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A12554	A paterne of true prayer A learned and comfortable exposition or commentarie vpon the Lords prayer: wherein the doctrine of the substance and circumstances of true inuocation is euidently and fully declared out of the holie Scriptures. By Iohn Smith, minister and preacher of the Word of God.	Smyth, John, d. 1612.	1605 (1605)	STC 22877.1; ESTC S117609	137,387	190

had abundance Lazarus was scanted yet each of them had his bread euen a portion conuenient for him So that this last circumstance insinuateth vnto vs three vertues 1. Industrie which is in some honest calling to get our liuing with the sweate of our browes and not to walke inordinately yea though thou haue great liuing and possessions of thine owne For although it may seeme needles for him to labour which is wealthie yet indeede there is an ineuitable necessitie thereof For besides that God hath imposed this yoke vpon all in Adam to eate the labours of their hands and the sweate of their browes Genes 3.19 Psal 128.2 and so they which doe not labour walke inordinatly 2. Thes 3.10.7 viz. as a souldier out of his ranke the Apostle also saith that he which doth not labour should not eate Ephes 4.28 and one end of laboring in a calling is that we may haue the more to bestow vpon them that want therefore euen the King himselfe the Iudge and the Counsellor and the Minister is to sweate for his liuing though he dig not with the spade which is when the mind laboreth and trauelleth in thought and counsell and care and prouidence and instruction dropping as it were an inuisible sweate from the browes of the vnderstanding and the inward parts of the soule 2. Thankfulnes to the Lord that he hath restored to vs that interest which was lost through Adams fall that we may freely and with good conscience vse any part of the bread which is our owne not onely for our necessitie but euen for our moderate delight and comfort seeing that God hath giuen wine to comfort the heart Psal 104.15 and oyle to make the face shine Psal 23.5 and Dauid had his head annoynted with oyle 3. Contentment in our estate whatsoeuer seeing that is the best estate and that part of the bread is most fit and meete for vs for howsoeuer perhaps we doe not so thinke yet surely if wee finde in our selues the markes of Gods election and if we labour to obserue the worke of God vpon vs at that time wee shall be compelled to say from our owne experience that then God in wisedome saw such a portion was best for vs. Psal 119.71 These are the circumstances annexed to the bread 3 The supplication of the fourth petition Next in order followeth the third thing to bee obserued in the petition which is the Supplication the things therefore which wee here aske of God are these following First things generall whereof some are causes some effects causes are especially these sixe 1. Fruitfull seasons with all the meanes procuring them Deut. 28.12 as the first and latter raine frost and snow mist and dew and whatsoeuer other creatures God hath appointed for that purpose 2. The due simpathy of the creatures consenting together Hosea 2.21 as when the heauens heare the earth the earth heareth the corne wine and oyle and they heare Gods people 3. Wise and prouident Magistrates that may enact holsome lawes 1. Tim. 2.2 for the peaceable gouernment of the common-wealth and by lawfull and iust warre defend the subiect and countrie 4. Learned and conscionable Iudges and Lawyers that may iustly and mercifully execute iudgement Numb 16.16.26 accusing defending pleading and iudging according to the aforesaid good lawes 5. Valiant and Christian Captaines and Souldiers which may resolutely fight the Lords battels against his enemies 2. Sam. 23.39 such as were the thirtie seauen worthies in Dauids Kingdome 6. Conscionable and experienced and learned physitions for the health of the body Exod. 30.25 35.30.31 and generally all good manuary arts and trades with their skilfull professors which labour for the preparing of meate apparrell and their instruments and in making weapons for warre c. After the aforesaid causes follow certaine effects which we pray for in this petition 1. Peace when euery man may quietly sit downe vnder his vine and figtree when there is no leading into captiuitie Psal 144.84 no complaining in our streetes of women that leese their husbands or of orphanes leesing their parents in warre 2. Plentie that our sonnes and daughters may bee as the young plants which come vp thicke out of the ground that our garners may be full with corne Psal 