Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	2,324	5	11.8389	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19332	A warning for worldlings, or, A comfort to the godly, and a terror to the wicked set forth dialogue wise, betweene a scholler and a trauailer / by Ieremie Corderoy, student in Oxford.	Corderoy, Jeremy, b. 1562 or 3.	1608 (1608)	STC 5757; ESTC S123358	95,926	364

they make vse of those things which they vnderstand As for those thinges with passe their vnderstanding they reuerence and not censure them Now whereas you condemne the scripture of manifest falshood because you haue not obtayned by you prayers whatsoeuer you haue asked because it is said in the Scripture aske what you will beléeuing and yee shall obtaine it The promise is most true but by you much mistaken For this promise is made onely vnto the true beléeuers Now many there are who vaynelye perswade themselues that they are true beléeuers who indéed are not Who pray after their māner but not as they should and they obtaine not And no maruaile for the promise pertaineth not vnto such men Wherfore to shew your errour in construing these promises You are to consider many circumstances requisite to obtain that which you pray for The first and principall is that that which you pray for you seriously without hipocrisie intend to vse vnto the glory of God Secondly many things are required in the person which prayeth Many thinges in the things prayed for or the persons for whome wée pray for and in respect of God to whom we pray In the person which prayeth first he must be in charitte hee must forgiue all men else he obtaineth not except you forgiue men their trespasses Mat. 6.15 my father which is in Heauen will not forgiue you your trespasses Ia. 1.6.7 He must pray in faith not doubting not that hee shall receaue euerye thing without exception whatsoeuer he asketh for this cannot stand with a true faith But that God is able and will performe any thing which wee aske of him so farre foorth as those things we aske shal be behooueful for vs and fit for our calling and place wherein God hath appointed vs to liue in Again if we looke that God shold harken vnto our prayers we may not bee stained with grosse and hainous sinnes Esay 1.15 For the praiers of the wicked are an abhomination vnto the Lord. Yea their prayers are tourned vnto sinne Hee must lift vp pure hands vnto the Lord 1. Tim. 2. Hee must not be cruelly minded or hard harted For it is sayd that he which shutteth his eare at the crie of the poore he shall crye and not be heard Prou. 21. He must not be of an obstinat and stubborne mind but ready and willing to obay the commaundements of the Lord. For it is said Pro. 28.9 hée that tourneth his eare from hearing the law euen his praier shall be abhominable But the prayer of the iust auaileth much 1. Pet. 5. Iust they are estéemed who haue a serious endeauour without hipocrisie to followe and obay the commandements of God though they fall Seauen times yea many times a day These and the like are required in the persons which may obtayne that which they aske for So likewise many things are to be considered in the things we pray for The things for which we pray to God are in generall of twoo sorts ether they are good things which we desire to obtaine Or else they are euill things from which we desire to be fréed frō Again the things which are good are of two sorts Either they are simply good such as cannot be abused As faith hope charitie forgiuenesse of sins eternal life Or els they are in part good such as may be well vsed or abused vnto ill purposes Of this kind are the naturall gifts of the body and mind as the strength of the body comelines and beautifulnes sharpenesse and quicknes of wit learning eloquence Of this kind also are they which the Philosophers call bona fortuna as riches honour promotion and such like The former kind of good things which are good in themselues we may absolutely without exception praye vnto God for that he would bestow thē on vs. The latter kind of good things which are such which maye bee vsed vnto ill purposes we may not absolutelye pray for without exception But so farre forth as they may be meanes and furtherances towards the obtayning of the former kind of good things so that if any man prayeth for thefe latter kind of good things without exception as namely if the obtayning of thē may stand with the glory of God his prouidence whereby before the foundations of the world hee hath appointed vnto euery man such graces as are fit for the persons of such estate wherin he hath appointed them to liue Hee prayeth not as hee ought to pray neither hath hee which prayeth thus without exception for these kindes of good things any promise in all the Scripture that he shall obtayne them As for the former sort of good things whosoeuer prayeth for thē without exception in a true faith hath euen at the time of his faithful prayers as much as will be sufficient for him to bring him to eternall life For whome God once loueth he loueth for euer and on whome once he bestoweth these kinde of graces with Diuines call gratum facientes hee alwaies continueth them vntill they enter into the ioyes of heauen Now as the things with are good are of two sorts for which we must pray for after a different manner so likewise the things which are euil from which wee desire to bee fréed from are of two sorts And likewise we must make a difference of them in our prayers The things which are euill are either absolutely euill or euill in part Absolutely euill are all manner of sinnes euils in part are al māner of euils of punishments as the subuersion of Countries Cities diseases losse of goods such like It is our dutie to pray vnto God that hee would free vs from sinne and this we may pray for without exception As for the other sort of euils which are tearmed mala poenae euils of punishment we may not pray for to be deliuered from them but with exception because these euils are great meanes to kéepe vs in true humility in a true acknowledgement of our owne weakensse and infirmity to kéepe vs in continuall feare and worshippe of God They cause vs to pray vnto God hartily for his ayde and in a word they are very great meanes to bring vs to the kingdome of God 2. Cor. 12. ● This was the cause that when as Paul prayed vnto God that that messenger of Satan which was sent vnto him to buffet him least he should be high minded or be exalted aboue measure he obtayned not his petition for it was not conuenient for him but receaued this answere of God that his grace was sufficient for him and that his power is made perfect through weaknesse Lastly in respect of God we are to consider his prouidence wee are not to expect that we should obtayne any thing which he hath in his prouidence disposed of otherwise An obedient sonne may pray for his father lying sicke that God would prolong his dayes but oftentimes hee obtayneth not his good desire because God