Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	build_v	house_n	moses_n	1,832	5	9.9525	5	true

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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

prayers shall be answered To open this the maine ends and meanings of our hearts in our requests are Gods glory the Churches good and our owne particular comfort and happinesse we can desire but comfort and a man looketh out and spieth out such a particular mercie which hee thinketh tends much to Gods glory and his happinesse and yet that thing is denied yet notwithstanding God will answer him according to the meaning of his prayers his glory shall certainely be advanced even for that prayer of his some other way and his comfort made up which is the common desire of all mankinde and thou canst have but comfort let the thing bee what it will that conveighs it to thee and God will take order that that comfort thy soule desired thou shalt have come in one way or other which when it doth thou canst not but say thy prayers are heard For as God fulfils his promises so hee heares prayers there is the same reason of both now God hath promised Hee that leaves Father and Mother shall have an hundred fold not in specie as we say in kinde this cannot alwayes bee fulfilled for an hundred Fathers he cannot have God fulfills it not therefore alwayes in the same kinde but in some other things which shall be more then a hundred Fathers would bee Moses hee prayes hee might goe into Canaan God answers the ground of his prayer though not in the matter in it expressed and desired and that both for Moses his comfort and his owne glory for hee takes him up to heaven the true Canaan whereof that Canaan was but a type and hee appoints Ioshua a fresh and a young man comming on in the world and one whom Moses himselfe had tutored and brought up and was his pupill servant and attendant Num. 6. 11 28. and this was more for Gods glory for Ioshua was therein to bee he type of Christ leading us to heaven which the Law of which Moses was the type could not bring us unto by reason of the weaknesse of it and he being yong did it better and it was not so much also for Gods glory that one man should doe all and whereas Moses desired to have the honour of it in that his servant that attended him and had been brought up by him and had all from him that hee was the man should doe it was well nigh as great an honour to Moses as if hee had beene the leader himselfe And so David when hee desired to build the Temple and an house to God for the like reasons God denied it but yet honoured him to prepare the materialls and to draw the patterne as also in that his Son did it who was therein also the like type of Christ being a Prince of peace but David a man of blood and war and likewise God accepted this of David as if he had built it and will recompence him as much §. 6. God when hee denies yet sometimes yeelds far in it to give satisfaction to his childe 5. Observe if in the thing which thou hast prayed much about though it be denyed thee yet if God doth not endeavour to give thee as I may so speake all satisfaction that may be even as if hee were tender of denying thee and therefore doth much in it for thy prayers sake though the conclusion proves otherwise as being against some other purpose of his for some other ends As when hee denied Moses to goe into the Land of Canaan hee did it with much respect as I may so speak with reverence to Moses he yeelded as far as might bee for hee let him leade them till hee should come to the very borders and hee let him see that good Land carrying him up to an hill and as it is thought by a miracle inabled his sight to view the whole Land and the man hee chose to performe this work was his servant which was a great honour to Moses that one brought up by him should succeed him So when Abraham prayed for Ishmael Oh let Ismael live in thy sight Gen. 17. 18. God went as far in granting his request as might be for sayes hee ver 20. I have heard thee and I have blessed him and I will make him fruitfull and multiply him exceedingly and hee shall beget twelve Princes but my covenant I will establish with Isaac So likewise when in casting that thing thou didst seeke at his hands he shews an extraordinary hand in turning it it is a signe he had a respect to thee that hee would vouchsafe to discover his hand so much in it let the thing fall which way it will if Gods hand appeare much in it thou mayest comfortably conclude that there is some great thing in it and that prayer wrought that miracle in it to dispose it so and that there is some great reason why hee denies thee and a great respect had to thy prayers in that he is pleased to discover so extraordinary a providence about it §. 7. Observe the effects that denials have upon the heart As first if a man doth acknowledge God righteous in it c. Lastly looke into the effect of that deniall upon thine owne heart as 1 If thy heart be inlarged to acknowledge God to be holy and righteous in his dealings with thee and thine own unworthinesse the cause of his denying thee Thus we often find the Saints expressing themselves in their prayers that Psal 22. though typically made of Christ yet as it was penned by David and as it may concerne his person it may serve for an instance for this I cry in the day time but thou hearest not this might have made him jealous of God but saies he Thou art holy c. and dealest now with me in an holy manner and art just in it Others have called on thee and have been heard though I now for my unworthinesse am denied But I am a worme It might have put a man off when he should think others are heard but not I but it puts not him off but humbles him I am a worme c. And Thou art holy Seco●●●y if God fill the heart with a holy contentment in the deniall 2 If God fill thy heart with an holy contentmēt in the deniall if he speak to thy heart as he did to Moses when hee denied him Deut. 3. Let it suffice thee if as to S. Paul when hee was so earnest about removing that buffeting if thou gettest but such an answer as that to him My grace is sufficient or that some such like consideration is dropt in that stayes thee It was the effect of Davids seven dayes fasting that he did so contentedly beare the losse of the Childe which his servants thought would have overwhelmed him 2. Sam. 12. 19 20 21. But a consideration was dropt in which was the fruit of his prayer That he should goe to him not hee returne hither and his minde was comforted thereby in so much as it is said