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A tract of prayer by He. Clapham.
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Clapham, Henoch, fl. 1600.
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1602
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consideratioÌ„ giue vs not only therefore not to be idle but also wynged speedie executors of thy gracious Will reuealed to vs from thine owne Word And besides the common duties of Christianitie vouchsafe the grace vnto vs duely to consider our particuler place calling that so the Maiestrate may haue grace to gouerne rightly with his Sword the Minister may be faithful in ruling by the Word the Artificer and Trades-man may shew himselfe a true Christian in the very particulars of their vocation that Fathers and Maisters to children and seruants seruants children and subiectes to their superiors may all be carefull in these very places to be faythfull doers of thy Will as the heauenly powers in their roomes are euer prest to act thy diuine pleasure Heauenly Father vouchsafe vs the grace alwayes to make such holy vse of the Angels their glorious example that so in word and deed we may euer glorifie thy name put vpon vs first in Creation secondly in Baptisme lastly in our Profession Vnto the Father it is best knowen what is necessarie for the Day to thee therefore we crie Giue vnto vs this day our dayly-bread If thou giue it it shal be good for vs be it more or lesse for it is not in the quantitie but in thy blessing with litle thou wouldest haue vs contented in teaching vs to craue only Bread Nor can it be so little as the best of vs deserue for we merit not the Crummes that fall from thy Table ô how large then is thy mercie who besides Bread hast affoorded many other Creatures often for our Tables with variety of Rayment for our Bodyes Yea how great is thy mercie seeing we may say particulerly with Dauid Thou hast prepar'd a table before mee in the sight of mine aduersaries thou hast annoynted mine Head with Oyle my Cup running ouer For oft the aduersaries of Godlynes haue laboured so much as in them was to depriue vs of Natures sustentation but in mercie thou hast annulled their deuises giuing vs in their very sight to the griefe of their hartes not onely Food but also soueraigne delightes of Nature and that with inundation Thou in mercie hauing giuen it thou so in Christ Iesus hast sealed it vp for our owne Whereby hath falne out that in our much and little we haue a true peace-able conscience Otherwyse O Lord if we eate drinke and cloath'd our selues in iudgment what better were we though we gayned the world thereby And the prouidence ô heauenly Father which watcheth ouer our bodyes nouriture by this Bread vouchsafe it may watch ouer our soules by administring the Bread of eternall lyfe which is the Merits of thy Sonne offred in thy Worde and sealed vp in the Sacramentes That being so fedde in body and soule we may both in body and soule cheerefully prayse thee We haue trespassed against thee ô heauenly Father first in not hauing Beliefe in thy Promises who notwithstanding hast declared thy selfe to be not only a Father but also an Heauenly al-sufficient Father We haue secondly sinned against thee in not declaring the truth of our Fayth by the wotkes of Loue towards our fellow members We haue thirdly trespassed against thee in taking thy name in vaine We haue trespassed fourthly against thee in setting our selues against the thinges of thy Kingdome We haue transgressed fifthly against thee in not dooing thy will when once it hath been reuealed vnto vs. We haue sinned against thee also in the abuse of Bread and all other externall necessaries Our trespasses against thee are innumerable neither are we able to answere for one sinne amongst a thousande Good Lord therefore be mercifull vnto vs in the remission of all our sinnes which remission proceedeth of thine owne free Grace sealed vp in Christ Iesus whereto man is not able to adde one farthing by way of satisfaction Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. To whom thou sealest by the testimonie of thy Spirit the forgiuenes of sinne to them thou giuest a true guift though not absolute of willingnes to pardon the trespasses of their brethren So that by our readinesse to remit the offences of others thou wouldst haue vs to take knowledge of the forgiuenesse of our sinnes which thou hast remitted vnto vs. And seeing thou in the first place hast been willing to passe by our Offences compared vnto Talents What are wee in the second place that we should take our brother by the throate for a few Pence trifles vnto vs in regarde of our debtes to thy infinite Maiestie and so call vpon him for satisfaction to the vttermost farthing No ô heauenly Father doe rather vouchsafe vnto vs a gentle meeke humble and louing hart by the which we may be ready to loose much of our externall right for Peace sake rather then by seeking our owne to kindle contention by the which we may be willing to deale mercifully with others euen as we would be glad to receiue mercie at thy handes Finally we beseech thee not to lead vs into tentation but deliuer vs froÌ„ euill It shal be necessarie ô Lord that sometimes wee bee tempted inwardly as were thy seruants Dauid Ieremie and others but in such time of tentation sweete Father delyuer vs from euill Giue vs as thou didst to thy seruant Paul a happie isâ—ue out of that tentation Sometimes it shal be necessare that thou tempts vs outwardly as thou didst AbrahaÌ„ in offring his only beloued Sonne Isaac as thou didst Iob in the losse of his Substaunce Children and bodyes health Yet Heauenly Father wee beseech thee in such Tentation to be mercifull vnto vs to ridde vs from the power of the Tentation to delyuer vs from Euill These our Petitions we offer vp onely to thee because Thine is the kingdome Scepter Gouernment Regiment are all thine As in the Churche where euery soule willingly bowes before thee as their fatherly King so in swaying of euery creature euen reprobate Men and Angels causing them will they nill they to execute thy diuine pleasure In the first for the declaration of thy mercy in the second for the manifestation of thy exact iustice Nor is it any maruell seeing thine is The Power All Power in Heauen and Earth is thine Power of Deuils and their instrumentes is nothing else but a sparckle of thy Power borrowed of thee what time thou meanest to correct thy Children or else to iudge transgression in the reprobate Till thou graunted such Power Satan could not touch Iob either in his substaunce children or person no nor beeing discharged could he enter somuch as into a Swine Thou onely hast the Power to helpe vs to thee therefore we direct our Prayers And this the rather because Thine is the Glorie Part thy Glorie with any other thou ô God wilt not And this is a great part of thy Glory to haue Prayer offered vp vnto thee as beeing HE
