Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	aaron_n	moses_n	pour_v	15	3	8.4137	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50529	Diatribae discovrses on on divers texts of Scriptvre / delivered upon severall occasions by Joseph Mede ...; Selections. 1642	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.	1642 (1642)	Wing M1597; ESTC R233095	303,564	538

thy prayer be heard to offer something unto him either for relief of the poor the Widow the Orphan and distressed one or the maintenance of his service and worship If God will be with me saith Iacob Gen. 28. and keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on c. Then shall the Lord be my God and this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be Gods house and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee See the use of vowing by such as came to pray in Gods House Eccles. 5. 4. If thou commest before God in any of these ways thou shalt not come empty-handed But send not thy prayer single and alone the prayer with Alms is the prayer God loveth Hear what himself saith Psal. 50. 14. Offer unto God thanksgiving Alms is an Offering of Thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most High So call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me Now I come to the second thing I propounded The power and efficacy which Prayer and Alms have with God Thy prayers and thine alms saith the Angel are come up for a memoriall or are had in remembrance in the sight of God God is said to remember our prayers when he grants them our Alms and good deeds when he rewards them or in a word when he answers either of them with a blessing as on the contrary he is said to remember iniquity when he sends some judgement for it So God is said to remember Hanna when he heard her prayer for a Son 1 Sam. 1. 19. and Nehemiah speaking cap. 5. 19. of his deeds of mercy and bounty shewed unto his poor brethren returned from captivity says Think upon me or remember me ô my God for good according to all that I have done for this people Thus were Cornelius his prayers and alms remembred Prayers therefore and alms be they performed as they should be are powerfull and approved means to obtain a blessing at the hands of God To speak first of prayer What is it that prayer hath not obtain'd It hath shut and opened heaven see the story of Eliah It hath made the Sun and Moon to stand still reade the book of Ioshua It is the key that openeth all Gods treasures and blessings both spirituall and corporall for spirituall blessings Cornelius we see obtained thereby illumination and instruction in Gods saving truth And S. Iames saith If any man lack wisdome let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and it shall be given him Ephraim in the 31. of Ieremy prays for converting grace Turn thou me ô Lord and I shall be turned To whom God presently replies Is Ephraim my dear Son Is he a pleasant Childe For since I spake against him I doe earnestly remember him still Therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord. Prayer obtains remission of sins I said saith David Psal. 32. I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou maist be found Prayer also obtaineth corporall blessings When heaven was shut and it rained not Eliah prayed for rain and it rained Hannah prayed for a Son and she conceived If we be sick saith S. Iames cap. 5. The prayer of faith shall heal the sick Nehemiah prayed that he might finde favour in the sight of King Artaxerxes and found it Chap. 2. 4. But some man wil say If prayer have such power and efficacy how comes it to passe that many even godly men oft pray and yet speed not I answer There are divers causes thereof Either we pray not as we ought or we are not disposed as we ought to be when we pray We pray not as we ought either when we pray not heartily or not constantly For God regards not formall and superficiall prayer but prayer that comes from the heart and loves to be importuned before he grant as our Saviour tels us in the parable of the woman and the unjust Judge whom though at first he would not hear yet importunity made him doe her justice Or secondly we rely not upon God as we ought when we pray but trust more to second means to our wit to our friends or the like then to him And this seems to be that wavering in prayer S. Iames speaks of when he bids us pray in faith without wavering Chap. 1. that is without reeling from God to rest upon second means but as with our mouth we pray to him so should our hearts rely upon him to give us what we ask we often pray to God for fashion but indeed we look to speed by others and so God takes himself mocked and then no marvell if he hears us not If it were our own case we would not listen to such suiters Or thirdly we pray and speed not when we make not Gods glory the end of what we ask Ye ask saith S. Iames and receive not because ye ask amisse that ye might consume it upon your lusts Or fourthly we may ask something that crosseth the rule of Divine providence and justice and then also we must not look to speed David prayed for the life of his childe by Bathsheba Vriahs Wife but was not heard because it stood not with the rule of Divine justice that so scandalous a sin which made the Enemies of God to blaspheme should not have an exemplary punishment In like manner sundry times when the children of Israel rebelled against the Lord and murmured against Moses and Aaron their Governors Moses poured forth very earnest prayers to God for removing his judgements from off the people but God would not hear him because their sins were scandalous and committed with so high a hand that it could not stand with the rule of his justice not to inflict punishment for them Again sometimes and that too often we are indisposed for God to grant our request as first when some sin unrepented of lies at the door and keeps Gods blessing out Psal 66. 18. If I regard saith David iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me And his Son Solomon observed it Prov. 28. 9. where he says He that turneth away his eare from hearing the Law even his prayer shall be abomination So God would not hear Ioshua praying for the Israelites when they fled before the men of Ai because of Achans Sacriledge Get thee up saith God why liest thou thus upon thy face Israel hath sinned for they have taken of the accursed thing that is the thing that cursed were those that medled therewith Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their Enemies because they were accursed Neither will I be with you any more except ye put the accursed thing from among you Or lastly