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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

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Oedypus to dissolue our doubts it is our commentarie to vnderstand Gods word d Clauis Scriptura Origen It is a e Deo sacrificium diabolo flagellum homini subsidium August The praise of praier sacrifice to God a scourge to the diuell and an helpe to our selues in all our troubles Wherefore as the Apostle by examples commended faith to the Hebrewes so may I by examples commend prayer to you By it Abrahams seruant obtained a wife for Isaac and by it Moses obtained a pardon for Israel By this the same Moses ouercame the Amalekites and by this Abraham interceded for the Sodomites By prayer Iacob was deliuered from Esau Iosuah from the men of Aie Dauid from Goliah The Prophet from Ieroboam Elizeus from the Samaritans Hezechiah from death Iehosophat from the Aramites Manasses from captiuitie Ieremiah from his aduersaries and Daniel from the Lions the d●seased from his leprosie the Apostles from prison the Church from persecution By prayer Hannah obtained a sonne Dauid deliuerance Salomon wisedome Elias the restoring of a dead child Elizeus the opening of his seruants eyes Nehemiah the kings fauour the Centurion his seruants health Christ comfort in his agonie the Apostles a successor to Iudas Stephen pardon for Paul and Monima the conuersion of her sonne S. Austin In Psal 63 Thus true it is which that Austin saith Great is the profit of pure prayer and as a faithfull messenger deliuers her arrand and pierceth thither whither flesh cannot come And this it was which made Bernard to say Brethren let none of vs lightly esteeme his prayer I tell you that hee to whom wee pray doth not lightly esteeme it after it is out of our mouth he writes it in his Booke and one of these two wee may doubtlesse expect either that hee will grant our petition or that which hee knoweth to be better for vs. Call vpon me and I will heare saith God aske and you shall haue saith Christ Before they crie I will heare them saith Isaiah The Lord is nigh to all that call vpon him saith Dauid but to such as call vpon him in truth And if we may belieue the Apostle Iames the prayer of a righteous man auaileth much Pray therefore and we had need to pray Why wee ought to Pray Satan will deuoure thee pray for deliuerance The world will allure thee pray for assistance The flesh will betray thee pray for defence The wicked will seduce thee pray for continuance What beloued If God had commaunded vs a great thing ought wee not to doe it how much more when he saith pray and preuaile aske and haue seeke and finde knock and it shall bee opened vnto you aske Temporall things and haue them seeke for Spirituall things and find them knocke for Eternall things and the gates of heauen shall stand as open to you as the gates of the prison did to the Apostle Peter By this with Eliah you may open and shut the verie gates of heauen and by this with the Apostle you may shake the foundations of the earth O pretious praier what could not onely wee but euen the whole world doe without thee Thou increasest the earth calmest the sea asswagest the fire purgest the ayre protectest our Gouernours confoundest our enemies preseruest our health instructest our mindes blessest our actions encreasest our wealth exaltest our honour speakest but the word and we are preserued Prayer in all places Pray wee therefore in all places at all times for all persons and for all things Pray wee in all places but in euery place lifting vp pure hands vnto God Thus Isaac prayed in the field Iakob in his bed Israel in Egypt Moses on the Mount Iosuah at Iericho Elias in the chamber Hezekiah on his couch Ieremie in the dungeon Ionah in the Whales bellie Daniel in the Lions den Christ in the Garden the Disciples in a ship Peter in a Tanners house Paul at the sea side and the Iewes at Ierusalem Call vpon him in thy priuate chamber and crie vnto him with thy familie in thy parlour Thou needest not to fall downe at some piller with hypocrites but praise him especially in the congregation of Saints for there many voices are Gods best melodie Pray also at all times at euening Pray at all times and morning and at noone day will I pray vnto thee yea at midnight will I rise to call vpon thee nay seuen times a day wil I praise thee saith Dauid Daniel did so three times a day Paul did it day and