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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08173	The countesse of Mountgomeries Eusebeia expressing briefly, the soules praying robes. By Ro: Nevvton.	Newton, Robert, b. 1576.	1620 (1620)	STC 18509; ESTC S120357	27,852	151

but dust and ashes of our selues vnworthy to come in Gods presence Hee it is that is that Lambe of God that hath taken away the sinnes of the world Iohn 1.29 in whom alone god is vvell pleased Mat. 3.17 Who euer hath this golden Censor to offer vpon the golden Altar which is before the Throne of God in Heauen Reu. 8.3 4. the Prayers of the Faithfull that they beeing mingled with the sweet obours of his Intercession and Merits the smoke of them may ascend vp before God Reu. 8.3 Therefore Saint Paul giues a precept Col. 3.17 that whatsoeuer wee doe in word or deed whether it bee praying or praising or working the workes of this life or the workes of grace doe all in the name of the Lord Iesus giuing thankes to God the Father by Him For he it is alone in whose bloud the Saints wash their long vvhite Robes Reu. 7.14 through whom we haue accesse w th cōfidence vnto the Throne of grace who by himselfe hath purged our sinnes Rom. 5.2 and now sits on the right hand of the Maiestie of God to appeare now in the sight of God for vs. Heb. 1.3 Heb. 9.24 Erroneous therefore and derogatory to Christ is that doctrin that teacheth other Intercessors besides Christ 1. Ioh. 1.3 Iohn 14.13 1. Tim. 2.3 Heb. 7.25 1. Cor. 1.2 Acts 9.14 Since there is no name in Heauen Earth or elsewhere but the holy and reuerend name of Iesu onely in which wee can expect to be heard Therefore Onely in his name must this sacrifice bee made 7 I but though it bee made in the name of Christ to God alone according to his will with a liuely faith a feruent desire and a sound sence of want yet oftentimes wee see that Gods dearest children receiue many put-byes 2. Cor. 12.8 as Saint Paul when hee prayed and besought God thrice to deliuer him from the messenger of Satan And the woman of Canaan when for her Daughter shee followed Christ and in all humblenesse most lowly besought him and he would not heare her no nor so much as looke vpon her nay when his Disciples entreated for her and shee still continued her request in stead of Myrrh frō those sweet lippes of his came forth a bitter gall of distaste insomuch as hee spared not to call her Dogge Mat. 25.26 Therefore in offering this holy Sacrifice which so tends to the honour of God we must haue another thing as it were to conquer God when our prayers seeme not to pierce his eares And that sayth Christ is Continuance and Perseucrance in Prayer Luke 18.1 7 8. Whereto he exhorts vs by a Parable of a Widdow who by her importunitie wrested an vniust Iudge that neither feared God nor cared for man to auenge her of her Aduersary-Which Parable Saint Luke sets a note vpon That he did of purpose propound to this end that wee ought to pray and not waxe weary verse 1. though God suffer long before hee heare vs verse 7. This also he teacheth by his owne example in continuing fortie dayes fasting and praying in the Wildernesse Math. 4.1 and whole nights in the Mountaines Mat. 14.23 sequestring himselfe from all company Luke 16.12 By precept likewise Aske Seeke Knocke Mat. 7.7 And by another Parable of one that made his friend through his importunity Luke 11.8 to rise in the night to giue him Bread and lastly by promise Math. 7.7 Yee shall haue ye shall be heard ye shall finde the doore shall be opened In this Perseuerance we haue for Patters almost all the Worthies in Scriptures Gen. 32.24 Adam and Abraham Isaac and Iacob who all night wrestled with God in likenesse of a man and at last preuailed Exo. 17.12 Moses that would neuer giue out but when hee vvas weary had Aaron and Hur to hold vp his hands Iob and Danid Psal 69.1 2 3. Act. 2.1 the Church in Babylon the Apostles the Primitiue Church and all the Martyrs those Heroick braue Champions whose mouthes nor flames Theodoret Hist Eccl. Socrates Eusebius nor Lyons iawes nor any tortures could stop from powring out prayers and singing euen in their sharpest pangs till God and his Christ had gotten victory Saint Augustine reports of his Mother Monica Libris cō fessionum 5.7.8.9 that Noble Vertuous and Religious Matron that many yeeres together before God conuerted him shee spent whole nights in prayers and teares to God for him Lib. conf 3. c. 11. who as then was no better than an Idolatrous Pagan for 9. yeeres together as himselfe confesseth an hereticall Manichee De morib Ecc. Cath. l. 1. c. 18. And at last comming to a Reuerend Bishop Lib. confessionum 3. c. 12. with many teares often most instantly desiring him seruently to commend her Sonne vnto God Hee seeing her Teares her continuance her holy desires cheered her thus vp with this Noble comfort O happy Woman goe on a Gods name and bee of good comfort a sonne of so many teares is impossible to perish And not long after after so many prayers so many teares so many yeeres so much constancie feruency and continuance it pleased God hee became a Christian and one of the most vvorthy Fathers of the Church Many haue I knowne powre out their prayers with teares to God ten twenty yeeres together and I haue heard longer for the assurance of Gods loue towards them in Christ and yet all that while haue not had their desire Which God doth partly to try vs if wee will expect him with patience Psal 11.5 partly to sharpen vs the oftner and more feruently to inuoke him partly to Mat. 15.23 to the 28. to exercise his gifts in vs and yet in the end crowns his children with vnspeakable consolation in the meane time giuing them Humilitie and Patience and Strength to await him 8. The last Ornament in this Sacrifice of Prayer Psal 70.4 is the Crown of praise wherewith euery one must bee adorned that will perfectly offer their vowes to God A Crowne of so inestimable value that GOD preferres it before all the burnt offerings of Bullocks and Goats Psal 50. nay aboue the Incense of Sheba Psal 69.31 and the gold of Arabia And for that cause it vvas hee so dearely loued Dauid his Anointed Psal 96.98 100 101 148 149. for that the praise of his God was alwayes in his mouth and his tongue was euer telling of his righteousnesse Euery night was he singing of his mercies and of his truth and iudgements continually As there were three persons in the Trinity that blessed him so there were three parts in him by which hee returned his thankfulnes back againe his heart his tongue his hand And these three like the Heauens were alwaies in motion his heart musing his glory singing that was his tongue his hand warbling one while on the Lute then one the Cymballs anon on other