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A08279	A load-starre to spirituall life. Or, a Christian familiar motiue to the most sweet and heauenly exercise of diuine prayer With prayers for morning and euening. Written to stir vp all men to watchfulnesse and reformation of their carnall and corrupt liues. By I. Norden.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1614 (1614)	STC 18612; ESTC S100614	72,800	324

inflamed by the holy spirit of Christ and powerfully vttered priuatly vnto God in Christ whether in silence in sighes or words cannot be expressed to the capacity of a carnall man and therefore it may seem that priuat praiers in priuat cases somtimes work more effectually to the comfort of the soule then the publik But in cases more generall when the more faithfull soules conioyne in effectuall prayer so much the more auaileable is their prayer with God Fathers of children and Masters of families who content themselues onely with a bare seru●ng of God in shew once in the week on the Sabbath day are to bee reproued who seem to hold it a needlesse and superfluous worke to trouble themselues their families morning or euening in prayer and exhortation to the feare of God and dehorting them from sin which times they haue assigned in their opinions to more profitable vses both for themselues their seruants forgetting or not vnderstanding that in euery Christian family eyther God or Sathan is serued Christ or Belial obeyed sanctity or sinne embraced For there is no priuat person but is or holdeth of one of these cōsequently no societie but partaketh of the fruits arising of good or euill If then either priuat man or publike assembly be it prouinciall parochiall or domesticall do forget this most high dutie of seruing the liuing God it followeth of necessitie that a contrary power hath there the command and nothing more discouereth to which any of the former lend their obedience then the fruits that eyther of them produceth if carnall effects as louing the world the pleasures of the flesh and the vanities of this life it argueth that priuat man or that society to be profane If it were sufficient to serue God on the sabbath what needed the Apostle to aduise vs to pray cōtinually and the commandement of Christ Watch and pray that yee enter not into temptation to loue righteousnesse and to slie sinne How doe they awake●or watch that slumber from Saboth to Saboth Are they not all that time in darknesse not vsing the duties of the light Christ is the light in whome whosoeuer liueth not hee is in darknesse And hee that hath but one day of light in seuen How great is his darknesse It is true this day the Saboth was set apart by God that in it men should imploy themselues to serue and to glorifie him And in that day they shuld not only not doe but also not thinke of anie Worldly affaires But are not some so far from celebrating the name and seruice of God that day as they prophane it aboue all other dayes doe they not turne the glorie of God into wantonnes to banquetting dicing dauncing drunkennesse gluttonie and to what sinne not This commonly is the day that many appoint for merrie companie to laugh and to be jouiall as they call it without meane or modestie And yet this day is sufficiently kept holy as they thinke if they spend an houre in the fore part of the day and halfe an houre in the after-noone in the Church though all the rest be consumed in most lasciuious vanities and carnall occasions How can this discharge the duty of a Christian that hath no care to serue God any other day in the weeke Doe we not credit the premonition of the Apostle Saint Peter that the end of all thinges is at hand And how follow wee his counsell namely to bee sober watching in prayer To whom speaketh the Apostle this to his Countrimen the Iewes only no euen to vs that are come as it were to the Worlds period And therefore high time it is for vs to looke vp to watch pray to liue religiously and soberly least that the Master of this great family come suddenly and find vs buffeting one another blaspheming swaggering drunken faithlesse insolent couetous and few or none doing the seruice of our Master It wil bee a dreadfull sight to see him come with his iron rod in his hand to crush his enemies in peeces The salt of the earth hauing lost it saltnesse shall bee cast to the dung-hill The Tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewen downe and cast in the fire The Magistrates saltnesse is profession of the Gospell and the execution of Iustice. The saltnesse of the Minister is the true preaching of the word and example of godly life The saltnesse of Fathers is their sincere conuersation before their children and the educating them in the feare of God and holy life The saltnesse of Masters of Families is to liue honestly religiously aud gouerning their charge in the feare of God And vnder these four estates of men are all conditions comprehended subiects vnder Kings children vnder fathers and young men vnder tutors and gouernours