THE Lords Prayer UNCLASPED WITH A Vindication of it against All Schismaticks Hereticks cal'd Enthusiasts Fratra cilli By James Harwood B. D. Luk. 11.2 When ye pray say Our Father c. Mat. 26.44 And he left them and went away again and prayed the third time saying the Same words LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by G. and H. Eversden at the Grayhound in Pauls-Church-yard 1654. To the Worshipfull Citizens and Inhabitants in Pater-Noster-Row THrice noble and much honoured Citizens Give me leave to present to you that prayer which Christ presented to all Christians The more enemies it hath found in the Name of Christ Iesus the more I beg of you to countenance it and befriend it Though some in these sad times have underprized our high calling yet none must doubt to call this our Lords Prayer Religion is at a low ebbe when Gods Ministers and Christs own Prayer is little or nought set by Justly have we been punished and righteous O Lord art thou in all thy works yet what ever we suffer I beseech you in the name of God and Christ to be the Patron of this Prayer which among some cal'd Christians hath found as many scorners as Christ its maker among the Jewes mockers when you speak to God ere you end be pleased thus to pray Mat. 6. and this to say Luk. 11. The one Evangelist registring the Rule to pray by that other recording the subject matter of our prayers and both intimating thus much to all ages if we lay by this prayer we lose the rule to pray by if we say not this prayer we misse much if not most our Christ commanded us to pray for I will not trouble your religious ears with those horrid profane speechos uttered and in publick against this pious prayer It 's no wonder to me Christs own prayer hath so many enemies where the Devils Doctrine hath so many fast friends But this is condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darknesse better than light falshood than truth and a fantastick Enthusiasme more than Christs own Orizon I desire rather to pity than to reproach the brain-sick Humourists of our times whose disloyall censures like disloyall subjects have scandalized their supreme Soveraign the King of Salem the Son of God The cause because he prescribed this set form of prayer and hence it is pretended the spirit is stinted for that the matter and form prescribed But have you not heard how he who had a larger portion of the Spirit than all living who thought it no robbery to be equall with God the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane prayed three times and every time used the self same words Let his precept there * Luk. 11.2 his practise * Mat. 26.41 there encourage your worshipfull society to patronize this book of Prayer nay the very name of your Abide shall make me more confide as God hath placed you in such an Eden who knowes but it 's to protect this Prayer which came out of the Paradise the Breast of our Messias your earthly Lot is faln to you in a fair soyle while the plat of ground you inhabit is P. N. R. as in that Row you have a corporall residence so you shall not want a true Beadsman to be earnest with God at your end you may live for ever in his Bosome from whence came this prayer a prayer I beseech you oft to iterate for a speedy post which will convey and in a trice all your supplicats to your great Master God Almighty A rare preparation which fits you for your passage from Egypt unto Canaan In a word this prayer is that salt which seasons all your undertakings Nor do I attribute this vertue to the bare outward saying your Pater noster but as being joyned with the hearts sincerity nor would I the outward form totidem verbis to be neglected for know 't as thou maist be an hypocrite and do God all bodily service so thou canst never be a good Christian and deny to do it I would you therefore exercise this set form of prayer to shew you are no Enthusiasts to joyne also with your voice the spirit of understanding to shew you are good Christians That command * Luk. 11 of Christ shall be your warrant to go down to this his forge to sharpen your blunted goads and mattocks I speak not this as a despiser of them have the gift of making a prayer that I say is to comfort such as have a mean portion of the gift of prayer It 's may purpose then not to pick a quarrell but prevent a duell and tell you what is justifiable a set form not to implead to pray as the spirit moves so be joyned with it the spirit of understanding To conclude our Christ his precept hath made this Prayer legitimate and when we pray let us understand what 's that we pray and this shall stop the mouthes of all oppugners I will add a widowes mite to this work by recommending once more this prayers unfolding to your protection which if not for love to me who owns nought to merit at you hands yet for the honour of Christ I doubt not but you will accept of the tendered service of Your Wel-wisher J. H. The Epistle to the Vulgar MY two years Catechismes I have put in print for you to peruse and that which was delivered more at large is now thus * Short concise here you may spie much matter in few words and if any word you understand not I have made this star * to direct you to the marginall note to give you light and let you see my plain meaning As I was loth to unfold this sacred subject