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friend_n	adversary_n	become_v	enemy_n	880	5	8.1602	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85035	A triple reconciler stating the controversies whether ministers have an exclusive power of communicants from the Sacrament. Any persons unordained may lawfully preach. The Lords prayer ought not to be used by all Christians. By Thomas Fuller, B.D.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2472; Thomason E1441_2; ESTC R202064	51,442	150

Spirit helping his infirmities Yea allow the Minister able strongly to go alone by himself without leaning on the Leage of any premeditate prayer to support him yet surely he may not onely lawfully but laudably degrade himself for the edification of others to use a set form of prayer We know how Jacob able to walk fast himself confined his feet to the pace of the Children and Ewes big with young Gen. 33. 13. he would not over-drive them Semblably a Minister endowed by God with the gift of extempore prayer may without any shame to himself and great profit to others go on pedetentim in a set form so to bring up the rear of his most lagging Auditours to go along with him the more knowingly from the beginning and close their Amen with him the more chearfully in the end of his prayer 2. Cavil It is not a prayer of it self but onely a pattern or draught by which other prayers are to be made therfore S. Mat. saith After this manner therefore pray ye It is both a pattern for prayer and a prayer in it self to all purposes and intents The Standard-Bushel which commonly is chained up in the Market place is not onely a Bushel to measure Bushels by all which ought to be adequate to the content thereof but also a Bushel to measure grain by it may chance of Wheat or of some other grain so this of our Saviour his prescribing is nevertheless a compleat and perfect prayer in it self although also it be a Model Type or Copy according to which for the essentials we ought to conform all our supplications Third Cavil I should be ashamed to set down as so weak and simple save that some in our dayes who pretend to judgement put it in not onely to swell a number but lay much stress on the strength thereof namely that Christ made it in his minority before he was arrived at his full perfection I answer as the folly of God is observed by the Apostle wiser than the wisdom of man and the weakness of God stronger then the strength of man so may I say that the minority of Christ was more than the majority his nonage than the full age his youth than the maturity of mankind Besides Christ was Luke 3. 21. about thirty years of age when he was baptised the prime conceived of mans life after which generally they impair rather than improve Yea besides the Original stock of perfection brought into the World at his birth he had already received a grand accession of the holy Spirit at his baptism Fourth Cavil There is nothing of a Saviour in this prayer It is but a legal Old Testament prayer whereas we are to ask all things in the name of Jesus no mention thereof herein As therefore some Jews have a diminitive opinion of the book of Esther because the word Jehova is not to be found in all the extent thereof on the same account we may justly ground an undervaluation of this prayer wherein the name of Jesus doth not appear which alone is so of the Quorum in all supplications that without it they cannot be presumed acceptable in the Court of Heaven Ans. The name of Jesus though not literally yet virtually and effectually is to be found in this prayer One cannot stir a step therein but in the very Porch of this prayer and at the very Threshold of this Porch he meets with Jesus a Saviour in those words our Father For fain would I know who wrought and brought this great and good alteration that God is beheld by us under so comfortable a notion How came in the Kindred whence sprang this our filial relation Man at his last parting with God when expulsed Paradise left him his adversary his enemy his enraged Judge whilest he himself was looked on as an Offendor and Malefactour Whereas now all things are become new Such who parted in anger meet in love of Foes are become Friends Yea Father and Sons Our Father Now none effected this change save Jesus Christ by his mercifull Mediation Is not the hand of our Savour clean through this prayer Wherefore as some Physicians give not in their receipts the bulk and mass of Herbs and Drugs but onely their Spirits or their infusions which though not so great in quantity are easier in the taking and stronger in the working so in this prayer though neither the name of Jesus Messiah or Christ is therein used yet the powerfull influence of both and soveraign effect is obvious to every judicious eye causing our confident and familiar addresses to God under the relation of a Father Fifth Cavil The prayer is too short it is not comprehensive enough of all mens necessities which ought to be represented therein It is too narrow as not adequate to the emergencies of all occasions The Merchant wanteth a clause therein for prosperous Gales to drive his Ship to a safe Haven and gainfull market The Souldier wants a clause to cover his head from danger and crown it with victory in the day of battel The Husband man discovereth a defect because no express therein for seasonable weather The unmarried want a Petition for loving Husbands dutifull Wives and the married for the continuance of the goodness or amendment of the badness of those to whom they are coupled Ans. First in general Whereas some finde fault with the shortness of the prayer know length of prayer is made a crime in Scripture but never the brevity thereof charged on any as a guilt Matth. 23. 14. Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for you devour Widows houses and for a pretence make long prayers Neither length nor shortness is any whit considerable to the acceptableness thereof but the thickness of a prayer when it is not empty and hollow within but well filled with Faith in the heart and middle thereof One bought a Map of the whole world and being himself an Athenian Cavilled at the Map as imperfect and defective meerly because his own house in Athens was not presented therein Whereas the whole draught being not above a yard square it fell to the proportion of all Europe not to be a full foot All Greece not to be a full span Attica to be but a little spot and Athens to be a very speck therein so impossible was it that his invisible house should appear As his causeless Cavil betrayed him ignorant in Geography so their exception discovereth their weakness in Divinity who expect a prayer to particularize every mans necessities What was said by the way of Hyperbole of our Saviour that if all things which he did and spake were written the World were not able to contain them may it not be literally spoken here the World that is none of the men therein could contain so voluminous a prayer descending to the minutes of all mens wishes and wants No memory so tenacious as to retain it no voice so strong as to pronounce it Now although the