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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	1,486	5	11.4562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25294	The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...	Ames, William, 1576-1633.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3003; ESTC R6622	173,739	322

obedience For otherwise in all believers is found such a perfection or integrity and sincerity as is opposed unto fainednesse and dissimulation and such as is opposed unto halting or lamenesse by which some duties seem to be looked after but not all and such a perfection also as is opposed to lukewarmnesse For all believers both worship God sincerely and desire to keep all his Commandments and pant after a compleat obedience also Yet the Law is not for this proposed to us in vain though we be unable to keep it fully For hence we understand 1. What is our duty 2. What are the defects under which we lie 3. What we may require of God to wit that we may be freed from guilt renewed to a performance of duties 4. That we have a mark set us whereat we may aim in all our endeavours 5. That we may in part take notice of the perfection of that life which we shall enjoy in another world The forty fifth Lords day On Ephes. 6. 18. Praying alwayes with 〈◊〉 prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication f●…r all Saints THe Apostle after explication of our spiritual armour which every Christian ought to furnish himself with addes exhortations to prayers by which this spiritual armour is taken up put on strengthened made sure and of proof and is encreased In the Exhortation it self several things are expounded as the Duty of praying which duty is declared 1. By a distribution with all prayer and supplication 2. From the adj●…nct of time alway or at all times 3. From the ob●…ect unto whose good these prayers are to serve to wit not onely for our selves but for all Saints 4. From the efficient cause by the Holy Ghost 5. From its singular manner that must accompany it which consists in watching and in perseverance Doct. 1. Prayer is amongst those p●…incipal duties which ought to be had a care of by us It is hence gathered from the Text because the Apostle so carefully urgeth it Reas 1 Because it gives very great glory to God for God in all our prayers is acknowledged the principle and fountain of all our good Reas. 2. It contains mans greatest subjection and homage to God 1. Because it seeks all things of free gift and grace 2. Because the soul and conscience themselves are prostrated before God and cast at his feet as it were when we pray Reas. 3. Because by prayer we receive all the spiritual gifts of God Reas. 4 Because by the same we sanctifie to our selves all the corporal gifts of God Reas. 5. Because by Prayer we flie unto God that in him we may be secured from all evill Reas. 6. Because we have most sweet communion and communication of the grace of God in the exercise of Prayer Reas. 7. Because in Prayer either expressely or implyed we give up our selves unto God so as after and from prayer we rise more obliged and bound to God than we were before because all Prayer hath alwayes adjoyn'd to it some promise of thankfulnes for hearing our prayer and granting our desires Use Is of of Exhortation that we may more and more give our selves to this holy exercise of Prayer as well in publick as in private Unto which care many considerations ought to stir us up As first That holy Prayer is so acceptable to God that in Scriptures it useth to be called Incense or Perfume and Sacrifice 2. In that it is so proper to the godly that in Scriptures godly men and such as call upon the name of God are without difference put for the same 3. In that it is so inseparable a fruit of the holy spirit dwelling in the heart of a believing man that from thence it is called the spirit of Prayer and Prayer is almost the same to spiritual life as breathing is to naturall or animal life Moreover that by prayers we best resist all sort of temptations whence also it is that we are bid resist the Devill by Praying and to pray and watch that we fall not into temptation Lastly in that all grace is stirred up and increased by the exercise of Prayer Doct. 2. In prayer we ought to exercise our selves in all the kindes and sorts of it This is hence gathered in that the Apostles exhorts us here to all prayer and supplication and thanksgiving Reas. 1. Because our manifold necessities as well in respect of evils wherewith we are pressed as in respect of good things that we want or for receiving whereof we ow thanks as also the necessities and occasions of others unto whom we ow this duty of Prayer do require manifold sorts of Prayer Reas. 2. Because by this means not one onely or another but all the graces of God are put forth and exercised in us according to their proper objects and natures Reas 3. Because God by this means is many ways glorified of us Use Is of Direction that we rest not on forms of Prayers as if the saying over of such were enough for the fulfilling of our duty in general because according to divers occasions we ought to betake ourselves to divers manners or wayes of Praying Doct. 3. In Godly prayers the holy spirit exercises a speciall power of his own From the words by the holy spirit Reas. 1. Because we of our selves know not neither how nor what to pray for And although we be taught about such things in the word of God yet for the practise it self a special direction of the holy spirit is requisite Reas. 2. Because our weaknesses are so many in the exercise of Prayer that they must be helped by the holy spirit Reas. 3. Because no prayers can be holy and acceptable to God unlesse they come from the holy Spirit Use Of Direction that in making our prayers we trust not to our own wit and volubility of gifts and to our own strength but that we rely alwayes on the grace and help of the Holy Spirit Doct. 4. In some sort or other we ought alwayes or at all times to be praying From the words Praying alwayes Reas. 1. Because we ought always to have a praying disposition of minde or a mind ready to pray For in this consists the right disposition and ordering of our minde Reas. 2. Because we ought to take all just occasion of this exercise of Prayer Reas. 3. Because we ought not to passe over our set and established times of prayer Use Is of Reproof against such as are so far from this exercise that they cannot onely passe over whole dayes but weeks also without any serious thoughts of Prayer Doct. 5. The manner of Praying is as much to be taken care of as prayer it self This is here gathered in that watching unto prayer is commanded in the same manner with prayer Now watching unto Prayer belongs unto the manner of Praying and in some sort it contains all things that belongs unto it For First We ought to watch before