Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	body_n	concern_v	preposterous_a	16	3	16.1924	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15601	An exposition of the Lords prayer. Delivered in two and twenty lectures, at the church of Lieth in Scotland; by Mr William Wischart parson of Restalrigg	Wishart, William, parson of Restalrigg.	1633 (1633)	STC 25866; ESTC S120196	157,088	602

his young infant to come the child cannot goe but creepeth to him He calleth on him by his name the child cannot speake but he bableth Hee biddeth him stand upright and alone but he straight fals Yet the father doth not measure his obedience by the perfection but by the endeavour It is so with God Hee calleth upon us to come to him wee cannot come unlesse wee bee drawne He biddeth us stand stedfast but wee fall till he strengthen us He biddeth us call upon him but wee cannot till he first call upon us and say as to Mary Mary then straight we answere him Rabony Finally hee biddeth us doe his will on earth as it is in heaven and be perfect as he is perfect But we cannot till he first give us the thing that he craveth of us What shall wee then doe shall wee languish because wee are weake or retire because we are faint No let us creepe and bable and struggle We are acceptable not because of our practise but because of our endeavour Not because of our action but because of our affection Coll. 3.2 LECT 10. Give us this day c. HAving spoken of the first three Petitions which concerne the honour and glory of God It resteth now that we looke on those Petitions which concern man and his utility either bodily or spiritually It is bodily wants are poured out here in this Petition and the support and reliefe thereof petitioned In handling hereof wee shall observe the very same order and Method which we observed in the former For first we will looke to the coherence of this Petition and next to the matter comprehended therein The coherence is remarkable For the Petition lookes with a twofold aspect viz. a reference to the former Petitions and a relation to the ensuing The reference it hath to the first three Petitions is that it serves for a touchstone to try the right and true title which wee have to the things of this life For wee live in a world wherein there is nothing which men doe so much affect as plenty and abundance And there is no man so much abhorred and despised as the poore man and hee that wants Howsoever it be absolutely true that the felicity of man consists not in the possession of the earth or earthly things for the Kingdome of God standeth neither in Meat Drinke nor Apparrell but in Righteousnesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost But wouldest thou know O man whether thou hast a true title and right to the things that thou possessest or not and wouldst thou know whether or not thou enjoyest and brookes them with a good conscience Then for thy resolution looke to the first three Petitions and see how farre they have taken root in thy heart and how farre thy heart hath beene set on their obedience So farre thou hast right and true title to the things of this life and no farther For I will assure thee unlesse Gods honour hath beene deare to thee and dearer then thy owne Unlesse Gods Kingdome hath beene dearer to thee then all the world besides Yea and all the world in thy accompt hath beene but losse to thee in respect of it And finally unlesse Gods will have beene so deare to thee that thou hast denyed thy selfe and undergone the Crosse patiently captivating thy will to Gods I will tell thee thus much an use of the creatures of God thou mayest have had but a true title or right to them thou never hadst And to speake it in one word an usurper of Gods creatures thou maist bee but a true owner thou never wast No I must tell thee more There is never a bitt of bread that goeth downe into thy belly nor one drop of water that goeth into thy mouth but shall one day accuse thee of the wrong and tyranny that thou hast done unlesse thou canst shew by thy charter that thou art a member of Gods Kingdome And that for thy Reddendo thou hast honored his name and captivated thy will to his obedience For as all things are ours whilst wee are Christs So without Christ nothing in the world is ours No they are so farre from being ours that they sigh and groane against us Rom. 8. And woe bee to us if when they sigh against us wee cannot sigh for our selves But this is not all For as this hath a respect to the former Petitions by way of tryall so doth it also carry a reference and relation to the subsequent and that more wonderfull and observable then the former For it may bee enquired whence it commeth that hee who was the Son of God and thought it no robbery to bee made equall with God himselfe Againe whence it was that he who laid downe the life of his body that hee might save the life of our soules And finally whence it comes that hee who did forbid us to care what wee should eate or what apparrell we should put on should in this measure be so carefull of our bodies and the naturall life thereof that he should preferre a petition concerning the body before that which concerneth the soule Is not the soule of much more worth then the body and are not the things that concerne the soule of farre greater excellencie then those which concerne the body How is it then that hee who is the Prince of our salvation should bee thus preposterous in his Alphabet as to recommend to us the care of our bodies before the care of our soules and the worth of a peece of bread before the worth of the remission of our sinnes To this I answer Wisdome is justified of all her children and therefore it becomes us not to judge any thing before the time for hee is the wisdome of the Father who hath thus taught us and as there was no iniquity found in his wayes so there was no guile found in his tongue Hee hath then suffered us to prefixe the Petition which concerneth our body before those that concerne our soule not for dignities but for necessities sake For behold as hee made us so hee knoweth our frame and of what mould wee are made and for this cause hee submitteth himselfe to our infirmities that by doing so he may gaine us for wee have not such an High-priest as cannot bee touched with the sense of our infirmities but who was made like unto us in all things sinne excepted Will any man then aske the reason of this order I answer God hath done it wisely for three causes First to shew us the infirmity of our flesh or fleshly nature Secondly to shew us the riches of his mercy Thirdly to shew us the true refuge to the which wee should runne in the day of our bodily wants I say first it is done to shew us our naturall infirmity and the weaknesse of flesh who live by sense and not by faith For it is with man walking in the way to heaven as it is with little children walking in their parents families