God will patronize your lufts : and wh~n you have ask;, .ed that which you conceive is according tohis wiU,re .. fer it wholly to his Will, fay, The Will of th~ Lord be done: fubmit-pour felve~ to his di fpofe,for time,man.. ner,means, andall circunHl:ances for giving ofit: ask temporal mercies.conditionally,and fpiricual Comforts with fubmiffioh to Gods will; l~arn that petition, Thy will be done, to prav it as well as f'\ yit: Indeed Luther couldffay, Le~ my wiU be done; ' but he comeoff with . tnis, My wil1, L'o·rd, becaufe my will is melted into' thine,there'sbut one will betwixtus:LetGod'swill b~ your will; 'cis fit it lhould pefo, our heavenly Father . v · :;, .r; t t. db t . ,m is wifer thanwe: Confider., a .nttc rerre 1 en a ~o e e eJJe • l' • fub1!1iffa & bumiliJ : alitM e. .man Ca~UOt pray 10 Iatth, fo·r nim non effit pr£&4tio religio.. that wht~h he hath ~b war– [4 d creatura fubdita, 4d [u.. rant to ask: Be!ides, .Amejiu1 prtmum Numen & Crulo· faith If ·a man come not 'rem direfla ; (ed, 'l!il impi.. •th' h bl fi b' .ffi t rium fuperioris , erga inferiowt. an . urn. e- u. mt 10n ~ rem, vel quafi fa~iliaris col.. ~ods wdl, lt ~erenot a reh· lo~utio, qualis eft inte~ (tquag1ous prayer dtreeted to tl:te 1 les: Am~f. Medull, Theol. lib. iupreamCreator, but a kind ~~ 2. c. 9· P· 2 ~,. - . of command by a fuperiout to an inferiour, or a familiar difcourfe as amongft e– quab: Therefore let us humbly, plead Gods Will as Abrahamdid,~en~ 1·8.'27. Further confider, the defign ~( Prayer is~ not to1 incline God beforeunwilling, to our mind anddefire ; for with 'him there is novariable· 1;1efs nor fhadow of change ; but that we inay obtain of himby Prayer what we kt;~ow afore-hand he is willing to give: ~aCHy; confider we Chrifts example, Mat. 2'6.39· Ifit be po]Jibfe; let this cup pafs frotn me, never· the lefs, not M 1will, b~ut as thQu ,wilt: This' is right praying, to ground our petition upon a promife, yet freely to leaveaU at Gods feet, to difpofe' ofus as.he . . fees good: This is the third Ditettion ; Let Jour Pra1· , . 1rs b, warrvtnt(Jdby the W1r6le . _( _, ".•" . . - . . - -- -
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