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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15092	Two sermons the former deliuered at Pauls Crosse the foure and twentieth of March, 1615. being the anniuersarie commemoration of the Kings most happie succession in the Crowne of England. The latter at the Spittle on Monday in Easter weeke, 1613. By Iohn VVhite D.D.	White, John, 1570-1615.	1615 (1615)	STC 25392; ESTC S119891	49,617	84

eare from hearing and obeying the word euen his prayer shall be abominable Next we must perseuere without wearinesse praying daily and waiting patiently if any thing be amisse and daily giuing thankes So the Scripture teacheth i Col. 4.2 Continue in prayer and watch thereunto For the State hath her daily charge and daily enemies and daily dangers as a ship by sea in a long voyage where perseuerance euery man in his charge is it that makes a prosperous iourney Thirdly the mind must be lift vp to God by the puritie and the deuotion thereof there must be faith and confidence that God will heare vs reuerence of his Name meekensse of spirit loue to one another and as our Apostle saith in the eight verse holy hands without wrath or doubting And in the point of Thanksgiuing there must not onely be in the vnderstanding an apprehension of the mercies of God receiued but in the will such a spirituall ioy therein and loue to God therefore that the mind thereby be reuoked from reioycing in any thing else but onely in God that saues vs. This is the prayer that pierceth heauen Praeteruolat montes nubes penetrat coelum implet mundum ecce quousque volat vox clamantis animae It flies higher then mountaines or the cloudes it filleth the world and pierceth heauen when the soule cries to God with an earnest voice When Arius infested the Church the saying was that Athanasius resisted him with his learning but Alexander the deuout Bishop vanquisht him with his prayers Socrates telleth that when a terrible fire in Constantinople fastened on a great part of the citie and tooke hold of the Church the Bishop thereof went to the altar and falling downe vpon his knees would not rise from thence till the fire blasing in the windowes and flashing at euery dore to come in was vanquisht the Church preserued with the flouds of his deuotion he slaked the furie of the threatning element The same shal be the force of our prayers for his Maiestie and the State if we be faithfull therein heresie may rage treason conspire and enemies cast fire-brands but we will trust in him that neuer forsaketh such as cal vpon his name 8 The next thing mentioned in the text is the matter of our prayers containing the Persons the thing to be prayed for touching the Persons he enioynes that we pray first generally for all men and then particularly for Kings and all in authoritie First for all men the reason whereof is yeelded verse the fourth because God wills that all men be saued and come to the knowledge of the truth and Christ the Redeemer in some true manner or other gaue himselfe a ransome for all Our deuotion must attend Gods will that what he willes we pray for that so his will may be done in earth as it is in heauen There were no difficultie in this point if by ALL MEN no more were meant thē All the elect or All that professe Christ and are true members of the Church For in these the mercie of God and the effect of our prayers infallibly and apparantly shew themselues for Rom. 8. Whom he predestinated them he calles and whom he calles those he iustifies and whom he iustifies them he also glorifies But when we see with our eies innumerable companies and whole nations to be Barbarians Infidels Iewes Idolaters Heretickes Atheists Profane Excommunicate Enemies and when we certainly know by the Scripture and without controuersie beleeue no small part of mankind in Gods decree and eternall purpose to stand reprobate and reiected from saluation and all the effects of election whether in the masse of sinne or not and whether vpon the foresight of their vnbeleefe or otherwise all is one to the point of this difficultie when I say it is of all hands yeelded that there be so many reprobates denied the grace of election and from all eternitie prepared or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom 9.22 fitted made vp finished finished as the Scripture speaketh to destruction for what God executes in time he willes in eternity what shall we say to Prayer and Thanksgiuing for these or what benefite can either they or we receiue thereby Marke my answer Touching the former the case is not difficult such being the extent of the grace of God that there is k Act. 10.34 no respect of person with him but either Iew or Gentile or Barbarian or Scythian or idolater or hereticke may reape the benefite of our prayers if it be no more but the outward comforts of this life which God by his owne example l Mat. 5.45 making the Sunne to shine vpon the iust and vniust will haue vs vow and wish them And abstracting from reprobation which is hid from vs and considering no more in them but what we can infalliblie see God can or may also giue the meanes that they may be called to the truth and be saued For so we see the riches of Gods mercie to extend it selfe to the sinfullest and wofullest persons that euer were Gentiles in some ages haue bin conuerted idolaters Atheists heretickes in all ages haue bene reclaimed and ioyned to the Church and if they be not yet we to whom God hath no imparted his secret purposes see nothing in them but we may desire it Nay the more miserie and infidelitie we see them drowned in the more doth Christian pietie bind vs to pitie their state desire their conuersion Therefore m Liturg. Iacob aliorū in the ancient Liturgies of the Church we often reade 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord remember and haue mercy vpon All men And Celestin a godly Bishop of the ancient Church n Ep. ad epise Gall. Apud diuinam clementiam sanctarum sedium praesides humani generis aguntcausam vt legem credendi lex statuat supplicandi The Bishops of the Church saith he commend to God the cause of all mankind and * Not that as we pray for all men so God will saue all men but that as we pray for All so we beleeue it to be his will we pray for all and that God in all estates of men will saue whom he pleaseth by their prayers shew what we are to beleeue They intreate God to giue Infidels faith Idolaters truth Iewes light heretickes repentance Schismatickes humilitie But touching the reprobate there is more to be added For albeit no man pray God to saue them whom he in his secret counsell knowes to be reprobate that is to say to change or abrogate his eternall decree yet foure things are certaine touching them which I will lay downe in so many conclusions First We pray not God to SAVE those whom we beleeue he hath reprobated from all eternitie the reason is for no man prayes for that which God hath made no promise to grant as there is no promise that he will saue him or those whom he hath reiected from election but the contrarie an