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
A26702	The best of remedies for the worst of maladies, or, Spiritual receipts and antidotes for the preservation of a plague-sick, sinfull soul wherein is shown, sin is the cause and repentance the cure of the pestilence / seasonably published by a lover of peace and truth ..., R.A.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing A983; ESTC R10719	150,980	258

sacrifice is it not evil and if ye offer the lame and sick is it not evil Offer it unto thy Governour will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person Mal. 1.8 God requires to be served with the mind Matth. 22.37 We must therefore know the will of God as he hath revealed it unto us by his commandments promises threatnings the approved practices of the Saints and that we must desire and pray for and onely so as we know Gods word doth warrant us This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us 1 Joh. 5.14 And whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3.22 So said the blind man that had his sight restored to him again Now we know that God heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God and doth his will him he heareth Joh. 9.31 Again We must pray with a feeling of our wants Christs invitation to come unto him is to all that labour and are heavy laden Matth. 11.28 In prayer we should feel sin as a burden and mourn under the sensibility of our want of grace So Ephraim bemoued himself Jer. 31.18 And the Church Isa 63.17 O Lord why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and hardned our heart from thy fear return for thy servants sake the Tribes of thine inheritance So David being made very sensible of his great fall after what manner is his spirit led forth in prayer Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit Psal 51.10 11 12. Now this ariseth from the consideration of Gods judgements due to sin and of the necessity of saving grace So Ezra O my God I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee my God for our iniquities are encreased over our heads and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens Ez. 9.6 And the Apostles being sensible of the imbicility and weakness of their faith pray unto the Lord for the increase of it And for this thing said Paul I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me So sensible was he of the thorn in the flesh the messenger of Satan that buffeted him 2 Cor. 12.7 8. Again our Prayer must be accompanied with a spirit of love and forgiveness Mark 11.25 And when ye stand praying forgive if ye have ought against any man that your Father also which is in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses For if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you But if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your father forgive your trespasses Mat. 6.14 15. And as we must forgive our enemies and such as have offended us so must we bear a hearty affection to the Children of God Ephes 4.32 and Collos 3.12 13. Again our Prayer must be accompanied with fear and reverence in respect of the purity and Majesty of that presence we come into So saith Solomon Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God for God is in Heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few Eccles 5.2 And we are to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear Heb. 12.28 Surely did we seriously consider Gods most excellent Majesty we should not rashly conceive or utter any thing before him but with reverence So Abraham Behold said he I have now taken upon me to speak unto the Lord which am but dust and ashes Gen. 18.27 This reverential fear is an unfeigned abasement of the mind proceeding from a consideration of Gods divine Majesty and our own indignity So the Prodigal Father I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy Son Luk. 15.21 So Jacob I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant Gen. 32.10 Job abhorred himself and repented in dust and ashes Job 42.6 The Prophet Isaiah cries out he is undone woe unto him for his eyes had seen the King the Lord of Hosts Isa 6.5 and Ezra also he did blush and was ashamed to lift up his face to God for that their iniquities were encreased and their trespasse grown up unto the heavens Ezra 9.6 Lastly our Prayer must be with perseverance without ceasing 1 Thes 5.17 The Parable concerning the importunate Widow was to this end that men ought always to pray and not to faint Luk. 18.1 That is that we should be constant and earnest in prayer use all importunity with the Lord and not to faint this is that which will distinguish us from being Hypocrites and false-hearted before the Lord For what is the hope of the Hypocrite though he hath gained when God taketh away his soul will God hear his cry when trouble commeth upon him Will he delight himself in the Almighty will he always call upon God No he will not Job 27.8 9 10. But the gracious soul loves to draw nigh to God and takes delight always in his approaching to him Thus having spoken of the several ingredients that will make up an acceptable Prayer unto the Lord I shall speak a little as to the singular worth excellency and efficacy of it and the worth and excellency of it appears in this Because it is a sweet priviledge which Christ hath purchased of the Father for us Ephes 2.18 It is through him that we have an access unto the Father so as to come with boldness unto the throne of his grace Heb. 4.16 Hereby we do and may continually commune with the Lord after a familiar manner and lay open our griefs into his bosome As David Who am I O Lord God and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto And is this the manner of man O Lord God 2 Sam. 7.18 So again From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the Rock that is higher then I for thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong Tower from the enemy Psa 61.2 3. Hereby we testifie our dutiful affection to him as the Prodigal to his Father Luk. 15.18 And become helpers to others Rom. 15.30 Phil. 1.19 Col. 4.12 2 Thes 3.1 This adds strength to our faith and gives life to the graces of God that are in us By it we obtain at the hand of God whatever good we stand in need of Mat. 7.7 Isa 65.24 And do grow into a better acquaintance with God As Abraham Gen. 18.23 27. For such is the Promise that if we draw nigh to God he will draw nigh to us Jam. 4.8 By it we fight manfully against our in bred