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A01139 The groanes of the spirit, or the triall of the truth of prayer Foxle, George. 1639 (1639) STC 11250.3; ESTC S114872 54,217 260

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the way may goe on with comfort and they that never came into the way who yet suppose themselves to be in the way may if it be possible be brought into the way For Method and memories sake the subject of this litle Treatise containes in it or divideth it selfe into these particulars In the first there is a description of Prayer In the second are discovered the marks of the Spirit of Prayer The third directeth us how to attaine to the sence of the Spirit of Praier The fourth sheweth how a man should hold on the duty of Prayer without the sence of the Spirit The fift and last directeth men that want the Spirit of Prayer how to labour for it Of these and of their proper particulars in order and first briefly of the first because the manner of true Prayer doth discover fully the nature of Prayer The School-men and Fathers have diverse Descriptions in which for me to be curious standeth neither with the nature of the Treatise nor with the scope or my intent And for my owne part as one said in another case I had rather pray powerfully then define Prayer accurately The summe of all these The summe of all Descriptions may be comprised in this namely That Praier is a spirituall Ability infused into the heart whereby the soule expresseth it selfe familiarly and immediately to God in the name of Iesus Christ with confidence in the promises It is called by some the pious affection of the speaker to God by others the manifestation of the heart to God and the assent of the soul to God This definitiō is made good by diverse places of the Scripture compared together First the Spirit maketh intercession for us with Groans Secondly the heart is the seate c. Lord before thee is all my desire and my sighing is not hid from thee This must be done immediately to God for thou that hearest Prayers saith the Psalmist unto thee shal all flesh come and that in the Name of Christ If yee aske any thing in my name I will doe it Neither doth Christ his Mediatourship make ours not to be immediate for he is God as well as man and is appointed our Mediatour as the place quoted testifieth I will doe it Lastly with confidence in the promises and this is the confidence that we have in him that if wee aske any thing according to his will he heareth us First that Prayer is not an naturall acquired ability Secondly it cōsisteth not in words though they be ornat or well set forth with seeming holynesse but in the powring out of the heart by sighes and groanes inexpressible Thirdly It is no Prayer at all that is not made in and by Christ Fourthly Lastly without faith it is impossible to pray Of these Conclusions more fully in the second particular to which now I proceed 2 How a man may know when hee prayeth in the Spirit AS Prayer is the special gift of God so all men have it not that can talk well or that seeme to have it I will poure out my Spirit saith the Lord upon all flesh that is upon all his own he promiseth no such thing to the wicked Pray alwaies saith the Apostle Try we therefore whether wee have this or not for good words except they be the words of the Spirit will not serve Would you then know whether you pray by the Spirit or no try your Prayer by these particular evidences The first evidence of the Spirit of Praier is our Adoption or Sonship wherein wee are interrested Bastards and strangers yea meere servants cannot pray they learne not nay cannot learne the language of the house as children can doe they cal not upon God they may get some broken language or termes of Art wherewithall to serve their necessities as for meat prefentment and esteeme among Gods people yea for some words they may come to be admired but in the true pronounciation of Shiboleth they are to seeke and so they come short of that language But the sonnes and daughters be they never so weake yea but babes or Infants in Christ yet they can speake the language of their Father truly though not througly nor eloquently All this the Apostle proveth in that Phrase to the Romans Yee have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby yee cry Abba Father Where observe first who cryeth namely Sonnes and they only Secondly what they cry namely Father which if they can speake truly if with litle children they can say litle more yet they pray truly speaking the language of the Spirit A second note that one prayeth by the Spirit is an earnest desire and endeavour to take the Spirit along with them They will not goe willingly without the evidence of the Spirit witnesse the same Apostle the Spirit maketh request for us Where wee must understand that the Spirit is said to make request for us after an other manner then the sonne is said to make request for us v. 34. namely by the vertue and power of his merit But the Spirit maketh request by stirring us up and putting us on to make request The Spirit as one saith by that annointing power teacheth and frameth us to frame our petitions In this wee must be like Moses If the Lords presence goe not with us let us not goe from hence The best of Hypocrites can be content to have an Angell goe before them give the Angellicall stile cōming from lips touched with a coale of strange fire moved by no internall principle except it be from some common gift at the best it is enough and in this they please themselves and gaine admiration from others but their praise is but of men and not of God but this will not serve the children of Prayer they will not stirre without