144.13 Deut. 28.12 that our sheepe may bring foorth thousands and ten thousand and that we may lend and not borow 3. Health that there bee no feeble person among vs that our oxen also may bee strong to labour Psal 144.12 that our sonnes and daughters may bee as the polished corners of the temple The generals being numbred the specials followe which being handled before in the meaning of the words of the petition shall onely neede in this place to be shortly repeated 1. The staffe of bread or Gods blessing vpon the bread 2. Humilitie seeing God giueth vs the bread 3. Contentment with whatsoeuer estate we be in 4. Faith in Gods prouidence for things meete for vs. 5. Prouidence or moderate care for the time to come 6. Painfulnes and labour in our vocation and calling 7. Thankfulnes that God permitteth vs the vse of the bread 8. Ioy of heart at the outward prosperitie of others 9. Frugalitie or parsimonie to spare when we neede not spend 10. Liberalitie to bestow of our abundance to supplie others wants 11. Magnificence to bestow bountifully vpon Church or Common-wealth as in erecting Colleges Hospitals making high waies c. These are the principall things we pray for in this petition 4 The deprecation of the fourth petition The things that we pray against may easily be gathered by the contrary yet for plainnes sake it shall not be amisse for to number them thus 1. Vnfruitfull seasons as a wet and cold summer a hot and drie winter no raine no frost no snow c. 2. The Antipathie of the creatures when the heauen becommeth brasse and the earth iron c. Deut. 28. 3. Foolish childish and improuident Magistrates or tyrants that make pernitious and hurtfull lawes Esay 3. Eccles 10. 4. Vnlearned and wicked Iudges and Lawyers Esay 3. 5. Vnskilfull and vnconscionable Physitions as wise women Witches or Wizards professing Physick and Empiricks that gesse onely and want skill 6. Cowardly Captaines and dastardly souldiers when as tenne flie before one and a hundred before tenne c. 7. Warre 8. Scarsitie or famine 9. Sicknes as the plague or other mortall diseases epidemiall 10. Breaking the staffe of bread 11. Pride 12. Discontentment 13. Immoderate or no care for things needfull 14. Idlenes 15. Vnthankfulnes 16. Enuie 17. Couetousnes 18. Prodigalitie 19. All vnlawfull Arts and Trades to get bread 20. All gaming to get our liuing by 2. Thess 3.10 This also may suffice for the deprecation The thanksgiuing may easily bee collected out of the supplication and deprecation The thanksgiuing of the fourth petition for wee are to praise God for the

if we loue any thing more than him wherefore this order insinuateth this selfe-deniall which is opposed to selfe-loue Secondly this order teacheth zeale to Gods glory for procuring whereof we are to spend our selues and all we haue The light account wherof deserueth a very sharpe reproofe Apoc. 16.21 Matth. 24.12 Iohn the Diuine prophesieth of a great haile which like talents shall fall from heauen vpon men and Christ he prophesieth that because iniquitie shall abound the loue of men shall waxe colde this colde haile and colde loue is now apparant in the world it is marueilous to see how furiously the world flameth with contention about worldly profits and preferments and yet how frozen their affections are to the obedience of Gods will the enlarging of his kingdome and the aduancement of his glorie whereas indeede the zeale of Gods glory should so possesse vs as that in comparison thereof our care for daily bread should occupie a very meane place Lastly this order teacheth vs the end of our daily bread remission of sinne and strength in temptation namely the obedience kingdome and glory of God for to this purpose doth God bestow vpon vs riches honor gifts and graces that we might imploy them to the best aduantage of God who gaue them The rich man must so vse his wealth as that thereby God may gaine glory the honorable personage must account it his chiefe honor to honor God the man of learning and speech and counsell in like manner and so forth of the rest Exod. 22.29 Leuit. 