in a * Base sordid style so to help your conceptions I have not disdained to english English words and let you know by the Margent the meaning of that which otherwise might have passed your understanding I know it for the truth of God better are five words in a known tongue than five thousand in an unknown It is this that hath made me stoop in explaining down to the meanest of your capacities yet if you understand not what comes first to hand mark what followes for commonly my following words explain my former I desire to be counted foolish to make you wise in Christ Jesus If ought here offered outstrip your relish blame not altogether me but in part your apprehensive wit for the world and dulnesse to conceive the things of God God of his goodnesse make you all wise unto salvation To the more Ingenuous Reader READER IT is the fashion of quick and nimble wits to value nought if not accommodated with some rarities though I have made the margent not for you who are all eyes yet the matter of an attractive power to draw nigh your ears be pleased to peruse this little Book and either all or none it may be you may finde a somewhat you never
met with I dare not promise much it is presumption nor underprize my pains since some say it is a slie vain-glory a begging by refusing I much desire you would not discourage these my first endeavours and if you chance to spie a blemish in Venus her face not to eye it more than all her beauty which if you doe you have got a bargain but lost a chapman every one can say it is an easier thing to finde fault with than to mend And he that will mend what here 's amisse hath leave to finde fault with what he list I speak not this to make a variance but salve a difference assuring my self he is not a Scholar that will carp I have put my self to the worlds wide venture and aime at my * Scholars Coat to defend my cause Humorous heads who have more words than wit and censures than solidity they can gain nought at my hands by their opprobries these have a good word for none not then for me It is the ingenuous auspicious Reader I relie on for his favour whose favourable report shall make my printed paper his debtor and my self his devoted To the Author of the Prayer THE Author of the Book in all humility begs leave to dedicate these few ensuing lines to the Author of this Prayer Christ Jesus God blessed for ever Amen O my God and my King the holy Pen-man of this most holy prayer thou art one who wa st who art to be forever God and yet man man and yet God In thee the Godhead is hominified in thee the manhood is deified thou art an immense Majesty present with us in earth and at the same time Lord President in Heaven Thou art one in person yet hast two natures one of the three Persons yet all the three but one in substance begot before all Time born in the dispensation of Time not to encrease thy honour but to set us from thrall Thou taughtest Exemplo Thou taughtest Praecepto Voce By learning us Prece By praying for us Thou prayedst to thy Father for us Thou preachedst to us how we should pray to thy Father not as we will but as thou hast wil'd thou teachest us what to say and we are bound to say thy prayer Thou hast taught us how to pray so ties us not at all times to the same words O thou wisdome of the Father let me learn wisdome from thy lips Who to furnish the meanest of * In Understanding men prescribes them a Plat-forme who so sets down a plat-form as licenses the more gifted to exercise their gift of prayer Thy prayer O Christ is not given to stint the spirit thy prayer is lent to support it Blessed be thou my God and my Christ who hast not only purchased for us to be cal'd Gods Sons but taught us to say Our Farther Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I give over thy prayer I honour its Author I reverence its matter I admire its method it was made by Christ God made by Christ for man usefull for all men never could so much be contained in so narrow a room but that of Gods making the Sons penning the Holy Ghost his inspiring Let the Enthusiasts slight it the fratra cilli lay it by as men conceiving they are come to an acme of perfection yet such as fail I finde in the best of my expressions that let them be the protasis this shall be the apodosis and if with my own I begin with our Lords * Prayers I desire to make an end the Lords Prayer is the summary of all things necessary and when I have prayed for all I can in this as in a glasse my Christ lets me see the face of all my desires while I am expounding this sacred Prayer Lord let thy sacred Spirit descend down upon me so shall thy Name be honoured and I inabled to discharge this great work I have in hand O thou who madest this prayer make me understand its meaning and while I am in hand with this work blow the spark of my meditations into a flame let my paraphrase be set Carbo lampas a light shinning and lamp burning by this light guide babes in knowledge on to a set form of prayer by it confute all Hereticks who deny a set form of prayer O my Christ I will shut up my too much boldnesse of speech to thee with admiration of thee who art all in all unto us all bread to feed us wine to cherish us the white robe to cover us thou hast slain our sins by thy passion quickned us to a life of grace by thy Resurrection