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A03356	The pathvvay to prayer and pietie Containing, 1 An exposition of the Lords Prayer, with an apologie for publicke, and priuate set prayer. 2 A preparation to the Lords Supper, with Ma. Zanchius confession, confirming that sacrament. 3 A direction to a Christian life, both in our generall and particular callings. 4 An instruction to die well, and a consolation against all crosses. With diuers prayers, and thanksgiuings fit for this treatise. By Robert Hill, Doctor in Diuinitie.; Christs prayer expounded, a Christian directed, and a communicant prepared	Hill, Robert, d. 1623.; Zanchi, Girolamo, 1516-1590.	1613 (1613)	STC 13474; ESTC S117083	223,397	566

sinne and crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts 1. Pet. 2.24 Rō 6.6 Gal. 5.24 10 In a word by it you haue remission of sinnes sanctification of spirit and euerlasting life after death Quest What must I heere meditate of An. You must meditate 1 Of the fearefull wrath of God against sinners which could not be appeased by any other meanes 2 Of Gods great mercy who to saue mankind would haue his Sonne killed 3 Of Christs great humility who thus abased himselfe to exalt vs. 4 Of the vglinesse of sinne which could by no other meanes be purged 5 Of the estate of the members of Christ who in this world must bee conformable to his passion 6 That wee hate all sinne and iniquity for which Christ suffered and by which we crucifie him againe Augustines meditation is fit to bee thought on The life of Christ saith he is to me a rule of my life his death is my redemption from death That instructeth my life this hath for mee destroyed death And againe Looke vpon his wounds when he hanged on the tree his blood when he died the price wherewith hee redeemed vs. He hath his body so placed on the crosse as if hee bowed it downe to kisse thee his armes spred out ready to embrace thee and his whole body giuen to redeeme thee Consider how great things these are weigh them in the ballance of thine heart that he may be wholly fastened in thine heart who for thee wholly was fastened to the crosse And againe meditate thus with that holy Father in his Soliloquies and say O Christ the saluation of my soule I hartily thanke thee for all thy benefits bestowed vpon mee from my youth till this mine olde age I pray thee by thy selfe forsake mee not Thou didst create me when I was nothing thou didst redeeme me when I was worse then nothing I was dead and when I was dead thou camest down vnto me and tookest vpon thee mortality for my sake Thou a King camest to a subiect to redeeme a subiect Thou didst die and ouercome death that I might liue I was exalted by thee when thou wast humbled for me such was thy loue towards mee that thou gauest thy blood to be shed for me O my Lord thou didst loue me more then thy self because thou wouldest die for me By such a meanes by so deare a price thou hast restored me from exile redeemed me from thraldome preserued me from punishment called me by thy name signed me by thy bloud annointed mee with that oile wherewith thy selfe wast annointed that of thee ô Christ I am named a Christian Thus thy mercy and grace hath euer preuented me Thus thou my Deliuerer hast deliuered me from many great and grieuous dangers Did I wander thou broughtest mee againe into the way Was I ignorant thou instructedst mee Did I sinne thou correctedst mee Was I sorrowfull thou comfortedst mee Did I despaire thou strengthnedst mee Did I fall thou didst helpe mee vp Did I goe thou didst leade me Did I come thou didst receiue me Did I sleepe thou didst watch ouer me Did I cry thou heardst the voice of my complaints Grant good Lord that it may bee euer pleasant vnto me to thinke often of these thy benefits to speake often of them often to giue thee thankes for them and to praise thee for euer and euer Amen Quest But because I cannot thus meditate of Christs passion vnlesse I bee able to apply it to my selfe how shall I make this application Answ 1 By the word 2. by faith 3. by the Sacraments of Baptisme the Lords Supper By the word Christ is offered as by the hand of God by faith he is receiued as by the hand of man by the sacraments he is sealed vp vnto vs as the Kings letters patents are by his Broad seale For as by the word of God his fauour is signed vnto vs so the same fauour is by the sacraments as a Broad seale ratified vnto vs and by the spirit as a Priuy seale confirmed vnto vs. Qu. Am I now bounden to follow Christ in his crosse Answ You are assuredly For 1 You are a member of his body will you not be like to your head 2 You are a branch of him that true vine will you not follow the roote 3 You desire to haue heauen do you not know that by many tribulations you must goe thither 4 You are one of Christs grapes Christ was pressed in Gods wine-presse and would you giue out your swéet liquor without the like pressing which he endured Augustine said well When thou beginnest to liue godly in Christ thou art