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A17326 An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire. Burton, William, d. 1616. 1594 (1594) STC 4174; ESTC S116670 83,241 268

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neuer intended by his Maiestie that his Sonne should dye for them for if he had then should they also haue beleeued as well as others And therefore what sufficiencie of Christs death can be there imagined for vnbeleeuers where there was neuer any intendement of his death for them If any man wil say that Christ hath saued more by his death then his father had from euerlasting elected and chosen he doth plainly deceiue himselfe for Christs will and his fathers are all one He prayed Thy will not mine be done Christ dyed for none but those such like as he prayed for being our Mediatour And he prayed for none but for such as his father had giuen him that is for such as hee had elected to be saued by faith in him as appeareth in Iohn 17. 9. I pray not for the world but for such as thou hast giuen mee for they are thine Now if the Lord Iesus had dyed for all the world as hee did for the elect onely shall wee thinke that hee would not also haue prayed for them as well as for the elect But to draw to an end if it be lawfull to pray for the saluation of the reprobate th● is it lawful to pray for Iudas Saul Esau of whō the scriptures do testifie that they be reiected of the Lord. Iudas is called the lost child of perdition and a diuell Ioh. 6. Esau is sayd to finde no place to repentance though he sought the blessing with teares Heb. 12. And of Saul the Lord himself in expres words saith that he hath reiected him 2 Sam. 7. Shall we now pray that he wold change his decree receiue them againe to fauour Suppose that they were aliue againe as they bee dead but indeed prayer for the dead prayer for the reprobate are much alike the one hath as good warrant as the other and the one shall bee heard as soone as the other That it is not lawfull to pray for such as God hath cast out of his fauour appeareth plainely by diuers places of the scripture In Iere. 7. 15. 16. the Lord faith thus concerning the obstinate Iewes which contemned the word of the Lord I will cast you out of my sight as I haue cast out all your brethren c. Therefore thou shalt not pray for them neither entreate me for I will not heare thee Vpon which place we may reason thus Whosoeuer God hath cast out of his sight that is out of his fauour and will not bee entreated for them for such we must not pray but such are all the reprobate therefore we must not pray for them I meane for their saluation The very like words we haue againe in Ier. 11. 14. speaking of obstinate Idolaters in the land of Iudah and Ierusalem he saith thus to the Prophet Therefore thou shalt not pray for this people neither lift vp a crie or prayer for them for when they crie vnto me in their trouble I will not ●eare them To teach vs that wee must pray for none but for such as shall be heard themselues when they pray but such are not the reprobate for the sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord therefore we must not pray for them Many reasons and arguments moe might bee brought for this purpose but these may suffice Now as the scripture hath forbidden prayers to be made for those that are cast out of Gods gracious presence so doth it also approue the prayers of the faithfull which haue been made against them and against such as haue been apparant and professed enemies of Gods trueth and Gods Church and thereof we haue many examples as the Is●aelites praying against the Egyptians both when they were oppressed in Egypt and when they were dist●essed at the red sea We haue also Moses holding vp his hands in prayer against Amal●●k till they were weary Hezechiah against Rabsakah and Senacherib Dauid prayeth against the vnnaturall conspiracie of Absalom his sonne and the vngodly counsell of Achitophel his subiect And in the Psalme● how many prayers doth he make against the enemies of God that the Lord would confound them in their deuises and destroy them in their conspiracies that their memoriall might perish out of the earth and many such which are to teach vs that as we are not to pray for the reprobate whether they bee knowne to man or not knowne so also we are bound sometime to pray against them but especially against such as oppose themselnes maliciously against God against his truth and against his Church and children for such were the persons against whom Dauid praieth so earnestly and denounceth such fearefull curses and iudgements For shall we pray God to blesse and saue those that go about to destroy his Church his truth his annoynted and his children God forbid but that either the Lord would conuert them or so many of them as doe belong vnto his Maiestie or els confound them in their mischieuous deuises practises when and how it pleaseth him that they may not make spoyle of the Lords inheritance And yet thus farre the scriptures doe teach vs to pray for the verie knowne enemies of Gods Church that the Lord would vouchsafe in his mercie to blesse them with temporall blessings as health and plentie and peace for the Churches sake that is amongst them which is manifest in Iere. 29. 7. The Iewes being Captiues in Babylon are commanded to pray for the prosperitie of Babylon his reason is this for in the peace thereof you shall haue peace which is nothing els but to pray that the Whale may do well come safely to the shore for Ionas his sake which is in his belly and liueth in hope to be cast vp on land And what els is this kind of praying but in policie to reprieue a woman condemned by law and to vse her well to saue the childe that is in her wombe which may proue a profitable mēber in the common wealth But otherwise if Gods enemies come to inuade or deale extreamely with Gods seruants or goe about any wicked enterprise against the Prince or Countrey or Gospell or any Christian professor of the same we ought to pray against them and doe what wee can lawfully to suppresse them roote them out which is nothing els but to kill a Lyon that a man may bee saued which is in the Lyons clawes readie and likely to bee deuoured or to plucke downe one house that is on a fire for the sauing of many that els are likely to bee consumed or to pull vp the weedes that the corne be not choked And further as it is in these and such like poynts touching manners of men so ought it also to be in matters of faith and doctrine which if it be not sound but corrupt and false tendeth to the destruction of the faith the soules of men as the sword commeth to destroy the bodies of men And therefore is