A Treatise of Prayer, Title page
A TREATISE OF PRAYER.
Two Quaeries reſolved touching formes of Prayer. And Six Quaeries relating ſpecially to the LORDS PRAYER.
That the Reader may have full Reſolution, ſpecially to the fourth of theſe Queries, relating to the Lords Prayer, he ſhall finde in the end of this Treatiſe, That Holy and Learned Mans judgement, Dr Owen, as to that matter in his Anſwer to Mr Biddles ſecond queſtion of Prayer Pag. 667, 668, 669.
They who aske not for the Spirit, that they may pray in the Spirit, are foreign, Brutes and Mutes. Chry:
A Malefactor expecting his ſentence to death, needs not man or booke to prompt him how to plead for his life. He that can reade himſelfe Caſt and condemned by ſinne, needs not a booke to prompt him how to plead his pardon. Pariſ: of Divine Rhetor: Compare with this Jer: 3. 13. and Rom: 10. 9, 10.
The Lords Prayer is the mould, wherein all the Churches prayers are caſt, moulded and formed: Bez: Luk. 11. 2.
See to it, that God be as well pleaſed with thee calling Him Father, as thou art well pleaſed to call Him Father. Cyp: Sermon the ſixt upon the Lords prayer: ….
Thou ſhalt call me My father, and ſhalt not turne away from Me, Jer: 3. 19. [that is, I will put filiall affections, awfull thoughts, conſtant reſolutions into thy heart, and thou ſhalt not turne away from Me].
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THE FOURTH TREATISE OF PRAYER.
Two Queries touching formes of Prayer, and ſix relating to the Lords Prayer. I. Whether a wicked man may ſay that prayer? II. Whether our Lord gave His Diſciples this prayer, that they ſhould pray to His Father in thoſe very words? III. Whether a Godly man takes it into his Cloſet? IV. Whether it be comely for a Godly Miniſter to take it into his pulpit? V. Whether John taught his Diſciples to pray, by giving them formes of prayer to ſay? VI. Whether a Godly parent can teach his childe to pray, by giving him any forme of prayer? And in ſpeciall, by teaching his childe to ſay the Lords Prayer?
The Negative in all theſe is under our Maintenance.