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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

shall dye in our sinnes who then shall haue pitty on vs 7 If we forgiue not as we would be forgiuen will he not say to vs Oughtest not thou to haue forgiuen thy fellow seruant as I forgaue thee and he will require the vtmost farthing of our debt of vs. 8 If he leade vs into temptation and suffer our owne corruptions to guide vs or Sathans temptations to preuaile against vs how shall we be able to keepe faith and a good conscience 9 If hee doe not either preuent euils comming or support in euils incumbent or deliuer vs out of them how can we subsist in them Therefore our double Amen is requisite in all these 1 Signaculum sidci that we beleeue a necessitie of obtaining all these for Gods glory and our good 2 Votum desiderij that wee expresse an earnest and feruent desire to preuaile with God in all these 1 We must pray that his name may bee hallowed that 2 We may be partakers of his kingdome 3 We must desire that his will may be done that we may eate of his bread 4 We must desire forgiuenesse of sinnes past and protection against all after temptations that we may be deliuered from all euils of punishment and that Sathan may not touch vs. Leaue out nothing hee is our father of whom wee aske and he hath a full hand and our prayers will open it They whose hearts doe say Amen to some part of this prayer and their zeale tooleth in the rest obtaine nothing of God but pro corona fidei they haue poenam perfidiae How many be there in the world that cry heartily panem nostrum quotidianum and libera nos a malo who neither care for the name the kingdome nor the will of God they neither feele any inconuenience in sinne nor feare rather like temptations which haue a pleasing relish Like those that dye with tickling Others presse the first petition slightly concerning the name of God because they are profane and sweare by it They will allow God a kingdome and take it away by disobeying his will Bread they would haue but they thinke much to bee limited to aske for the day They like the forgiuenesse of their owne sinnes but not the sicut nos They feare not temptation euils they deprecate But Amen to all is our lesson 3 Amen to the conclusion i. In faith beleeuing kingdome power and glory to be his Amen So is it In zeale desiring that God may euer haue all due ascriptions Amen So be it 3 By whom it must be said All that pray must say Amen for as we pray one for another so one with another We haue one God one faith in that God one Baptisme into that faith one Eucharist the seale of the couenant one word the rule of faith and manners one prayer and one Amen They that bring their bodies without their hearts doe increase the company but they doe not mend the quire Cardinall Bellarmine confesseth vsum respondendi Amen antiquissimum in ecclesia But to come to Church onely to heare prayers and not to pray to pray and not to seale it with an Amen is to prophane the seruice and worship of God We are or should be an holy Priest-hood to offer vp vnto God the sacrifice of praise and the incense of prayers with one voyce one heart as Zeph. saith with one shoulder Multorum preces impossibile est contemni So all the congregation and euery part of it must say Amen to all the prayers and to euery petition of them And that was the reason why our holy Church did so dispose of the common prayers that the people should haue their part in sundry short eiaculations that their deuotions might be set a worke to ioyne with the Minister whereas in other reformed Churches the congregation hath nothing to say but Amen This was so well obserued in the Church in Saint Ieromes time that the people made the Church ring againe with the loud voyce of their ioynt Amen hee saith ad similitudinem coelestis tonitrui reboauit And the Iewes of old in their Synagogues did redouble it Amen Amen 4 How we must say Amen Caninius in voces novi testamenti saith there is 1 Amen pupillum a non intelligentibus 2 Surreptum spoken in hast before the prayer ended 3 Otiosum of them that minde it not 4 Iustorum and that must be said 1 With knowledge They that know thy name will trust in thee If we know what we pray for Who is the giuer of it For whose sake we aske it For what vse What need we haue say Amen heartily They that pray in a strange tongue pray without knowledge therefore God will say to the Church of Rome nescitis quid petatis They that say this prayer and vnderstand it not sinne as much in Our Father as they in Pater noster If God should say to them as Philip to the Eunuch intelligis quid dicis would they not say how can I without a teacher You haue beene taught take heed that you learne for All ignorant deuotion is no better then taking the name of God in vaine 2 Amen must be said with the spirit These two vnderstanding and the spirit must not be parted in our prayers I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the vnderstanding also As the Hart panteth after the water brookes so panteth my soule after thee O God So O God thou art my God early will I seeke thee my soule thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is This spirit is willing though the flesh be weake Our prayer is directed to him who is called the God of spirits who is also a spirit and to be serued in spirit and in truth This is the holy fire from Gods Altar which inflameth deuotion euen the zeale of this spirit this fireth the incense of our prayers and makes them ascend The Amen of the lips is thus welcome to God Populus hic honorat me labijs But let our soules and all that is within vs say Amen euen the hid man of the heart and God will answer vs with his Amen 3 Amen with faith Three things there are in God for faith to fasten on 1 Quia fidelis Dauid vrgeth him vpon that point Heare my prayer O Lord giue eare to my supplications in thy faithfulnesse answere me We pray in confidence of Gods promise for hee is faithfull that promised Saint Peter calleth him a faithfull Creator Commit the keeping of your soules to him in well doing as vnto a faithfull Creator 2 Quia potens We may say boldly with the paralitike Domine si vis potes me mundum facere Apud deum nihil est impossibile Omnia tibi seruiunt Amen may rest in that power which ruleth ouer all and doth quicquid vult 3 Quia volens The first compellation in this prayer is proofe enough of this quia

