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The good mans grace. Or His stay in all distresse. By Ric. Bernard
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Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.
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STC 1942; ESTC S115314
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present prouision should content vs and not be troubled with distrustfull cares for the time to come 6. That our desire is to be moderate and to rest with that which is necessary 7. That the bread that is the meanes which wee liue vpon is to be our owne 8. That we are euery day to depend on God for these outward things 9. That care of prouision is to be had of our brethren as well as of our selues The fift petition The former petition was for the body so Christ descendeth to our weakenesse to let vs begin there first with the care whereof we be most troubled this petition is for soules safety teaching that with care of bodies welfare the soules danger should be seene vnto And forgiue vs our trespasses We be here taught to beg of God pardon of sinnes Out of which we learne 1. That all and euery one are offenders against God for all are to aske forgiuenesse 2. That we offend not in one but in many things we are to acknowledge not a trespasse but trespasses 3. That therefore euery mans sanctification is weake to resist sin and imperfect here 4. That God onely can and doth forgiue sinnes 5. That Gods pardon is a free pardon we get it not by satisfaction but beg forgiuenesse of his mercy 6. That all the children of God doe obtaine pardon of their sins and are assured thereof Else Christ would not bid them aske pardon if their sinnes were not pardonable and to be pardoned when they aske forgiuenesse being truly penitent 7. That repentance is dayly to be renewed for our dayly slips for this request must be dayly put vp to God 8. That wee are to pray that God would forgiue our brethren as well as our selues 9. That therefore we are not to prouoke men to sinne nor make a sport of their sinning As we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. Here is the signe of forgiuenes by which we may know to whom remission belongeth and it is for strengthning of our faith in the assurance of pardon The words are not a comparison nor any sampler to God how he should forgiue vs Nor doe they plead any cause to moue God but are as a witnesse from this grace and mercy to others that God will be mercifull to vs. If we that haue so little mercy yet can forgiue how much more our Father the God of mercy yea and mercy it selfe Hence may we learne 1. That our forgiuing one another is not of the sinne but of the iniury and damage against our owne persons 2. They that looke for pardon of their owne sinnes from God are to remit the trespasses done against themselues to their brethren 3. That the mercifull may assure themselues that they shall obtaine mercy 4. That though men doe trespasse one another yet are they to forgiue one another The sixth petition The last petition concerneth the safety of body and soule The distinct care of the one and of the other maketh vs care for the good of both together And lead vs not into temptation This is the petition in which wee be taught to desire as in the last place Gods aide and assistance against our spirituall enemies to teach vs 1. That the Godly are here subiect to temptations They may not thinke to liue securely 2. That no temptation can or doth befall vs without the will and guidance of God 3. That God will not suffer vs to be tempted aboue our power seeing he willeth vs to pray thus vnto him 4. That it is in Gods power and not in vs to preuent temptations 5. That we should tender our brethren in their spirituall temptations 6. That therefore wee should not be tempters our selues to draw them to euill But deliuer vs from euill This is as the explanation shewing how farre we desire not to be led into temptation to wit so farre as wee bee not left in the danger and destruction thereof Whence we learne 1. That wee are not to pray simply not to be tempted at all but respectiuely as it may be euill and sinfull to vs. 2. That euill is the thing wee are to desire to be freed from 3. That it is not in mans power to free himselfe from euill in time of temptation 4. That God onely can and will free his from euill for what we are willed to aske that we may looke to obtaine of God 5. That wee are to pray for our brethren that euill seaze not vpon them that they be not ouercome in temptation The conclusion Which is in part a reason why we aske all these of God partly a confirmation of our faith with an acknowlegement of the things herein which is a praysing of God which teacheth vs that our requests should be grounded vpon good reasons and such as God affordeth vs. And in that the conclusion followeth the sixe petitions we learne that these containe all things needfull to be asked of God either for his glory or our safety else would Christ haue added more For thine is Kingdome power and glory for euer Wee are taught here what to make the grounds of our requests and what to ascribe vnto God Whence we learne 1. That soueraginty power and glory belong onely to God and to him to be ascribed 2. That these three with the consideration of the eternity therof are strong confirmations of our faith in prayer 3. That Gods Kingdome power and glory are endlesse 4. That praises as well as prayers are our duty to God Amen It is an asseueration or wish and an earnest longing to haue what we pray for And hence note two things 1. That the desire is to be inflamed after those things which we beg of God So must we be feruent in prayer 2. That we are to be perswaded that what we aske according to this holy forme of prayer wee shall obtaine Honour and glory and power and prayses and dominion ouer all be ascribed to God our Father in Christ Iesus by the operation of the Spirit now and euer Amen A PRAYER FOR A Family at all times OBlessed Lord God and Our Father which art in Heauen thou that louingly tendrest the welfare of thy people carefully prouiding for them and liberally bestowing thy blessings vpon them we thy poore children by adoption in Christ Iesus assured hereof by thy holy Spirit doe in the brotherly fellowship of loue with the rest of thy Saints most humbly sue vnto thy Diuine Maiesty for thy heauenly grace that wee may serue thee Hallowed O Father be thy Name let such feare and reuerence possesse our hearts that by our words and workes we may set forth thy praise and glory according as thou hast and doest make thy self known to vs in thy Word and in thy Workes We know O Father that wee owe this duty vnto thee for our election for our naturall being for our heauenly vocation for our iustification sanctification and our happy preseruation both bodily and ghostly but we are not of our selues
