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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11258	The touch-stone of prayer. Or A true and profitable exposition of the Lords prayer, according to the holy Hebrew of S. Mathews gospel to which is prefixed certaine necessary circumstances to be obserued in prayer. Also thereunto is annexed a table shewing the agreement betweene the Lords prayer, and the ten commandements of Almighty God. By T.S.	S., Tho.	1602 (1602)	STC 21523; ESTC S114099	35,229	130

and Israel be ignorant of vs yet thou art our father and our redeemer thy name is for euer Obiection CHrist calleth God father is he therefore his father as he is ours Answere NO For he is our father by his creating and adopting vs in Christ But he is Christes father Nota. ☞ by eternall generation he the naturall sonne of God but wee by grace Therefore well did he euer make this distinction I thanke thee ô my father for so hee is in the most peculier manner Also where he saith I go to my father your father my God and your God What doth he teach but that God is his father by eternall generation and ours by adoption Now from this word Father let vs learne fiue lessons First let vs learne to pray in faith For saith Theophilact faith is the very foundation of prayer and he 1. Of stedfastnes in his promises goeth further and saith Nisi enim crediderit homo quòd hoc quòd petet accepturus est in suam vtilitatem vanaest oratio quam facit Except a 2. Of our loue man beleeue he shall receaue that 3. Of our honoring him which hee shall aske for his profit that prayer which hee dooth make is vaine The very worde in 4. Of feare to his maiestie the originall which is * The word Father putteth vs in mind AB of ABAH to will it sheweth that God willeth our good And what will a father deny his sonne 5. Of obedience dutie Mat. 7. 7 that is for his good saith our Sauiour yea saith the Lorde can a woman forget her childe and not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe though it could be yet will I not forget thee saith the Eternall Secondly it teacheth vs to haue a louing affection when we come to appeare before a mercifull Father and not as a seuere Iudge therefore saith Dauid and with him let vs say My soule thirsteth Psa 42. after the liuing God when shall I come to appeare before the presence of God Thirdly the name Father teacheth vs honor If I be your Father Mal. 1. saith God where is my honor Fourthly Feare If yee call him 1. Pet. 1 13. Father which without respect of persons iudgeth euery man according to his workes passe the time of your dwelling in feare Fiftly obedience As obedient children fashion not your selues to the 1. Pet. 1. 4. former lustes of ignorance Lastly this word Father telleth our consciences that God is apeased for our sinnes and that Christ hath fully satisfied his fathers wrath for vs so we are not only friendes but also coheires with Christ therefore the spirit boldneth vs to call God ABBA father herein is the great loue of our mercifull father maruelously set forth euen in this that when we were Rom. 5. 8. 9. yet sinners he sent his sonne to die for vs. How much more being iustified by his bloud we shall be saued and seeing he hath giuen vs Christ how shall he not giue vs all things O Christian remember thy duty Applica ∣ tion ☞ God hath beene twise a father to thee but thou not once worthy the name of a sonne Thus much of the first worde Father now for the AFFIX our I haue shewed before how God is our Father both by creation and adoption It followeth to set downe what lessons wee may learne from this worde our which are in number foure First it teacheth vs charity for The vse 1 loue seeketh not her owne but we must seeke to edifie one another to be like minded one towards another to pray one for another Therefore dooth Christ teach vs to pray one for another saying Our Father not my Father Secondly it doth teach vs to agree in saith and doctrine with our brethren Thirdly it teacheth vs humility to say with Peter there is no respect of persons with God And with Paul there is neither Iewe nor Graecian bond nor free male nor female but wee are all one in Christ Therefore said Iob If I contemned the iudgement of my seruant Iob. 31. 13. when he contended with me what then shall I do when God standeth vp and visiteth me what then shall I answere Lastly it teacheth vs to beware of Sectes and Scismatickes which haue indeed the spirite of Babell saying I am holyer then thee stand from me or with the proud Pharisie I thanke thee Lord I am not like this Publican The third part of the Preface Which art FOr the first word Which SHE an abstract of ASHER the relatiue of the roote of the verbe ASHAR of which commeth also ASHRE Blessed or blessings giuing vs to vnderstand thus much that God is the fountaine whence all blessings come And if we be blessed it is by receiuing it from God for when God and wee are relatiues I meane when we are his sonnes in Christ then doth he impart of his blessings vnto vs as ASHRE NES VI Psal 32. 1. PESHANG Blessed is he whose sinne is forgiuen Art THis word Art is not in the originall but is necessarily יהוה vnderstood and this adiunct of Future י Preterp ה Present ו time in the Present-tense yea in all tenses agreeth to God euermore as the learned well know The letters in the name * Theo. Beza in Apoc. 1. Iehouah doe Reuel 1. 14. note to vs as much as S. Iohn in the Apocalips Which is which was and which is to come The Present Preter-perfect and the Future tense The consideration of this eternitie Doctrin of God strengtheneth vs in faith if we obserue the Apostles words all the promises of God in Christ are Yea and Amen With God there is no shadowe nor variance of change for whome he loueth he loueth to the end Iesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same is for euer The vse of this is that we should not wauer in faith nor be inconstant Vse in religion but faithfull in all our promises then haue we a blessing for Christ saith be faithfull vnto death and I will giue thee the crowne of life In Heauen AS in the first word of this preface we are taught that God is our father therefore willing to heare vs. So in this last word heauen we are put in minde of his might that he is able to helpe vs. Psal 99. 2. Dauid saith the Lord is great in Sion he is high aboue all people Christ saith My father is greater Ioh. 10. then I and none is able to take my sheepe out of his hands therfore feare not Satans subtiltie nor his childrens tirranie Secondly we must not admit any base or earthly conceit of our father in heauen for the Prophet Isaijah saith Gods thoughts are not our thoughts neither are his wayes our wayes But as the heauens are higher then the earth so are his wayes higher then our wayes Thirdly the place heauen must teach vs that when we come to speake to