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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

therefore Christ proposeth a Parable that we should always pray Luke 18. Prayers are Arma Christianorum as Tertullian And I fear those weapons have been too often wanting in our Armies I am sure they were the weapons the best weapons in Moses days And you may see what made Joshua conquer Amalek and what put life into the Camp whiles Moses Cruce and Prece prevails with God Exod. 17.11 12. And the Apostle doth perchance allude to this 1 Tim. 2. when he requires men to pray Lifting up pure hands every where much more when we expose our lives to the Casualties of War When the Hoste goeth forth against thine Enemies then keep thee from every wicked thing Deut. 23.9 then especially then or never When Judah is in Captivity or danger then pour out thy soul in Prayer to God and then especially then or never Audi Domine the second thing observable To whom Moses doth direct his Prayer Hear Lord not hear Abraham hear Isaak or if those Patriarchs were then in Limbo as our Neighbours tell us yet methinks they should have another conceit of Enoch whom God took away Gen. 5. nay translated him that he should not see death Heb. 11.5 And yet 't is not Hear Enoch but Hear Lord. Vnto thee will I direct my prayer Psal 5. Whom have I in Heaven but thee Psal 73.25 To him therefore to him let us make our Addresses in all our Troubles for He calls He commands Venite ad me And doubtless that of Isai Chap. 63. is sound Divinity in the New Testament also Abraham is ignorant of us and Israel knows us not And those Saint-Servants may remember what Tertullian upbraided the Heathen withal in his days Vos Irreligiosi qui eam that is health and help Quaeritis ubi non est petitis à quibus dari non potest praeterito eo in cujus potestate est God is a Jealous God and will not have his Honour given to another Now as 't is Hear Lord so 't is Hear Lord the voyce of Judah Moses the Magistrate or if you will Moses the Priest For Moses and Aaron among his Priests Psal 99.6 Moses prayeth for Judah that 's not enough Judah must pray for himself also whether it be Judah the Warriour or Judah the Law-giver Psal 60. In War in Peace Judahs Prayer must be heard Hear Lord the voyce of Judah St. Peter bid Simon Magus repent and pray to God Acts 8. But what saith Simon pray ye to the Lord for me 'T is true Abrahams Prayer is heard for Abimeleck Moses is heard for Phara●h Micha is perswaded of Gods favour for getting a Priest into his house Obed-Edom thrives for giving harbour to the Ark And the Shunamites Cost bestowed upon Elisha was not in vain 'T is true Oratio Justi oratio efficax multum valet as St. James said The fervent Prayer of a righteous man availeth much But Pray ye to the Lord for me is not enough Your own Repentance must make way for the Priests Prayers and your Prayers must go along with Theirs Judah's voyce must be heard as well as Moses's Prayer His heart is not enough God requires his voyce also I hate those Pharisaical Long-prayers and those cryed-up Bablers of the times so much say I of our Hypocritical Zealots whose House-reading is Roaring and their loud Prayers give Alarums to their sleeping Neighbours and what they do is to be known of men Intra in Conclave saith our Saviour Matth. 6. When thou prayest retire thee to thy Closet and shut the Door c. That 's for thy private Prayers but in the Church do the Works of the Church If thou be of the Congregation bear a part with the Congregation Let thy tongue tell me thy hearts awake I know Hannah prayed with the heart her lips only moved her voyce was not heard Her Sex perchance required that Modesty And she well knew the place she prayed in But surely the Godly cannot always contain themselves They will they must break out Tears and Desires will seek for vent Concalvit cor meum intra me saith David Psal 39. Mine heart was ho● within me the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue And in this posture shall you most while find the Saints in their Prayers Moses cries to the Lord Exod. 8. Samuel crie● to the Lord 1 Sam. 7. Thus the Israelites thus David almost every where Clamavi ad Dominum In the 142 Psalm 2. v. I poured out my Complaints before him so we read The Tremel●ian reads it I poured out my Meditations before him not Quicquid in Buccam venerit not those sudden Raptures and ex tempore-long-winded-prayers of our New-gifted Pharisees But I poured out my Meditations I durst not offer any indigested unpremeditate-Prayers I Conclude this part Non vox sed votum The Heart as 't is the principal part of the body and seat of life so is it the principal part and life of our Prayers wherefore the heart must in no case be away But as our Saviour said upon another occasion These things ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone Heart and Tongue let both in Gods name go together Give him both that made both So will God hear the voyce of Judah The Second part followeth And bring him unto his people or as the Tremellian reads it Reduce bring him back Bring him home again unto his People Who hath not read the misery of Kings and Princes in all Ages Their Captivities Banishments and unthought-of Deaths How many have attended the triumphant Chariots at Rome Or who hath not heard of Bajazets Cage or Sapor's Foot-stool Many have gone forth but vestigia nulla retrorsum They wanted this Blessing of Judah God brought them not back unto their People But I shall keep my self to Israel and Judah those great Examples of Gods Justice and Mercy The Rebellious Israelites did a long time prosper at length losing their Religion they lost withal Gods Favour and their dearest Country They were totally Conquered made Captives and A never to Return did seal up their sorrows They left the Commandments of their God and their God left them He was angry very angry with Israel so that the Lord removed them out of his sight 2 Kings 17.18 They lost not only their Power and their Country but their Name also None left but the Tribe of Judah only in the same place And Moses's Blessing did not depart from Judah Still a Duc and a Reduc followed him God brings out David from the Philistins and Joash out of the Temple Manasseh is carried into Babylon yet God brought him back again 2 Chron. 33. And Jehoiachin after 37 years Captivity comes out of Prison to a Throne Still God rememembred Judah Afterwards follow those Indulgencies of Cyrus and Darius Judahs full Restorement They to their Country and one of their own to govern them Moses's Prayer still takes place Judah was brought back unto his People We have