able to glorifie thy Name by well-doing but as thou thy selfe shalt inable vs therevnto for it is thou O Father and Author of all goodnesse that workest in vs both the will and the deed Let therefore Thy Kingdome come send forth thy Word to teach vs thy Spirit to conuert vs more more subdue the kingdome of sin Satan do thou take the rule and gouernment ouer vs into thy owne hands and by thy power so defend vs and by thy especiall grace make vs such faithfull such loyall subiects to thee alwayes and in all things in this Kingdome of Grace that at the length of thy Fatherly mercy we might attaine to the Kingdome of Glory And because our hearts be deceitfull through too much ignorance self-loue and hidden hypocrisie that we may be thereby easily deceiued in liuing onely in an outward bare profession of thy Name and onely in an outward formall worship and seruice to thy Maiesty giue grace O heauenly Father that by vs thy Will may be done in earth as it is in Heauen Make vs in this our pilgrimage while we here liue from home mingled among Aliens and strangers from the life of God so faithfull in belieuing so conscionable in liuing so patient in suffering for wel-doing as hereby our hearts by thy Spirit may ascertaine vs that wee be truely the children of regeneration and grace Worke in vs this good worke that wee may wholy renounce our owne wills dye to our selues and to the world submit to thee and to thy will in euery condition and say It is the Lord let him doe what seemeth him good What thou commandest that put into our harts to practise and whom we see to be examples of wel-doing before vs giue vs grace to follow them and to striue euen to imitate the holy Angels of heauen in doing thy will readily without lingering cheerefully without murmuring faithfully without adding or diminishing sincerely without sinister respect and constantly without wauering and neuer bee weary of weldoing What though we haue crosses and many discontentments yet let it neuer repent vs that wee haue repented denyed our selues and renounced the world to follow thee euen in the straight way which leadeth to life and immortality in the end And now O Lord for that we liue in these decaying Tabernacles in these bodies of clay needing dayly sustentation wee beseech thee giue vs this day our dayly bread of thy goodnesse put forth thy liberall hand towards vs in granting vs what is necessary for life and conuenient for our present estate and calling in which wee liue Afford vs health and peace if it be thy will and such abilities of body and minde as may inable vs to walke painfully in our vocations Blesse the diligent labour of our hands and so guide vs that our gettings may be in iustice and honesty our keeping in commendable frugality and our expending in wisedome and charity If we haue but little let it content vs if much make vs thankfull and mercifull And whatsoeuer we possesse of these outward things Lord grant that with a good conscience we may enioy them and make a good vse of them that they may be blessed to vs and ours And if it please thee to trie vs in any losse let not our inward peace be troubled nor our hearts fret or be any way disquieted there with but say contentedly The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away blessed bee his Name for euer We know ô Almighty Lord God that thy hand is not shortned thy goodnes is not lessened nor the fountaine of thy mercies drawne dry but that thou canst giue vs all these things and whatsoeuer wee stand in need of in a most plentifull manner but alasse alasse we looking vpon our vnworthinesse and our wretchednesse doe acknowledge that wee haue many wayes sinned against thee of ignorance of knowledge of infirmity and sometimes wilfully we are borne in sin we haue broken forth into trespasses against thee Oh how do we dayly commit one euill or another in thought word deed against thee and against our brethren Oh how vsuall a thing is it with vs to omit our duties to thee and our neighbours and neuer to be grieued at it What other thing therefore may wee looke for at thy hands than thy deserued wrath But O our Father the God of mercy that art infinite in goodnesse and takest no pleasure in the death of a sinner we humbly beseech thee to be mercifull vnto vs to forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. Wee that be by corruption of nature mercilesse through thy loue powred into our hearts do freely forgiue our brethren their offences and iniuries done vnto vs we therefore trust that thou being our Father a mercifull God yea mercy it selfe wilt freely remit our sins and neuer lay them vnto our charge in this life nor in the life to come Wee beg this forgiuenes at thy hands for Iesus sake our Sauiour in whom thou art well pleased He is our atonement accept him for vs by his death hee hath payd our debt thy iustice therefore is satisfied of thy mercy be reconciled vnto vs. And here of good Father perswade vs by thy good Spirit that wee may be comforted against despaire and that the dread of thy wrath doe not interrupt our prayers nor breake off our dayly accesse vnto the throne of Grace Be fauourable and not fearefull vnto vs thy children and seruants for wee are sorry for our offences the remembrance of them is greeuous vnto vs we doe desire more carefully hereafter to please thee and euer to walke before thee as it becommeth thy Saints But ô Lord our God thou that beholdest al things dost know the we are very weak of our selues and are compassed about with enemies our nature is corrupted and playeth the Traytor the whole world lyeth polluted in wickednes Satan seeketh restlesly whom he may deuoure we cannot preuent temptations wee cannot free ourselues from the euils thereof And therefore Holy Father tender vs in mercy haue compassion vpon vs and lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill Hold vs vp by diuine inspiration against Satans suggestion by inward sanctification against natures corruption and by a holy conuersation against the worlds pollution that although we be tempted we may not be ouercome and though through infirmity we fall yet helpe thou to raise vs vp againe O thou God of strength and power goe before vs we pray thee and enter into this spirituall battell with vs in danger leaue vs not and doe not withdraw thy good grace from vs. And if in the multitude of thy mercies thou wilt be pleased to pardon what is past to watch ouer vs for the time present and to preuent vs by thy grace for the time to come we will acknowledge as thy due praises from most thankfull harts that thine is Kingdome power and glory for euer Amen Let thy Almighty hand