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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09758	The power of praier A sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of Exeter in August. 1596. By Thomas Playfere Professour of Diuinitie for the Ladie Margaret in Cambridge.	Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.	1603 (1603)	STC 20025; ESTC S119192	16,552	48

in the sight of God then that other which iustified himselfe So was it opened to S. Steuen He was brought out to be stoned But when he came forth the very stones could not knocke him so hard as his praier knockt heauen gate whē as he said Lord Iesus let me in Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Therefore the gate was opened vnto him He saw the heauen opened and Iesus standing at the right hand of God where he within a while after should sit himselfe So was it opened to king Dauid He knockt very imperiously not like a petitioner but like a commander Lift vp your heads O ye gates and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting dores that the King of glorie may come in Open vnto me the gate of the righteous that I may enter in and praise the Lord. And when the gate was opened as he was entring in he pointed to it and said This is the gate of the righteous the iust shall enter into it So was it opened to S. Paul He was cast downe into the very lowest dungeon All the chaines of darknes and euen hell it selfe could not haue held him faster then that dungeon did Yet at midnight when he praied knockt suddenly all the prison dores flew open yea all the dores of heauen likewise stood open and that which is most maruelous of all they stood so wide open that not onely S. Paul himselfe went in but also Stephanas the iayler and his whole houshold whome he at that time conuerted and baptized did enter in with him So that all all eternall things are ours and nothing nothing can preuaile against vs if we knocke as we ought Not the brasen gates of hell to shut vs in nor the golden gates of heauen to shut vs out For Christ hath said here Knocke and it shall be opened vnto you Thus much for the second part what God for our praier will performe to vs in these words And it shall be giuen you and you shall find and it shall be opened vnto you Now then my deere brethren giue me leaue I beseech you to speake vnto you me I say that am the seruant of God and your seruant for God as Naman the Syrians seruants said vnto him Father say they if the prophet had commaunded thee a great thing wouldst thou not haue done it how much more then when he saieth vnto thee Wash and be cleane Brethren say I if he that is more then a prophet had commanded you a great thing would you not haue done it how much more then when he saieth vnto you Wash and be cleane Aske and it shall be giuen you He desires to be desired And he ha's not his owne will except we haue ours But we may haue what we will for asking God doeth aske no more of vs but only that we would vouchsafe to aske him Doe no more saies he but aske and haue Doe no more but seeke and finde Doe no more but knocke and enter in O how easily yet howe powerfully doeth praier worke It ouercommeth all beastes The Leuiathan the strength of all Gods creatures was so subdued by praier that whereas otherwise he might haue beene a gulfe to swallowe vp Ionas quicke and for euer to deuoure him he became a shippe to saue him It ouercommeth all men Iacob giueth Ioseph one portion aboue his brethren which he got of the Amorites by his sword and by his bowe But the Chaldee Paraphrast translates it By my praier and by my supplication Which translation prooueth that praier is the sword and supplication is the bowe of a Christian wherewith he subdueth all his enemies It ouercommeth the deuill himselfe Praier and fasting are the cheifest meanes to cast him out If we resist him by praier he will flie from vs. Yea the most silly beast in all the forrest is not so much affrighted and amazed when a lyon roareth as this cowardly beast the deuill is daunted and terrified when a Christian prayeth What shall I say more It ouercommeth him that cannot be ouercome making the virgins son stoupe downe and condescend vnto vs. I pray thee let me goe saies he to one that wrestled with him all the night long by praier If thou wilt be a suter to God God will be a suter to thee If thou wilt pray vnto God God will pray vnto thee I pray thee saies he let me goe But what doeth Israel answer I will not let thee goe except thou blesse me No will It is not belike now as God will but as man will God is taken captiue by praier and become a prisoner to man and stands at his curtesie who saies I will not let thee goe except thou blesse me And that which is more then all this if more may be praier ouercommeth God not onely beeing well pleased as he was with Israel when any child may deale with him but