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truth_n	father_n	seek_v	worship_v	3,999	5	9.5346	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33525	A practical discourse of prayer wherein is handled the nature, the duty, the qualifications of prayer, the several sorts of prayer, viz. ejaculatory, publick, private and secret prayer : with the necessity of, and ingagements unto, prayer : together with sundry cases of conscience about it / by Thomas Cobbet.	Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing C4780; ESTC R29965	290,377	588

Prov. 2. 3 4. Their prayers are called seeking Isai 55. 6. because they are ever attended with searching in all corners in every meanes if they may find out and light of the mercies they pray for And they are comprehended under the notion of that hungring Matth. 5. 6. that will break thorow even stone walls any difficult lets but it will come by the food it craveth Many instances hereof might be given but more hereof when we come to speak of that case about use of meanes 5. In not hiding any thing from God as unwilling or not desiring his privity 5 In hiding nothing from God thereto but at least indeavouring to open all to him declaring our wayes to him Psal 119. 26. Powring out our hearts to him Psal 62. 8. And where we fall short craving a further discovery of our selves by and to the Lord. Psalm 139. 23 24. When Job would cleare his integrity and prove his sincerity he doth it professing that he covered not his transgressions as Adam Job 31. c. Sincere ones are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as would be and have all in them seen of God as persons held to the sun-light perspicuous transparent yea in all their spots Suppliants being much in commerce with God they have experience of his all-searching and all seeing eye and cannot but will and desire his search Psal 139. 1 2. 23. verses compared They are acquainted with his admirable faithfulnesse and cordialnesse to them and therefore are not loth to have it thus but glad of that opportunity They find they pay dearly for any contrary acts of guile and beholding withal the happinesse of plain dealing with God in their words and walks they cannot but desire and indeavour the same Psal 32. 2 3 5 6. 6. In harbouring nothing willingly 6 In harbouring no sin hindring answer of praier and knowingly in themselves tending to hinder audience and acceptance of their persons and prayers by the Lord or free accesse to the Lord and to his gracious throne The Psalmist declareth that the unfainednesse of his prayer in that he dare make that appeal to the Lord and is purposed not to offend so much as in a word Psal 17. 1 3. And Psal 66. 15. The sincerity of his heart in prayer appeared in that he albeit he had evil in his heart dwelling there yet was not the same had in respect by him Hence that putting away of iniquity required in persons which are intended to pray Job 11. 13 14 15. hence the holy clearing of the Saints as it is called 2 Cor. 7. 11. when entring upon prayer by premising prefacing their selfe-condemning confessions as in Ezra Daniel and others Hence that casting up accounts when persons are then to offer up their gifts then is the remembring time of what was not taken such notice of before When thou offerest thy gift at the Altar and there remembrest c. Matth. 5. 23. When to lift up our hands and our hearts unto God in the heavens then if ever there is or ought to be searching and trying of our wayes Lam. 3. 40 41. we are to draw near with our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and privity to any knowne sin approved in us or by us Heb. 10. 22. Sincerity in prayer loaths to mean rebellion when it speaks repentance to cry my Father and yet doe evil to the utmost Jerem. 3. 4 5. Sincerity will heartily complaine of any lets to the free passage of prayer and account the same its great burden and misery as Lam. 3. 8 44. but it will never connive or wink at them or give free way to them Sincerity is very real not intending speech with God so much as successe from God and therefore will not dare not cannot owne any spirituall make-bates 7. In avoiding all affection of any expression in prayer In hypocrisie there 7 In avoiding all affected expressions in prayer is affectation hypocrites are stage-players which albeit they are illiterate dunces many of them yet will be highflown sometimes in their expressions their mouth speaketh great swelling words when they speak to men or God or else they faile of their use and aime Jude 16. And in all affectation there is some hypocrisie bee the persons who they will be that are therein exercised Sincerity will account those Gentile-like esteemed flourishes of rhetorical ingeminations but vaine repetitions Matth. 6. 6 7. not expecting that the Lord should be moved by any such like vanity ibid. Sincerity loaths and feares to complement with the all-seeing and faithfull God The lips of the Saints in their prayer are as as a thred of scarlet not stuffed out with the gowty rhetorick of man for it is in comparison sthe high and holy language of the spirit no better but with the pure spun spirituall eloquence of God Cant. 4 3. Thy lips are a thred of Scarlet Now to answer more briefly to the second thing propounded The Reasons Reasons of sincerity in praier why God requireth Sincerity in our praier may be such as these 1 Because Purity and simplicity is most 1. Sincerity is most sutable to Gods nature to whom wee pray sutable to his nature with whom wee have to do in prayer as a simple pure Spirit he will be worshipped in spirit and in truth John 4. 23 24. He seeketh most that part of his Image of Truth and Purity in any person or performance Such doth the Father seek to worship hiw ibid. Truth in the inward parts is that which he eyeth and desireth Psalm 51. 6. The more of that therein the more approved the more delightful to him The words of the pure are to God also pleasant words Prov. 15. 26. His Image in his children is lovely The child that is likest his Father is most made of The purity and sincerity of the people of God is reckoned their perfection albeit they have many imperfections attending their persons and performances Thence are the godly called the perfect 1 Cor. 2. 6. Besides Purity and Sincerity is most sutable to Christ our High Priest who was holy and undefiled Hebr. 7. 26. And God would have his Priests his Saints an holy Priesthood and so conformable to him 1 Pet. 2 3. Besides there is Truth Reality Seriousnesse and Solidity in all we eye and improve in prayer and therefore no wonder if God will have us carryed with an answerable frame of spirit therein the Priest of our Profession is what he is really Truth it self John 14. 6. The meritorious Sacrifice was real and true it was the Sacrifice of himself Hebr. 9. 26. The Covenant of Christs blood a real ratified forcible Testament Hebr. 8. 6. and chap. 9. 17. c. The way made for us a true and living way and therefore we may well draw neer to God with true hearts Heb. 10. 16 17 19 20 21 22 verses compared 2 Because Sincerity ever useth to put 2. Sincerity strengthneth our praiers to