night Hannah did it all the daies of her life and the Psalmographer vowes it I will praise the Lord as long as I liue as long as I haue any being I will sing praises to my God Pray continually not as those Heretiques Euchitae who would euer do so but as Christians who know when to do so With morning prayer the day begin With euening prayer the night shut in Without this prayer sit not to eate Without Gods praise rise not from meate And forget not to pray for all persons Pray for ad persons for the King as the head his Senatours as the eyes his Clergie as the mouth his Souldiers as the hands his Subiects to all trades as the feete vpon which the Common-wealth doth stand Art thou a Minister pray for thy flocke An Auditor for thy Preacher A Father for thy child an Husband for thy wife a Master for thy seruant or a Gouernour pray for thy family Is any Sicke pray for his health Poore for his wealth Imprisoned for his libertie Seduced for his recouerie Confirmed for his constancie or in any Distresse for his deliuerie Pray for all men that their bodies may be preserued soules saued estates maintained that thy and their thoughts may bee sanctified your words seasoned and your actions ordered by the Spirit of God To whom we must Pray Will you know now to whom wee must pray not to a Calfe as the Israelites did nor to Baal as his Priests did nor to an Image as Idolaters did nor to any Saints as our fathers did but as we are bound to serue God alone so are we bounden to pray to God alone for hee alone knoweth our wants heareth our petitions hath promised to helpe vs is able to doe for vs and is the alone present helper in the needfull time of trouble I will draw to an end You haue seene beloued the necessitie of this seruice How wee must Pray let mee shew you a litle the qualities of this seruice Pray we must in knowledge with vnderstanding in faith by beleeuing in remorse with feeling in zeale without cooling in intention without wandering in reuerence without contemning in constancie without reuolting and in loue without reuenging Let our eyes be fastned hearts fixed knees bowed mouthes opened our hands lifted vp as to the King of Kings And as Iacob would not let the Angell goe till he were blessed so let not vs let
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
of this definition Answ 1 That he cannot eate the Lords body who is not of the Lords body August 2 That a man must come with all chéerfulnesse to this banquet a and not to feare it as a man would do poyson a Ezra 6.16 Quest When and where was this Sacrament first celebrated Answ The place was in an vpper Parlor to teach me that I should mount vp in mine affections to God and not tarry héere below vpon earth the time was immediatly before Christs departing out of this world to admonish me that euery day of my communicating should be a new departing of mine heart out of this world to mine heauenly Father for this loue-feast begunne héere vpon earth shall not be finished till I come to heauen Quest Tell me now what is the outward matter of this Sacrament Answ Bread and wine by which are signified Christs body crucified his blood powred out a Luk. 22.19.20 Quest How prooue you this Answ Christ saith Take eate this my body that is as Tertullian expoundeth it figura corporis the figure of my body 2 Irenaeus saith The Eucharist consisteth of two things the one terrestriall the other celestiall 3 Augustine saith A Sacrament is a visible signe of an inuisible grace and he doubted not to say This is my body when hee gaue the signe of his bodie 4 Macarius calleth the bread and wine antitypa exemplary types of Christs body and bloud yet must wee know that to the true receiuer Christ is now giuen as well as these creatures 5 Bernard saith It is called bread per significationem non proprietatem by signification not by property Quest Is not bread and wine turned into the bodie and bloud of Christ Answ No for these reasons 1 Christ instituted this Supper before he was crucified 2 Then he must haue giuen his dead bodie with his liuing hands 3 The bread after consecration is distr●buted into parts but the whole body of Christ is receiued of euery seuerall communicant 4 The bread is the cōmunion of Christs body and therefore not the very body 5 This were to make the body of Christ of Bakers bread 6 The bread and wine will corrupt being kept after consecration 7 Wee see and taste onely bread and wine 8 Else the