Euery of these in their places of superioritie and inferioritie haue their seuerall duties and all vnder one God whome they ought all to obey Superiours in rightly commanding and inferiors in duly obeying Neyther of these duties can bee rightly performed without knowledg of the wil of God by his word This knowledge is not perfect without practise This practise is imperfect without faith And faith is known by the fruits the chiefe whereof is loue And this loue most shineth and sheweth it selfe in doing good to all but especially to them of the family of faith The greatest good that can bee done to the Church of God is Prayer And therefore Saint Paul willeth to pray continually not for our selues onely but for Kinges al the members of Christs mysticall bodie Kings and Magistrates ought to imitate Dauid to accompanie the people to the house of the Lord Fathers and Masters ought to pray with and for their Children and Families not on the Saboth day only but with all perseuerance Some refer the duty of praier only to the Minister and thinke it a kinde of vsurpation of the Ministers office to pray for or with any but for himselfe contrarie to the precept of Saint Paul Who willeth that all men make prayers in all places heauing vp pure handes without strife or enuying vnto the Liuing God Where it appeares that vnder the word all Men Kings Princes Nobles and men of all degrees faculties and functions are comprehended and because they shall not thinke there is no place but the materiall temple he commands that dutie to bee performed in all places euen in euery particular house with caution that it bee done without strife and enuying free from vaine ostentation and desire of popular glorie CHAP. XXXIIII The true vse of the Lords Prayer about which friuolous questions haue risen It is the rule of all other prayers and euery petition ful of high matter of instruction THE most absolute praier and the most ordinarie which not only the Primitiue but the Moderne Christian Churches their members haue in vse is the Prayer that Christ taught his Disciples But wee must take heed wee doe not take this

corrupt affectiōs and by truly and vnfeinedly repe●ting obtaine remission in the merits and mediation o● Iesus Christ the right●ous who is a propitiation for ou● sinnes Giue vs grace Lord to d●aw neere vnto thee for thou hast promised to preserue the state of the righteous and all that forsake thee shal be cōfounded Be thou therfore our strong rocke wherunto we may alwaies resort Haue mercie vpon vs O L. haue mercie vpon vs giue vs helpe in trouble for ●ain is the helpe of man Giue vs a holy feare of thy great and glorious Name for great O Lord is thy goodnes which thou hast laide vp for them that feare thee Knit our hearts vnto thee through faith in loue that we may be of the number of them that shall partake of thy glorie with Christ that where thou art there we may bee to behold thy glorie Increase our faith open the eyes of our dimme and dull vnderstanding that wee may ●ee the wonderfull workes of thy mercies towards vs euen in the darknesse of our corporall liues when our naturall eyes shall bee shut vp with the feeblenesse of our bodies by sleepe thou sleepest not nor slumberest but wa●chest ouer thine and sufferest no man to doe them violence thou preseruest them in thy prouidence thou defendest them vnder the shadow of thy wings not onely in their corporall employments and bodily labours but when they are in their deepest forgetfulnesse of their owne dangers and of weakest abilitie to helpe themselues in the deadnesse of sleepe Preserue vs Lord be watchfull ouer vs let thy holy Angels attend about our beddes let them be thy ministers of our safetie let not our sleepe be dangerous but comfortable vnto vs let not our delight be set on that sluggish ease and slothfull wallowing in our beds as breedeth diseases and corrupt humors But as sleepe is the fruite of our corrupt nature which without rest cannot continue so let vs vse it as matter of necessitie not of wantonnesse carnall contentment Saue vs from that curse of the wicked that we should wax worse and worse and that though wee haue liued long after the vanities of the flesh let vs not end in the same though we haue not as wee ought brought forth the fruits of the spirit let vs now begin to liue in him and our spirits be ruled directed salted and seasoned by thy holy and sanctifying spirit so though our mortall bodies sleepe our sanctified spirits may watch for the comming of the bridegroome that we be not found like the foolish V●rgins with emptie and blind Lamps but prepared to meete the Lambe in the cloudes with ioy among the rest of thy Saints In the meane time keep vs we recommend our selues and all that we haue into thy gracious keeping in that thy deerest Sonne our Sauior Christ Iesus to whom with thee thy holy Spirit bee praise eternally Amen Our Father c. Lord increase our faith The neglect of true prayer much to be condemned 1. Cor. 14. 15. Prayer in an vnknowne tongue not onely not auayl-able but sinfull Mat. 6. 