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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12472	The doctrine of praier in generall for all men, that is, vniuersally for all mankind: Proued 1. By the true sence of the words if the Apostle 1. Tim 2. 2. By the reasons, why all men in that since should be praid for. 3. By the doctrine establishing such praier. 4. By the practises of churches, concerning that kind of praier. 5. By the obiections, ansuered. Against the position of those that say and preach, that all men are not to be praid for. By I. Smith, minister of Gods word at Reading.	Smith, John, minister at Reading.; Smith, John, 1563-1616.	1595 (1595)	STC 22797; ESTC S102599	80,671	127

the father giueth the son laieth downe his life for the sins of the world and the holy spirit of God sanctifieth our hearts For he performeth that washing inwardly in the soul which the water is said to do outwardly to the body Now after that our good and gracious God hath thus into his peculiar and family receiued vs as his children and sonnes as a louing father most carefull of his people and chosen ones he forsaketh vs not but cherisheth and feedeth vs in the whole and continual course of our life And therfore vnto his church he hath giuen by the hand of his only begotten son a spirituall and heauenly banket where our Sauiour Christ is vnto vs that bread of life wherewithal our soules should be fed to the true and blessed immortallitie and to haue the end euerlasting life And therfore at this holy supper being so called of the first institution thereof the Lord Christ promiseth and sealeth vnto the faithful That his bodie was broken and offered on the crosse and his bloud so surely and truly shead as with my eies I beheld the bread of the Lord to bee broken and the cup to be destributed and therefore so surely is the child of God fed to life euerlasting by his bodie crucified and his precious blood shead as my bodie is outwardlie fed by the hand of the minister by the bread and cup which are giuen vnto me as sure pledges of the same To this end saith the Apostle The cup of blessing which wee blesse is it not the communion of the blood of Christ The bread which we breake is it not the communion of the bodie of Christ For we that are many are one bread and one bodie because we all are partakers of one bread For as often as ye shal eat this bread and drinke this cup yee shew the Lords death till hee come In this holy institution of the Lord therefore we seeke the confirmation of our faith our vniting vnto Christ the testification of our obedience to the church of God our desire and loue that we haue to dwell togither in vnitie our gladnes when they come together to eat that we may confirme the peace vnitie and loue of brethren For that holy supper sheweth foorth vnto vs that vnder one head we are all made the members of Christ Iesus because we are all made partakers of one bread But herein I may say woe to the world because of offences yea the offences I say against this holy institution of the Lord who are desirous hereof to be partakers who applieth and vseth it as the remembrance of the death of Christ Iesus for his sinnes who doth oft resort thereunto to confirme the band of loue amongst brethren Or rather is it not in most places set downe for an ordinarie worke at Easter only and neuer thought vpon all the yeare following So that holy band of Christian vnitie of setting forth of the Lords death is reiected and contemned we desire the world and looke vpon the earth the things of God and the things that are aboue where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God we seeke not for nor hearken after them If we would iudge our selues wee should not be iudged of the Lord but hee iudgeth vs and calleth for a plague and it deuoureth hee iudgeth vs and calleth for a famine and that famine together with the adamant brassie and flintie hard hearts rangeth and rag●th ouer the poore of the land to eat vp my people as they would eat bread And lastly hee will call for a sword to make an end of vs if wee repent not O consider this ye that forget God least I plucke you away and there be none to deliuer you O let not the earth be your reioicing Christ calleth vs vp into heauen vnto the table of the great king Ascendamus cum domino in caenaculum magnum stratum atque mundatum accipiamus ab eo sursum calicem noui testamenti Let vs ascend vp with our Lord into that great dining chamber adorned and made cleane and there aboue let vs receiue the cup of the new testament Againe Vt terra nobis coelum sit facit hoc misterium Ascende igitur ad coeli portas diligentèr attende Imò non coeli sed coeli coelorum tunc quod dicimus iutueberis This mysterie causeth that vnto vs the earth is heauen Ascend vp therefore vnto the gates of heauen and marke diligently Nay I say not vnto the gates of heauen but vnto the gates of the heauen of heauens and so shalt thou see the things that I tell thee To conclude therefore this part which containeth the means whereby we are called that is the preaching of repentance and forgiuenesse of sinnes in the sweet promises of the Gospel and the ministration of the holie Sacraments it is set downe before in this effect That we feele our burthen that wee taste of his feast that we sit at his Supper that we be partakers of the Sacraments that hee stretcheth forth his mercie vnto all that wee might beleeue in him that wee might liue through him and enioy euerlasting life Now then it followeth by order that we shew whom he calleth vnder the name of Iew and Gentile is comprehended All mankind Now when it is said Goe into the High wayes and as many as ye find call them to the marriage Herein is described the calling of the Gentiles which might haue stirred vp the Iewes vnto zeale as we reade They haue prouoked me in them which are no gods I therefore will prouoke them to iealosie in them which are no people yea in a foolish nation will I prouoke them to anger The Iewes because they were chosen by God in the former place flattred themselues as though the grace of God should be addicted and onely shut vp in them euen as though God himself could not want or be without them by any means Nay saith God Seeke in the high waies in the lanes and streets of the cittie For the place for the degree for the person make no regard bee they halt lame blind maimed poore rich All which generality of places and persons sheweth the franck and free bountifull and liberall louing and vniuersall inuiting and calling of the Lord our God For the word witnesseth accordinglie The seruants went forth into the waies gathered all as many as they found both good and bad together so the wedding was furnished with guests both good and bad together these they gathered without making choise no man being shut out for the kingdom of heauen is like vnto a draw net cast into the sea that gathereth of all sorts Also to his feast in mount Sion hee inuiteth all people he sendeth his word the Gospell to be preached the Sacraments to be ministred to all nations to all the world to euery creature Amongst them he will not the death of a sinner vpon his sonne he hath laid