faith 1 For the want of faith It is true that the faith of the elect cannot faile finally or totally 1 For the foundation of God is sealed with this seale the Lord knoweth who are his 2 The grace of election is the gift and calling of God and his gifts and calling are without repentance 3 Whom he loueth to the end he loueth them 4 His promise I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee 5 His gift he hath giuen the elect to his sonne and no man shall take them out of his hands 6 Christ prayeth for them I pray for those whom thou hast giuen me But the euill that we may suffer herein is our want of faith to beleeue that we are of that number for the conscience accuseth vs and layeth our sinnes in order before vs and sheweth vs the wages of this sinne to be death Iob was in this distresse when he complained How many are mine iniquities and sinnes make me to know my transgressions and my sinne Wherefore hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thine enemy In this distresse was Dauid when he said in the bitternesse of expostulation Will the Lord cast off for euer and will he be fauourable no more Is his mercy cleane gone for euer doth his promise faile for euermore Hath God forgotten to be gratious hath he in anger shut vp his tender mercies What greater euill can there be then this it is vinum furoris a cup of vinegar and gall Dauid was in the very pit when he prayed Let not the deepe swallow me vp and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me This euill we pray God to diuert from vs that our faith may not faile vs though our feeling doe and because the best of Gods seruants on earth may haue some of these cold shaking fits of feare Christ hath put this petition in our mouthes libera nos a malo 2 Another euill in the state of a Christian is presumption when we make too bold with our God this is not faith but the corruption of it corruptio optimi pessima O keepe thy seruant from presumptuous sinnes so shall I be innocent from the great offences 1 As presumption is a sinne in act we pray against it in Dimitte nobis debita nostra As it is a sinne that we feare to be comming on by our corrupt nature inclining vs to it so we pray against it in ne nos inducas 3 But we must consider presumption as it may bee a punishment a rodde of God to scourge vs for some other sinne and so we pray to be deliuered from it in this petition This presumption whether it build too much vpon the experience of Gods former fauour as Dauid dixi in corde meo nunquam mouebor tu domine c. Or if it let goe the hold that it hath vpon God and rest it selfe vpon some way of our owne as in our Paradise Parents who found a tricke to better their owne creation by being like to God poena est Generally it pleaseth God to punish one sinne by another as wee haue great and full examples Saint Paul saith that the people falling into idolatry Therefore God also gaue them vp to vncleanenesse through the lusts of their owne hearts to dishonour their owne bodies betweene themselues and againe For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections So when Dauid waxed wanton of his peace and prosperity and begunne to forget God God gaue him vp to vncleanenesse to defile his body with adultery and after that to hide it with murther so did he Peter for sinning in presumption of the strength of his faith to resist Sathan God gaue him vp to the deniall of his Master and to maintaine that with swearing and protestation Against this we pray deliuer vs from euill that euill of sinning which draweth on and increaseth sinne till it make it out of measure sinfull for there is such a concatenation of sinnes that if God leaue vs in one sinne and heale not our soules he whose name is Legion because they are many will soone bring in seuen spirits worse then the former 2 A malo i. a diabolo He is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He compasseth the earth to and fro as he confesseth in Iob and he goeth about saith Saint Peter like a roaring Lyon seeking to deuoure and Saint Paul saith to the Corinthians I feare lest by any meanes as the Scripture beguiled Euah through his subtilty so your minde should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 1 The furie of this violent enemie is to be feared for though his power be so limited that without leaue he cannot hurt vs yet his malice is such to vs that he will neuer giue ouer his prouocation of vs to ill by his temptations and his accusation of vs to God for our offences therefore he is called The accuser of the brethren The Apostle doth expresse him formidable when he putteth a Christian to it to put on the whole armour of God to defend vs against him For the power of Sathan is to flesh and bloud inuincible it cannot resist him whereas the greatest force of flesh and bloud hath beene by flesh and bloud resisted and subdued The great sonnes of Anak the mightie Goliah and his brethren whole armies of valiant men haue beene put to the worst but Sathan was neuer conquered by meere man 2 The malice of Sathan to mankinde is implacable for he hateth God and the image of God in man makes matter of vnreconcileable malignity there is no safety in yeelding to him whom he kisseth he betrayeth for he is a murtherer from the beginning 3 The cunning of Sathan is unmatchable for man he is the old Serpent and he hath his wiles as the Apostle calleth them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fraudulent circumuentions pretensed to be the wayes wherein we ought to walke flesh and bloud cannot ouer-reach him And to aduance his cunning he is 1 Inuisible for he is about vs vnseene 2 He is priuy to all our words and workes 3 He is vnwearied in his watch 4 Not hindered in his passage to and fro being a spirit quicke of motion 5 Assisted with innumerable angels of darkenesse nimble mormies to negotiate for him Who would haue suspected the deuill in the bosome of Iudas Iscariot or in the mouth of Peter yet Adam met with him in the faire-spoken tongue of Euah and was beguiled by him Therefore we haue cause to pray heartily and continually deliuer vs from the euill one 3 Deliuer vs à malo quod meriti sumus we haue deserued punishments of our sinnes here in our bodies in our soules in our goods in our good name in our life the second death euen the nethermost hell against all these we pray Libera nos Domine Generally we deprecate all afflictions of body and minde which follow sinne as the punishment of it for there is no punishment in it selfe good