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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29527	Prayer and praise, a two-fold tribute to be payed by all loyal subjects to their supream and subordinate soveraign a subject entred upon April 23, 1661, being the day of the solemn inauguration of King Charles the II and finished the Lord's Day following / as it was delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth by John Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4724; ESTC R35787	29,831	38

hands agreed And so shall I look upon this passage in it which I have now in hand Which acquaints us with a two-fold Tribute due as unto Solomon so unto Christ Prayer and Praise Prayer Prayer also shall be m●de for him continually Praise And daily shall he be praised Be●in we with the former Prayer also shall be made for him continually Wherein again as before I did I shall take notice of those two particulars The Tribute it self Prayer And the Time when and how oft it is to be payed Continually Touch upon them severally 1. The Tribute it self Prayer Prayer also shall be made for him But what Prayer made for him for Christ How can this be What doth he stand in n●ed of our Prayers that men upon Earth should make prayers for him being in Heaven Here t●e Iew● fall foul upon us Christians and jear us tha● we should expound this Psalm concerning our M●ssia who if he be what we believe him God how then can this passage agre● unto him that prayers should be made for him What pray for our God Prayers are to be put ●p to him not fo● him For answer to this True it is as it is with Saints and Angels so much more with Iesus Christ he being ascended into Heaven and sitting at the right hand of his Father Crowned with Honour and Glory having all Power given to him in Heaven and Earth He is far from needing the assistance of men or any other Creature● He needeth not our prayers we have need and that continuall need of his of his Intercession which he maketh for us as the Apostle tells us Rom. 8.34 But he hath no need of ours no more then the greatest Monarch upon Earth hath to receive an Alms from the poorest Peasant But though he hath no need of them as to his own person yet his Kingdom hath his Church which is as it were a part of himself his Body whereof he is the Head He is the Head of the Body the Church Col. 1.18 his Mystical Body Which in re●ard of the near relation it hath to him is called sometimes by his N●●e as 1 Cor. 12.12 As the Body is one and hath many members c. So is Christ. And again Gal. 3.16 Now to Abraham and to his Seed were the promises made c. which Seed is Christ meaning the Mystical Body of the Church whereof Christ is the Head and his Elect People the Members Now though he being the Head is out of the reach of our prayers so as that they should be made for him yet so are not his Members here upon Earth And up●n that account prayers may fitly be said to be made for him being made for his Kingdom For which all hi● Subjects are to pray So they are taught by Him himself in that Patern and Form of prayer which he hath left them After this manner pray ye Hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come Matth. 6.10 The Kingdom of God the Government whereof is committed to Jesus Christ as Mediatour this are his Subjects to pray for His Kingdom his Kingdom of Grace his Kingdom of Glory which are not properly two Kingdoms but two different states of the same Kingdom And for both these are prayers to be made 1. For his Kingdom of Grace his Church upon Earth which is visible invisible Visible in the Nations of the World Invisible in the hearts of his Elect People Both these are Christians to pray for 1. For his visible Kingdom for which they are chiefly to ●eg two things Preservation Augmentation both which are to be effected by the Power of Christ. 1. Preservation that it may be continued here upon Earth which it shall be to the end of the Wo●ld being defended and maintained by the power of Jesus Chris● against all the Enemies of it whether Men or Devils So he tell● Pe●er in that known Text Matth. 16.18 Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church and th● Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Upon this Rock not the rock Confessing but Confessed not upon Peter but upon that Confession which he had then made ver 16. Thou art Christ the Son of the living God upon this Rock ●aith he I will build my Church as I have already laid the foundation of it so will I ●arry on the building upholding and preserving it so as the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against i● that is all the pow●r and policy of Satan and his Instruments alluding to the custom of antient times w●●rein the Gates of Cities were the chief places of strength and the ●●sual meeting places for the holding of Councels let them plot and contrive and attempt what they will yet shall they not so far prevail against the Church as to destroy it to extirpate and root it out from off the Earth still Christ will have a visible Kingdom here upon Earth And for this are all his Subjects ●o pray that this his Kingdom may be thus continued Which whilst they do they may be said to make prayers for him 2. And a● they are to pray for the Preservation so for the Augmentation as for the continuance so for the increase and inlargment of this Kingdom of Christ that his Kingdom may come that his S●●pter may be lifted up his Government advanced his Church inlarged that it may be made a glorious Church So it shall be in the latter dayes For which we have many promises and those very clear and full As among other that of the Prophet Esay Chap. 2. ver 2 3. repeated by the Prophet Micah in the same terms M●e 4.1 It shall come to passe in the last dayes that the Mountain of the Lords House shall be established in the top of the Mountains and shall be exalted above the Hills and ●ll Nations shall flow unto it In the last Dayes in the Gospel-times the dayes of the Messiah the last Age of the World The Mountain of the Lords House the Church whereof Moun● Sion upon which the Temple was built was a Type Shall be established in t●e top of th● Mountains and exalted above the Hills it shall be settled and exalted being in the spiritual glory of it advanced far above all secular States and Kingdoms in the World And all Nations shall flow unto it ●●ws and Gentiles out of all parts of the World shall by whole Flocks and Sho●ls come in and joyn themselves to the Church embraci●g of the Gospel and submitting the●selves to the Government of Christ. And as it there followeth ver 3. M●●y People shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord to the House of the God of Iac●b and he will teach us of his wayes and we will walk in his path● This shall the People of the Iews do as among many other that Text of the Prophet Hosea clearly fore-telleth it Hos 3.4 The Children of Israel shall abide many dayes without a King