27.30 32. Hence it is that in the olde Testament the Lord requireth the tenth of all the encrease whether of the earth or of cattell for the maintenance of his worship which by proportion must also be enlarged to whatsoeuer God bestoweth vpon vs as the tenth of our learning honor wit children and the rest if they were increaseable and communicable but beeing otherwise the Lord requireth and accepteth that which may bee had a carefull imployment of them all to the further enlarging of his praise in the world This may suffice in generall for the order of the petitions Now more specially the petitions which concerne God simply and meerely admit this distribution for they respect either the end or the meanes procuring the end Gods glory mentioned in the first petition is the end the kingdome and will of God mentioned in the second and third petitions are the meanes procuring the end for God is glorified when his kingdome is aduanced and his will fulfilled The first prayer Hallowed be thy name 1 The order of this petition The first thing to be obserued in this prayer is the order why the end is before the meanes why Gods glory is first prayed for seeing that the meanes are in nature before the end for it is impossible that God should be glorified except his kingdome come and his will be done and vpon the aduancing of his kingdome and the obedience of his wil his glory is purchased The reason of this order is to be fetcht from the Lords predestination and the Churches intention for the Lord in his eternall counsell first propounded his glory vttering as it were this euerlasting decree in the first place viz. I wil be glorified by the creature this being set downe the Lord in the next place predestinateth the meanes whereby this end must be atchieued thereupō he vttereth this second decree viz. I will aduance my kingdome and cause my subiects to obey my will that by this meanes I may be glorified by them And as this is the order of Gods predestination so Gods glory is first in the Churches intention who in all their actions and endeuors propound Gods glory whether it bee eating or drinking c. they doe all to the praise of God 1. Cor. 10.31 Which is the instruction that ariseth from this order whence this exhortation is to be deduced to all sorts of persons whether the publike officer of the common-wealth or Minister of the Church or the priuate man the Magistrate so ought to gouerne as Gods glory may best be procured and not to administer iustice for rewards Esa 5.23 or of affection whereby it sometime falleth out that the iust and righteous man hath his righteousnes taken from him and the wicked and vngodly are iustified and so Gods honor is obscured 1. Cor. 8.1 The Minister ought so to vse his gifts that God thereby may gaine glory and not to seeke himselfe by ostentation of knowledge which puffeth vp and edifieth little without loue Euery man in his place and calling must so demeane himselfe as that he may credit the Gospell and adorne his profession and that no aduantage be giuen to the aduersarie to blaspheme the name of God but we must so shine by our good workes Matth. 5.16 that God may be glorified in all things yea the man of trade and occupation in the exercising thereof must seeke to honor the Lord when as his worke and wares are such as may carry the commendation of honestie and truth yea euen in the iudgement of malice and testimony of enuie it selfe Thus much for the order of this petition 2 Sense of the first petition The next is the sense and meaning of the words they containe two things first the action secondly the obiect where about the action is conuersant or occupied the action appertaineth to vs the obiect of which action is the Lords for we must sanctifie and his name must be sanctified Gods name is any thing whereby he is knowne vnto man VVhat Gods name sinifieth as one man is knowne vnto another by his name for in the first institution of names whereof mention is made in the historie of the creation euery creature had his name out of his essence or essentiall properties Genes 2.19.20.23 as is very probable by the imposition of the name to the woman who is so called in the Hebrue of her matter as Adam also had his name by God of his matter the earth being the matter of the man the man of the woman So then although God is not nor cannot be knowne of vs by his essence yet he may be knowne of vs by his properties and actions which may be conceiued and seene of vs in some measure Now the things whereby God is knowne are his workes Gods vvorkes are his name and his word his workes manifest vnto vs diuers things of God as the Apostle teacheth namely Rom. 1.20 Gods vvord is his name Ioh. 5.39 his eternall power and God-head but his word doth fully and sufficiently discouer whatsoeuer is needful for vs to know of God and that which is darkely and imperfectly shrouded as it were vnder a curtaine in the creature the same cleerely and throughly is exposed to the view of all those that will search the Scripture Gods titles are his name now Gods word doth describe God generally by titles and attributes