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A00778	A profitable exposition of the Lords prayer, by way of questions and answers for most playnnes together with many fruitfull applications to the life and soule, aswell for the terror of the dull and dead, as for the sweet comfort of the tender harted. By Geruase Babington. With a table of the principall matters conteyned in this booke.	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1588 (1588)	STC 1090; ESTC S101499	244,374	582

euer and therfore you shal continue if you continue to pray to beleeue to obey and to serue him Let all the feends in hell goe shake their eares Humblings are good for the Lords chosen and he knoweth what is best for euery sonne or daughter Welcome his schoolings when he sendeth them indure them patiently tary the Lordes leasure for your lightning Yet euer know his word what it assureth Hee that commeth vnto mee I neuer cast away the Lord support our weaknes Thus might I in this treatise of inward aduersities touches trials run a great course for the field is wonderful wide but I must content my selfe These may serue to shew that the worde is a salue for our grieuous sores and to lead such as shall be desirous of further Phisike into the greene pastures where is plentie of helpe Sée and gather apply and vse the Lord will blesse his holy ordinance euer as shalbe best Your order leadeth you next to particular aduersities outward And if I or any man shoulde speake of them as we might when or where should we find an end For howe many are the troubles of the righteous Yet the Lord deliuereth them out of all For myne owne part I haue found in two righteous men so much as iustly maketh me to thinke that the troubles of all Gods children bee in déed very many I meane Iob Dauid whose troubles and tryals if they be perused carefully obserued and often thought vppon they may strengthen and comfort most men euen in their particulars For what might it be that the Lord layeth vpon vs which he layed not vpon these his deere ones before and may be found in them besides numbers mo both in Scripture and other histories recorded to vs. Many will say O my life is vncomfortable and full of sorrow and heauines griefe and vexation one after an other When as others haue their pleasures and heartes ease and more ioy in a day than I haue in a yeere And what if it please God so doth hee deale any otherwise with you than he doth with those whome hee loueth truely and euen to the ende doeth not Iob complayne that his soule was euen powred out vpon him and the dayes of affliction had taken holde of him That sorowe pearced his very bones in the night and his sinewes tooke no rest that for the great vehemency his very garmēt was changed c. That his harpe was turned to mourning and his Organs into the voyce of them that wept Yet I hope you know God hated not his seruant Iob for all this I pray you also remember Dauid with heauy heart and mournfull voyce making his mone to his sweetest God in these words O Lord heare my prayer let my cry come vnto thee Hide not thy face from mee in the tyme of my trouble incline thine eares vnto mee when I cal make hast to heare me Why Dauid what is the matter or what doeth vrge this wofull crye O Lorde my dayes are consumed like smoke my bones are burnt like an hearth Myne heart is smitten and withereth like grasse because I forget to eate my bread for the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skin Surely I haue eaten ashes as breade and haue mingled my drinke with weeping And so forth reade more of the Psalme your selfe And remēber euer Dauid was a man according to Gods own hart for al this humiliatiō layd vppon him at tymes Forget it not also when you sit and say litle what was answered to that pamperling of the worlde when he was in it Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receyuedst thy pleasures and likewise Lazarus paynes nowe therefore is hee comforted and thou art tormented It is not the best meat euer that hath so sowre a sawce commonly Neither that light affliction so greatly to be abhorred which being but for a moment in comparison causeth vnto vs farre most excellent and an eternal waight of glory Wo be to you that now laugh sayth our Sauiour Christ for yee shall wayle and weepe and blessed are yee that weepe nowe for you shall laugh what sweeter speech can my soule wish to bee my comfort if my life bee not so comfortable Had I rather nowe laugh hereafter weepe then nowe weepe hereafter laugh not for dayes or yeeres but for euer and euer I will let the Phisition of my body a sinfull man mingle my cup as best pleaseth him for my health and drink that sowre sup in hope of ease thereafter but my God and father my Christ and Sauiuiour the life of my soule shall not doe so for the good thereof but full wantonly I will make my choyse my selfe and sweete sweete all must bee or else I will weepe to drinke it Alas this is not well Be it vnto vs as he will And great is his fauour euer when wee drinke of no worse cup than his owne selfe hath begun of to vs. If you read the 21. of Iob you shall see y t this florishing estate in this world that so many wish and some in weakenes and ignorance wayle to want is not so comfortable to the conscience desiring hope of future good as that we should be so greedy of it And therefore if the Lord deale otherwise with vs rest vppon his wisedome vpon his loue testified by the greatest gift that euer was giuen the death of his onely and deare Sonne Christ Iesus vppon his practise with his children euer and be content Christ dipped the soppe that he gaue to Iudas and did loue him therefore God giue vs dry breade with his fauour rather then dipped and daintie soppes with his yre As many as hee loueth he rebuketh and chastiseth and loued Lazarus had neuer a sop at all but would haue bene glad of the crummes that fell from the rich mans table Some againe are disdayned contemned in their places where they liue dwell or serue and they cannot beare it Contempt is bitter and soking themselues in this sowre meditation they thinke O Lord why shoulde I be thus vsed more than others what do I or say I that ought not or might not receiue as fauorable face as other men find surely the Lord loueth me not c. But god forbid say I to this conclusion For it followeth not vpon the premisses and therefore the argument a subtill deuils and not a true Gods And I prooue it to my comfort by these two seruants of God agayne Iob and Dauid The first complayning that they that were yonger than hee mocked him yea they whose fathers he refused to set with the dogges of his flockes that is to bee his shepheardes or to keepe his dogges They abhorred him fled far from him and spared not to spit in his face Yea sayth he I am their byword and as it were a Tabret before them Surely a great contempt and greater I thinke

