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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

so in some cases there is the like testimony for the obtaining of some eminent thing we have asked Which particular speciall faith doth in a kind of similitude answer to the faith of miracles of old whereby a man had a particular confidēce that God would doe such a miracle by him so in by meanes of prayer in some things there may be a particular strengthning assuring the heart that God will doe such a thing for a man which I confesse is rare and extraordinary as also that immediate testimony concerning our persons is which many want that goe to heaven And haply this other concerning the accomplishment of speciall mercies is much more rare and but in some businesses and is a thing which some men are not acquainted with but yet may bee in some cases existent to some mens spirits as it was to Davids in the thing mentioned And concerning this also I will also adde a Caution A caution that herein a conditionall evidence be not taken for absolute as about the former That it doth not alwayes fall out upon all such kind of evidences made to a mans spirit and that by God that the thing prayed for doth come to passe For these very perswasions stirred up by God may bee and are often but conditionall though thus immediately made to a mans spirit and are so to bee understood and not peremptory and absolute It cannot bee imagined that all these should alwayes be of greater absolutenesse and peremptorinesse than were many of those revelations made by God to the Prophets wherein Hee manifested his gracious purpose towards such a man or people either to vouchsafe them such a mercie or bring such a judgement which forewarnings though they were particular and expresse yet limited and intended with a condition according to the performance or not performance of which it fell out either the judgement expresly threatned was diverted or that good thing which was as directly and fully promised was not bestowed as it was in the case of Ionas threatning the destruction of Nineveb and so in the promise concerning Ely's house 1. Sam. 2. 30. I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should walke before mee for ever but now the Lord sayes it shall not bee so For they had broken the condition which was implied in it they had despised the Lord and them that despise me sayes God there I will despise In like manner is Gods meaning expressed towards us in such like perswasions wrought in us by prayer to be understood as that such mercies will surely come to passe but still under a condition of obedience and performing of those vowes which a man joyned with those his petitions to move the Lord to grant the things which if a man faile in or ceaseth to goe on to beleeve it may and doth often come to passe that things fall out contrary to that perswasion and then wee are apt to question whether it was from God or no which it might bee and truely wrought by his Spirit and yet not alwaies absolutely meant that was your mistake so to take it but conditionally onely For in such great requests of the soule unto God there use to passe mutuall covenants betweene God and us and Indentures are drawne and sealed unto by us that is we in prayer offer and promise to doe thus and thus if God will vouchsafe us such a mercy and pleade it to God to move him to bestow it and God hee thereupon it may bee seales a covenant on his part to grant the thing works such an undoubted perswasion but if wee in that interim of waiting for that mercy doe deale falsely in that covenant which we made and this even whilest wee are yet in dependance upon God for it whereby it appeares that we would have done so much more after wee should have received it once in this case God denies the thing and yet notwithstanding that perswasion and evidence was from God that heard the prayer He said indeed he would doe thus and thus for thee as he told David I would have given thee much more because thou saidst to him thou wouldst walke thus and thus or didst vow this or that to him thou failest in thy word upon which God uttered his and thereupon sayes God as to Ely Now it shall not be so and yet God had spoken it afore and not Satan nor thine owne heart onely §. 5. Whē God puts a restlesse importunity into the heart to pray for a particular mercy 4. When God doth put a restlesse importunity into the heart maugre all discouragements So in that Psalme 27. 4. One thing I have desired and I wil seek after it that is as I have sought it so I will not leave seeking to God for it when God maintaines this in the heart it is a signe he heares and will answer for you know the Parable that the unjust Iudge heard her for her importunity therefore when God puts an importunity into the heart he meanes to heare Onely this likewise is to be added in this A double importunity one accepted not the other There is a double importunity one out of such an inordinate desire to a thing as the heart knows not how to be without such a mercie and so continues to ask but asketh amisse and so receives not Iam. 5. But there is an importunity joyned with a subjection to Gods will which when it runs along with it then God hath stird it up and then looke for something to come otherwise you may bee importunate as they seeke mee daily when yet God heard not Esay 58. 2. Chap. 6. CHAP. VI. Further Observations to be made on the dispositions and carriage of our hearts after Prayer untill the issue of the thing prayed for NExt after thou hast prayed observe what God doth towards thee § 1. Whē God gives an obedient dependant heart in walking before him As first how hee doth guide thy feet and heart after praying there is much in that that which was the Spirit of supplication in a man when he prayed rests upon him as the spirit of obedience in his course so as that dependance hee hath upon God for the mercy hee seekes for is a speciall motive meanes to keep him fearefull of offending and diligent in duty to looke to his paths to walke and behave himselfe as becomes a suitor as well as to come and pray as a suitor Thus David he walked by this principle Psal 66. 18. If I regard iniquity in my heart God will not heare me that consideration still came in as a curb unto sinne and without this a man provokes God and so casts himselfe behind-hand againe and by sinning loseth what ground hee had got by praying Therefore David Psal 145. 8 9 10. when he was to pray even as for his life as then he did it being a deliverance from his enemies he sought he specially prayes God to