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prayer_n	jesus_n	lord_n	mercy_n	7,203	5	6.2602	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08981	A sharp arrovv darted against the anabaptists, &c. being an apology, or defence of the visible church upon Earth, and an objection to all such persons as doe rebaptize men and women, and against being covered at the divine exercise of preaching the word of God to the people, as also against those that deny to say the Lords Prayer / David Edmonds.	Edmonds, David, fl. 1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing E177B; ESTC R233358	12,532	20

A SHARP ARROVV Darted against THE Anabaptists c. Being an Apology or Defence of the Visible Church upon Earth And an Objection to all such Persons as doe Rebaptize Men and Women And against being covered at the Divine Exercise of Preaching the Word of God to the People As also against those that deny to say the Lords Prayer BY DAVID EDMONDS Gent. Prove all things hold fast that which is good 1. Thes 5. 21. LONDON Printed by T. H. 1652. To the Right Honourable the Lady Anne Beauchamp and to the Right Worshipfull William Lewis Esquire HOnourable Lady and most Noble Esquire Hee that had not a Lambe to bring to the Altar there was a Turtle Dove or two yong Pigeons well accepted of though this weak and unworthy Labour of mine bee not worthy to bee read by your Honours yet I shall intreat you to read it and accept of my good will in stead of perfect action the Widowes mite was as well accepted in Gods Treasury as the superfluity of the Rich and Wealthy and I shall intreat your Honours the sooner to read it in regard that it was penned in Prison my selfe groaning under the Oppression of Cavaliers and Parliamentarians and that in a high nature withall I would they would agree as well in all other matters though I should perish Thus cōmitting your Honours in these tumultuous times to the tuition of the Lord God of Hosts who is that great man of Warre and his Name is Jehovah I humbly take leave craving pardon for this great presumption and rest The humblest of your Servants David Edmonds A sharp Arrow darted against Anabaptists c. IN the first place King David although hee was a man after Gods owne heart yet hee should not build the Lords Temple because hee was a bloud-shedder yet the Lord permitted him to make a preparation to his sonne Salomon so many talents of gold and so many talents of silver to undergoe the great worke commanded of God The work being finished you shall read Salomons Prayer And Salomon stood before the Altar of the Lord in the presence of the Congregation of Israel and did spread out his hands towards heaven and sayd Lord God of Israel there is no God like thee in heaven above nor in the earth beneath who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walke before thee with all their hearts who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him thou spakest it with thy mouth and hast fulfilled with thy hand as it is to this day I shall omit to write what followes in that Chapter in regard Salomon and his son Rehoboam fell off from the command of the Lord for God did not promise the Kingdome unto David but upon condition of the sanctity of his posterity saying If thy children will keepe my statutes and observe my lawes that I shall learne them their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore Will God dwel on earth behold heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him how much lesse this house that I have built sayth Solomon 1. King 8. 22. yet have thou respect unto the prayers and the supplications which thy servants shall make unto thee in this place and hearken thou unto the supplications of thy servants and of thy people Israel when they shall pray towards this place and heare thou in heaven thy dwelling place and when thou hearest forgive To prove that it is more commodious unto the sonnes and daughters of men to pray to the Lord in the full Congregation then privately to be by ones selfe or with a few company Suppose I were in the publique Church and have as I have great need to aske forgivenesse of my sinnes at the hands of my God or to make my supplication to his Majesty for some necessaries either spirituall graces or temporall benefits that I stand in great need of it may be it will be Gods pleasure to heare another for me and I for him and through that respect God to commiserate the present condition of us all For the answer of God to the last request of Abraham concerning Sodome and Gomorrah was If there sayes God bee ten righteous men within those two Cities I will not destroy it for ten sake yet let no man conjecture that I by no meanes doe debar private prayers for why the word of God sayes pray continually And againe sayes and Phineas prayed and so the plague ceased for prayer is the very Key that opens heaven gate nay withall it is such a dart the more a man or a woman doth use it it further drives the Divel off from them so is preaching necessary withall as wee have an old Proverbe in the Welsh Good is the staffe with the crouch they should like man and wife goe hand in hand together rather then to be separated one from the other Now to prove the Church to bee honoured before any other private place according as the New Testament doth describe it I cannot finde that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ not in all the New Testament that he did eat but naturall food like other children untill he was twelve yeers of age then his father and his mother found him in the Temple in the midst of the Doctors hearing them and asking of them questions Assuredly if the Church were not to bee honoured before any other private place our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ would aswell begun the good action or the great message of his Father in private places assoone as the Church but it is evidently seene hee began it in the Temple saying unto his Mother Knew ye not that I must goe about my Fathers businesse Some men of the world will tell mee that our Lord and Saviour Preached upon the Mount and I doe in no wise contradict them for the word sayes so likewise but when did hee preach upon the mountaine but the time that he durst not come into the Temple for a while before did the Jewes hurle stones at him that his sacred person was driven to flie out of the Temple Againe to prove that the Church is to be honoured before any other private place if our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had come up street or downe street and there to see folkes sell away Doves our Lord and Saviour would have sayd no kind of thing unto them but let them attend their market in the name of God but assoon as he espied them to sell away Doves in the Temple he scourged them out and told them that his House was called the House of Prayer and that they had made it a den of theeves Then thirdly to prove it to bee more vertuous then private places read but 1. Cor. 11. 22. there the Apostle sayes have yee not houses to eat and to drink in why despise yee then the Church of God will you have mee to prayse you for this I say unto you I prayse you not And in the last of the

