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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

on the crosse Thus by these examples we see that confession of sinnes must go before remissiō If thy sinne be priuate then confession to God may be priuat but if it be publique then must there bee publique confession that the Church may take notice of thy true contrition Thirdly it teacheth vs the great Doct. 3 patience of God in not confounding of vs when we haue first sinned but suffering vs so long and giuing vs space to repent This patience of God saith Saint Peter should leade vs to repentance and not to say with the foole tush God seeth it not The Prophet Dauid saith the Lord is full of mercy and of great goodnes but he also saith if a man will not turne he will bend his bow and whet his sworde And the longer hee deferreth his punishment the higher he heaueth his hand the greater will the blow bee Therefore though God haue but a leaden heele yet hath he Psal 2. an Iron scepter Thus much of the first word forgiue Vs or to vs. BY this word vs we are taught to pray for the saluation of our brethren yea of all if it were Gods will by the example of Saint Paule who could haue wished to haue beene seperate from God for his countrie mens sake the Iewes But few go so farre with Paule for if they wish their friendes any thing it is rather worldly wealth honor and dignity then the forgiuenesse of sinnes and increase of spirituall graces forgetting Christ his wordes what will it profit a man to winne the whole world and to lose his owne soule but this is the frailenes of our flesh and sinnefull nature to be more prone to earthly profi●s then feruently to desire heauenly blessinges Our debts Breach of the lawe is debt which is our sins INdeede sinnes are rightly our debtes Which make vs indebted vnto God by transgression of his diuine law Alas goodnesse was once ours but we in our first parents lost the very will of dooing well how much more the power to do well So that God now saith Gen. 6. the thoughts of mans heart are altogether euill Therfore sinnes are rightly ours now indeed The blessed Apostle Saint Iames sheweth this where he prooued that God tempteth none to doe euill but all such temptations are of our selues and Rom. 8. he saith further whence are wars sedition and enuyings are they not euen of your selues yea the Apostle Paule The confession of Paule differeth from the pretended Catholique that chosen vessell could say I know in me that is in my selfe dwelleth no good thing and howsoeuer to will is present with me yet I finde by the law of God that I do that which I should not doe Debts Well may our sinnes the breach of the law be called Debts telling vs of our neglect of duty and of our playing the bankrupts with the graces of the good spirit of God as also to bind vs to the iudgement seat of God laying before vs the haynousnesse of our sinnes and the ritch mercy of God in Christ who when we had nothing to pay forgaue vs all The second part of the fift Petition As we forgiue our debters This forgiuenesse of our brethren it is a sure testimony that God in the first place hath forgiuen vs and so saith Saint Iohn by this we know we are translated from death to life because we loue the brethren and Christ his commandement is be yee mercifull as your heauenly father is mercifull O how can they looke for mercy which continue in malice for Christ hath said it therefore it is true With what measure you meate to others it shall be measured to you againe Therefore let not the sunne go downe on thy wrath for what knowest thou ô man whether thou shalt liue till to morrow and if thou shouldst dye in malice thou dyest not in God for God is loue In the feare of God consider this and first be reconciled vnto thy brother and then come and offer thy gift for if saith the Wiseman one pray and another curse which will God heare Nay such as bee full of cruelty and reuengement what in this Petition do they pray for but this that Gods curse and vengeance might light on them therefore whosoeuer thou art that cariest malicious minde to thy brother thou art altogether vnfit to say this prayer or any holy prayer Yea and God will not heare thee when thou callest vnto him when thou stretchest forth thy hands he will hide his eyes And though Isai 1. 15. thou make many prayers yet will he not heare thee because thy Mic. 3. 1 hands are full of bloud Therefore take the aduise of Christ First be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift But here may arise a doubte whether that God will heare me or no seeing I confesse my selfe to be a sinner 1. Pet. 4. 17. and Salomon saith God heareth not sinners How therefore will He is a sinner that beleeues not the gospel this stand with this petition very well for by sinners in that place is meant such as be not incorporate into Christ and such as delight and continue in their sinne 1. Ioh. 2 and such men indeede God will Rom. 4. 25. not heare But they that haue put on the righteousnesse of Christ by Heb. 9. 26. a true and a liuely faith them will God heare and for their sinnes was Christ the reconciliatiō Therfore Iere. 50. 20. with Ieremie let vs say and beleeue That Gods mercie maketh sinners pure for God imputeth not sinne to his faithfull children Psalm 32. 2. Obiection Yea but how saith S. Iohn that they which are borne of God sinne not and That hee that committeth sinne is of the deuill but euery man sinneth and euery one committeth sinne Answere That is true But if you well obserue the words before and consider the drift of S. Iohn you shall plainely see that he meaneth such as are of the deuil as perseuer with willingnesse in sinne euen such as in whom sinne raignes in their mortall bodyes But vnder that power of sinning cannot the children of God be because the spirit of God checketh and correcteth their euill and corrupt affections For this victory ouer sinne and death hath Christ giuen vs that beleeue Giuing vs both a will and a feruent 1. Cor. 15. 57. desire to doe his commaundements And this is his commandement that we beleeue in Iesus Christ and loue one another for he tbat keepeth this commandement 1. Ioh. 3 23. 24. dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby know we that he abidetb in vs euen by the spirit which he hath giuen vs. The 6. petition And leade vs not into temptation but The word Temptation is of a verbe that signifieth to lift vp shewing that God somtimes prooues ●is childrē further higher by degrees as he did Abraham Gen. 〈…〉 also Heb. 11. For first he tempted but