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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01902	The returne of prayers A treatise wherein this case how to discerne Gods answers to our prayers is briefly resolved, with other observations vpon Psal. 85.8. concerning Gods speaking peace, &c. By Tho: Goodvvin. B.D.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1636 (1636)	STC 12041.3; ESTC S117577	96,573	431

THE RETVRNE OF PRAYERS A TREATISE WHEREIN this Case How to discerne Gods answers to our prayers is briefly resolved WITH OTHER OBSERVATIONS UPON PSAL. 85. 8. concerning GODS speaking PEACE c. BY THO GOODVVIN B. D. HAB. 2. 1. I will watch to see what he will say to mee LONDON Printed for R. Dawlman and I. Fawne at the signe of the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1636. TO THE MUCH HONOVRED KNIGHT SIR NATHANIEL RICH. SIR GOd who from all eternitie hath had an infinit Masse of grace and glory lying by him to bestow upon his Church and did accordingly provide a treasury and Magazin sufficient wherein to store up all the Bosome of his Sonne in whom are hid Ephes 3. 8. riches so unsearchable as cannot bee told over much lesse spent to all eternity Hee hath as richly shed his holy Sprit on us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tit. 3. 6. that we who could never have known of any thing bequeathed us nor what to pray for as wee ought might both fully from him know all that God hath given us and through him lay claime thereto who maketh intercession for us and so doth furnish us with a privy key to all that Treasury which otherwise is fast shut up to all the world Through which Spirit of of prayer and supplications thus powred foorth beleevers come to bee at once anointed to the fellowship and execution of those three glorious Offices of Christ their head Not only 1. of Priests by offering up their prayers as spirituall sacrifices acceptable to GOD through Jesus Christ but 2. of Kings to rule with God Hos 11. 12. Being hereby made of Privy Councell to the King of kings Psa 20. 4 5 so as their Councels and desires exprest in their Petitions are said to be fulfilled and their decrees in their Praiers made Iob 22. 27 28. ratified and establisht Nay further by vertue of this priviledge advanced to such height of favour Hos 12. 3 4 as by their strength in praier alone to have power with God himselfe and not onely with him but also over him and in their wrestlings to prevaile Yea to command Himselfe hath said it Thus saith the Lord the holy One of Israel and his Maker ASKE of me of things to come concerning my sonnes and concerning the worke of my hands COMMAND ye ME Isai 45. 11. which so transcendent priviledge of power is likewise by the expresse words of this great Charter universally extended unto all transactions of this lower part of his dominions whether Ecclesiasticall which doe concerne his sonnes that is his Church or what ever other the more ordinary works of his hands that appertaine to common providence And for as much as these grand affaires of this his Kingdome Mat. 6. 10. as future and to come are commended to their praiers as their most proper subject about which they are to treate Aske of mee of things to come in this respect they doe become as truely 3. Prophets also though not in so full and compleate yet in some kinde of true resemblance not by foretelling yet by forespeaking in their prayers things that come to passe To demonstrate which God who made and upholds this world and all things in it by the word of his power doth likewise rule and governe it by the Presidents and prescript rules of the word of his will exactly dispensing unto men Psal 25. 10. both rewards and punishments according to the tenour of some or other of his promises and threatnings and former like proceedings therein recorded though with such various liberty in respect of the particulars that his wayes remaine unsearchable and past finding out That looke how he appointed in the heavens those ordinances of the Sunne Moone and Starres by their light heate and motion to rule the day and night to divide and cause the severall seasons of the yeare and all the changes and alterations that doe passe over this animall and naturall world in like manner hath hee stretched out that so exceeding broad expanse of his word and law Psal 119. 96. to which the Psalmist doth assimulate it over this rationall world Psal 19. 1 2 3 4. compared with Rom. 10. 18. of Angels and Men and therein set his Statutes and his Judgements that by the light of Precepts and their influences in rewards and punishments they might order and direct these his creatures reasonable and all their actions also dispose and set out all the issues of them And seeing his Saints they are a people in whose hearts is his Law and their delight is to meditate therein both day and night they daily calculating and observing the various aspects conjunctions and mixt influences of those innumerable precepts promises and threatnings which themselves and others Nations or Men stand under and by a Judgement thence resulting Ier. 8. 7. so farre as they have attained endeavouring to frame their supplications and petitions according to Gods will Hence their praiers oft full happily succeed and aforehand doe accord to those issues and events that afterwards fall out That like as it sometimes falls out that the earth comes to bee just under the Sun and Moone in some of their conjunctions so their desires and praiers sometimes in a direct line fall under and subordinately concurre with Gods secret purposes and some revealed promise met in conjunction to produce such and such effects The Spirit also herein helping their infirmities sometime so guiding and directing them by a gracious preinstinct though unbeknowne to them to pitch their requests upon such particulars as God hath fully purposed to bring to passe becomming thereby as it were the Spirit of prophecy unto them respectively in some measure and degree Thus doth that great King imploy his nearest servants as his under-Officers and Sherifes to serve his Writs executions upō his Enemies to execute the Judgement written in his threatnings Psalm 149. 9. and to accomplish his mercies written also by putting all the promises in suit to be as man-midwives as Hezekiahs allusion when hee sent a visiting to the Prophet Esay Esay 37. 2 3 4. for his voice and suffrage seemeth to import to help and assist his promises and decrees in their travell with mercies and deliverance Zeph. 2. 2. when these their children doe come unto the birth and there is no strength to bring them forth In all which they shall therefore have the honour to bee accounted Co-workers together with God in his greatest works of wonder And at the latter day when that great and last Edition both of all Gods works and likewise ours then compleate and finished shall be published to all the world they shall finde their names put to them together with his owne and the same by him acknowledged to be as truely the works of their hearts and prayers as that they are the sole worke of his hands and power Such honour have all his Saints And if all the