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A doore of hope, also holy and loyall activity two treatises delivered in severall sermons, in Excester / by Iohn Bond ...; Doore of hope
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Bond, John, 1612-1676.
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Chron. 17.6 that his heart was lifted up in the wayes of the Lord I meane the sence of fresh deliverance should strengthen our faith to trust to the Lord more perfectly it should enlarge our love to cleave unto him more affectionately it should kindle our zeale to stand for him more couragiously and so in all the rest of our graces This of all sort of prayses is the highest 2. Another Branch are Prayers The use of this duty is commanded and the nature parts and qualifications prescribed in one and the same Text by Saint Paul to his sonne Timothy 1 Tim. 2.1 2. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in authority that we may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty I need to goe no further then those two verses for the foundation or limits of my discourse in the present point Let us therefore fully discusse the words In them we may observe these three generals 1. The severall sorts of prayers which are to be made and those are foure Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks 2. The persons for whom all those prayers must be put up Generally all men i.e. all rankes indefinitely More specially for Kings c. 3. The scope drift and end of our prayers for them it must be peace and quietnesse but with two qualifications the first Spirituall Godlinesse the other Morall Honestie As for the middlemost of three heads viz. the persons especially to be prayed for they are the Supreme Majesty and the houses of Parliament and 't is most evident I shall insist upon the other two the first and the last viz. 1. The sorts of prayers to be made for them 1. Supplications 2. Prayers 3. Intercessions and 4. giving of Thanks 'T is generally agreed by all good Subjects that the King and High Court ought to be prayed for and many doe fumble about the duty give me leave to set my selfe and you in a right way it is this saith Saint Paul we must make for them 1. Supplications Deprecations is the proper English word To deprecate in their behalfe is to pray off from them all evils of sin or punishment feared or felt whether in soules bodies or estates 'T is a Defensive Prayer to pray them safe and sound from all dangers To give an instance or two in Scripture First to pray for the removall of all bad Counsellors Take away the wicked from before the King Prov. 25. v. 5. and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse Next for Security and safeguard from plots and enemies Psal 61. v. 6 7. Thou wilt prolong the Kings life and his yeares as many generations O prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him Thus we must Deprecate all evill from King and Parliament 2. Prayers Which most generall name is used because it doth signifie the largest Branch of all namely Petition We must beg for them all gifts graces and mercies not onely in truth but in the highest degree especially for governing gifts and graces in the most superlative measure As Wisedome and Judgement is one So in Salomons prayer at Gibeon And now O Lord my God 1 King 3. v. 7. ver 8. thou hast made thy servant King c. And now thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen a great people c. Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people ver 9. that I may discerne between good and bad Next the Feare and dread of the Lord. Moreover Exod 18. v. 21. 2 Chr. 19. v. 6. thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as feare God c. And he said to the Judges take heed what ye doe for ye iudge not for man but for the Lord. ver 7. Wherefore now let the feare of the Lord be upon you take heed and doe it Againe The spirit of Courage and Zeale saith Jehosaphat Deale couragiously ver 11. and the Lord shall be with the good 3 Intercessions We must not onely deprecate all evill from them and petition for all good things upon them but also we must postulare intercede pleade wrestle and strive with God in prayer as is said in another case Rom. 15. v. 30. For the Lord Jesus Christs sake and for the love of the Spirit we should strive together with them in our prayers to God for them ver 31. that they may be delivered from them that doe not beleeve and that their service which they have for England may be accepted of the Saints In great and extraordinary times of hope and danger the Lord will not be moved with few and ordinary prayers Gen. 32 v. 6. ver 7. See Jacobs perillous condition in his returne from his Unckle Laban he is told that his twise offended brother Esau commeth against him with foure hundred men then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed But how doth he wind out of this trouble Loe an ordinary striving is not enough ver 24. ver 25. At Peniel Iacob was left alone And there wrestled a man with him untill the breaking of the day and he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacobs thigh was out of joynt ver 28. and he wrestled with him Then said God as a Prince hast thou power with God and with men and hast prevailed It cost him an ache yea an halting to prevaile with God in such a grand extremity Diffiâ—ilia quae pulâ—â—ra Good things are difficult Once more see what labour it cost Elijah and his servant to obtaine raine for Israel 1 Kin. 18. v. 42. after three yeares drought in the land And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel and he cast himselfe downe upon the earth and put his face between his knees What a painfull groveling posture was that ver 43. And he said to his servant goe up now looke toward the Sea and he went up and looked and said there is nothing And he said goe againe seven times and it came to passe at the severth time that he said Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the Sea ver 44. like a mans hand c. Thus Brethren it hath been a long time of drought with us many of our clouds in Church and state though they have hid the face of our Sunne from us yet have proved to the land but as clouds without water Jud v. 12. carried about with diverse â—inâ—s so that we have wanted both the former and the latter raine in their seasons Now what meanes are to be usâ—d that the Lord may be moved to send a gracious raine upon this his Inheritance Psal 68. v. 9. and to refresh it now it is weary Looke upon this zealous Elijah get we all up to our closâ—ts and there cast downe our selves upon the earth with