who only can search the Hart can giue to euerie one the thing is necessarie and gaine Glory to thy selfe in all thy actions And this For euer and euer And because Kingdome Power and Glory is thine always therefore at no time to be giuen wholly or in part to any Angell Saint or other Creature be it otherwise neuer so excellent in our eyes of neuer so high estimate in our minde Amen So it is and So be it ô Father of Heauen for the sake of thy Sonne our onely sauiour and redeemer Christ Iesus To whom togither with thee and the sanctifying Spirit be all kingdome Power and Glorie hencefoorth and for euer Amen A briefe example how it may be reduced to the 10. Commaundementes OUR Father and therefore a transgression for any of vs To haue any other Gods before thy face Which art in Heauen and therefore not to be fashioned by or to any thing aboue or belowe that hath existence amongst the Creatures For as thou art a Iealous GOD so thou must needes punish throughly all such Idolatire Halowed bee thy Name of all thy people who hast commaunded them at no hand To take thy name in vaine Thy Kingdome come as in the due sanctifying of the auncient Sabaoth day in Israell till Christ his Kingdome was established to all nations so now in the holy obseruance of our Lordes day the day of our Sauiours resurrection the day wherein at seuerall times on seuerall persons from morning to late night he powred foorth aboundantly the first fruites of his Spirit Thy Will bee done in Earth as it is done in Heauen by all sorts of Fathers and Mothers Ciuill and Ecclesiasticke with due referrence of duetie from inferiours to such superiours that so a better Blessing then that of Canaan euen of Heauens Rest it may be giuen vnto them Giue vs this day our dayly-bread that so by thy Grace we may not onely not murder but also truely mayntaine life in our selues and others Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. We haue trespassed in thought worde and deede against all the former and other thy Commaundements Lord vouchsafe to seale perfectly to our soules the remission of them all euen as by thy Grace we finde a true though not perfect readines to forgiue to others theâ—r trespasses Lead vs not into tentation but deliuer vs from euill Tempted we shal be to breake all thy Ten Lawes specially the very tenth in coueting things which appertaine to others For thy Sonnes sake delyuer vs from all such euill For thine is the Kingdome Power and Glorie for euer and euer Kingdome is thine and therfore thou callest people out of the seruitude of sinne to serue thee Power is thine and this thou shewest by pulling thy Israel out of the handes of Hels Pharaoh and the Glorie due to thee in all our obedience thou wilt not part it with any other For all homage of body and soule is due to thee who hast purchased vs to the prayse and glory of thy name And this for Euer and euer Amen Heauenly father It is so and euer graunt Grace to vs all that it may be so Amen 1. Thess. 5. 17. Pray continually FINIS Imprinted at London by William White 1602. What Prayer is The Papists errour for Prayer The Brownistes error for Prayer * Namely Our Father which art in Heauen c * Namely Abba Father all things are posible c. * Namely Grace be with you peace from God c. Nothing now sayd that hath not been sayd afore The first Branch of the Introduction to Prayer Our Father For further explication hereof the wise-spirited may vnder them words relate to the first Commaundement Thou shalt not haue other Gods before my face The second branch of the Introduction Which art in Heauen This may relate to the seconde CoÌ„mundement Thou shalt not make to thy selfe a grauen thing nor c. The first direct Petition Halowed be thy name Hereto the third Commandement may be applyed Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for c. The second Petition Thy Kingdome come This casteth eye backe to the fourth CoÌ„maundement Remember thou keepe holy the Sabbaoth day to sanctifie iâ— c. The third Petition Thy Will be done in Earth c. This relateth to the fifth Com. Honor thy Father and thy Mother that Ià à ricun they may prolong thy dayes vpon y â— earth which y â— Lo. thy GOD giues thee The fourth Petition Giue vs this day our c. Hereto the sixt CommandemeÌ„t Thou shalt not murther The fifth Petition And forgiue vs our trespasses c. Herto the breach of all the Commaundementes may be referred The sixth Petition And lead vs not into tentation but. c. Hereto all but specially the tenth com Thou shalt not couet c. The Reason of offering Prayer only to GOD The first branch For thine is y e Kingdome Heere may be remembred the kingdome of Aegipt from whence Israel is fetched The second branch of the Reason The Power Heereby that Power whereby that Church was deliuered The third Branch And the Glory Heere may be râ—â—â—rdated the glorie which God gayned in ouerthrowing Aegipt in the red Sea And all this intimated in that preface to the Commaundementes Exod. 20. 2. The fourth branch in coÌ„mon with the third The subscription of Fayth Amen This may relate to Israels subscription vnto the Law Thus the Law sent people to Prayer and Prayer respecteth the obseruatioÌ„ of the law and the fulfilling of all in Christ through whom God is become Our Father