put into the wine-presse prepare thy selfe that thy wine may be pressed out 5 It is an argument that God loues you not if you endure no afflictions you are a bastard and no sonne Heb. 12.14 An Heathen man could say thus much No man is more miserable then he who endureth no miserie it is a signe that hee is contemned of God as an idle and cowardly person And if saith Augustine you will goe to Canaan Nihil infelicius felicitate peccantium you must goe as it were by fire and water thorow the wildernesse of this world No creature is more vnhappy then hee that is happy in sinning 6 You must follow him also in his death and know that as he died so you must also be willing to die especially since nothing can free you from it If Wisdome could Salomon had not died if strength Sampson had not died if Riches Diues had not died if beauty Absalom had not died Wheresoeuer we goe if wée carrie with vs not the vgly picture of death as some Romanists doe but the true picture of Christs death in our hearts we shall neuer bee too fearefull of death Qu. I trust I shall thus meditate of Christs death and passion but is it not my duty at all times especially in sickenesse to thinke often of his resurrection Answ The Apostle Paul did account all things but losse and dung for this excellent knowledge of Christs death and the vertue of his resurrection Phil. 3.10 Quest What is the vertue of his resurrection Ans It is nothing else but the power of his Godhead or the power of his Spirit whereby he raised himselfe mightily from the dead and that on our behalfe For know this to your comfort that he did rise againe from the dead not as a priuate but as a publike person so that all the elect haue and are by his resurrection raised out of the graue of sinne by regeneration in this life and shall one day by it be raised out of the graue of death to eternal glorie in the life to come Qu. What vse may I make of this Answ By it 1 You may bee comforted against the feare of all your spirituall enemies and say thus to your sicke soule Christ is risen againe from the dead and so hath subdued all mine enemies vnder me will daily more and more

36 Obiect that friends forsake answered Pag. 146 37 Obiect that want solemne buriall answered Pag. 147 38 Of our reconciliation to man in sicknesse Pag. 147 39 VVhy we ought to haue a will in readines Pag. 148 40 How we ought to make our will Pag. 149 41 Whom we may make our executors Pag. 149 42 Who is our best friend in our sicknesse Pag. 150 43 What speeches we must vse to our friends that visit vs. Pag. 151 44 Comforts against the feare of death Pag. 151 45 Comforts against the feare of Gods anger Pag. 157 46 Comforts against the feare of desperation Pag. 159 47 Comforts against the feare of Satan Pag. 162 48 Comforts against the commission of sinne Pag. 164 49 Comforts against the greatnesse of our sinnes Pag. 167 50 Comforts against the multitude of sinnes Pag. 169 51 Comforts against our imperfect obedience Pag. 171 52 What thoughts wee must haue at the houre of death Pag. 175 53 Of speech at that time Pag. 176 54 Of sudden death Pag. 180 55 Whether we may pray against it Pag. 183 56 Why wee must take thought for our bury all Pag. 184 57 Of the place of buryall Pag. 186 58 Of keeping cleane Church-yards Pag. 187 58 Of Monuments Pag. 187 60 Of mourning Pag. 189 61 Of mourning apparell Pag. 191 62 Of Funerall Sermons Pag. 192 63 That Christs death is often to be thought on Pag. 194 64 What his passion is Pag. 195 65 What moued Christ to suffer Pag. 196 66 When his suffering beganne Pag. 196 67 What hee suffered before his apprehension Pag. 197 68 Why was his soule troubled Pag. 197 69 What it was that crucified Christ Pag. 200 70 Why he was crucified at Easter Pag. 201 71 Why he died on the Crosse Pag. 202 72 Who haue profit by Christs death Pag. 203 73 How it is meritorious Pag. 204 74 A meditation of Christs death Pag. 205 75 Whether we must follow Christ in his Crosse Pag. 208 76 Of the vertue of Christs resurrection Pag. 209 77 Of the deceitfulnesse of the world Pag. 212 78 Of eternall glorie Pag. 215 79 What we shall enioy in heauen Pag. 216 80 How we shall come vnto heauen Pag. 217 81 VVhat the obiect of life eternall is Pag. 217 82 For whom it is prepared Pag. 218 83 That our bodies shall rise Pag. 219 84 The qualities of our bodies after the resurrection Pag. 223 85 How our bodies shall be spirituall Pag. 224 86 VVhether they shall bee perfect without the least imperfection Pag. 224 87 The qualities of the soule after death Pag. 225 88 Sweet meditations of the Fathers concerning the ioyes of heauen Pag. 226 89 Of the torments of hell Pag. 231 A consolatorie Epistle against all crosses Pag. 239 An heauenly meditation in Verse Pag. 249 A prayer for morning or euening Pag. 251 A morning prayer Pag. 266 An euening prayer Pag. 277 A prayer to bee said alone or with companie changing I into we Pag. 289 A thanks-giuing for our Gunne-powder deliuerance Pag. 335 A prayer for a sick man Pag. 298 A