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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	cloud_n	earth_n	rain_n	2,189	5	9.5355	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06068	Two godly and fruitfull treatises the one, vpon the Lords prayer. The other, vpon the sixe principles. Both penned by that learned man, Paul Baine, sometimes preacher of Gods word at S. Andrewes in Cambridge.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1649; ESTC S115503	46,776	286

of the high excellency of God How slow of heart are we that we are not raised vp higher then these earthly things when we are to deale with our God glorious in the heauens Why do wee dread and trust in the power of mā not awing nor hauing confidence in this power when the power of euery creature higher then the earth is vnresistable by it as what power of flesh can resist the least cloud frō dropping his raine the least starre from sending forth his light and influence What a power is this of the Creator of al these things who dwelleth in glorie aboue them Let vs therefore considering this heauenly glory our Father hath grow vp to more reuerence deuotion and affiance towards him Now follow the petitions in which I will obserue this order First to open the phrase of them where it is needfull Secondly to shew the contents of euery petition Thirdly considerations how we may feelingly come to make our seueuerall requests to God Fourthly the cōclusions which may be drawne from them Hallowed be thy Name Name is put here for God by name or any other wayes notified that is made knowne to vs Name put for the person named as Acts 1.15 by a Metonymie of the adiunct and so named one kind of manifesting a person for all other by a Synecdoche Hallowed here signifieth to be manifested and acknowledged holy as wisdome is iustified of her children so declared to be and approoued of those that embrace her The summe is that God wold so worke that himselfe howsoeuer made knowne by titles word or works may be discerned of vs as holy and so confessed and accordingly respected of vs that God would effect this that himselfe may be more and more honored of vs who are his chosen and in all others that are the children of destruction First then here we aske that God would worke all such things as may be matter of his praise whether they be good things towards his children or iudgements vpon the wicked For thus God doth honour himselfe when he doth such things before vs vpon which we take occasion to honour him Hence it is that he will win honor to his Name in deliuering his children and when he inflicted that iudgement on Aarons sonnes he said he would be glorified in such as come neare him if he might not haue it from them he wold haue it in them by sending such iudgments on them as might be matter of his glorie Secondly we aske of God to refraine the bringing of such things vpon vs which might make wicked ones take occasion to prophane his Name For when God saith he will not pollute his Name among the heathen by the vtter extinguishing of his people he doth teach vs that the giuing occasion to wicked ones to crow against his people and himselfe their God is a dishonor of his Maiestie and therefore here we pray it may be preuented Yet if it so fall out that the state of Gods people is incorrigible and they will not be reclaimed from prophaning Gods Name it is better that the open enemy should blaspheme them then that he should receiue such intollerable indignity from his owne people Thirdly we aske that God would make vs grow vp to acknowledge him in all meanes and wayes of his wherein he manifesteth his glory For as the Sun shining brightly should be glorious in it selfe but if eyes were not opened to behold it it should not be had in accompt as glorious with man so the Lord glorious in all his wayes hath not that glorie in his creature till the eye of the mind opened this be discerned of them Fourthly we aske that he would enable vs in spirit word and worke to giue him glory from our selues and seeke that others may do the same moued by our words works that as we discerne him to be holy glorious euery way so we may accordingly glorifie him For these may be distinguished yea seuered Rom. 1.21 that we might be zealous of his glory Fiftly for others as yet vncalled they are two-fold belonging to the election of grace or otherwise Now for the former we intreate that God would daily bring them home to glorifie him with vs yea that he would giue them godly sorrow for such things as before their visitation they heedlesly neglected Psal 67. For other we pray that God wold restraine them from their high prophanation of his Name and that he would turne their rage and so by proportion all their other sinnes to the praise of his Name Psal 18. Now to say this petition feelingly wee must cōsider First how necessary a thing it is that God should haue his glory for to this end all things were made we liue moue and haue being from him to no other purpose Secondly though this is so necessary yet how little God is honoured by vs who are his he passing by vs in many parts of his prouidence we not seeing him nor taking any heed to him in the things we do see not affected with feare ioy thankfulnesse as they require little thinking on him not speaking of him to his praise not ordering all our works in such sort as they might be to the glorie of him our heauenly Father How many wayes do we take his Name in vaine Thirdly we must consider how our hearts are so poysoned with loue of our owne names estimation that glory which is from man that we are altogether carelesse of Gods glory Hence it is that if we circumstantially so faile that it craseth our reputation in any kind with men it doth sting vs but when we fault towards God we passe it ouer well enough Hence it is that if one put the least contemptuous behauiour vpon vs vsing a terme of any disgrace it doth kindle cooles presently but we can heare Gods Name dishonored and not be affected and moued with it We had need therefore to pray vnto God that he would heale this matter Fourthly to marke how fearefully with wicked ones not yet called Gods Name is prophaned Doth it not pittie vs when we heare that our friends haue such seruants as do twentie dishonest parts which will redound to their discredit Did we see their giuing no regard to their maister rioting his goods otherwise then he commandeth drinking themselues drunke in his cellers would it not grieue vs Thus that Lord of vs all that Maister in heauen is vsed by those that should be seruants vnto him which if we will weigh we cannot but crie to him for helpe that those deluges of his dishonour might be stopped and diminished Fiftly Gods promises to such as seeke his glory and threatning to such as do otherwise he will honour such as honour him and such as despise him shall be despised These things pondered wil ingender some more feeling when we preferre this petition The things to be collected are these First that the chiefe thing that we are to desire is that God may more more