provided a mansion for us by thy Ascension we may enter in for thou art the door no danger by the way for our Christ is the way we can have no better assurance then from him is the truth nor let us fear the sting of death for we are servants to the Lord of life to him who is the way the truth and the life O my Saviour I blesse God for thee I glory in thee I cast my self upon thee upon the bended knee of my body I beg thy blessing praying in thy own words saying thy own Prayer Our Father which art c. The Author of the Book his Speech to the Prayer O All heavenly Prayer the very language of the Lord Jesus the Christian * A good Word till abused Directory The Rubricks Epitomy short in words copious in matter which gives God his Due begs all needfull for us all all thy precious petitions it is my every daies prayer may be writ with the pen of a Diamond in my heart O Divine Prayer I am purposed to give thee every morning the visit every night to hold conference with thee the first to salute the last to take my leave of Thou hast taught me to blesse God my here welfare my hereafter happinesse what to seek a Kingdome how to ensure it by doing what thou wilt as thou wilt O most holy prayer which suites God for us all and for all needfull which teaches us how to unravell our debts and discharge them to prevent sin by praying against sin yea prayes in the midst of our temptations for safe deliverance Thou art magnum in parvo yet sayest little yet when we have said all we can we can say no more I admire thy brevity short yet sweet few words yet full as the Patriarchs sacks understood we at length what thou comprehendest in short we would every day lengthen our esteem of thee lessen our opinion of our own barren expressions But I am sorry thou art so slighted by those who think themselves none-such and for my part I would be very sorry to be such as they are O most sacred Prayer whither wilt thou go the Enthusiast his hasty conceptions will be thy death the Sectarian Minister for fear of popular displeasure is feared to acknowledge thee in the Pulpit yet thou hast one
Heaven There go at least two things to make up whatsoever is Matter and Form and it 's not one but two joyn together to procreate this prayer Petions Divine Humane God and man must be in conjunction that as for matter so for form a right prayer may be brought out it must bear in its front the Image of God and us And therefore he that hath made a prayer and not praised God hath produced a body without life He that praises God never praies at all for himself gives a form to a nothing Single petitions for Gods glory only or for Mans good alone are no better then Zeuxis Berries they have a being but imaginary A right prayer is produced whose form is Gods praise whose matter is mans necessity Well I am resolved while I pray for my self to remember God in my prayers and while I beg God may be honoured to crave somewhat for my self He cannot wish anothers happinesse that wils not his own welfare nor is there hopes that man shall fare well at Gods hands who forgets to give God his honour A passage The Avowry which I protest shall cause me to poise my prayers in even scales and hang them even betwixt heaven and earth The second thing worth your consideration is the Equality of these two sorts or kindes of Petitions They are three and three three concerning God three concerning man as many for God and his glory as man and his good as many for man and his good as God and his glory here are petitions as even divided as Canaan was to Israel as the Israelites had their Manna none have too much none too little each alike alike pittance God and man the like measure number while three belong to God three to man Three Extracts 1. Heaven will not be behinde incourtesie but what respect we who are but earth offer God God gives leave of requitall unto us O Humanity worthy to be admired when Gods Son proffers as much kindnesse to us mortals as we mortals tender the immortall God 2. That secondly I surrender up to the use of your remembrance is Gods readinesse to repay for parity no ofter can we ingage our selves to honour God but God is as oft in readinesse to recompense and if we come with our request for the advancement of Gods glory he will allow us to put in another for our benefit A passage I professe shall make me give God more since I may get as much 3. This license or leave for our Petitions to equalize Gods avows Christ who pen'd this prayer had one eye looking about how to help us as the other how God should be honoured The even number proclaims Christs dear love he bore as the Creator so the creature O my God and my Christ A Soliloquium let me weigh thy affections beyond desert while my desert doth merit no parallell with thy Father I now come to the third thing nemarkable in these petitions and that is their order how these petitions are set down The three which concern God first our three are set down after Ride on O Lord with thy honour The first triumphant entrance it's Gods the Trumpetters blaze this are his three first petitions his precede ours follow what shall it teach us nought doubtlesse lessons worth our learning 1. This order for priority protests Two Extracts first thing God hath a care of is his honour himself saies My honour I will not give to