the Spirit of their Father neither can they doe it Wee know not saith the Apostle what to pray as we ought we have neither thought to conceive nor will to consent nor art to perfect of our selves As the Spirit of God did move or flutter upon the waters for the inclining of that vast body by a powerfull and procreative heate so the heate of Gods Spirit must either quicken us to the duty or wee and it are no better then a deed Carcasse or at the fairest but like a specious Picture The people of God doe now and then neglect I must confesse this duty the taking their guide with them they weigh not so attentively nor watch so seriously after this first mover as they should As a man forgetteth to set his watch or to take his guide with him And this is a main cause why they seek and find not yea why they walke not in the strength of the Spirit Againe the people of God may be without the sence and feeling of the Spirit yet the Spirit be there they not being aware howsoever they are very sensible of their insensibility and much
in a word wouldst thou have a guide that might direct thee and protect thee assist thee and never leave thee till thou art brought through this troublesome vale to the life of glory the Saints can assure thee that Prayer is the only meane to bring the guidance of the Spirit into the heart and there to continue it till thou commest to thy journies end these effects of Prayer who can choose but affect Now if thou doest fall in love with the Fruits thou maist haply endeavor to get the Tree into the garden of thy soul which will make all the ground fruitful These rules being observed by thee and the motives considered thou art in a fair possibility to come acquainted with God by whose mercy guidance I have been led along in this litle Treatise desiring for the Cōclusion nothing but this that God may have the honour his People the profit FINIS The excellency and necessity of Praier Isay 29. 10 Rom. 12. 8. Cant. 5. 2. Description of Praier August Hom. Rom. 8. 26. 16. Psal 38. 10. 65. 3. Ioh. 5. 14. Ioh. 5. 14 Ioel 2. 28. Ephes 6. 18. Evidences of praying in the Spirit 1. Is Adoption Rom. 8. 15. 2 A desire and endeavour of the presence of the Spirit Exod. 33. 45. Rom. 8. 26. 3 A sensibility of our owne inability 4 Helpe against infirmities Rom. 8. 26 Memory and Vnderstanding Mat. 26. 39. Conscience Objection Answer 1. 2 Ob. Answer Bern. de medit 6. 8. How the godly are troubled with idle thoughts in prayer How it is with the unregenerate 3 Ob. Answer 5. Fervency of spirit Rom. 8. 26. Gen. 32. 28. Exod. 32. 10. Isay 64. 7. Can. 3. 4. Heb. 6. 4. Luke 18. 4. 7. Hos 12. 4. Col. 4. 12. The difference of true fervēcy counter feit in prayer 1 Difference 2 Difference 3 Difference Cant. 8. 6. Psal 96. 10. 119. 13. 4 Difference 2. King 10 16. Salust ad Caesar 5 Difference Numb 6. 12. 13. Ob. Ans 1. Luk. 24. 11. 32. 34. Isay 58. 2. 3. Iob. 13. 15 6 the train of all graces accompaning 1 Cor. 1. 7. Mat. 21. 22. Psal 5. 3. 4. hope and patience Habuc 2. 1 Psal 5. 3. Preparation Opportunity and Diligence Hypocrites faile of these graces Heb. 4. 2. Mich. 3. 11 Iob. 3. 13. 2 King 6. 33. Tryall of these graces is necessary Tryall of thy faith Psal 17. 2. Esay 29. 13. Mat. 15. 8. Psal 36. 37. Triall of hope and patience Act. 7. 55. 59. 60. Luk. 18. 7. Zacch 13. 9. Exod. 3. 5. 7 The guidance of the Spirit in all our actions Wherein the guidance of the Spirit manifesteth it selfe In the subduing the whole body of sinne 1. Ioh. 3. 9. V. 8. Ioh. 9. 21. Psal 66. 18. 1 Sam. 8. 8. Prov. 25. 26. 27. Ier. 11. 11. Iudg. 10. 6. to 18. 1 Sam. 7. 2. to 12. Isay 1. 15. to 19. Esay 1. 16. Ps 26. 6. Tim. 2. 8. Ob. 1. Answer Rom. 7. 14. Rom 7. 25. 2. Ob. Answer 1 Cor. 6. 20. 2 Cor. 10. 3. Ob. 2. Ans Rom. 7. 15 Quest Answer Quickning and increase of grace Rom. 8. 13. Zac. 10. 12 Meanes of keeping increasing of grace Ps 90. 12. Col. 1. 21. The necessity hereof Ephes 5. 15. 16. The difficulty hereof Weekly and more generall accompts 8 The precious promises Psal 119. 49. Ambrose 2 Sam. 7. 25. 28. Mat. 11. 28. Isay 43. 25. Ier. 38. Ezech. 36. Psal 50. 15. Prayers of the regenerate and unregenerate differ Ob. 1. Nehem. 13. 14. 1 King 20. 3. Ans Ob. 2. Answ His argument Ans 9 the directing of Prayer Ioh. 16. 25 Rev. 8. 34. Ioh. 17. 19 Psal 9. 11. I say 52. 6. Psal 91. 14 15. The necessity and benefit hereof 10. Praying in a time of trouble Prayer an al sufficient remedy 1. Reason Exod. 15. 26. 2. Reason 3. Reason Iam. 5. 16. Bernard de med ● 7. 4 Reason Neglect of prayer argueth want of the spirit How the hypocrite useth prayer Cant. 5. 9. 2. Kings from v. the 10. to 16. Comfort for such as cannot or dare not pray Dan. 9. 2. 23. Our neglect of Prayer relying on other meanes what evill it is unto us Ier. 8. 15. Deut. 22. 25. 2 King 13. 14. Exod. 32. 33. Esay 64. 7. Cant. 3. 4. Hab. 2. 1. 11 Respect to order matter of Praier Rom. 8. 18. 1 Ioh. 5. 14. 1 King 3. 5. Mat. 7. Iam. 4. 3. Luk. 9. 45. Mat. 20. Psal 55. The order to be observed in Praier 1 Rule Mat. 6. 33. Ob. Answer 1 King 3. 9 Psal 4. 2 Rule 2 Sam. 23. 12 Expectation of the thing desired Deut. 33. 7. Ioh. 9. Psal 136. 6. Psal 123. 2. 3. Plin. l. 2. c. 4. The Godly fail herein Ob. Answ The Conclusion of this particular Quest Answer Gen. 24. 63. Dan. 6i 10. Ps 55. 17. 33. 4. Act. 10. 9. Luk. 6. 12. 1. Tim. 1. 6 Ps 31. 18. Eph. 6. 19. Col. 4. 2. Rom. 12. 12. Luk. 21. 36 2. Tim. 4. 2 Rev. 5. 4. Ioh 20. 29. Quaest Ans Psal 4. Ioh. 17. 20 Act. 9. 10. Ps 50. 15. 79. 6. Ier. 10. 25. Deut. 32. 35. Misery in sicknes death with out prayer Ob. Answer Prov. 15. 29. Lev. 21. Prov. 4. 14 Ps 26. 5. 6. Pro. 13. 20. Amos. 5. 14. Exod. 8. 8. 1. Sam. 16. 23. Iam. 5. 15.