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
A85529	Gods deliverance of man by prayer. And mans thankefulnesse to God in prayses. In a sermon by reason of the lecturers absence in the Church of Saint Bartholmewes Exchange, on Ash-Wendesday [sic], at the generall fast, proposed. But at that time by a company of church intruders very rudely opposed. And now at this time, for the publike satisfaction of all men faithfully in print exposed. by I. G. D.D. Rector there.	Grant, John, d. 1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1520; Thomason E141_13; ESTC R7665	17,142	34

Christian must compose himselfe aright and bee ever readier to heare than to offer the sacrifice of fooles babling raw undigested prayers unto the GOD of awe and order In the third place know that prayers rightly modelled and moulded up will frame us to avoyd that defiler of all good exercises base hypocrisie It is before God that wee appeare in prayer whether it be in private or in publike alone in our closets or with others in our Families or in Church Assemblies God sees us heares us observes us there 's no dallying with him no deluding of him The Copy of a faire countenance and looks demurely composed cannot in his sight bee availeable whose eyes pierce all darknesse even that of hell and doe see through and through the thickest mantles and coverture of the closest hypocrisie even that which hypocrites in the very cabinets of their hearts cannot themselves discerne Further Prayer in conscience bindeth us that use it not to wrong any no not the easiest to be wronged to quit our hands speedily of what is others not our own Nay it importunes us to detest and abhorre even as hell all ravenous greedy oppressing courses None of which in whomsoever can possibly stand with the right profession of Christianity observe that expression of God in his Prophet Isai. 1. 15. When you spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers I will not heare your hands are full of bloud In that consideration religious David said I will wash mine hands in innocency so will I compasse thine Altar O Lord Psalme 26. 6. Hence that exquisite counsell of Saint Paul advising us to pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubtings I Timothy 2. 8. Further yet prayer adviseth us to be rich to God-wards in the relievance of his poore Saints as now the distressed and dissipated Irish Protestants The ablest in power honour wealth is or ought to be a daily begging suitor unto God And can any think of God to be heard and answered in his petitions that suffers the godly to perish for want of their redundancies Suffers bleeding Ireland which makes our Kings heart bleed still to wallow and welter in bloud without stenching that bloudy issue Who so perish through want of our timely compassionate remedy their bloud I feare me will be put on our accompts against the reckoning day of the Doome finall Can our prayers worke our deliverance our eares and hearts rejecting the suites of bleeding Protestants or not seasonably relieving their almost desperate condition and humanely forlorne hopes The sentence is peremptory Prov. 21. 13. Who so stoppeth his eares at the cry of the poore hee also shall cry himselfe and shall not be heard On the contrary Blessed are the mercifull evermore blessed for they shall obtaine mercy Matth. 5. 7. Nothing so sure as their deliverance out of what ever troubles dangers cares feares In the fifth place Prayer it is that obligeth to diligence in hearing Gods Word and using aright the Sacraments of his Ordination For how thinke we that God will regard our prayers if we bee overly in the observation of his serious enjoyments will he receive our demands if we ●light over his commands if wee waite not constantly in his Sanctuary on his sacred behests and appointments Sixthly Prayer doth bind us all to the good behaviour one towards another nay more to the Reciprocation of enterchangeable Reconciliation in the occurrences of what ever differences and offences That passage is full and faire Matth. 5. 23 24. If thou bring thy gift to the Altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leave there thy gift before the Altar and goe thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift If wee serve not one another in love which is an enjoyment Apostolicall neither our persons nor our prayers can please God When our Saviour had prescribed us a forme of Prayer he reassumeth and reinforceth that Petition in it Forgive us our debts as wee forgive our debtors for saith he If ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you but if yee forgive not men their trespasses Neither will your Father forgive your trespasses Matth. 6. 14 15. We have it thus related by Saint Marke chap. 1. verse 25. 26. When yee stand praying forgive if yee have ought against any that your Father also which is in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses Hold we to this and we shall be happy in deliverances but if thus cordially and really we pecce not up in peeces shall we be like a Potters vessell gracelesse uselesse in all troubles remedilesse which God avert and bring us all into the right tune and temper of Christianity and regular charity I now passe on to the last parcell in our Text Our due returne of glory to our deliverer out of all troubles We are never right till God ingenuously bee acknowledged by us to bee {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the remover of evills and of whatsoever is good the gratious bestower What we do must all be done to the glory of God 2 Cor. 10. 31. To this end were all things made in all creatures God sets forth his glory and in them all will he be glorified light cannot be hid and God of lights is the Father and in them all is represented to be glorified by Men the Sonne of God became man he is God manifested in the flesh and for that manifestation never can we men glorifie our God enough By this hath God made his wisdome manifest in finding out a way to satisfie his Justice exactly without the least prejudice at all to his Mercy Nay His Mercy is most evident in his Justice his Sonnes death on the Crosse was the price of our Redemption and the purchase of Heaven for us who had merited hell by the heinousnesse of our transgressions To be glorified will God againe send his Sonne and in our nature too but glorified To bee judged and to death sentenced for our offences was his first comming to bee the visible Judge both of quicke and dead shall his second comming be To be glorified God sets up and takes downe whom hee pleaseth Kings and Kingdomes are at his disposall to the Kings of the earth is hee terrible writes the Psalmist Psalm 76. 12. And the Courtly Prophet is plaine The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations utterly shall be wasted Esay 60. 12. To be glorified God remarkeably punisheth his owne transgressing people and at his owne house many times begins his judgement but ends in The ruine of his enemies Wee see that in part fulfilled and to the height at last shall it be made full As truely as I live all the earth shall bee filled with the glory of the Lord Num. 14. 21. Yet thinke not here beloved that God stands in need of being glorified by