another He is Lucifers brother would enthronize himself in Gods honour an Haman hanging is too good for him that thinks himself worthy the Kings honour we have a sort of proud Hamans would be jetting in Ahashuerohs his cloathes of state a company of saucy beggers would be served before their Master But as a begger before he begs bids God blesse Master and Mistresse and then asks his almes so this great Master God is first to be blest or poor man who comes naked into Gods Hall should dare to aske him any thing thus if he doe he is like to fare better thus if not God will not take it for well done 2. Again this order of setting down the three Petitions which concern Gods honour first learns us a mean how to obtain a Boon for our selves It s thus first by tendring God due reverence Zebedees sons had not learnt this manner and it may be mist therefore what they would have had A forethought for our seles fixt before the thought of Gods worship It is the cause while we look at much we catch little A worldling that will thrive hath himself first in his thoughts An heavenling that will get what he doth want God is first in his minde and on his tongue end A spirituall bankrupt then breaks when he doth aim to receive all before he doth disburse ought Well I will pray my God to accept of a talent of worship or I will dare to petition him for a fee-farm of eternity his praises I will place before they will make room in his presence for those needy ones my petitions A poor man who hath noblemen to be his spokesmen to his Prince is in hopes to be heard It 's we who are poor and needy and naked our noble spokesmen who move the King of Heaven in our behalf are petitions commendatory of his Majesty after they be come in who indeed are of a very nigh alliance to our Lord. Then our heavenly Prince will be pleased to give us audience to read our petitions and subsign them O that we would weigh this well For my own part The Avowry I will not forget first to do God reverence lest my neglect cause his after deniall of my suit Fourthly my method obliges me to speak of these petitions precedency as every one of these Petitions precede one another I mean go before one another we must begin with the first hold on to the Jast and see if we can spie why thus Christ set these petitions in their places In the first petition 1. Petit. we pray for the hallowing of Gods name In brief that the name of the great God may be among us in high esteem This is it is first taken care for and first prayed for to put us in minde His name its Honour It s Extract he doth more set by then all else he hath more than his Kingdome Truth is God weighs the honour of his name above a world of wealth and therefore in the first petition Gods name and its renown is first prayed for then his Kingdome but in the second place in the second petition which is this Thy Kingdome come This is it we are commanded next to intercede for 2. Petit. that Gods Kingdome may come and that before that Petition Thy will be done The cause It s Extract because here impossible the will of God should be done till his kingdome of faithful subjects first flourish Let God here first have his Church and
Of all kinde of pictures Nebuchaanezars whose head was of gold armes of filver belly of brasse legs of iron feet of clay The Ferriman rowes one way looks another way It 's commendable in his sea-calling not in the calling of Christians Sodoms Apples were fair to the eye but being touch't turned to ashes O what a misery is this to seem to be and not to be Pageants please spectators eyes you have another to please even your Father which is in heaven who tries the heart and searches the reins I approve of a glorious profession let not that be all beware of hypocrisie a white Devill makes as fair shew and comes to the Church and as ost with a white apron as in a white surplice Either be what thou seemest to be orelse shew thy self in thy own colours Straight what crookt conversation conscience that without doors this within else the one will be odious to man both to God Bear 't in minde man judges of the heart by thy words and deeds and thou maist decived him God judges of thy words and actions by thy heart and him thou canst not deceive Though some of you amongst so many it 's to be feared some be akin to the Adverb Quasi as it were but such so zealous yet it 's my hopes there 's but a few such dossemblers among you I should be sorry there should be above one Judas in the house of Jesus A second meditation this Amen gives birthdome and I thus deduct it from it Amen which signifies Christ is as a so w as from everlasting so to last and everlastingly Parallel thy prayer with its Author yea sample the one by the other there is no end of him let there be no end of thine O pray continually Mane the verb gives us it in command Let us hold out our prayers as Joshua did his spear lift up our voice unto the Lord as Moses did his hand let the waters of Eloim be our prayers embleme ever overflowing let the continue motion of the Sun move us continually to move in the sphere of prayer Why should I not lengthen my devotion to God since Gods calling on me and so oft ere I would give heed assures me I shall not be heard for a word when I call on him God hath cal'd on us a thousand times and we would