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A11258	The touch-stone of prayer. Or A true and profitable exposition of the Lords prayer, according to the holy Hebrew of S. Mathews gospel to which is prefixed certaine necessary circumstances to be obserued in prayer. Also thereunto is annexed a table shewing the agreement betweene the Lords prayer, and the ten commandements of Almighty God. By T.S.	S., Tho.	1602 (1602)	STC 21523; ESTC S114099	35,229	130

one of him that hath the other for indeed they be Relatiues and S. Iames saith faith that is without workes is dead Yea our sauiour saith not euery one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen Therefore whosoeuer is truely iustified is in some good measure sanctified and indeede faith can no more be without good workes then fire can be without heate The vse FIrst we learne to aske nothing in our prayers which is not agreeable to Gods word Secondly we learne to take all crosses patiently that with Christ we may say not my will but thine ô father be fulfilled Lastly we are here taught to striue towardes perfection for Gods children haue an earnest desire to doe his will And with Dauid to say it is written O Lord in the volume of thy booke that I shall doe thy will O God and loe I come Application SVch therefore as despise knowledge and set light by the word of God their prayers will God despise for saith the Prophet Zachary Zach. 7. 13. as God cried to them and they would not here so when they cry he will not here them But where the worde of the Lord is imbrased there the Lord is nigh to vs in all that wee call vppon him for Yea they that Deut. 4. 7. keepe Gods commaundements receiue whatsoeuer they aske but as for such as haue no care to doe 1. Ioh. 3 22. Gods will the Lord is farre from them Therfore ô man if thou wouldest that God should here thy praier Pro. 15. 29. when thou callest vpon him heare thou the Lorde and amend thy wayes when by his good spirit he calleth vnto thee els thy prayer is vaine babling Pro. 35. 13. The second part of this petition As in heauen so also in earth THis saith one is no otherwise but as the Angels serue thee in heauen euen so should we serue thee in earth with all alacritie and willingnesse in all humility and faithfulnesse And howsoeuer no Christian can performe such obedience in this life yet this petition teacheth that we ought to haue a desire so to do From the consideration of these things we learne three profitable lessons First that God ought to raigne here in our hartes on earth as well as hee doth in heauen but seeing it is not so how ought we to bee humbled and cast downe in our selues when we consider how disobedient we haue beene to the will of our heauenly father Secondly it ought to mooue vs to all possible thankfulnesse for our redemption when wee consider this example of the Angels who were but once created but we miserable sinners put God to a new worke to redeeme vs by the bloud of his owne sonne Lastly it teacheth vs that we ought to loue God more then the Angels in as much as wee haue put him to a greater busines and haue receiued greater mercies then they and they which haue much forgiuen them ought to Luke 7. loue much Application BEhold thy duty ô man consider but the Angels the scriptures describe them to haue six winges two to couer their face by which they signifie to vs that they are not able to looke into the depth of Gods counsailes they haue two also to couer their feete shewing their owne insufficiencie and vnworthynesse to serue so glorious a God yet haue they two wings also about their hart to signifie vnto vs that with hearty obedience they do the will of God Therefore ô sinfull man looke to the heauens and beholde the Angels looke into the firmament behold the Sunne the Moone the starres yea in the earth also behold times and seasons all these obay Gods will Therefore ô mankinde for whose sake these were created and for whose sake God equall to the father thought it no scorne to take vnto him our nature and to be our brother according to the flesh that hee might condempne sinne in the flesh let vs not therefore walke after the flesh but let our conuersation be in heauen whether our eldest brother is gone before vs that in his time we may be with our head Christ Iesus Amen The 4. petition Giue vs this day our dayly or continuall Bread O praise the Lord of Lords for his mercie endureth for euer which giueth foode to all flesh for his mercie endureth for euer Psal 136. 2. 25. Bread לחם THis word Bread is tooke in diuers sences in the Scriptures whereof there are fiue principall 1. First it is taken for bread properly as Gen. 14. 18. Exod. 25. 30. Prou. 28. 19. 2. Secondly for bread corne as Gen. 47. 15. Iob. 28. 5. 3. Thirdly it is neither tooke for bread nor corne but for Manna Exo. 16. 15. Behold I will raine to you bread frō heauen Also Psal 105. 40. he satisfied them with bread from heauen which Manna was a figure of Christ who is the true bread of heauen and many of the ancient fathers vnderstand by Bread in this petitiō Christ who is the true bread of life whom we are to desire and pray for before all other things 4. Fourthly it is tooke for sacrifices Leuit. 3. 11. Mal. 1. 7. What is meant by bread in this petition 5. Lastly it is taken generally for all things necessary for this life as Gen 3. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate thy bread That is thou shalt get thy liuing Also in Psal 38. 25. Which giueth food to all flesh Also Pro. 30. 8. * So doth Tremelius vnderstand it in his Hebrew catechisme Feed me with food conuenient for me So likewise in this petition we vnderstand saith Bucer Victum quibuscunque Bucer in Mat. 6. pag. 62. vita praesens opus habet all things that be necessary for this life from which word wee may consider the bountifull liberallitie of God towards all his creatures but more especially towards man for whom he both careth and prouideth And therefore the Apostle in the 1. Tim. 6. saith Trust not invncertaine riches but in God that giueth to all aboundantly Secondly this word Our bread doth not import that it is ours by * Riches are not ours properly but lent vs and wee are stewards of them must giue account for them desert but being got with a good conscience not by defrauding of our brother any way that so we may eate our owne bread The which cannot be except we liue in a lawfull calling Oh thou that hast no calling or an vnlawfull calling how canst thou say this petition Let gamesters and such as haue no lawfull calling consider in what state they stand in and let them saith the Apostle rather labour with their hands for he that will not labour let him not eate Our continuall or dayly Bread BY this word continuall or daylye Bread I gather these lessons 1. First that none must aske riches or any other thing to satisfie the

