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A87151	A sermon preached to the honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, at a publike fast, May, 25. 1642. By Robert Harris, Batchelor of Divinity and Pastor of Hanwell. Oxon. Published by order of that House.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing H875; Thomason E150_21; ESTC R4871	30,553	56

denials What! a Woman in these cicumstances Masculine and We Womanish Consider I beseech you how much is wonne or lost by holding up or letting fall our spirits in prayer Are wee confident Then consider that Prayer is the strength of the Creature for it ingages Gods strength confidence is the strength of our prayer and of our selves It doubles our strength It contributes to the Publike It sets God in the throne nay us in a sort for so with Iacob we reigne with God That made Iacob Israel Other wayes and things might make him Iacob but Prayer denominates him Israel By this hee and wee reigne over heaven and earth and cary the world in our hand Plut. As the Boy at Athens sometimes said I bring it onely for illustration Hee could command all Athens His reason Hee could doe any thing with his Mother his Mother with his Father his Father with that State So here Faith can doe any thing with Prayer Prayer with Christ Christ with his Father his Father with All. But now on the other side Faintheartednes in prayer 1. Hurts us 2. Robs the Publike 3. Wrongs God 1. For God It is a true Maxime True defects in the Creature come from falsly-conceited defects in the Creator Thence our faith failes because we have so low so narrow and so poore conceits of Almighty God whose glory is so much eclipsed as wee ' bate any thing of his Al-sufficiency and prayers Omnipotency 2. For our selves Discouragement robs us of our strength A discouraged man is but halfe a man Hee lies open to every temptation is soon beaten down and from halting soon turnes aside Either hee prayes not at all or not constantly Heb. 12 13. at best his prayers are fearfull soon receive a check and take their answer And as it makes God but halfe a God and Mans selfe but halfe a Man so 3. For others It is not onely wanting to the Publick but it hath an ill influence upon all The truth is Qui ●i●i●…è rog●t d●ce●…g●re S●n Deut. 20.8 If I may speake it all at once It teaches God to Deny our fellow-souldiers to Fly as the fearefull did in Israel and our selves onely to Object and to make difficulties and in the end to Die for feare of Dying Nabal-like Vse 1 1. Before I Exhort I cannot but blush at this basenesse of spirit in my selfe in our nature You are as willing as I to take shame to your selves this day and to sit before God as Ezra did confounded Tell mee I beseech you for the furthering of our humiliation Tell mee Is not Cowardise blushfull Will not men rather Die then heare Cowards and what is that but Feare and Boldnesse misplaced And what is this but our Temper who are Daring where wee should Feare and there onely Feare where wee should bee Valiant I instance in the present work Wee have Gods Passe and Patent for Prayer and dare not plead it and yet elsewhere presume without Licence For I demand Have not wee as good warrant to Pray as to Curse to Blesse as to Blaspheme yet here wee feare not wee doubt not there wee doe nothing els I bring the case neerer to our purpose What thinke you Have not wee as good warrant to beg of God as Rogues and Vagrants of us They are strangers They have no promise from us none the least invitation Nay they trouble us they charge us they are in a disobedience there is Law against them Asking and us Giving yet say doe what you please they will not off Send to them they will sooner make your child or servant their spokesman then make away Threaten them with Stocks or Officer or what you please it is all one And shall these put forth in such a tempest in a contrary wind when all makes against them And wee sit still when wind and tyde and all is for us when we have Law on our sides and Gospell on our sides and all the world on our sides For Prayer ingrosses all the World Heaven Earth All. I put it yet a little farther Have not wee as many incouragements from Heaven as from Earth Is not God as rich as Man as able as willing as Free yet see our practise Wee have suites these to God those to Men What 's our deportment With Men it is our work to Strengthen the heart our labour to gather incouragements Is it a man wee Never troubled That is made an argument of incouragement I never troubled him yet and for Once hee 'll never deny mee Have wee tried him Often That is an argument of incouragement Such an one is my Old friend my tried friend hee Never failed me and therefore I 'll to him Is hee a Kinsman That incourages For shame hee will not deny his Owne flesh and bone Is hee a Stranger why then hee 'll take it well that I conceive better of him then of my owne kindred Is he Poore Hee 'll the better feele mee and the sooner pity mee Is hee Rich Hee may the better spare it Thus with men wee have still somewhat to say for the support of hope though they bee poore hard strangers men no way ingaged by Covenant or the like But now when wee deale with God How can wee speake of it without blushing wee can doe little els then Feare Object Despaire Sure hee doth not love mee Hee will doe nothing for me well may I goe and try but it will bee to no purpose I shall get no pardon no power no comfort no acceptation O cursed Vnbeliefe Can wee conceive hope without promises None with them Can wee find Plea's for Men None for God Can Poverty help us and not Wealth Weaknesse and not Strength Will Cruelty pity us and not Mercy not Grace Bee abashed thus to set earth above heaven men above God Yet I have not done I cannot without horror and trembling Put the case as the case is What thinke you Have wee not reason to believe the God of Truth rather then the Father of Lyes Let the Devill promise safety secrecy any profit or content in a sinfull way wee rest in his Word wee make no doubt of the successe All the threats and curses in the booke of God cannot dismay us On the other side Suppose God promises and the Devill in the meane time threaten us which is beleeved All the Promises Sacraments Oaths Performances of God cannot establish us There is nothing but Presuming when Satan promises nothing but Objecting when God promises O blasphemous Unbeliefe How doth this sinne debase God! bely God! as the word saith provoke God beyond all provocations How angry was his Majestie with Israel for this sinne How angry with Moses How angry with Zachary for this in one particular and in a lower degree O how low must wee cast our selves before our God this day for this capitall sinne which is so much the worse by how much the more Spirituall it is and Anti-Evangelicall Seemes it a small