The second Condition.
Q. WHat is the second condition?
A. It is a true and liuely fayth.
Q. What meane you by that?
An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire.
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- An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire.
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- Burton, William, d. 1616.
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- At London :: Printed by the widdow Orwin for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater-noster row at the signe of the Talbot,
- 1594.
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- Lord's prayer -- Early works to 1800.
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"An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17326.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2025.
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A. I meane that in prayer wee must haue a sure and stedfast confidence in the promises of God, that they shall bee per∣formed, yea albeit we can see no naturall reason for it.
Q. Why is it necessary that we haue faith in Gods promises when we pray?
A. 1. Because without faith our pray∣ers are but vaine babling.
2. Because prayer is a fruite of faith, and a branch of it, and therefore it is im∣possible that true prayer should bee with∣out faith.
3. He that doubteth of the promises of God (as the Papistes doe, and teach) doe make God a lyer, and no performer of his promises, which is as great dishonour to him as can be, for then is he not a God, but a very diuell:* 1.1 for the diuell is a lyer from the beginning, and the father of lyes.
4 What hope can hee haue to obtaine his request, that makes God a lyer? and Iehoua, who is perfect holines, no better then a diuell?
Q. By what Scripture doe you proue that we must pray in faith?
A. In Marke 11. 24. and 1. Iohn. 5. 15.
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Iames 1. 6.
Q. How shall we know the promises of God?
A. That we may know the promises of God, it will stand vs in hand to frequent the word preached, which is the onely or∣dinary meanes to beget faith in vs: and often to reade the scripture, because they are the storehouse of Gods promises.
Q. What must we doe, when we doe know the promises of God by the word of God?
A. We must beleeue, & embrace them, & euer in prayer charge God with his pro∣mises, and make vse of thē in our praiers as Simeon did,* 1.2 saying: Lord now lettest thou thy serua••t depart in peace according to thy word: i. e. according to thy promise.
Q. May not we use those words of Si∣meon as a prayer aswell as he?
A. If we be readie to depart as Simeon was, and haue such a promise of depar∣ture, and in that maner, as Simeon had, we may, or els not.
Q. Why so?
A. Because we must pray for nothing, but wee must haue a commandement for
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it, and a promise to be heard.
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* 1.1
Ioh. 8. 44.
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* 1.2
Luk. 2. 26. 29.