never hear him turn'd deaf ear to him and think we to have God at a whistle when we call Too much we take upon us too little we set by the Lord shall we be so coy Why then should he be so kinde He cals we care not and for a call is there cause for us to exact his audience Dust and ashes is too presumptuous to deny so oft to expect an answer and for no more Must we turn deaf ear to God and must God be bound to hear us for a word With the sweat of our browes we are to earn our bread And for a word and away think we to get bread of life of the Lord of life Away unworthy wretches let the septuplate sound of the Trumpets prompt us on to lift up our voice like a Trumpet to the Lord and aloud and oft The fearfull Hare for the safegard of her life makes many doubles doubra lesse there must be doubling of our Prayers to winde us our of danger of death and Death stand we not in awe of thee I fear not to die but to dye eternally which let my prayers increase as the waters did under the threshold of the Temple Ezek. 47. Then will I not doubt by this sea of deep sounding supplications to be ferried over and set a shore at the gates of New Jerusalem I come to a second Reason 2. Hold out your prayers since its importunity will prevail Have you not heard if one word will not a second onset may do it if not a second a third O! continuall droppings of supplications can cause Gods heart thou hast hardned against thee give again Gutta cavat lapidem the stone is hollowed with incessant drops the unjust judge is move with the importunity of the poor widow shee 's not heard at first cries again again neglected and again cries out upon the unrighteous judge whose ears so much she troubles for her cause he never weighs till all he begs he grants That the parable imports is importunity seldome gets a may say and if not with the unrighteous Judge much lesse with the Judge of heaven and earth This is it hath made me resolve upon it to fall to prayers again and if I gain not what I goe about not to let God rest at quiet till my suit be signed 3. This is Gods own counsell pray continually what shall his counsell be no command a shame so much should be injoyned and so little done here is a long task and a lazie genration some never laying their hands to this labour I mean praying in private neither with their private families nor in their private closets Some disdaining to joyne with us in Common-prayers I mean in the Church in publick What 's the cause Where 's the defect wherein smell they either of Heresie or Superstition would God any loved me so well they would tell me and where and wherein I am not so obstinate but I would give him hearing and thanks if he deserve it In time I may meet with such a Goliah but I trust I need not fear his weavers beam But as for those cry out of all printed prayers I cannot but cry out of them and tell them to their teeths while they cry out of superstition in many things they are too superstitious and in speciall while they imagine there 's no printed prayer meet to have an Amen but it made and extemporary I have heard of two sorts of prayers have been mightily discommended by a Sect suppose themselves none-such and I would be sorry to be such as they are Prayer in print for private use our printed prayers used in publick For the first what thinkest thou all have the gift of prayer There 's one spirit but divers gifts every one the Text plain it hath not all of them what then must he do wants the gift of expressing himself to God by prayer these humorous heads debar such poor souls from pen'd prayers and leave them in a worse case than the Philistims lest the Israelites without an instrument to whet their blunted goads and mattocks For the second Church prayers why relishest thou not a pew-pew-prayer as well as a pulpit-pulpit-prayer O! the ones in print but the other is pend and by the spirit I tell thee and note it an extemporary pulpit-pulpit-prayer made by the Minister in respect of thee is a set form of prayer and my reason to prove it is this for that thy spirit is bound to say Amen to what he hath dictated And now since both are set forms in respect of the people this i th' pulpit that i th' pew why maist not thou say Amen
as well to church-Church-prayers made by many gracious choice Divines as to an extemporary prayer made by some one sometime who it may be speaks non-sense to God Almighty I professe I pity the sullen humour of our times and a sect who delight themselves with nought but new inventions as all that know me know I hate a very rag of Idolatry So I detest the sick-brainnesse of divers of this age who are faln into a frenzy of righting by doing wrong and of purging out of our Church Nay some are grown so impudently devout that they dare say it it 's not meet to say our Lords prayer Lord what impure purity is this for flesh and bloud to give a non placet to that Christ hath given under his own hand it fit to go for currant Luk. 11.2 It shall be my prayers that God 0 would root out of old England all Hereticks and all conceited Schismaticks who take scare both at our Lords Prayer and divers other godly prayers of Our Lords prayer is authorised to be said by one of the three States of Heaven and what one says all assent to The other our Common-prayers have been allowed of by our