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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12472	The doctrine of praier in generall for all men, that is, vniuersally for all mankind: Proued 1. By the true sence of the words if the Apostle 1. Tim 2. 2. By the reasons, why all men in that since should be praid for. 3. By the doctrine establishing such praier. 4. By the practises of churches, concerning that kind of praier. 5. By the obiections, ansuered. Against the position of those that say and preach, that all men are not to be praid for. By I. Smith, minister of Gods word at Reading.	Smith, John, minister at Reading.; Smith, John, 1563-1616.	1595 (1595)	STC 22797; ESTC S102599	80,671	127

THE DOCTRINE OF Praier in generall for All men that is vniuersally for All mankind Proued 1. By the true sence of the words of the Apostle 1. Tim. 2. 2. By the reasons why All men in that sence should be praid for 3. By the Doctrine establishing such Praier 4. By the practise of Churches concerning that kind of Praier 5. By the Obiections Answered Against the Position of those that say and preach that All men are not to be praid for By I. Smith Minister of Gods word at Reading Augusti de Catech. rudib Homines ergo bon●s imi●are malos ●olera omnes ama quoniam nescis quid eras futuru● sit qui bodie malu● est Imitate thou therefore good men the euill beare with and tollerat and loue all men For thou knowest not what he may be to morrow which to day is euill and wicked LONDON Printed by Adam Islip 1595. TO THE RIGHT HOnourable and most reuerend Father in God my L. Archbishop of Canturburie One of the Lords of hir Maiesties most Honourable priuie Counsell and Primate of all England WE haue held the course most reuerend Father by the good sufferance of our most mercifull and louing Creator in this Church of England among other most needfull and carefull sutes to the Lord our God in holy praier and calling vpon his name as for the establishing and cōfirming of his children in holy life so also for the conuersion of vnrighteous and sinners that is for iust and vniust for all mankind that in such our dutifull praiers so far foorth as we might obtaine the same of our mercifull Father his glorie might shine foorth and all nations might know the saluation of our God But I know not how it commeth to passe hauing thus long continued our publike praiers to this end we begin in these later daies to doubt and to reason for whome we ought to pray as though wee had neuer read in the scriptures That all mankind ought to be deare vnto vs Or as though the Apostle had neuer said vnto vs That praiers supplications intercessions and giuing of thanks should be made for All men Of which rule and of the fourth verse thereof S. Augustine speaking saith Siquidem Apostolus cuius ista est sententia solicitè praecipit quod in omnibus ecclesijs pijssimè custoditur vt Deo pro omnibus hominibus supplicetur For sure the Apostle whose sentence this is dooth most carefully commaund and which thing is most godlie obserued in all churches That supplications be made to God for All men And Chrisostome doubteth not to say Idcircò altari assistens Sacerdos prò vniuerso orbeterrarum prò absentibus atquè Praesentibus Deo nos gratias iubet offerre To this purpose the Priest standing at the aulter commandeth vs to offer vp thanks to God for the whole vniuersall world for the persons absent and Present c And it seemeth by S. Ciprian that it was a Christian mans profession an outward badge of a Christian euen to confesse That he hath compassion on Infidels and such as are without and excepted none but praied for all and therefore being required to conuert to idolatrie by the Proconsul he answered Christianus ego sum nullos alios deus noui nisi vnum verum deum c. Hunc nocte dieque deprecamur prò omnibus etiam prò imperatoribus c. I am a Christiā saith he and know not any other gods but one and the true God Him wee intreat and pray vnto day and night yea for Al men and euen for the emperours which were then Galienus and Valerianus who were at that time the persecutors and had by their letters commaunded that All men should worship the Roman gods In reading of these things therefore with a gret deale more as followeth in the processe hereof most reuerend Father I wondered that men should be so deceiued as to speake against that which they knew not or to mislike that which was Apostolical iust and good That therfore I might releeue the error of the ignorant herein not doubting of the learned and their persuasion of whom I am readie to learne I haue taken vpon me to write this Treatise nothing fearing but if they will in all humilitie learne they shall easily be drawne forth of the snares wherein they haue ben intangled and discerne and confes the truth So committing the same vnto your honorable and fatherly tuition as being a point and question in Diuinitie and now too much contended of amongst the simple Leauing you to your more weightier affairs I cease any further at this time to intreat hereof From S. Laurence in Reading in the Countie of Berkshire Anno 1595. Your Honors most humble and daily Orator Iohn Smith To the Christian Reader Grace and Peace THou hast of late right Christian reader giuen foorth vnto thy view a little Treatise concerning Praier for Almen for thy confirmation that way if thou be established for thy instruction if thou doubt as is meant by the writer and the author of the same Which for my part should haue gone on and passed without any my speeches or writings if it had passed in innocencie and simplicitie of it selfe But because it so deepely reprooueth the contrarie minded argueth their ignorance confuteth their opinions impaireth the vnderstanding of S. Augustine alleaged the Author knoweth by whome I thought good being one of the simplest of those that preach that doctrine yet most touched in the said Treatise to deale towards thee after this sort First I haue sent thee here the Doctrine hereof namely of Praier for All men secondly I mean to send thee as God shall giue time the full answer vnto that former Treatise that thou maist discerne where the truth and where the error is I must confesse if the disquieted minds about this doctrine had not mooued me and the oft soliciting of such whose I am in the Lord also prouoked me and the learned my friends oft told me how I was dealt withall in the said Treatise I had not taken this seruice in hand For I beare this mind alwaies in most readie sort being aduertised to reclaim that I speake amisse euen in the congregation much lesse would I heare of it in Print For what is the estimation of a minister in the Lord if he be bereaued of the truth None surely in my iudgement any way First therefore iudge thou of my doctrin secondly thou shalt if God giue grace vnderstand our faults and imperfections laid to our charge And the Lord Iesus in the meane season giue thee vnderstanding in all things to thy euerlasting comfort in him Amen Thine in the Lord Iohn Smith GENERALL PRAIER for all Men. IT were greatly to be desired right Christian reader that in the course and preaching of the Gospel there were such an harmonie and agreement that the smaller things lesse esteemed the direct and maine course of godlie exercise of holie life of brothe●ly