treasures They shall eate and not be satisfied 7 We call it our bread by a speciall right that only the faithfull haue to this and all things that belong to vs. Ye are Christs and all things are yours saith the Apostle They that hold things temporall by this right haue them in the best tenure for they haue them with the fulnesse of Gods blessing the Lord is their shepherd they shall want nothing 8 We call it our bread that we pray for to exclude panem alienum for we beg not away our brothers bread from him we desire not the bread of fraud or oppression or the bread of idlenesse but desire of God that the sustentation of our life may be with our owne bread without the preiudice of any other and that we may be able to liue without the hurt of our neighbour who dwelleth in peace by vs. 4 Daily bread Here the word vsed in the originall hath bred a question

you may not present him with a dwindled withered heart weakned and infirmed with vntimely afflictions but strong and able for his seruice And make a conscience to bestow the strength of your heart vpon him that giues you bread to strengthen your hearts that he may thinke his bread well bestowed for hee loueth not the sacrifices of the leane and lame and blinde and impotent of your flock the best serues him best 2 From this name of bread giuen to the necessaries of life we are taught that we haue no warrant to pray to God for more then what is needfull The sonne of Iakeh doth pray against riches giue mee not riches yet many there be that sell heauen for riches and exchange God for Mammon whose damnation sleepeth not Many there be who study the back what shall I put on not now only what stuffe but in what fashion that I may out shine my equals my betters they make Idols of their bodies and bestow such painting guilding and iewelling of it as if it were immortall their back is their God Many study what they shall eat all the inquisitions of rarities and delicacies that the earth the ayre the sea can afford are congested into their catories and kitchins to please their various palates with change of viands epicuriously satiating themselues with the marrow and fatnesse of Gods good creatures cramming themselues for the Deuils shambles making their bellies their Gods and delighting in their shame I deny not but God doth open his hand and giueth great abundance of all good things crowning the yeare with his plenty and making the earth not onely to bring forth bread to strengthen the heart of man but wine also to make his heart glad and oyle to make him a chearefull countenance for who can controll him doing with his owne as he please and disposing of it where he will But still I say I finde no warrant to aske of him any more then the needfull support of life we may not pray beyond our proportion food necessary for life for therefore do we aske bread of God to shew our desires limited to the meanes ordained by him for our preseruation If any shall dare to passe these bounds let him remember the fearefull example of Israel in the way of their iourney toward Canaan They lusted exceedingly in the wildernesse and tempted God in the desart And he gaue them their request but sent leanesse into their soule These ouer dainty palates that are euer longing for delicacies may make fat bodies but they haue leane soules and when they pray beyond warrant God may heare them and may grant their request but they shall lose by it There was a rich man who liuing was richly and softly arraied delicately fed euery day but hee that heares him pitifully complaining out of hell for a little cold water will scarce desire to be in his coate or to bee of his messe 1 This teacheth vs to be content with bread and to thanke God for it for if wee haue but sufficient for life we haue as much as we aske and so much as Christ our Master who teacheth vs to pray thinkes fit to allow vs to aske of our father which art in heauen 2 Seeing we finde God so rich and plentifull as to open his hand so wide to giue vs more then we aske exceeding abundantly to some more to some lesse Let not vs like children when wee haue any thing giuen vs measure the worth of the gift by comparing it with that which is giuen to others but weigh the gift in and by it selfe and let vs admire and praise the open hand of God who ouer-doeth our demands and maketh our cup runne ouer But because this name of bread doth so limit vs to the demand onely of things necessarie let me admonish you that there is duplex necessitas 1 Necessitas rei which containes onely the supportation of life 2 Necessitas personae which containes the maintenance of vs in our estate of life I conceiue that this petition doth extend to both these for 1 We craue of God all those things without which we cannot liue 2 Wee aske all those things that are conuenient for our estate and ranke that we may not want the meanes to support our persons and estate with moderate decencie befitting our degree but so that if God who lifteth vs vp and casteth vs downe shall thinke it meete to abase vs and stoope vs below the port and state of our place that we now hold we may abate also of our desires and be content with such things as are of absolute necessitie for subsistence in life and therefore 3 We are taught to learne with the Apostle both how to abound and how to want and may not thinke much if there bee mutatio dexitae excelsi For in these things Iobs lesson is to be learnt The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away in both we must blesse the name of the Lord. 2 Giue Many duties are learnt from this word 1 Wee are taught to vnderstand and confesse our poore and miserable condition who in creation had all things put in subiection vnder our feete as Dauid saith all sheepe and oxen yea and the beasts of the field the fowles of the ayre the fishes of the sea c. and now by sinne haue lost that right to these things which the grace of creation inuested vs in and are now so poore and needy that we haue not bread of our owne to sustaine vs with God gaue man all these things vpon condition of obedience that failing hee hath cancelled that deed of gift and resumed into his owne hands the possession and power of distribution thereof to the sonnes of men Naked came I into the world naked shall I returne saith Iob we brought nothing with vs into the world saith the Apostle and here we finde nothing that we can call ours The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof they that feele the want of these things doe pray with appetite and feruour for them and therefore all of vs euen such as haue most must learne to know their miserable wants and necessities they all lye at the gates of God as Lazarus at the gates of the rich man desiring to be satisfied with the crums that fall from Gods table and except God doe both giue and blesse his gifts to vs wee must perish for want of bread euen they whose Barnes are fullest crammed whose Winepresses breake with plenty whose Tables are ouercharged with prouision whose stomacks are distent with their full feedings such is our misery that we all want both what we haue not and what we haue if God giue not our bread 2 When we say to our father giue which teacheth vs to know the right owner of these things euen hee whom Melchisedech calleth The most high God possessour of heauen and earth To whom else should wee say giue but to him of whom the Apostle saith euery good giuing