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truth_n	father_n	life_n	way_n	6,604	5	5.4332	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81210	Heaven and earth embracing; or, God and man approaching: shewed in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their publike fast at Margarets Westminster, January 28. 1645. By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing C779; Thomason E319_11; ESTC R200557	28,718	47

prayer Communion with God is better then all things for which we have communion with him Prayer is better then any worldly thing we pray for This means is better then the end and God to whom we pray is better then any spirituall thing we pray for This object is better then any end It is the highest reward the very wages which the Saints look for in these duties to finde God in them Psal 65. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou chusest and causest to approach unto thee Where were these approaches made The next words shew us where That he may dwell in thy Courts we shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house even of thy holy Temple We shall be satisfied Is it any wonder to see a man delight in satisfying goodnesse What is it that any man desires but satisfaction What is heaven but satisfaction The reason why the world is so much desired is because it gives so little satisfaction Men still hope for further satisfaction And the reason why holy things are desired is because they give so much satisfaction The Saints never think they have enough of them because they ever finde enough in them In heaven and heavenly things satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable We shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house even of thy holy Temple Unlesse carnall men finde satisfaction in their own houses they finde none in Gods Temple-comforts please them not unlesse they may have their fill of Kitchin-comforts And here 's the reason why carnall men and hypocrites who formally approach unto God in these duties are so soon weary of them for unles they receive some outward sensible it may be sensuall advantage some present pay unles they thrive in worldly things they thinke their labour lost and their time too To what purpose is this waste They know not what you mean by the goodnesse of Gods House they understand not this language Hence that cry Isa 58. 2. Wherefore have we fasted and thou seest not What was it that troubled them What that God was not neer them No but because creature-comforts and successes were not neer them Prayer brought no money into their purses nor peace into their State Now the Saints are never weary of prayer and fasting though they pine and starve at them because they finde God in them in whom they are feasted with sweet wine and various dishes of delight when the world yeelds them not a cup of cold water or a bit of bread God alone is enough and all him they finde vvhen they finde nothing These heavenly Epicures feed fat and full on Christ and drinke large draughts of the wine of his consolation when they have no more in the creature then Dives had in hell not a drop of vvater to cool their tongues Thirdly If these duties be a drawing nigh to God I beseech you consider whether you intend them so or no. Doe you draw nigh to God when you pray and hear Have you been nigh to God this day We are in the exercise of the point we are speaking of It would be sad if any soul should be farre from God in that duty where the whole businesse is to draw nigh to God It is ill to be absent from God at any time but then worst vvhen vve seem to come into his presence It is possible to have God in our mouths and not at all in our thoughts to have God at our tongues end and our hearts at the vvorlds end A man may be as farre from God at a prayer as at a play As farre from God at a holy fast as at a drunken feast Thus the Lord charged his ancient people Isa 29. 13. This people draw neer me with their mouth and with their lips they doe honour me but have removed their heart far from me So the Prophet Jer. 12. 2. Lord thou art nigh in their mouth but thou art farre from their reins O that such might be awakened out of this sinfull sleep as Jacob out of his naturall and forced to cry out as he Surely God is in this place and we knew it not Gen. 28. 16. If it shall be asked How may vve draw nigh to God I vvould answer these three things about it 1. We must have a right vvay 2. We must have a right staff of strength 3. We must have the right steps to draw neer to God Your vvay your staffe your steps must be considered First If you would draw nigh to God look to your vvay and exercise faith about it The way is Jesus Christ I saith he am the way the truth and the life no man commeth unto the Father but by me Joh. 14. 6. There is no choice of waies to God if we misse one we have missed all The Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto God Heb. 7. 19. What is that better hope Christ the object hoped for is this hope our hope depends so much on him for the best things that he is our better hope by which with assurance we may draw nigh unto God That 's the Apostles encouragement Heb. 10. 19. Having therefore brethren boldnesse to enter into the holiest by the bloud of Jesus by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us thorow the vail that is to say his flesh Let us draw neer with true hearts Secondly The staffe of ●●rength by which vve draw nigh to God is the holy Ghost Edifie your selves in your most holy faith Jude v. 20. Praying in the holy Ghost so we translate others thus Praying by the holy Ghost that is by the power of the holy Ghost For Rom. 8. We know not what to pray as we ought but the Spirit it self maketh interces●ion for us with groans that cannot be uttered As it is the office of Christ to intercede with God for us So it is the office of the holy Ghost to make those intercessions in us which vve put 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Particula 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad nos laborantes resertur quorum tamen vis omnis ab e● spiritu proficiscitur qui ficut nos penitus collapsos erexit ita etiam erectos regit ideoque dici●ur ipse vicissim on●● attollere ex altera parte ne sub eo satiscamus Beza up to God All the prayers which prevail with God are formed vvrought and fashioned in our hearts by the Spirit of God There are no prayers in our hearts The prayers vvhich goe to God come from him The burden of prayer as well as that of sin is too heavy for us to bear Therefore it is said in the beginning of the verse The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities The Greek word signifies to help as a nurse helpeth the little childe upholding it by the arm or as a weak decrepid old man is upholden by his staff Or rather The Spirit helpeth together for so much the composition of the