But deliuer vs from euill.
Q. Why are these wordes added to the former?
A. To teach vs how we are saued from the diuell.
Q. How is that?
A. Not by our selues, nor by any thing that wee can doe, but by our heauenly fa∣ther
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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"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 16, 2024.
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who doth deliuer vs, and set vs free from his tyrannie and power.
Q. How doth the Lord deliuer vs from the diuell?
A. By the meanes & merites of Christ his death and passion, who hath got••en the victorie for vs, and to our vse, 1. Cor. 15.
Q. But why doth the Lord suffer vs to come into his snares?
A. 1. That he might make his mercie & goodnes appeare in deliuering vs out of his snares: for except we were taken pri∣soners, we could not be deliuered.
2. That wee might see in what a mise∣rable and wofull case wee are in of our selues without, our Captaine and deliue∣rer, the Lord Iesus Chri••t.
Q. What néede we care then, séeing we ha••e such a deliuerer?
A. Indeede wee neede not feare any thing that Sathan can doe vnto vs, being so brideled as he is, but wee must be care∣full to serue the Lord, that hath thus mer∣cifully and mightily deliuered vs. See Luk. 1. 74.
Q. How must we serue him?
A. On•• principall part of the seruice
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which we owe to God, standeth in resist∣ing the diuell.
Q. How must we resist the diuell?
A. In resisting such an aduersarie as the diuell is, two things must diligently bee obserued and regarded:
- 1. That wee vse such weapons onely as our heauenly father h••th appoynted vs.
- 2. That we vse them in that maner and order which he hath appoynted.
Q. What be those weapons?
A. They be not carnall but spirituall, such as S. Paul sought withall himself, and hee commendeth them to bee mightie through God, to cast down strong holds, and principalities, and powers, &c. 2. Cor. 10. 4. &c. and therefore also exhorteth all men to fight with the same: Eph. 6. 12. 13.
Q. What be the names of those wea∣pons, that wee may both know we them, and prepare them in a readines?
A. The Apostle nameth a breast••plate, butl it is of righteousnes; and a girdle, but it is of trueth; a shield, but it is of ••aith; & a helmet, but it is of hope; & a sword, but it is the sword of the spirit, th•••• word of God; and shooes for our fee••e, but they
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be shooes of preparation for the Gospell of peace: and vnto all these hee ioyneth prayer, Ephes. 6. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. and all these together he calleth the armour of God▪
Q. These bee the weapons, in what manner must they be handled?
A. They must bee vsed continually, with circumspect walking, or liuing cir∣cumspectly, Ephes. 5. 15. with heedfull watching ouer our wayes, and Sathans sleigh••s, Mark. 13. 33. and with manly courage standing fast in the defence of our ••elues, and of the quarrell of our Lord Iesus Christ.
Q. This is too precise and straight, is it not sufficient if we liue as our honest neighbours doe, and serue God as the time serueth, like Protestants at large?
A. Alas, no, the diuell likes that very well: for he knoweth that the careles man is easily taken and ouercome, yea if we be neuer so precise and strict in many things, and make no conscience of some one sin, it is enough for the diuell: for he wil catch a man to hell aswell by one baite as by a thousand.
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Q. Yea? how proue you that?
A. By the scripture: for it is said of He∣rod that he reuerenced Iohn Baptist, and his ministrie, and heard him gladly, but yet for all that, could not abide to be tolde of hauing his brothers wife, and for that hee is condemned. And so it is with o∣thers.
Q. Then woe be to those that go not so farre as Herod did, except God giue them repentance. And blessed bée God our heauenly Father, for Iesus Christ by whom we bée deliuered from the di∣uell, and from all his temptations, and fieri•• darts. Now come to the conclusi∣on of the Lords prayer.