service of his God and the duty that hee was to performe to the great charge under him then his second reason was if he should mary hee could not be a supporter to many of his friends which he was to divers of them nay he took more pains in his Calling to Preach the word of God in his two Parishes then any two Clergy men in the County of Glamorgan and for this man to bee thrust out of his Benefices and still to be kept from them t is great pity indeed for the rest of the former Clergy of the County of Glamorgan they be of age let them speak for themselves I should have made the fourth part of this weake and unworthy work which I have already penned that is concerning the Lords Prayer and against such persons as doe deny the saying of it loath I was to make description of it in regard that it is as it were the master piece of Christ Jesus his own words lest that God should be so offended with me as he did strike Uzzah for touching the Ark of the Covenant But upon a Sabbath day being the 19. of Sept. 1651. to heare one Mr. ELLIS make an Exposition on part of the Lords Prayer in the Church of Cardiffe the words thus Hallowed bee thy Name thy Kingdome come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven where he sayd that people did tempt God to say the Lords Prayer why sayd he because the Angels and Saints in Heaven do pray and serve God perfect and we unperfect that is most true but I hold his and others coverture and debarment in it to bee to think it as it were a certaine imbecillity or weaknesse in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to command his Apostles to say it and that we should not imitate them to say it likewise Doth he or any other of the sons of men thinke that our Saviour Jesus Christ when he said thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven did meane that mortall men that are conceived and borne in sinne and all their dayes live in sinne and altogether polluted with corruption and uncleannesse can execute the good will of the Father as well as those celestiall Saints and Seraphins that do dayly and hourely reape the fruition of the heavenly Deity and habituall society with Almighty God no no the meaning of our Saviour Jesus Christ was that the sons and daughters of men should doe their best endeavour to execute his will and pleasure upon earth and that which they should be defective in the rest should be supplyed out of his blessed merits for Zacharias and Elizabeth were said to walke in all the Commandements of the Lord no question but they both one time or other had abridged the Lords Commandements but such lapses were not attributed unto them why because they did their best endeavour to execute the will of their God for God requires no more at our hands but to do our best to serve him in uprightnesse of hearts and willingnesse of spirits and the defects as be are to be supplyed out of the blessed merits of Jesus Christ and withall I shall conclude this sentence with the words of that sweet singer of Israel David the King he knoweth whereof we are made he remembreth we are but dust 'T is true the both Evangelists do not concurre or agree in the writing of the Lords prayer the one hath it when ye pray pray ye thus verbatim word by word the other hath it when ye pray pray ye as thus and in these times those that debarre it followe neither for why we should either say it word by word as the one hath it or else take it as a modell or as it were a Text to pray by it for assuredly our Saviour did not speake it vainely but that either of the both should be followed in it nay he much disdained the vaine babblings and long prayers of the Scribes and Pharisees and comprehended the prayers of his servants in this short prayer Our Father c. and did compose it to six Petitions the first three for the glory of God the other three for the necessity of man and the best Divine in this Land may preach a whole twelvemonth twise every Sabbath day and perhaps not consumate or end all the Doctrine of this good and godly Prayer I could have made this Booke three times as long but as far as I am called to be a Christian though a great sinner I hope I have declared my selfe to God and the world of and concerning the principles of my tenents in Religion in these foure things and whoso will question me for it for I shall think my selfe happy to sacrifice my bloud in the quarrell of my Lord and Master Jesus Christ that spared not his sacred hearts bloud for my redemption from the thraldome of Satan that old enemy of mankinde that still goeth about the world like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may devour Great bloudshedding the more the pitty hath beene in this Land of and concerning such differences as are now between Mr. ELLIS and my selfe Counsell what we may fight about it as long as we please we are all proclaimed in the word of God to be unprofitable servants the proudest of us all and it will be one day said unto us give account of your Stewardships you shall be no longer Stewards who shall end this controversie between Mr. ELLIS and my selfe shall the Commissioners of Array end it no I challenge them for they did imprison me for nineteen weekes and foure dayes in Cardiffes Goale for my affection to the noble Parliament and the Army and gave away my meanes 100l per annum to one Major WINSOR a ranke Papist shall the Gentlemen that beare the rule and the sway now in the County of Glamorgan end it no I challenge some of them likewise for they did me greater wrongs then the Commissioners of Array have done me formerly but for my owne part I shall rest my selfe contented about such injuries untill my Redeemer comes in the aire in the very Clouds themselves to judge both quick and dead and then if I shall not obtaine mercy at the sweet hands of my Saviour I shall be sure to have justice administred to this my tired soule upon earth I have had neither of them both here below I am sure of it Then there will be no Bishop favouring Popery no Mechanicke Tradesman preaching Heresie no Lawyer pleading nor no Attorny prating for the dissolution of the vast world and all that is therein wil be like the unrowling of an Exchequer Writ when that it is fully opened it roules it selfe up againe and the Judiciary Sentence is ready for us all Come ye Blessed and go ye cursed yea and happy will that servant be when that his Master commeth he shall finde to be watchfull for he shall receive that comfortable Benediction Euge bone serve well done good and faithfull servant thou hast been faithfull in a little be thou ruler over much enter thou into thy Masters joy To the which joy of our Lord and Master Iesus Christ make us all to be partakers To whom as is most meet be ascribed all Honour Glory Might Majesty Dominion and Thanksgiving both now and for evermore Amen FINIS