wicked should eate Christs body and so must haue eternall life Iohn 6.54 9 This taketh away the nature of a Sacrament wherein there must be a signe and the thing signified 10 It destroies the nature of Christs body making it aliue and dead in heauen and vpon earth glorified and vilified and in many places at one time 11 It is a kinde of inchantment to giue power to the mumbling of fiue Latine words to change the substance of bread and wine 12 The Apostle calleth it bread and wine before and after consecration 1. Cor. 10.16 2. Cor. 11.26.27 13 The kingdome of God is not corporall meate and drinke Rom. 14.17 14 Victor the third Bishop of Rome Note this was poisoned by his Subdeacon when hee tooke the cup and Henry the seuenth Emperour of Luxelburge was also poisoned in receiuing the bread at the hands of a Monk 15 Christs bodie and bloud enter not into the stomacke but into the heart 16 There commeth no good to vs by the corporall but by the spirituall presence of Christ Iohn 6.54 17 It derogateth from the dignity of the Sacrament of Baptisme in which there is no such metamorphosis 18 Then men neede not to séeke for Christ in heauen Colos 3.2 19 It taketh away the remembrance of Christs death 20 To say it is done because Christ can do it is no good argument for we must not reason from his omnipotency to euert any Article of faith but we beleeue that the bodie of Christ is in heauen not on earth and in a word it would séeme to me a matter of impietie to deuoure or digest Christs blessed bodie Quest Draw me but one other reason into a Syllogisme which you think is vnanswerable Ans I will and that shal be such a one as I learned out of the booke of Martyrs from that blessed martyr M. Frith and it is this They who eate Christ in the Lords Supper as the Fathers before his incarnation did eate him in Mannah and the Paschall Lambe they cannot eate Christ corporally for at that time Christ was not borne But the faithfull eate Christ in the Lords Supper as the Fathers before his incarnation did eate him in Mannah and the Paschall Lambe 1. Cor. 20.3.4 Therfore the faithfull in the Lords Supher cannot eate Christ corporally Quest But yet may not this be done by a Miracle Answ Priests haue no promise to worke miracles now adaies and that it can be no miracle it may appeare by these vnanswerable reasons 1 Euery miracle is sensible as when Moses rod was turned into a Serpent Exodus 7.10 and Christ turned Water into Wine Iohn 2.10 But this miracle is not sensible for I sée bread and taste bread I sée wine and taste wine euen after consecration Therefore it is no miracle 2 That which is ordinarie is no miracle but this of the Priests is ordinarie therefore no miracle Quest Why then is bread called the Lords bodie and wine his bloud Answ 1 That all the faithfull may acknowledge the dignity of this Sacrament 2 That we remaine not in the outward bread and wine but bee intent vpon the thing signified 3 That we may come with greater deuotion to that Sacrament 4 That we may be assured that as outwardly wee are pertakers of bread and wine so inwardly wee are partakers of Christ and his benefits Quest What rules must I then obserue that I may in the receiuing of the bread and wine rightly discerne the Lords body Answ I will giue you three 1 Take euery thing in it owne nature and kinde doe not with our aduersaries take the signe for the thing signified nor the earthly thing for the heauenly 2 Vse euery one of them in the manner appointed by Christ and with such reuerence as is due vnto them doe not as carnall professors doe who put no difference betwixt this and common bread and wine for no bread or wine in the world is in vse like this 3 Vse them to their right ends as First for a commemoration of Christs death Secondly for thy further communion with Christ doe not either as some aduersaries doe by a conceited concomitancy take away the memory of Christs passion nor as negligent Communicants forget the comfort of their renewed communion with their blessed Sauiour for heerein standeth our greatest comfort by communicating Qu. May you not receiue the bread without the wine Answ No for these reasons 1 This were to crosse Christs institution 2 It doth dispriuiledge Christs people 3 It maketh Christs feast a drie feast 4 It taketh away the remembrance of Christs blood-shed 5 The wine signifieth not Christs blood in his veines but that blood which was powred out Quest Why did Christ