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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11258	The touch-stone of prayer. Or A true and profitable exposition of the Lords prayer, according to the holy Hebrew of S. Mathews gospel to which is prefixed certaine necessary circumstances to be obserued in prayer. Also thereunto is annexed a table shewing the agreement betweene the Lords prayer, and the ten commandements of Almighty God. By T.S.	S., Tho.	1602 (1602)	STC 21523; ESTC S114099	35,229	130

in cōmanding him to go out of his owne coūtrie Secondly by Sarahs cōception who being past age and was as dead in regarde of strength of nature and thirdly God tempted him in offring vp his onely sonne Isaack of whom it was said in Isaack shall thy seede be called therefore is Abram called the Father of the faithfull deliuer vs from euill IN the former petitions we begged pardon for sinnes past and here we craue Gods grace to resist sinnes to come And surely if we looke into our selues how prone we be to fall we shall see that we had need to craue of God that we come not into temptation for that Satan intendeth euill towards vs and surely as S. Iames saith God temteth none to euill but man is eyther tempted by his lustes as the Apostle obserueth which is a voluntary temptation as drunkennesse whoredome theft and such like are voluntarie temptations or else by cruell tyrants to do that which is against religion and conscience and this is called vnuoluntary temptation when wee are compelled by force to do against Gods lawes these temptations we are not to desire But if any such happen the Apostle Iames willeth vs to account it exceeding ioye and sheweth the benefits that follow to them that feare God and if God tempt or prooue his children it is to manifest their faith to the world and for example to others so he tempted Abraham in offering his sonne Isaack also the Israelites and Iob yea indeede he tempted all his children so and his onely Sonne also that we might not thinke much nor faint in our temptations And therefore said Moses to the children of Israel Yee shall not feare because the Lorde commeth to tempt you for he commeth to tempt you to manifest what is in thy heart But Satan he doth it to an euill end Yea euer when he tempteth it is not for conuersion but subuersion of the party he tempteth and this is euident through all the Byble But what shall we say of those which are dead in sinne and haue no feeling of temptation nor remorse of conscience O God deliuer vs from that euill The second part of the sixt petition But deliuer vs from euill THerefore in the next place we pray that God would Deliuer vs from euill that is saith olde and new writers from the Diuell which is indeede the very fountaine of euill Thus we pray not simply against temptation but against the euill of temptation for we see our sauiour was tempted with three capitall great temptations such as fewe of the best members do withstand and what were they Theophilact telleth thee they were auaritia Gula etinanis gloria couetousnes gluttony and vaine glory Consider therefore him that was equall to God yea thought it no robbery to be so yet for thy sake he tooke to him the shape of a seruant and euen was buffeted of Satan that he might the better strengthen those that are tempted was not all for thy sake ô vnthankfull Heb. 2. mankinde learne therefore to take vp his yoke for it is easie and the burden light and God is faithfull that will not suffer thee to bee tempted aboue that thou art able but in all our temptations hee will giue vs a happy issue which God grant vnto vs Amen The Conclusion For thine is that kindome the power and the glory for euer and euer Amen The first part FOr thine is that kingdom this sheweth Reue. 21 vs a reasō why we should pray to God onely because he only is King and to him we owe this duty therefore the Angell told Iohn in the reuelation that he must worship Reu. 21. God for he was but his fellow seruant Obiection Why Dauid saith the earth is the Lords with the fulnes therof the roūd world and they that dwel therein why therfore say you that Kingdome Answere Surely God ruleth all Kingdomes indeed preserueth bad to from outward dangers as you may read in Dan. ch 5. also Ester ch 16. 16. but here we speake of the Kingdome of grace by which God rules in the harts of his childre● after a more peculiar manner therefore well may we say that kingdome for he sheweth Mysteria regni the misteryes of that kingdome to his chosen but he hath not dealt so with euery nation The second part of the conclusion The power THe Lorde our God is a God of Gods and Lord of Lordes a great God mighty and terrible which accepteth no persons nor taketh rewardes and this is the second reasō why we ought to pray to God because all power is his and he onely able to helpe vs. In the first place as he is our king he willes our good as he is of power he is able to performe what himselfe pleaseth Therfore are we to pray to him that he would preserue vs keepe vs reade Num. cha 6. 24. But alas how often hath God manyfested his power to euery one of vs so that we may say with Moses there is neither God in heauen nor in earth that could do like thy workes and like thy power How did the Lord manifest his power against the cruel bloudy spaniards in 1588. yea and how hath he diuerse and sundry times ouerthrowne our enimies since hath not this father of ours preserued our gracious Queene most miraculously from secret conspiracy and most vile treachery oh that we would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse declare the wonders he doth for vs in this little Iland Hast thou remembred Gods power in deliuering thee from Satan and sinne and for preseruing thee all thy life oh thou redeemed Christian thou subiect of the realme of England say thou with Dauid Psal 106. 2. who can expresse the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his power The third part of the conclusion And the glory THou art worthy O Lord to receiue glory honour and power for thou Reue. 4. 11. hast created all things and for thy willes sake they are and haue beene created And the blessed Apostle S. Paule saith whatsoeuer we do it must be to Gods glory for that is his due and our duty Therfore well said a learned writer on this place Habes hic etiam causam cur nullae omnino creaturae sint inuocandae quia ipsarum non est regnum non habent omnipotentiam nec debetur illis ea gloria that is to say thou hast here also the cause why no creatures are to be called vpon at all because saith he the kingdome is not of them neither haue they the power neither Illiricus pa. 325. may that glory bee due vnto them Wherefore let vs say with the Prophet Dauid in Psa 108. 5. my hart is prepared O God so is my tonge I will sing and giue praise And exalt thy selfe O God aboue the heauens and thy glory aboue all the earth and let vs as Ieremy exhorteth giue Ier. 13. 16. glory to the Lord our