Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	3,599	5	11.3996	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85529	Gods deliverance of man by prayer. And mans thankefulnesse to God in prayses. In a sermon by reason of the lecturers absence in the Church of Saint Bartholmewes Exchange, on Ash-Wendesday [sic], at the generall fast, proposed. But at that time by a company of church intruders very rudely opposed. And now at this time, for the publike satisfaction of all men faithfully in print exposed. by I. G. D.D. Rector there.	Grant, John, d. 1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1520; Thomason E141_13; ESTC R7665	17,142	34

his Fatherly affections chayned And marke it he wills us to call upon him importunately but so resteth not hee prescribeth us formes of prayer in his sacred word puts the matter into our hearts and the very words and tearmes into our mouths Hence it is that the spirit by the Prophet is called the Spirit of grace and of supplication Zach. 12. 10. Hence that also of the holy Apostle The Spirit helpeth our infirmities for we know not what wee should pray for as wee ought but the Spirit it selfe maketh intercession for us with groaning which cannot bee uttered And hee that searcheth the heart knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Rom. 8 26 27. Alasse faulty and guilty are wee all of us and durst not without warrant and enablement approach unto our God the troubles on us would even overwhelm us and as it were keepe us from so much as looking up were we not thus amiably invited thereunto Call upon me in the day of trouble What troubles of ●●te have these three kingdoms under one Soveraigne been cast into Nay still are in and under Our sister Nation Ireland even weltreth in bloud and burneth in mutuall enragements none there secured of his life scarce for a moment and are not we or we ought to be surely even drowned in teares for them for them Yea and for our selves too who are in mutuall enragements and various suddaine uproares through our misaffections and misinterpretations and misconstructions of every thing bloudy mindednesse takes place in the most and the casting about how to entrap and enwrap one another in miseries is the common misery of us all what calumniations are vented printed uncensured unpunished what jealousies each gainst others are every where closely fomented Charity the badge of Christianity and coverer of what may be covered is from us exiled and who can bee most of all uncharitable is the thing every where laboured after By this shall all men know saith the patterne and Patron of Charity our Lord Iesus even by this shall all men know that yee are my Disciples if yee love one another Iohn 13. 35. But with sorrow and shame enough too may it now be said All men by this may know We are none of Christs Disciples that wee hate one another So raging so outragious so notorious is our mutuall hatred Many knotts tye us none will hold us being one to another eye-soares if not heart-soares As strangers are our enter-viewers not as compatriots our conferences differences our * protestations detestations Reformation is intended deformation even in our Church assemblies and most remarkably there and unblushingly practised O! into what Schismes do we runne Into what Sects are we dissected Assunder are we rent one from the other yea where men rope together it is but in a sandy manner the least motion dissipateth parteth the sandily roped together and commotions not usuall in this age Amsterdam England Beloved who so is not troubled with these troubles hath no life no soule of Christianity at all left in him These and the like considerations as diverse others there are ought to incite us unto constant and instant prayer amidst them all in throngs upon us of these Nations at this time let us I say pray that from us they may yet timely be removed that the full and finall blow from heaven decide not our controversies in so much rancor steeped O! that it were come to the Character of the Church Christians Primitive age Corunum via una One heart one way and till it come to that troubles will involve us and when it comes to that to all the world about us may we be a President and an encouragement thereunto mee thinkes the many manifold and manifest preservations of our God should frame us all as one Man to bring this about to bee exemplary Christians to the whole world round about us I shall recite but a few yet these pregnant and of fresh memory and remarkable observation Can that Octogessimus octavus mirabilis annus that wondrous yeare of 88. ever be forgotten It was the yeare of Englands preservation and of Spaines and Romes abasement trouble was on us and we rid of trouble ere we knew it was so neare nor must the yeare 97. passe unremembred Spaine then had a second blow and England a second triumph As formerly the Armado stiled invincible was ruined so then were their forces and policies too shamefully defeated and the English fleete for another purpose designed brought upon them by the windes to sinke them into the waters or bring them Captivated unto our Land Those fell out in the dayes of the Maiden Queene famous Elizabeth for peace at home and victory abroad renowned The next fell out in King Iames his Reigne in the yeare 1605. The powder Treason was an hellish plot contrived most strangely Heaven went beyond hell in the businesse and providence outreached divellishnesse entangled them who long had the trap ready to have ruinated Protestancy for ever In the yeare 1639. were not these two Nations in one Island under one King the present breath of our Nostrils put upon a mutuall internecion and is not that turned into a most blessed reunion We are both the wonder the envie of Popish Territories God even then preserving us when we were ready to be seized on as a prey unto mercilesse teeth and to the Sepulcher throates of the Pontifician generation amongst us no stories can more represent the vigilancy of mercy over any people then can ours as David when hee was to encounter Goliah the stripling shepheard that Tower of flesh loaden with Armes and Instruments of death said He that delivered me from the Lion and the Beare will likewise from this uncircumcised Philistine deliver me so may we say He that delivered us from such and such troubles is the same still is willing and ready to deliver us from our troubles incumbent and imminent all these intricacies we are in and all the hovering and surrounding mischiefes what ever If our prayers can but lay hold on Gods promises no troubles can trouble us Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee Will deliver thee Gods promises are as good as performances they are Yea and Amen in Christ unto Gods glory 2 Cor. 1. 20. Yea in the giving forth Amen in the performance certaine constant most firmly firme for evermore Our welfare and Gods glory are enwrapped in them No marvaile then is it that Prayer is so effectuall with God when by the heart hand mouth of faith unto him presented in the Name of Our Lord Iesus Christ when thus we are enabled to pray no marvaile that our prayer is to purpose effectuall No marvaile that God hearing Himselfe in us upon that audience giveth us deliverance in a way and manner to the whole world remarkeable And observe with mee that the Commandement Call upon me includeth