7. Needlesse humblenesse Zeale without knowledge The prayer which God accepteth The deffinition of prayer How the carnal man commeth vnto God and how and when he prayeth The confidence of worldly men a 1. Sam. 17. 51. b Exod. 14 11. c 2. King 19. 35. d 2. Sam. 17. 23. e Est 7. 9. f Dan. 4. 29. g Dan. 5. 6. The spirituall mā hath but one the carnall many Gods The carnall mans gods wither like Ionahs Gourd Sweet is the operation of faith in God God workes without humane meanes Great difference betweene the happines of the godly poore and w●cked rich Not to iudg of men by their states rich or poor 1. Cor. 4. 7. 8 True and false wisedome 1. Cor. 3. 9. Iob 5. 13. The hypocrite only deceiueth himselfe What rich man deserueth commendation and admiration Wh● it is hard for a rich man to be saued The force of beleeuing God vpon his promise Euery man beleeueth not the mysterie of Christ. Who is truly adopted in Christ to be the childe of God and 〈◊〉 not Eph. 4. 22. What we ought to put on and cast off Carnall wisedome a hand-maide to diuine prudence To pray to God and to beleeue in meanes is spirituall adulteri● Esa. 2. 21. A curse on them that leaue God to depend on other meanes Ier. 17. 5. God works by meanes without against meanes How the soule must be qualified in time of prayer Nature teacheth vs not to pray but the spirit of God The will peruerts the mind 1. Ioh. 3. 20. Act. 20. 27. We ought to vnfold our imperfections to God yea and to men vpon occasion The basest may be as proude as the most arrogant Murtherers of Kings haue a shew of humblenesse and deuotion Psal. 32. 1. Cor. 1. 26. The most glorious in the world are not alwayes the most godly The true comfort of a Christian. Phil. 4. 6. Iam. 1. 5. 1. Pet. 2. 21. Eph. 5. 1. God is best pleased with f●ithfull r●ligious importunitie Necessitie hath many branches and man hath no p●wer to help himselfe in any The wōderfull effects of faith and how it fares with them that faint Prayer performeth greater things by weakest meanes and incredulitie preuenteth most easie things God blesseth and punisheth many for one God denieth what we aske and giueth vs better in fleed It is enough for a Christian to referre the issue of his petitions● vnto God Rom. 8. The faithfull man exercised in prayer findeth things succeed better then he expected 1. Kin. 17. 4 The grosse opinion of some who acknowledg no differēce between the godly and the wicked Men not fearing God run into many absurdities by the suggestion of Sathan Esa. 31. If a word of conditiō Esa. 45. Ingratitude will rise in iudgement against vs. We forget Gods goodnesse in giuing vs worthiest King Iames The powder-treason As the cause of the Church is generall so should our prayers be generall wher praier is neglected there cannot but follow punishment The carnall man feeleth not sinne to be sinne Man is enemie to himselfe permitting the house of his soule to be robbed Men are become defenders of their grossest sinnes The strange metamorphosis of some men of this age to be lamented None can foretell what will become of this obdurate age God hath a iudgement against vs for sinnes God will not be appeased by any carnall meanes God wil not put his cause to be determined by man The deformities of mens and womens attires Pride more to be abhorred then the Diuell to be feared As God hath loued vs so must we loue him againe In the time of Q Marie Q. Eliz. Carnall sophistrie Repentance the ●●eanes to please God being angry for sinne 1. King 9. 8. 9. How wee ought to appease God 2. Chro. 20. 3 Priuate praier Meditation the bellowes to enkindle prayer Nehem. 2. 4. Luc. 19. 2. A preposterous kind of prayer Hindrances to praier 1. Thes. 2. 18 3. 5. Eph. 4. 27. Eph. 6. 11. Zech. 3. 1. Mat. 4. Luc. 22. 31. Nothing more woūdeth Sathā then faithfull praier and therefore he coueteth to hinder it 1. Cor. 16. 13. Ioh. 14. Sathan beleeu●th that hee would haue other men to doubt of It is a dangerous thing to abandon the assemblies of Gods people Publique prayer why so called Fathers Masters of Families reproued for their neglect of prayer with their families Not to serue God but on the Sabbath day is wilfull ignorance and negligence 1. Cor. 15. 34 Mat. 26. 41. The Saboth prophaned more then other daies 1. Pet. 4. 8. We should especially serue God for that we liue in the last age of the world Opinions about the vse of the Lords Prayer The Lords praier the rule of all other praiers The Lords prayer is to be rightly vnderstood What the Word Our importeth Which art in Heauen Hallowed be thy name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done Giue vs our daily bread Forgiue vs our sinnes as we forgiue Leade vs not into temptation As many petitions as are in the Lords prayer so many instructions w● haue by them to liue godly Prayer increaseth 〈◊〉 knowl●dge 1. Cor. 2. 12. The spirit of God teacheth al ●aithfull du●●es the 〈◊〉 whereof is 〈…〉 prayer Som affirm they cannot pray with comfort The force of prayer increaseth by degrees