it be read and heard with sobrietie specially because of those Machabées that suffered so cruell torments for the law of God Wherfore by his owne words now on both sides repeated Augustines minde is playne namely that these bookes alleadged in proofe of faith they are not Canonicall but to be read vnto the people in the Church for example of life in this sence saith hee they are Canonicall and may be thus read so that they be read soberlie And what is this but that which other Fathers haue also saide as Ierome The Church readeth the storie of Iudith the booke of Tobie and the bookes of the Machabees but y e same Church receiueth not these bookes as the Canonicall Scriptures Cyprian Haec omnia legi quidem in ecclesijs voluerunt nō tamen proferri ad authoritatem ex his fidei confirmandam All these writings our Fathers haue allowed to be reade in the Church yet not to be aleadged for authoritie to confirme the doctrine of our faith Wherefore to goe no further in this you see our reasons why wee allow not any proof of doctrine out of those bookes and therefore not of prayer for the deade Other reasons moe are aleadged by the godlie learned and ●ight by mee now but that these suffice here Next our answere toucheth the matter it selfe and we say that prayer for the dead sought to be proued out of this place of the Machabees is contrarie to the rest of the Scriptures and therefore we dare not allowe it For no trueth and lawfull thing is contrarie to any Scripture but agreeable as receiuing warrant and lawfulnes thence Secondlie that though Iudas had so done which is not likelie he did howsoeuer this place hath béene corrupted to that ende because it is contrarie to the custome of the Iewes euen to this day to pray for the deade yet this particular example is not sufficient to establish a doctrine no more then Zipporalis was to prooue that women may administer the Sacraments or the example of Razis that one might kill himselfe whome this author so much commendeth And therefore concluding since neyther by this place nor by anye Scripture this preposterous loue to the dead to pray for them can finde sure warrant wee desire that it may hartelie bee thought of how ill it becommeth any that professe a desire to please God which commaunded obedience and not with traditions of men or deuices any whatsoeuer either of their owne heades or of any others And thus much of it Sufficient then beeing sayde of these circumstaunces of Praier will you now proceed to the forme it selfe prescribed of our Sauiour Content And first consider what a gracious goodnesse this was in the Lorde our God to laie downe a forme for vs. That we not able to see the bottom of our wants our selues neyther in what wee doe see to take such course as becommeth speakers to so great a GOD by his owne mouth wee might be directed both in the one and the other to our great comfort and assuraunce that keping our selues within the compasse of this forme our prayer shoulde bee to the Lordes good liking and therefore wee obtaine what we aske according to his will Without a forme we might haue wandred to our greate harme asking many times things hurtfull if not so yet things lawful not in forme lawful which also had ben euill And if Heathens saw the nakednesse of men for want of such direction lette vs Christians see Gods mercie and our owne great good by this directiō Plato we know espying the ignoraunce of men in making their prayers to God for that many times they sought what graunted woulde hurt them sayd this was a good fourme O Iupiter Rex optima nobis et vouentibus et non vouentibus tribuae Mala autem poscentibus quoque abesse iube That is O Iupiter king giue vnto vs the best things whether wee aske them or no. And all euill things command awaie from vs though we aske them Wherein we may see howe daungerously they groped in a great darknesse for want of a forme and were faine for safetie to praie thus generally whereas we nowe plainly are taught how to praie more particularly and yet still truly Wherfore see I say ●●rst Gods great mercie our great good by hauing this forme layed down vnto vs. Then touching the forme it selfe which our Sauiour hath layed downe it consisteth of three principall partes First of a preface secondly of the petitions themselues and lastly of a conclusion The preface in these wordes Our Father which art in heauen The petitions in order after The conclusion thus for thine is the kingdome the power and the glory for euer euer Amen The first part which is the Preface short in wordes but plentifull in matter is so layd downe by the wisdom of the Lord Iesus as that euery word carryeth his waight and bringeth to vs in vse thereof most singular profite The first is Father by which name we are taught to speake vnto our God when wee pray vnto him and see the vse There is no prayer as we well know and before hath bene declared that can pearce the eares of the almightie God vnlesse it be made both in affection and faith Affection hath his want great too great often in our corruption therefore in mercy of a gracious GOD helpes and meanes prouided for it This is one euermore to consider to whome I pray and to whome I speak namely not to a seuere and sower Iudge not to a cruell and mercilesse tyrant not to a stranger that knoweth me not or hath no aliance with me but to a Father yea in Iesus Christ nowe my Father a kinde a louing a good a tender Father who looketh vpon me with bowels of mercy and pittie sigheth for me before I come runneth out when I doe come meeteth me embraceth mee falleth about my necke with his armes wéepeth vpon me in melting motions of louing kindnesse heareth me speake weigheth my sute whether it may be my good can as sone in conclusion cease to be God as denie me any thing y t may be my benefite And O then y e affection y t we may pray with if we cōsider this name of Father My soule may thirst my heart may long yea burne and burst as it were within me w t desire euer to come to my Father for he is euer a Father hath euer the nature of his name though I bee vile And therfore let vs take the vse intended by the Lord in this giuen title praie cheerefully with sweete comfort in the conceit of whome wee speake vnto euermore When affection then is thus kindled and stirred vp looke at faith in the next place which also must concurre with it or else in vaine we praie and obtaine nothing This knew our Sauiour well and therfore euen to this end also hath taught vs to saie and praie in the name