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A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount
A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his executors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one, of special points here handled; the other, of choice places of Scripture here quotedA godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his exequutors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one, of speciall points here handled; the other, of choise places of Scripture here quoted
Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1608Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1608
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In this verse and the rest to the fourteenth, Christ entreateth of the duty of prayer, wherein he dealeth as in the former point touching1 Alms-giving: for first he forbids a twofold vice in prayer: hypocrisy, and babbling; and then teacheth the contrary virtues, and the right practise of prayer. The vice of hypocrisy in prayer is forbidden in this fifth verse, and the contrary virtue enjoined in the next.
In this verse and the rest to the fourteenth, Christ intreateth of the dutie of prayer, wherein he dealeth as in the former point touching1 Almes-giuing: for first he forbids a twofold vice in prayer: hypocrisie, and babling; and then teacheth the contrarie vertues, and the right practise of praier. The vice of hypocrisie in prayer is forbidden in this fift verse, and the contrarie vertue inioyned in the next.
- 1Of prayer.
The Exposition. When thou prayest▪ To pray, properly is to entreat of God the gift of some good thing concerning our selves: and in this sense, it is only one part of that holy worship of God, which is called Invocation: for, 1. Tim. 2. 1. the Apostle maketh four kinds or parts1 of invocation: to wit, I. Supplication, when we entreat God to remove some evil from us. II. 'Prayer, whereby we beg at the hands of God the gift of some good thing unto us: and these two concern our selves. The III. is Intercession, when as we entreat the Lord to grant some good thing unto our brethren, or to remove some evil from them. The IV. is thanksgiving, whereby we give laud & thanks to God for blessings received, either by our selves, or by our brethren. Now in this place Prayer is not to be taken strictly for one part of invocation, but generally for the whole worship of God by invocation; as it is commonly taken of us, and often used in Scripture, one part being put for the whole. Be not as the hypocrites that is, do not as they do in prayer; by hypocrites he understandeth principally the Jewish teachers the Scribes and Pharisees, for at them he aimeth in this part of his Sermon. For they love to stand and pray in the Synagogues and in the streets. We must not here conceive, that Christ condemns altogether this gesture of standing in prayer as unlawful: for himself prayed standing, when