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A68105	The way to well-doing. Or A sermon of faith and good vvorkes Preached in the chappell of Buntingford, in the county of Hartford, at the beginning of their publike lecture. By Iohn Gore, rector of Wenden-lofts in Essex.	Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex, Summer sermon. aut; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Winter sermon. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 12087; ESTC S116024	20,619	38

hath promised in verbo servatoris in the word of a Saviour that he will release and ease him of it One thing I must tell thee by the way when thou prayest to Christ for ease thou must promise him obedience and service as the Israelites did to Rhehoboam 1 Reg. 12. Ease us of our burthen and we will be thy servants for ever Thus doe and then let thy burthen be never so great thy corruptions never so many thy passions never so strong Hee that could calme the sea can calme thy sorrowes and speake peace unto thy soule in the midst of all thy troubles and therefore if at any time thy passions be stirred and thy heart disquieted within thee know of a surety that there is some Ionah that hath raised this storme some sinne or other that hath caused this trouble to thy soule then fall to thy prayers as Eliab did and give God no rest till God hath given rest to thy soule Eliah was a man subject to passions and he prayed It followes How did he pray My Text saith he prayed earnestly in the Originall it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In praying he prayed or he prayed a prayer we translate it He prayed earnestly and it is to very good purpose for it implies thus much that no prayer is a prayer indeede but an earnest prayer Cold and carelesse prayers counterfeit and superstitious prayers they be but res nihili in Gods account no prayers at all I will give you an instance Act. 9. 11. When Paul was converted and stricken with blindnesse Almighty God sent Ananias to him to lay his hands upon him and to recover him of his fight now least he should mistake the man and lay his hands upon a wrong party God gives him this private token to know him by forbehold he prayeth Now let mee demand doe you thinke that Saint Paul never prayed to God till that time or doe you imagine that was the first prayer that ever Saint Paul made It is the first wee reade of but doe you thinke hee never prayed before I beleeve he did many a time and oft and I will give you my reason Saint Paul you know was a Pharisee one of the strictest and devoutest of all the Sect as hee testifies of himselfe and the Pharisees you know were altogether given to long praying it was their glory and their gaine too that they could make long prayers in every place in the open streetes in widdowes houses and no doubt but Saint Paul had as excellent a faculty that way and could pray as long and as largely as the best of them all but see the issue Almighty God who stiles himselfe the hearer of prayers gave no eare tooke no notice of all his formall Pharisaicall hypocriticall prayers which he had made in former times till hee came to this humble this earnest this heart-breaking prayer And now saith God Behold he prayeth he never prayed indeed till now for as Philo saith well God doth not numerare but ponderare not number our prayers but weigh them if he finde them cordiall if hee finde them hearty that they have some substance and some weight in them then he records and registers and sets them downe in that booke of remembrance which the Prophet speakes of Mal. 3. 16. If otherwise they be dull and heartlesse lazy and spiritlesse God doth by them as he doth by our sinnes of ignorance Act. 17. 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 winke at them passe by and take no notice of them let no man therefore deceive himselfe to thinke that all kinde of praying speedes alike for no prayer is a prayer in Gods account but an earnest prayer Eliah prayed a prayer because he prayed earnestly Furthermore it is worth your noting to see the constant disposition of this holy man Eliah was well knowne to bee a hot spirited man in all his actions exceeding zealous and earnest in all his reprehensions both of the King and of the people Now here you may observe the equability the evennesse of Eliahs zeale as he was earnest in his reprehensions so he was as earnest in his devotions and as zealous in his prayers as he was in his anger There is many a man hot and fiery in his anger but cold and luke-warme in prayers such zeale is never right Gal. 4. 18. It is good to be alwayes earnest in a good thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the word to be hot and fiery and zealously affected in one good thing as well as another in devotion as well as reprehension in prayer as well as in anger When a mans zeale is equable like Eliahs then it is right and pleasing to God As Physitians judge of the state of a mans body Vniversalia salutaria particularia ex mo●bo as thus if a man be hot in one part and cold in another if the palmes of his hands burne and the soles of his feete be key-cold then all is not right but if he be of an indifferent equall heate all over that held a good signe of good health in the body By the like rule judge thou of the state of thy soule if thy zeale be equable and uniforme both in prayer and in anger it is a good signe of grace and sanctification in thy heart but if it vary and differ that there is too much heate in the one too little in the other all is not well within It was the reason which old Father Latimer gave why men in these dayes doe not prevaile with God in their prayers as Eliah and such others had done in former times Deest ignis saith he deest ignis There lackes fire there lackes fire his meaning is our prayers want that zeale that heate that earnestnesse which they put into theirs For as incense without fire yeelds no smell no more doth prayer without zeale and earnestnesse and as Hony is no Hony if it have lost its sweetnesse and Vinegar is no Vinegar if it have lost its sharpenesse so Prayer is no Prayer if it bee voide of earnestnesse Eliah prayed indeede because hee prayed earnestly Now I come to the subject and matter of his Prayer which I told you was first for a judgement and then for a blessing first for a drought and then for raine as it followeth Hee prayed earnestly that it might not raine and it rained not on the earth by the space of three yeares and sixe moneths Here are two weighty points to be considered 1. What should moove Eliah to pray for a judgement 2. Why he made choise to pray for this kinde of judgement of drought and dearth rather then for any other I will tell you my opinion of both 1. Vpon what ground or by what warrant did Eliah pray for a judgement Saint Paul in my conceit seemes to taxe him for it Rom. 11. 2. and he brings it in with a notandum wote ye not i. doe ye not marke and observe what the Scripture saith of Eliah how he made