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land_n	egypt_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	4,186	5	10.7503	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87152	True religion in the old way of piety and charity. Delivered in a sermon to the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen of this city of London, at their anniversary meeting on Munday (commonly called Easter-Munday) at the Spittle, 1645. / By Robert Harris B D. pastor of Hanwell, Oxon. and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1645 (1645)	Wing H878; Thomason E277_4; ESTC R200002	31,992	44

say he loves the party praying too and when the person is accepted then you know any thing passes very well let that Damosell in Mark 6.22 please Herod though in a toy you know what Herod sayes to her straight aske what thou wilt sayes he it shall be given unto thee let Esther please Ahasuerus and then shee need not wooe him he will wooe her speak sayes he O Queen Esther what is thy petition and what is thy request and it shall be granted unto thee God delights in the persons of his children he loves them dearly and because they are so precious in his eyes their prayers and their entreaties are very welcome to him John 16.26 Thirdly God is a God that delights in mercy as the Scripture tels us he delights in mercy sayes Jeremy and sayes Micah mercy pleases him God is very well pleased when he hath an opportunity to shew his bounty and to exercise his mercy and his graciousnesse towards his people and when he finds them on their knees then they are in a capacity of mercy God is pleased with this even to scatter mercy and to shew himselfe a bountifull God he delights herein therefore does even heap mercy upon his people when they are capable of the same Hitherto sayes Christ in the 16. of John 24. hitherto you have asked nothing in my name aske and you shall receive Nothing that is nothing to speak of as if he would say nothing that I value at any thing I doe not satisfie my selfe in that which I have done for you hitherto you have hitherto asked nothing to speak of aske more I am ready to give you more so large are his bowels and his favours towards his people God stands disposed to his when they come asking as Naaman sometimes did 2 King 5. toward Gehezi Gehezi comes to aske one talent and one suit of raiment for each Levite that he suggests and sues for but what sayes Naaman to him nay take two one is too little take two and the Text tels us that he did presse him and heaps them upon him So deales God with his people when they come to him for mercy and for kindnesse nay sayes God take more or at least I would you were capable of more I could as willingly give it as you are willing to receive it if the stay were not on your owne part God loves mercy and therefore is ready to entertaine the prayers of his children when they come for mercy As there are these reasons taken from Gods gracious and blessed nature so others may be added from other occasions Fourthly from the engagements that lye upon God in regard of his free and gracious promises promises very free and very large both for the matter that we shall ask ask whatsoever you will ask in my name sayes Christ you shall receive it as also for the measure open thy mouth wide sayes God and I will sill it as also for the time when God will doe it before you speak I will heare and while you are speaking I will answer in the 65. of Isatah I forbeare to name other places because they are familiarly knowne to you so that God having engaged himself by promise to doe great things and as he sayes in the Prophet to be very gracious unto his people in point of prayer therefore certainly he will be as good as his word And last of all which is the maine reason of all in truth the reason is from Christ and from that Covenant and transaction that passes between Christ and his Father Christ he presents our prayers nay we present Christ unto his Father God looks upon a Christian as a piece and a member of Christ he looks upon his prayer as the fruit of Christs intercession and Priestdome our prayers being Saints are indited by Christs Spirit and are presented by Christs hand unto his Father they are perfumed with his intercession and with his incense and therefore it is certaine they be very pleasing to God God for Christs sake will deny none that come in the name and in the Spirit of the Lord Christ nay God hath left the whole dispensation of this businesse unto the Lord Christ and hath referred all to him even to doe what he will with the Saints in the Church as sometimes Ahasuorus did with Esther left it to her what she would have done for her people and against her enemies and as sometimes Pharaoh said to Joseph Joseph sayes he thy brethren are come into Aegypt unto thee bid them welcome take the Land at thy command place them where thou thinkest good so unto the same effect does God say unto the Lord Christ here be friends of thine members of thine that are bone of thy bone flesh of thy flesh they come to me for some reliefe and succour in thy name here they be receive them take them doe for them what thou seest good I will ratifie it I will make it good this is the maine reason And these are the reasons which I shall give you of the point why the Lord is so gracious unto his poore servants when they come a begging and a suing unto him Now give me leave in a few words to bring home this point and to apply it and then we will passe to another Use 1 First of all this must instruct us in regard of time past it must be matter of humbling and of blushing unto us that we have not answered the Lord and returned according to the kindnesse that we have received we doe not give unto God the glory of his goodnesse and of his graciousnesse in answering prayer but come many times with a great deale of feare appeare before him with many doubts and returne from him with a great deale of sadnesse and heavinesse Oh! how does this offend and displease God The Emperour was sorry that any man should come to offer a Petition to him as if he were to offer meat to an Elephant as he said with a trembling hand Another he was sorry to see any man goe sadly out of his presence and can the Lord doe otherwise , but take it unkindly as it were at his peoples hands who are so deare unto him whenas they are so jealous so doubtfull so fearfull how they shall be accepted and speed when they come in point of prayer to him Well that is a thing we are to blame our selves for first And then in the second place this teaches us for the present to take notice of Gods goodnesse this way and to blesse and praise him for this his free grace in hearing poore sinners and poore Petitions put up unto him from time to time This David took notice of he would love the Lord because God heard his prayer in one Psalme In another he blesses God Blessed be God sayes he that thou hast not rejected my prayer nor turned thy mercy from me Psal. 66.3 Blessed be God why that God did