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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	trinity_n	9,904	5	10.2376	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20185	A learned and fruitful exposition vpon the Lords prayer. By Arthur Dent, sometime minister of the Word of God at South-Suberry, in Essex	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1613 (1613)	STC 6618; ESTC S113579	21,778	82

Math. 28.9 1 Iohn 5.7 Sometimes it is taken for the whole Trinitie as Mal. 2.10 Haue we not all one Father It is not vnlawfull to pray to the Sonne and the holy Ghost for inuocation belongeth to all the persons in Trinitie and not onely to the Father Stephen prayed Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Acts 7.59 Paul prayed Now God our Father and our Lord Iesus Christ guide our iourney vnto you 1 Thes 3.11 The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ the loue of God and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you 2 Cor. 13.13 Men are baptised in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost that is calling on the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Obiection This Prayer is a perfect platforme of all prayers and héere wée are taught to direct our prayers onely to the Father therefore it is not lawfull to pray to the Sonne or the holy Ghost Answere The Father Son and holy Ghost are in distinct persons yet they are not to be seuered or diuided because they all subsist in one and the same Godhead or diuine nature Further in all outward actions as in the creation and preseruation of the world and the saluation of the elect they are not seuered nor deuided for they all worke together onely they are distinguished in the manner of working Now if they be not diuided in nature or operation then they are not to be seuered in worship In this place expresly wée direct our prayers to the Father because he is the first person in order yet so as then wée imply the Sonne and the holy Ghost For we pray to the father in the name of the Sonne by the assistance of the holy Ghost To what person so euer the prayer is directed wée must alwayes remember in minde and heart to include the rest We may pray vnto Christ not onely as hée is God but also as hée is the Mediatour that is as hée is in person consisting of two natures yet as the Deity be the obiect or the thing wée set before our eyes in prayer All our prayers ought to be in faith respecting Gods promise and Christs mediation and therefore the person that prayeth must first be accepted in Christ before their prayers and sacrifices can be accepted Mar. 11.24 Ioh. 14.13 Heb. 7.25 and 11.4.7 Father GOd is the Father of the wicked and euen of al creatures in respect of creation but in respect of reconciliation he is onely the father of the elect for hée is their reconciled Father in Christ hée is their Father by adoption and grace and therefore they onely in truth can and may call him Father God will be called by the name of Father which is a swéet and louing name rather then by the name of Lord or Iehouah which are dreadfull to allure and entise vs to come boldly vnto him euen as children to their déere and louing father to put vp any sute or complaint vnto him For Gods children being iniuried vniustly molested haue no remedie but to goe tell their father This word father implyes a readinesse and willingnes in God to heare Es 58.9 65.24 1 Pet. 3.12 Luk. 11.9 13. This word father doth assure vs wée shall be heard for can a father not heare his childe can hée deny him any thing Math. 7.9 This assurance in prayer is necessary Iam. 16.7 Hebr. 11.6 Luke 18.7 1 Iohn 5.14 God doth alwayes heare and grant the lawfull requests of his children in such time manner and sort as hée séeth good and neuer faileth if not according to their will yet according to his will and their best good This word father doth assure vs of our saluation for in truth if we cal vpon him as our father as indéed hée is our father then must wée néeds be his children and being his children how can we perish for there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Rom. 8.1 And it is as possible for the Diuell to take away from Christ one of the members of his materiall body being now glorified in heauen as to plucke away or cut off any member of his misticall and spirituall body héere in earth Wée may in a holy manner boast and reioyce in it that wée haue such a Father so wise so mighty so louing so bountifull to whom wée alwayes may repaire for helpe in time of néede If one of vs had a father that were the richest the wisest in a realme would we not excéedingly reioyce in him and vse him This word father doth note vnto vs the excéeding déepe loue and fatherly affection which he beareth toward vs his children passing all loue of mothers vnto their children as Esay 49.15 Can a woman forget her childe and not haue compassion on the sonne of her womb Though they should forget yet will not I forget thee The booke of the Canticles doth most expresly and aboundantly lay open the vnspeakable loue of Christ toward his Church for indéed no louer doth so entirely loue his espoused wife as Christ loueth vs for hée loueth vs so dearly and is so chary ouer vs that hée cannot endure the winde should blow vpon vs. If we would eate golde wée should haue it This loue of his he doth at all times and in all things expresse and shewes it as we say and hath alwayes shewed it by election redemption Iustification sanctification adoption preseruation féeding clothing delighting c. breaking through all our vnkindnesse to doe vs good and continuing dayly vnto vs new mercies and fauours notwithstanding all our vnworthinesse and manifold prouokings of him This word father doth teach vs obedience a sonne honoreth his father and a seruant his Maister If I be a father where is mine honor c. Mal. 1.6 Why call yee mee Maister Maister and doe not the things I speake Luk. 6.46 And if you call him father c. 1 Pet. 1.17 By this our obedience wée testifie our loue to him againe who loued vs so déeply and dearly as Iohn 14.21 Hee that hath my commaundements and keepeth them is hee that loueth me This is the loue of God that we keepe his commaundements 1 Iohn 5.3 How can a Childe call him Father whom hée cares not continually to displease through his leud conditions He cannot doe it neither can any Father delight in such a childe If God be a father who is called vpon then true prayer is a note of Gods childe as Acts 9.14 He hath authoritie to binde all that call on thy name so 1 Cor. 1.2 the Saints are noted to be such as call on the name of the Lord and on the contrary it is made one of the properties of an Athiest not to all on the name of God Psal 14.4 Which art in heauen GOD as touching his essence is no more in heauen then in this inferiour world but hée is said to be in heauen because his glory and Maiesty doth there most clearely shine out