three States of Parliament once the reputed nerves and sinews of our nation All the Members of which when they meet the Lord grant in all things which concern this his Church they may be directed by his holy Spirit And to this in a peaceable way to agree let all true hearted natives say Amen Give me leave to end all with a Divine Contemplation upon Amen All our prayers are Epitomized in our Lords Prayer and our Lords Prayer in this one Amen How soon is it said how much doth it comprehend I had need take good heed when I pray And have I not as much need to minde when I end with this Amen I have been a long time unfolding my minde to God this Amen is that one which when I have opened it claspes it up Have you not seen a book in quires after that bound up such is every single petition such an one is this Amen What in them laid severed in this is bound up The petitions in our Lords prayer are much like the verses of a Psalme whose tune is prick it briefs and semibriefs Amen set at end is the quickest semi-quaver Time and a well pleasing note in the ears of God Almighty my petitioning Epistle I have put up to God that is my Prayer the Collect of it is Amen You know there are abundance of sacred truths beleeved by us Christians and yet their Encheridion is our Creed in like sort here is a world of good we beg of God yet all sum'd up in this Amen I am resolved to carry about me both my eyes Corporis Animae to spie out what here lyeth hid Amen is a deep ocean and full to the superficies though straight in the circumference broad at the centre O my God inable me to recollect heart and minde and spirit that I may discern all hid in this Amen But Lord how am I taught from the first to the last word of this prayers to discharge my duty and please thee first I pray for that I need then Amen protests this is my minde This Amen is my witnesse all my prayers are my desire When I pray dear Father joyn heart and tongue together and what with my tongue I beg let Amen make affidavit I desire it But come when we have made long prayers are they all comprehended in our Lords prayer When we have said our Lords prayer is it breviated in this its last word It makes me I dare not at all times give the plaudite to long prayers nor over censure decurt devotion the most is not ever the best let my prayer be of the best and God will be well pleased with my little though I say no more Nor speak I this to lessen devotion but to comfort those who are not so fully gifted God may be in thy heart though thy tongue be not so long and the Publican be accepted with his short when the Pharisee his Long shall be little set by Amen set at end of our prayers and devoutly uttered sounds better in Gods ears than vain tautologies The Hypocrite hath more tongue than heart the child of God more heart than tongue Yet O Lord untie the strings of my tongue and my lips shall shew forth thy praise Yet since thou lovest not much vain babling set thou a watch before my tongue that I offend not with my lips Da Domine ut Haec recte intellingam Luther magis ut haec faciam FINIS A Table containing the most remarkable points unfolded in this Exposition THE Preface Four kindes of powring out our minds to God by prayer pag. 1 The sacred title Lord predicates of two pag. 3 Two reasons why cald the Lords Prayer ibid. Two extracts from the reasons pag. 4 The Avowry ibid. An excellent prayer for brevity made six wayes appear pag. 5 A most fecund prayer apparent by two reasons ibid. Two teasons why a preface pag. 8 God described Relatively pag. 10 God described Positively pag. 10 Why God cal'd Father not Lord ibid. The word Father puts us in minde of four things pag. 11 It binds us to aske God blessing pag. 13 It binds us to do him reverence pag. 13 Esau asked blessing pag. 14 The estimate of Gods blessing ibid. We must shew reverence to God when we speak to God he speaks to us ibid. Elisha his carriage to Elias ibid. Gods Ministers cald Gods Embassadors pag. 16 The word preached to be heard with much reverence ibid. The 24 Elders in the Revelation ibid. The reverent custome of the Abissins ibid. God is cald Father tripertively pag. 17 A review of the particulars ibid. Why we admit of the very wicked to say the Lords prayer with us pag. 18 How every Oath how every election how Christ may be cal'd God Father pag. 18 The case of disinheriting pag. 20 Two sorts of fools ibid. The Collect where all foregoing is abbreviated pag. 21 Three substantiall reasons why we say not my but our Father ibid. The first Product 21. The second Product ibid. The third product 22. The Collect ibid. God's ever within call pag. 24 Gods place of residence pag. 25 His ablenesse to help us ibid. The point enlarge ibid. The Leaper and the Man whose son was possest with their If thou wilt ibid. The Leaper and the Man whose son was possest with their If thou canst ibid. Eight acceptations of the word Heaven pag. 27 Two may be here meant ibid. The semblance betwixt Saints and Heaven pag. 28 An extract from the literall sense pag. 29 An extract from the mysticall sense ibid. Heart compared to a house pag. 30 The Avowry Now the Petitions are to be spoken to ibid. The division pag. 31 The Petitions are of two sorts or kinds ibid. Their extracts pag. 32 The equality of these two sort of Petitions three