thanks-giuing after deliuerance from sicknesse Pag. 307 A prayer to be said by a sick man Pag. 313 A thanks-giuing after the death of any Pag. 319 A prayer for a woman in trauaile Pag. 323 A thanks-giuing after her safe deliuerance Pag. 326 A prayer before the Communion Pag. 329 A thanks-giuing after Pag. 332 Graces Pag. 341 FINIS CHRISTS PRAYER EXPOVNDED The Speakers Euchedidascalus A Teacher of Prayer Phileuches A Louer of Prayer Euch. PHileuches amongst many Sermons which I haue preached vnto you you haue heard me expound the Lords prayer are you bound to giue account of that you haue heard Phil. Sir doubtlesse I am for the Apostle Peter teacheth me that I must be alwaies readie to giue an answere to euery one that asketh me a reason of the hope that is in me with meekenesse and reuerence a 1. Pet. 3.15 Euch. Repeate then the Lords Prayer Phil. Our Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name thy kingdome come thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our daily bread and forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs and lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill for thine is the Kingdome the power and the glory for euer and euer Amen Euch. Why is this prayer called the Lords Prayer Phil. 1 Because Christ Iesus our Lord set downe the same b Mat. 6.9 2 Because we cannot pray vnlesse Christ teach vs c Luc. 11.1 Rom. 8.26 3 To make vs estéeme it in that it was giuen by our Lord. 4 To distinguish it from the prayers of others Euch. Why did Christ teach his Church this prayer Phil. 1 To put vs in minde of our miserie that vnlesse God giue it we can haue no good thing * Iam. 1.17 2 Of his mercy who giues if we aske 3 To comfort vs that we may be so bold as to aske 4 To instruct vs in what manner we should aske 5 To assure vs that we comming to the Father in his Sonnes owne words he will heare vs for his Sonnes sake 6 To teach vs by this short summe what we may lawfully aske at the hands of God and that other things we should not aske * Matth. 20 7 That Christ might not be inferior to Iohn who taught his disciples to pray 8 To teach Ministers Parents Tutors and Masters to doe the like to their children and people 9 To shew that God is not like the great Monarches of the earth to whom we may not come vnlesse Ahashuerosh-like he hold out his golden Scepter Ester 4. 10 That God vouchsafeth all this his honour that they may come vnto him Euch. Is there any vertue in these verie words of this prayer Phil. There is no such vertue as that by the bare repetition of it we can bind God to grant our requests or that we should neuer pray in other words but as the ten Commandements containe all things to be done of vs the Créed all things to be beléeued by vs so the Lords Praier doth comprehend all things to be asked by vs of Almighty God Euch. Is it necessarie euer to repeat all this prayer Phil. It is surely a good conclusion for our ordinarie course of praying both publikely and priuately because those things which wee cannot at such times craue or giue thanks for in particular are all contained in this platforme but that euery petition should euer bee vsed it is not necessarie Euch. How then may you repeate it with comfort Phil. Surely as Luther teacheth me to repeate the ten Commandements and the Articles of my faith in my prayers Euch. How is that Phil. To obserue the present necessity As for example Do I sée the prophanation of Gods name and contempt of his word I must then say O heauenly father maintaine I pray thee the glorie of thine owne name and suffer

fond conceit of many who thinke it a great blessing to bee buried in a Church especially if it bee in the Chancell néere the Altar Quest. Ought there any care to bee had to keepe Churchyards in good sort Answ There ought 1 They are the houses of Christians and as it were chambers or beds to sléepe in 2 They are places to which we may resort to bee put in minde of our future mortalitie 3 It argues little charitie to abuse those places where our friends lie buried 4 The Romans had this Law Let the place where the dead are buried be accounted holy and the Romanists haue diuers good Canons against such as shal any way abuse euen Church yards and it were to bee wished that it were looked to amongst vs. Quest What thinke you of making monuments for the dead Answ I remember Tullie saith that the Romans had a law that no man should build a more costly Sepulchre then could be finished in thrée daies Lib. 2. de Leg. The Egyptians builded gorgeous Sepulchres and meane houses because the one was to them but as an Inne the other as they thought an eternall habitation Celius Rhodig Now that great and good men should haue monuments as it is a thing indifferent so I thinke it not simply vnlawfull 1 The Iewes vsed such as wee may sée in the Bible Dauid saith the Scripture is dead and his Sepulchre is with vs to this day Act. 2.29 2 By them wee may be put in minde of that glorious habitation wee shall haue in Heauen 3 It is an