encouragement in our Text Call upon me in the day of trouble Had not wee this gratious warrant with small comfort should wee life up our drooping heads out of these depths by solemne Covenant we Christians are the selected people of God drawne out of the Masse of corruption to be the heyres of salvation The scope of our faith and the ayme of our Christian hope is to be joyned unto the God whom wee seeke to be undistractedly and unseparably his for ever in the Lord Iesus this life of ours is but momentany the life beleeved and expected is the life of eternity this is but a breathing after that now in our attendance by faith and hope on that blessed day of eternitie which shall not have any nights interposition God hath not left us to our selves but communicates himselfe to us to uphold us in that attendance by His Word addresseth He Himselfe to us and by our Invocation is he unto us open Seeke ye my face is His expression to us thy face wee doe seeke is our hearts faiths returned answer and practice a blessed harmony in harmonious blessednesse Psalm 27. 8. In the prophesie of Hosea we find this in an accurate way of expression set downe Thou shalt call me Ishai and not Baali chap. 2. ver. 16. Ishai not Baali My Husband not my Idolized Lord God will have us intire not divided halfe his halfe not his halfe the Idoll of our hearts what ever that Idol bee mungrell Religion is to the onely true God abominable Now goe wee on with the Prophet verse 18. and so forward for I will take away the name of Baalim out of her mouth And they shall no more bee remembred by their name And in that day will I make a Covenant for them with the Beasts of the field and with the fowles of the heaven and with the creeping things of the ground And I will breake the bow and the sword and the battle of the earth and will make them to lye downe safely and here comes in the Cordialnesse of the businesse I will betroth thee unto mee for ever yea I will betroth thee unto mee in righteousnesse and in judgement and in loving kindnesse and in mercy I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulnesse and thou shalt know the Lord And it shall come to passe in that day I will heare saith the LORD I will heare the Heavens and they shall heare the earth and the earth shall heare the corne and the Wine and they shall heare Iezreel and I will sow her to mee in the earth and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy and I will say to them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say thou art my God Gods promises and our prayers thence make sure worke indeed none like it Without the Word of God and that sounding and resounding in our eares with the ministeriall application thereof to our hearts by the spirits operation wee should live and dye in the grossenesse of ignorance and without Prayer also in humble and fiduciall manner put up unto our God in the merits and mediation of Iesus Christ wee should be hopelesse helplesse destitute altogether of the consolations from above the heavenly consolations in the times of afflictions disturbances feares That prayer is a most important part of our Religious service to God ward appeares in this most clearely that the sacred booke of God under those appellations of prayer and Invocation comprehendeth even the whole service of God Let that among the rest be deepely weighed and pondred in our hearts Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved Acts 2. 21. Gods whole worship is contained under this one phrase to call upon God no duty of godlinesse is to him more acceptable no sacrifice in better part taken then is that the calling on the name of the Lord is the open profession of him without dantednesse Gen. 4. 26. Where ever Abraham the Father and patterne of the faithfull where ever he came there erected he an Altar and called upon the Name of the Lord Gen. 12. 7 8. The house of prayer is the name of Gods house and God gave it that name by his Prophet Isaiah and our blessed Iesus ratifies it Preaching we have here and Sacraments we have here but prayer gives it the denomination as the major service of God and both implying and including all the rest needs must we all if there bee any ingenuity of Christianity in us needs must wee acknowledge prayer to bee a matter of the greatest consequence even upon this consideration deeply volved and revolved in our hearts that every soule to heaven-ward setled makes the recommendation of his spirit into the hands of God his practice uncessant as being in no hands late but his that of Davids is by frequency made his Into thy hands I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth Psal. 31. 5. Gods promises are the faithfulls encourgaments and in them presenting themselves to God acceptance is to them confidently assured Prayer is that hand which we reach and stretch forth unto our mercifull God to receive from him all his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Saint Iames calls them all his givings and all his good gifts his good givings and his perfect gifts In the hand of faith prayer is a key Heaven it openeth unto us and from Heaven enricheth us with the best of treasures our wounds layes it open to the right curer of them the binder up and exquisite healer of them all up carrieth it and dispreads before our piteous God the sobbings and groanings of our disturbed hearts in an humble and holy familiarity that will have no denyall no repulse of that force it is with God when put forth a right that it makes the rods and scourges of Gods correcting hand even fall there out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 powerfully his fatherly affections and removeth his justly conceived indignations Prayer in parties and in Families well ordered is the customary sacrifice is the Morning and Evening perfume of the devoutly Religious Let my prayer writes David bee set forth before thee as incense and the lifting up of mine hands as an Evening sacrifice Psalm 141. 2. Call upon me in the day of trouble Saint Paul utters it thus pray {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} without ceasing without fainting 1 Thes. 5. 17. What ever the troubles be Our Saviour thus Watch and pray that yee enter not into tentation Matth. 26. 41. As justly wee may and sufficiently wee cannot admire the goodnesse of our God daigning his word to addresse himselfe in speech to our capacities So are we to esteeme likewise that as an high and honourable favour that he will heare us in prayer and prayses approaching unto him giving way to our importunities nay even commanding us expresly to be importunate to such prayers yea only to such are his eares opened and