God for he is the king of glory Yea and he onely is Psal 24. 8. to haue glory for he will not giue his glory to another And for this end are Isai 48. 11. we saued euen to the praise of the glory of his grace wherewith he hath made vs accepted in his beloued son by whom we haue redemption through his Ephes 1. 6. 7. bloud euen the forgiuenes of our sinnes through his rich grace The last reason of the conclusion why we must pray to God For euer and euer THat is thou must not pray so this yeare that for thy Gods name is IEHOVAH that is the eternall and his time cannot be diminished Isai 50. Therefore is he called the auncient of dayes and Dauid saith the heauens wax olde but thou art the same for euer for his power is not diminished nor his hand shortned Therefore continue thy prayers onely to him and rob him not of his glory doe thy duty betimes and God will rewarde thee in his time Eccle. 51. 30. saith the Wiseman for the Lord is neare to all them that call vpon him to all that call vpon him in truth he will fulfill the desires of them that feare him he will heare their cry and Psa 145 18. 19. will saue them Amen OVr Christ is Amen the faithfull and true witnesse who hath The seale of faith commaunded vs to begin and end our prayers in faith And he tolde his Apostles and in them vs that whatsoeuer we aske beleeue we shall receiue it and we shall receiue it Thus Amen is diuersly taken in the scriptures and many profitable significations arise from the roote in the holy Hebrew I will but onely name some of them leauing them to thy consideration and so I commit thee to God First it signifieth trueth secondly faith thirdly stedfastnesse and perseueraunce and surely most profitable lessons may we learne from these First to come before God in truth without any hypocriticall shew for he is the God of truth hath assumed the name of Amen to himselfe Secondly it teacheth vs faith to beleeue God in his promises for all the promises of God in Christ are yea and Amen Thirdly that we must not bee vnconstant in our prayers for then Iam. 1. S. Iames telleth vs that we shall receiue Luk. 18. 4. nothing Fourthly it teacheth vs perseueraunce to continue in prayer Fiftly Amen is truely which is a kind of oath shewing that we must not deliuer vp our prayers coldly but in vehemency of spirit Also Pagnine saith it is Constitutum a matter throughly determined that so our prayers be not a sacrifice of Fooles And lastly in this place it is an earnest wishing that that we haue prayed for may come so to passe so is it vsed at the end of all prayers through the Bible in this sence so be it As Deut. 27. 1. Kin. 1. Nom. 5. Ier. 28. Psal 95. Reuel 1. Here followeth a table shewing the agreement betweene the Lords prayer and the ten commandements of Almighty God The Preface to the Reader NOw I remember the saying of the Greeke Father Theophilact that if the Lawe and the Gospell were compared together there is Christ reuealed in the midst of both And surely at the mouth of two or three witnesses is euery word established Seeing therfore Christ hath taught vs a praier agreeing to the commandements let vs not thinke the sonne of God came to giue liberty to sin but indeed to deliuer vs from sinne yea Zachary saith in Luke though we serue him with Luke 1. out feare yet it is in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life Therfore said a godly father vpon Luk. 9. where it is said that Moses Elias were with Christ when he praied in the Mount this sheweth saith he that he was no aduersary nor contrary either to the lawe or Prophets And that this may more plainly appeare behold the table I haue here set down for thy further instruction chiefly for their instruction who talke so much of Christian libertie that their life is nothing but licencialitie Now followeth the Table Psalme 119. verse 130. The entrance into thy words sheweth light and giueth vnderstanding to the simple The Preface of the Lawe I Am IEHOVAH thy God which brought thee out of the land of Aegipt and out of the house of bondage com 1 Thou shalt haue none other Gods before my face com 2 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue neither that are in the earth beneath nor that are in the waters vnder the earth Thou shalt not howe to them neither serue them for I am Iehouah thy God a iealous God visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vpon the third generation and vpon the fourth of them that hate me and shewing mercy vnto thousands to thē that loue me keepe my commandements The Preface of the Lordes prayer Our Father which art in heauen THis preface of the Lords prayer very aptlye agreeth with these two first commandements For it teacheth vs that our Father is Iehouah Elohim the blessed Trinitie as that reuerend Father Bishop Babington hath well obserued on this place The word Father teacheth vs that we are sonnes of God that is by grace and adoption in Christ and telleth our conscience that he hath deliuered vs from Egipt that is from the power of Satan and from the cursed Pope And therefore the godly in the Reuelation are bid to come out of Egipt of bondmen he hath made vs free and therefore him we ought to serue and none else yea alone to pray to him to honor obay and serue him and feruently to loue him as a childe doth his father Neither ought we to pray to saint or picture of any but to him that is almightie The worde Heauen sheweth he onely ought to be feared and that he alone is holy to whome belongeth all holy worship neither must any be worshiped but he least the all seeing God looke downe from heauen and punish vs. Thou shalt not take the name of Iehouah com 3 thy God in vaine for Iehouah will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine com 4 Remember the Sabboth day to keepe it holy Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy worke but the seauenth day is the Sabboth of Iehouah thy God in it thou shalt not doe any worke thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter thy man seruant nor thy maide nor thy beast nor thy stranger that is within thy gates for in six dayes Iehouah made the heauens and the earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seauenth day Therefore Iehouah blessed the Sabboth day halowed it Halowed be thy name answereth petitiō 1 fitly to the third commandement Thy kingdome come petitiō 2 Thy will be done as in heauen petitiō 3 so also in the earth agreeth with