argument that we loued such persons whom we thus honour after their death 4 We kéepe a memorie of their excellent vertues 5 We are moued to follow them in good actions 6 It distinguisheth betwixt person and person for though all die alike yet all must not be alike buried But note that the best monument is to be set vp in the heartes of good people for good workes and the next is to leaue a godly posteritie as for the monuments which the wicked leaue they argue 1 Their pride that they would leaue a name vpon earth 2 Their infidelitie that they looke not for the resurrection of the iust 3 Their couetousnes that they will carrie that to the graue with them which better might haue béene spent vpon the poore 4 Their folly to build such a sepulchre as when men looke vpon it shall remember their bad and beastly life Quest Are the dead thinke you to bee mourned for Answ Solon gaue commandement that the Common-wealth should mourne for him but Ennius would not be mourned for But as for vs Christians though we must not with superstitious Nations hire mourning Women to lament for vs yet it is lawfull to deplore the departure of the dead for 1 As the Egyptians mourned for Iaakob seuentie daies so his children lamented him seuen daies Gen. 50. 2 Abraham mourned for Sarah Israel for Iosias and Samuel the faithfull for Steuen the women for Dorcas and Dauid for his good friend Ionathan 3 It was an argument of Gods wrath against Iekoniah that no man should say for him Alas my brother Ierem. 22.18 4 We receiue much good by the presence of our friends and why should wee not bewaile their absence 5 If they were godly wee must lament them 1 Because they did much good in their callings Acts. 9.39 2 Because the World was blessed by them Prou. 11.11 3 Because wee may feare some iudgement after their departure Isay 58.2 4 Because oftentimes worse come in their stead 5 Because the wicked will then be more readie to sinne 6 Because they were great ornaments in the Church or Common-wealth in which they liued Lament 4.20 And if they be godlesse we must mourne for them especially because we cannot bee perswaded but that they are gone to the pit of perdition 2 Sam. 18.33 Yet we must remember that we kéepe a meane in mourning and looke that our sorrow be not 1 In selfe loue because wee haue lost some good by them 2 In distrust as though we had no hope that they should rise againe 1. Thess 4. 3 In hypocrisie that we may séeme only to men to mourne 4 In excesse as though there were no comfort for vs that are aliue because God hath taken away the comfort of our life Cyprians spéech is verie good in this thing Why saith he doest thou take it impatiently that he is taken from thee whom thou beleeuest that he shal returne He is but gone a iournie whom thou thinkest quite gone Hee that goes before is not to bee lamented but rather desired And this desire is to bee tempered with patience Why art thou grieued that he is gone whom thou must follow We ought not to lament them ouer much who by the calling of God are freed from miserie they are not for euer sent away but for a while sent before They are but gone a iournie we must looke for their returne sailed into a strange Countrie they will if we waite come againe So also is that of the Wise man Ecclus. 38.16 My sonne powre out teares ouer the dead and begin to mourne as if thou hadst suffered some great harme thy selfe and then couer his bodie according to his appointment and neglect not his buriall Make a grieuous lamentation and bee earnest in mourning and vse lamentation as hee is worthie and that a day or two left thou be euill spoken of and then comfort thy selfe for thine heauinesse c. Quest May mourning apparrell be vsed at funerals Answ If the heart mourne as wel as the habite I doe not thinke it vtterly vnlawful for 1 By it we kéep a memory of our friend 2 We are drawne to some humiliation 3 We are put in mind of our owne mortalitie 4 It argues his loue that bestowes it vpon vs. 5 By this meanes many poore are clothed 6 It is but a Legacie of the dead to the liuing Quest And what thinke you of funerall Sermons for many thinke it sinne to preach at that time Ans I doubt not but they may be preached for 1 Wee must preach in season and out of season 2 Many come then to the house of God and why should they depart emptie away 3 It is a fit time to teach that one day we must die 4 Many accidents fall out in a mans sicknesse which are fit to bee published at such a time 5 Many worthie vertues haue shined in some mans life which for the imitation in others are not to bee buried at his death 6 Many corruptions haue raigned in some which then wee may bee exhorted to auoide 7 They are not for the bare commendation of the dead but for the instruction and consolation of them that are aliue Quest And doe you thinke that any would bee content to haue his infirmities laid out at his funerall Answ Whether hee will or not if God may get honour and the Church good there is no wrong to the dead to admonish the