vnto me take heed I say and your soule shall liue For I will make an euerlasting couenant with you euen the sure mercies of Dauid Yea a better heritage and name then if they had beene called sonnes and daughters I will giue them an euerlasting name that shall not perish Thus saith he Behold I am here I am here That if we shall seeke for him he wil be found of vs. Let vs with readie and willing mindes follow this caller let vs heare when he speaketh let vs answere when he calleth let vs be obedient when hee commaundeth in all humblenes submitting our selues vnder his mightie hand that he may exalt vs vnto glorie for with the Lord there is mercie and with him there is plenteous redemption as in the Scriptures aforesaid set downe is most amplie shewed This mercifull father according to his accustomed goodnes not for any thing that he saw in mankind looked vpon him to make him his child but euen when they were weake vngodly vncleane sinners and the enemies of God dead in sinnes and offences euen for his own sake whē he saw thee in thy bloud euen when no eie pitied thee to doe any of these things vnto thee for to haue compassion vpon thee I saw thee saith the Lord polluted in thine owne bloud and I said vnto thee when thou wast in thy bloud Thou shalt liue euen when thou wast in thy bloud I said vnto thee thou shalt liue And moued through loue wherewith hee most fatherly loued the world he gaue his onlie begotten sonne that we might liue through him For herein God setteth out his loue towards vs seeing that while we were yet sinners christ died for vs. Wel saith S. Iohn Behold what loue the Father hath giuen to vs that we should be called the sons of God Now then if God be on our side who can be against vs who spared not his own son but gaue him for vs all to death Let vs therefore reioice in this his loue not as the Lord reproued the Iewes that for a space they wold reioice in the light which Iohn the Baptist brought but so let vs reioyce in the same that we way enioy the benefite of the same in the sauing health thereof And that we may be changed into the same image from glorie to glorie as by the spirit of the Lord. So shall wee also loue not in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth The meanes whereby he calleth is first the preaching of the Gospel the certaintie whereof is such That as the Apostle saith though that wee or an Angell from heauen preach vnto you any otherwise then that which we haue preached vnto you let him be accursed Yea doubtlesse I thinke saith he all things but losse for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lord. For whom I haue counted all things losse and do iudge them to bee dungue that I might winne Christ. This is that which the Angell said Bee not afraid for behold I bring you glad tidings of great ioy that shall bee vnto all people This is a doctrine and knowledge that passeth all knowledge not giuen vs by nature but reuealed from aboue containing that most wonderfull message concerning our Sauiour Christ Iesus and the benefite where withall we are blessed and inriched by him who of God is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption being vnto them which are called both of the Iewes and Gentiles Christ the power of God and the wisedome of God In whom God hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly things in Christ and according to his abundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance immortall and vndefiled c. The summe whereof is to beleeue That Iesus Christ is the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world For hee that beleeueth in him and shall be baptised shall be saued Vnto this diuine and heauenly message of the preaching of the gospel concerning health and deliuerance in Christ Iesus to bee receiued and beleeued of vs for the further strengthning and increase of our faith commeth also the Lords institution in the ministration of the sacraments which were ordeined for the gathering together of the saints and for the worke of the ministerie And these sacraments haue such affinity and agreement with the word as that whatsoeuer is giuen promised vnto vs in the word concerning our libertie freedom health and saluation in Christ to be obtained enioied and receiued Euen that doe the sacraments as signes and seales applied to the word to releeue and strengthen our infirmitie confirme and make sure vnto vs and to this end they are called holy signes and seals in the sight and eies of men instituted of God that by them he may more declare and seale vnto vs the good things and mercifull promises reuealed in the gospell Also they are a ●estimonie of Gods fauour towards vs confirmed by an outward signe with a mutuall testifiing of our godlines towards him For sacraments are nothing els then the promises of the gospell set foorth and adorned with outwatd action and ceremony And therfore in baptisme we are washed with water in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy ghost to signifie that wee are receiued into grace and fauour for the blood of Christ Iesus shead for vs and are regenerate by his spirit And we on our parts doe hereby testifie and are bound that wee will hereafter in our liues and conuersation witnesse and shew forth all newnes of life and the good increase of the fruits of the spirit of the Lord. And therefore being the church of Christ we are gathered together by baptisme and the word that first by that marke we may be discerned from other sects and people secondlie that thereby our faith may be confirmed when as thereby Christ witnesseth that he washeth vs with his blood conferreth and bestoweth vpon vs remission of sins iustification and regeneration Thirdly as it teacheth the vnitie of the church whereby we say I beleeue the holy catholike church so also it sheweth that baptisme is a knot or band whereby the members of Christ are bound or knit in mutuall loue one towards another that as we haue many members in one bodie and al members haue not one office so we being many are one bodie in Christ and euerie one one anothers members And concerning this our washing and regeneration most aptly saith one Nostrae tum purgationis tum regenerationis in patre causam in filie materiam in spiritu effectum consequimur quodammodo distincte cernimus We get and obtaine and as it were after a sort doe see very distinctly In the Father the cause in the Sonne the matter and in the Spirit the effect of our clensing and regeneration For