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A12554 A paterne of true prayer A learned and comfortable exposition or commentarie vpon the Lords prayer: wherein the doctrine of the substance and circumstances of true inuocation is euidently and fully declared out of the holie Scriptures. By Iohn Smith, minister and preacher of the Word of God. Smyth, John, d. 1612. 1605 (1605) STC 22877.1; ESTC S117609 137,387 190

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had abundance Lazarus was scanted yet each of them had his bread euen a portion conuenient for him So that this last circumstance insinuateth vnto vs three vertues 1. Industrie which is in some honest calling to get our liuing with the sweate of our browes and not to walke inordinately yea though thou haue great liuing and possessions of thine owne For although it may seeme needles for him to labour which is wealthie yet indeede there is an ineuitable necessitie thereof For besides that God hath imposed this yoke vpon all in Adam to eate the labours of their hands and the sweate of their browes Genes 3.19 Psal 128.2 and so they which doe not labour walke inordinatly 2. Thes 3.10.7 viz. as a souldier out of his ranke the Apostle also saith that he which doth not labour should not eate Ephes 4.28 and one end of laboring in a calling is that we may haue the more to bestow vpon them that want therefore euen the King himselfe the Iudge and the Counsellor and the Minister is to sweate for his liuing though he dig not with the spade which is when the mind laboreth and trauelleth in thought and counsell and care and prouidence and instruction dropping as it were an inuisible sweate from the browes of the vnderstanding and the inward parts of the soule 2. Thankfulnes to the Lord that he hath restored to vs that interest which was lost through Adams fall that we may freely and with good conscience vse any part of the bread which is our owne not onely for our necessitie but euen for our moderate delight and comfort seeing that God hath giuen wine to comfort the heart Psal 104.15 and oyle to make the face shine Psal 23.5 and Dauid had his head annoynted with oyle 3. Contentment in our estate whatsoeuer seeing that is the best estate and that part of the bread is most fit and meete for vs for howsoeuer perhaps we doe not so thinke yet surely if wee finde in our selues the markes of Gods election and if we labour to obserue the worke of God vpon vs at that time wee shall be compelled to say from our owne experience that then God in wisedome saw such a portion was best for vs. Psal 119.71 These are the circumstances annexed to the bread 3 The supplication of the fourth petition Next in order followeth the third thing to bee obserued in the petition which is the Supplication the things therefore which wee here aske of God are these following First things generall whereof some are causes some effects causes are especially these sixe 1. Fruitfull seasons with all the meanes procuring them Deut. 28.12 as the first and latter raine frost and snow mist and dew and whatsoeuer other creatures God hath appointed for that purpose 2. The due simpathy of the creatures consenting together Hosea 2.21 as when the heauens heare the earth the earth heareth the corne wine and oyle and they heare Gods people 3. Wise and prouident Magistrates that may enact holsome lawes 1. Tim. 2.2 for the peaceable gouernment of the common-wealth and by lawfull and iust warre defend the subiect and countrie 4. Learned and conscionable Iudges and Lawyers that may iustly and mercifully execute iudgement Numb 16.16.26 accusing defending pleading and iudging according to the aforesaid good lawes 5. Valiant and Christian Captaines and Souldiers which may resolutely fight the Lords battels against his enemies 2. Sam. 23.39 such as were the thirtie seauen worthies in Dauids Kingdome 6. Conscionable and experienced and learned physitions for the health of the body Exod. 30.25 35.30.31 and generally all good manuary arts and trades with their skilfull professors which labour for the preparing of meate apparrell and their instruments and in making weapons for warre c. After the aforesaid causes follow certaine effects which we pray for in this petition 1. Peace when euery man may quietly sit downe vnder his vine and figtree when there is no leading into captiuitie Psal 144.84 no complaining in our streetes of women that leese their husbands or of orphanes leesing their parents in warre 2. Plentie that our sonnes and daughters may bee as the young plants which come vp thicke out of the ground that our garners may be full with corne Psal 144.13 Deut. 28.12 that our sheepe may bring foorth thousands and ten thousand and that we may lend and not borow 3. Health that there bee no feeble person among vs that our oxen also may bee strong to labour Psal 144.12 that our sonnes and daughters may bee as the polished corners of the temple The generals being numbred the specials followe which being handled before in the meaning of the words of the petition shall onely neede in this place to be shortly repeated 1. The staffe of bread or Gods blessing vpon the bread 2. Humilitie seeing God giueth vs the bread 3. Contentment with whatsoeuer estate we be in 4. Faith in Gods prouidence for things meete for vs. 5. Prouidence or moderate care for the time to come 6. Painfulnes and labour in our vocation and calling 7. Thankfulnes that God permitteth vs the vse of the bread 8. Ioy of heart at the outward prosperitie of others 9. Frugalitie or parsimonie to spare when we neede not spend 10. Liberalitie to bestow of our abundance to supplie others wants 11. Magnificence to bestow bountifully vpon Church or Common-wealth as in erecting Colleges Hospitals making high waies c. These are the principall things we pray for in this petition 4 The deprecation of the fourth petition The things that we pray against may easily be gathered by the contrary yet for plainnes sake it shall not be amisse for to number them thus 1. Vnfruitfull seasons as a wet and cold summer a hot and drie winter no raine no frost no snow c. 2. The Antipathie of the creatures when the heauen becommeth brasse and the earth iron c. Deut. 28. 3. Foolish childish and improuident Magistrates or tyrants that make pernitious and hurtfull lawes Esay 3. Eccles 10. 4. Vnlearned and wicked Iudges and Lawyers Esay 3. 5. Vnskilfull and vnconscionable Physitions as wise women Witches or Wizards professing Physick and Empiricks that gesse onely and want skill 6. Cowardly Captaines and dastardly souldiers when as tenne flie before one and a hundred before tenne c. 7. Warre 8. Scarsitie or famine 9. Sicknes as the plague or other mortall diseases epidemiall 10. Breaking the staffe of bread 11. Pride 12. Discontentment 13. Immoderate or no care for things needfull 14. Idlenes 15. Vnthankfulnes 16. Enuie 17. Couetousnes 18. Prodigalitie 19. All vnlawfull Arts and Trades to get bread 20. All gaming to get our liuing by 2. Thess 3.10 This also may suffice for the deprecation The thanksgiuing may easily bee collected out of the supplication and deprecation The thanksgiuing of the fourth petition for wee are to praise God for the