Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	forgive_v	trespass_n	3,026	5	10.8687	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44141	A correct copy of some letters written to J.M., a nonconformist teacher concerning the gift and forms of prayer by Matthew Hole ...	Hole, Matthew, 1639 or 40-1730.; J. M. (John Moore), 1641 or 2-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing H2408; ESTC R19302	77,888	204

were so sensible of their own Inability to Pray should lay aside this Divine and Perfect Composure and prefer their own weak and imperfect Abilities of expression before it This is to have vain and unworthy Thoughts of the Apostles and too agreeable to those you have of your self Fourthly This may be proved from the Testimony and Practice of those that lived near the time of Christ and his Apostles who acknowledge it as a Form delivered by Christ and did receive and use it accordigly Lucian who liv'd in the Days of Trajan Luc. in Philip. makes mention of a Prayer used by Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beginning with Our Father Tertullian tells us Christus novam Orationis formam determinavit Tertul. de Orat. cap. 1. cap. 9. Christ appointed a new Form of Prayer And after adds That the Christians never omitted the use of it St. Cyprian speaking of the Lord's Prayer calls it Cypr. de Orat Dom p. 310. Publica nobis Communis Oratio Publick and Common Prayer from the General use of it and more largly declares that Christ consulting the Salvation of his People Cypt. de Orat Dom delivered to them himself a Form of Prayer and then exhorts to the use of it in these words That the Father when we Pray may own the Words of the Son And in another place since we have Christ for our Advocate let us express the Words of our Advocate for how much more effectually shall we obtain what we ask in Christ's Name Hieron ad Pelag. lib. 3. c. 5. if we ask in his Prayer St. Jerome tells us Docuit Christus Apostolos suos ut quotidie c. i. e. Chirst taught his Apostles that every day believing in him they should say Our Father which art in Heaven Aug Epist 89. And St. Austin Omnibus necessaria est Oratio Dominica c. The Lord's Prayer is necessary for all even the Apostles themselves that every one should say unto God Forgive us our trespasses c. Hom. 42 And elsewhere he tells us Ad Altare Dei quotidie dicitur Oratio Dominica the Lords Prayer is daily said at God's Altar Greg. Epist Lib. 7. And St. Gregory assures us that the Apostles at the Consecration of the Eucharist did always make use of the Lord's Prayer If we come down to the time of the Reformation we shall find the Protestant Writers generally acknowledging it Calv. Inst l. 4. c. 1. sect 23. to be a Prescribed Form Calvin calls it a Form dictated by Christ and saith that Holy Men daily repeat it by Christs Command Consid Cons Aug. p. 177. The Classis of Walachrea tells us that In Omnibus Reformatarum Ecclesiarum Liturgijs c. In all the Publick Liturgies of the Reformed Churches the Lord's Prayer is prescribed to be used But besides all these Testimonies I will add one more which I persuade my self with you is Instar Omnium and will weigh more than all the rest and that is The Assembly of Divines at Westminster who in their Annotations on Luk 11. v. 2. have these Words concerning the Lord's Prayer It is the most Exact and Sacred Form of Prayer indited and taught the Disciples who were to teach the whole World the Rules and Practice of true Religion by Christ himself who is best able to teach his Servants to Pray And again Christ prescribed this Form of Prayer to be used by them Which are the very Words you carp at in my Sermon And now Sir are you not a Bold Man to call in Question a Truth confirmed by all these and many more Authorities that may be produced in this case I hope this was no wilful Mistake The best Excuse that can be made for it is Ignorance or Inadvertency However you may learn from hence to inform your self better and consider more for the future what you affirm or deny in such weighty Matters But your Comfort is You have the Learned Grotius on your side who tells us That Christ prescribed not this Prayer to be used as a Form but as a Pattern to make other Prayers by 'T is well known Sir that Grotius herein goes against the general Stream of Interpreters and is blamed by many Learned Men for this Extravagant and Unreasonable Conceit But I will see for once whether you will leave the Assembly of Divines to stick to Grotius and prefer his single Opinion before theirs For they tell us the quite contrary not only in the forecited place of their Annotations Direct after serm but in the very Directory it self Where you may read these Words The Lord's Prayer which Christ taught his Disciples is not only a pattern of Prayer but its self a Comprehensive Prayer and we recommend it to be used in the Prayers of the Church But we never read say you that our Lord or his Disciples did use these Words afterwards in Prayer tho' we read of their Praying in several places Is all that Christ and his Apostles said or did recorded think you in Holy Scripture We never read that the Apostles used that Form prescribed by Christ in Baptism In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost will it follow thence that they never used it 'T is sufficient that Christ commanded both these Forms and since we read nothing to the contrary we may well enough think that the Apostles were so religiously dutiful as to observe their Master's Command in both And that they who were sent by Christ to Teach and Baptize all Nations did both Teach and Baptize as he directed them And here I cannot forbear cautioning you against that Wild Principle of Believing nothing but what is expresly recorded in Holy Scripture For this will cause you shortly to follow some of your Disciples and to turn Anabaptist by denying Infant-baptism because we never read in Scripture that Infants were baptized But tho' there be no Express Record in Scripture of the Apostles using the Lord's Prayer of which some Learned Men have observed many Hints and Intimations Meric Cansab and Dr. Towerson on the Lord's Prayer yet we have abundant Testimony and Tradition for it from the Writings of the Fathers from the Age of the Apostles to the present Times And what greater Evidence can any reasonable Man desire And yet after all you say you do not Scruple the use of the Lord's Prayer as a Form in the sa●● Words Certainly Sir Our Saviour is much beholding to you that you have not so strong an Aversness to his Commands but that you can vouchsafe to say sometimes as he hath taught you But when alas will you arive to that piece of Humility and good Manners as to prefer His Words before your Own and in Honour at least to his Person if not in Obedience to his Command make it a Constant and Invariable part of your Devotion But you conclude like a Man resolv'd to stick to his Point