also beeing displeased as he was with the Israelites when no man may come neere him when his wrath burneth as fire when he thunders from heauen and teares the clouds in peeces cleaues the rockes asunder and shakes sand and sea togither and makes the whole earth in a trembling fitte of feare flie away from him Yet if some Moses doe but stand vp in the gap and pray all this omnipotent power shall come to nothing god shall not be able though he be neuer so angrie to enter vpon the breach but praier shall haue the victorie get the conquest of him Wherefore beloued once againe I say let vs alwaies intrench our selues within this inuincible bulwark of praier Our whole life alas as we haue made it by sinne is most miserable There is no man aliue if he had knowne before he was borne what miseries would haue befallen him in this life but would haue wished I warrant you with all his heart that that which was the wombe of his birth had bin the tombe for his buriall But in all the calamities of this life our onely comfort is praier In all the afflictions of this life our onely fortresse is praier Praier whereby we are oftentimes in spirit with the Apostle rapt vp into the third heauen where we that are otherwise but wormes walke with the angels and euen continually talke with God Hence it is that holy men and women in former time could neuer haue enough of this exercise Nazianzen in his Epitaph for his sister Gorgonia writeth that shee was so giuen to praier that her knees seemed to cleaue to the earth to growe to the very ground by reason of continuance in praier Gregorie in his Dialogues writeth that his aunt Trasilla being dead was foūd to haue her elbowes as hard as horne Which hardnes she got by leaning to a deske at which she vsed to pray Eusebius in his historie writeth that Iames the brother of our Lord had knees as hard as cammells knees benummed bereiued of all sense and feeling by reason of continuall kneeling in prayer Hierom in the life of Paul the Eremite writeth that he was found dead kneeling vpon his knees holding vp his hands lifting vp his eies So that the very dead corps seemed yet to liue and by a kind of religious gesture to pray still vnto God O how happie and how blessed was that soule without the body when as that bodie without the soule was so deuout O that we may be that we may be likewise so happy and so blessed as this holy man was that we may depart hence in such sort as he did that is in such sort as Christ did who died in prayer saying Father into thy handes I commend my spirit that our lord when he cōmeth may find vs so doing that when we shall lie vpon our death bed gasping for breath readie to giue vp the ghost then the precious soule of euerie one of vs redeemed with the precious blood of Christ may passe away in a prayer in a secret and sweet prayer may passe I say out of Adam's body into Abram's bosome Through the tender mercies of Iesus Christ to whom with the father and the holy ghost be all honour and glorie power and praise dignitie and dominion now euermore Amen Finis Gloriosa in deum pietas honoribus regiis immobile est fundamentum Cyrillus ad Theodos. de recta fide a 2.17 b 1.14 c Eccles. 4.12 d 64.7 e Vt accenditur desideria Martial Epist. ad Tolos f Quo à nobis evidius desideratur eo de nobis suavius laetatur g Psal. 22.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuagint h Psal. 9.9 i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l Stro. l. 4. m Esa. 38.14 n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o 62 6. p Num. 22.4 q Ose. 14.2 r Cant. 4.16 s Psal. 119.131 t Num. 20.8 u Can. 8.13 x Aut per porticus deambulo aut de faenore cogito in dialog aduersus Lucifer Ipso in tempore quo eleuare mentem paramus insertis manibus cogitationibus ad terrena plerumque denicimur Ambr. de Fuga sicuti c. 1 citante August contra Iul. l. 2. y Iob. 1.20 z Esa. 29.13 a 1. Cor. 14.15 b Deut. 4.29 c Ierem. 29.13 d Medullatum sacrificium Psal. 66.15 e 4. Psal. f Inueni cor meum 1. Sam. 7.27 g Ecclesiasticus 18.22 h Psal. 11.1 h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 k Esa. 1.15 l Lam. 3.41 m Psal 241.3 n 1. Tim. 2.8 o Cant. 3.6 p Cant. 5.5 q r Exod. 17.5 s Iam. 5.17 t 4.3 u Aut praeter verbum peris 〈◊〉 propter ven●um non ●●tis x Aures eius in precious eprum Ps. 34.16 y Iosua 10.14 z Exod. 8.13 a Psal. 17.6 b Gen. 8.21 c Non add●m 〈◊〉 vt 〈◊〉 vos d Iudg. 10.16 e 2. Sam 12.13 f 2. Reg. 10.6 g Cant. 3.1 q Quaeite quod quaeritis sed non vbi quaeritis i Math. 11.29 k Prou. 2.5 l Esay 55.6 m Esay 65.1 n Math. 8.8 o Luk. 23.42 p Luk. 11.9 q 2. Chron. 1 1● r Luk. 〈◊〉 En quàm negare nollet qui sibi etiam neganti qualiter extorqueretur ostendit t Luk. 16.20 u Act. 3.2 x Psal. 44.23 y Psal. 12.5 z Luk. 18.13 a Act. 7.56 b Psal. 118.19 c Act. 16 26. e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 f Etiam cadaver mortui officioso gestu precabatur