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An exposition of the divine standard of prayer, styl'd the Lord's Prayer of the preface, conclnsion [sic], and of every petition of it, as of the prayer of the kingdom of Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ / by T. Beverley.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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will bring them with him and as signifying They shall be with Christ in the Air viz. of the New Heaven The Living Saints shall after the 1000 Years Kingdom of Christ be caught up to that most General Assembly and Church of the First Born All Saints together meeting Christ when he Delivers up the Kingdom So then during the 1000 Years Kingdom there shall be Saints with Christ in Bodies incorruptible that cannot die being the Children of God and of the Resurrection and Saints in Paradisiac Bodies chang'd So as that They shall not dye One in the New Heaven the Other on the New Earth Now as by the One the VVill of God shall be done in Heaven by the other as in a parallel upon Earth As in Heaven and upon Earth 3. As in the New Heaven there shall be a Restitution of the Creation that the Heavens shall be Clean and the Stars Pure and the Highest Order and Beauty in All and no Enmity or Smiting from thence upon Any Thing on Earth and all those Hosts and Powers of the Air Spiritual Wickednesses in Heavenly Places Dislodged and seal'd up in their Abyss making Room for better Inhabitants So the Earth shall be so fruitful of All that is Excellent that instead of the Briars and Thorns shall come up the Fir Tree and the Myrtle Tree And they shall be to the Lord a Sign and a Memorial that shall not be cut off And at the same Time the mutual Enmities of the Creatures most Contrary to the Gracious Designment of the Creator shall be utterly Extinguished and a wonderful Reconciliation among Them So that the Lyon and the Lamb shall lye down together There shall be an Vniversal Tameness and Quiet There shall be no Hurting nor Destroying in all tbe Holy Mountain of the Lord For Knowledg shall cover the Earth as the Watèr does the Sea A State which we All know hath never been yet But to Reconcile Event and Prophecy together Men have been forced to Evaporate and Attenuate Prophecy into Allegory Now according to this our Saviour Composes this Prayer And Holiness to the Lord the most Comprehensive Expression of the Will of God is most Specific to these Two States For as above All is most Pure Clear and Undefiled So below Holiness to the Lord is on the Equippings of the Horses upon the Bowls and Pots in the Lords House Which shall be as Bowls before the Altar as of a Holiness that is of nearer Approach to God And all the Pots and Bowls in Jerusalem shall be Holiness to the Lord which in Prophetic Language is the very same with Thy Will be done as in Heaven and upon Earth when All the Saints are Priests of God and of Christ and Reign a 1000 Years Zeoh 14. 20. All which comes Home to all that has been said That This Prayer and the Exposition of it at the true Height is as of the Prayer of the Kingdom And we pray that the Will of God may be done that is that there may be Holiness to the Lord as in Heaven and on Earth in that State of Christs Kingdom the New Heaven or the Jerusalem Above and the New Earth or the Jerusalem Below I go forward now to the Fourth Petition Give us this day our daily Bread And it may seem This Petition can no way consist with that High Sence of this Prayer that hath been undertaken to be given of it But at least here the Prayer must Flat into a Prayer suited only to the Present State For what may we say can be plainer that no Higher is Intended than the presen State when we pray that this Bread may be given us To Day or This Day That it may be Given according to the Day and when it is called our Bread and hereunto is to be Accommodated the word we Translate Daily All This Layed together makes it seem Impossible to extend the Sence of this Bread beyond the necessary Bread of this present Life with any Agreeableness to the Words of the Petition But against all this I shall Levy these Four Arguments that there is a much Higher Intention than the present Bread of Natural Life Couched under this Petition But I First premise I do by no means deny but most Fully and Freely Acknowledge There is a Plain and Manifest Intention of Supplicating God in this Petition for the present necessities of Life that they may be Supplied to us according to the Food that is Convenient for us and in order to our Support for the Seeking the Eternal Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Bread that endures to Everlasting Life This our Father knows that we have need of So that I do not in the least Impeach any Part of those Exellent and Profitable Discourses that have been made upon this Petition in Relation to our depenedncy upon Providence for the necessaries of Life or that Moderation and Contentment in what is necessary for the day without taking Care for To morrow Which our Lord Annexes to this very Petition after this very Prayer there Given Mat. 6 But upon all this it must be Considered and understood that as our Lord in declaring Himself the Bread of Life and the Bread from Heaven served Himself of the General Notion we have of Bread and of the Usefulness of it to Life to convey into our thoughts and to Raise our Hearts to that much more Excellent Bread So under the Petition for our dayly Bread He did intend to lift up our Hearts in Prayer for a much Higher Thing And as in that Discourse of the Bread of Life He did not pull down our value and esteem of Natural Bread but allowed it So in the Petition for a much Higher Bread He did not Disannul Prayer for the Bread of the Day but made it the Vehicle of a much Higher Supplication And those very Words our Bread and to Day and what is According to the Day which seem most to stay our Thoughts in the Bread of Nature are also most Apposite Conveyances of our Lords Great Purpose Argum. 1 Our Lord Entertains a Large and Great Discourse Concerning Himself as the Bread of Life Concerning the Bread that came down from Heaven And that endures to Everlasting Life Concerning John 6. Eating His Flesh and Drinking His Blood And that else we have no Life in us but that whosoever so Eateth and Drinketh Dwelleth in Christ and Christ in him and as the Living Father hath sent Him and He Lives by the Father So he that so Eateth and Drinketh shall Live by Him and He will Raise him up at the Last day Our Lord declares an Eating and Drinking at His Table in His Kingdom He hath by His Servant John sett out the Life of that Kingdom Sustain'd by a Tree of Life and by a River Clear as Christal Flowing with the Water of Life He hath Appointed that Great Ordinance of the Lords Supper till He Comes as a Symbol of that Bread and