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A85530 The shepheards farewell to his beloved flocke of S.B.E.L. where he hath been above twenty yeeres their weake, yet vigilant pastour, / I.G. D.D. Grant, John, d. 1653. 1645 (1645) Wing G1521; Thomason E270_18; ESTC R212344 12,225 25

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shall be to them wanting who are nor deficient in this requesting duty but are in it so earnest that with Jacob the Patriarch they will not let the Lord goe till from the Lord they find and feele a blessing and in that blessing full sweetly enjoy God Now our requests unto are God made known by prayer supplication thanksgiving A touch must I needs give you of each of them and God by his Spirit touch your hearts in the use of them all {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Prayer is our request unto God our Heavenly Father for the supply of what may sustaine us and fit us for Heaven that may enable us both temporally and spiritually to hold on and to hold out in our callings till hence we are called to our abode in glory to our Mansions of eternity {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Supplication is our request to God by way of deprecation either to have evils removed from us or sweetned to us Sinnes and miseries involve us here but Gods providence is over us and all shall work for the best unto us who by constant supplication referre our selves unto and both alwayes and in all things depend on God and although he even nay us are fully resolved with that man of the right mettall holy and patient Job to trust in him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Thanksgiving is a request to God to accept of our thanks our poore thankes for his richly multiplied benefits on us conferred in Jesus Christ As it becommeth the righteous to be thankfull so in all things rendring perpetuated thankes unto God by them God is invited to the continuation of blessings to their setled assurance of his eternall favours In that which usually we do call the Lords Prayer are all these requests uncomparably couched Prayer Supplication Thanksgiving Be it in our hearts alwayes and in our mouthes often upon occasions Thus pray we z and pray we this when ye pray say Our Father a and never forget we that prayer lest in our owne without an eye on that and close with that we be lost as in so many Wildernesses full of intricacies full of enormities full of endangerments I close with that of our English Bernard In the Lords Prayer whether we regard the brevity perfection authority method efficacy or necessity of it it is to be beleeved that no Saint or Angell is able to march the plat-forme thereof being large for matter short for phrase and sweet for order Take withall for the cleering of this branch in our Text and for your right apprehending and using of the Lords Prayer the Explication and Application thereof from the same Author and others thus Our Father by the right of creation by the merit of compassionate and bowell-mercies by the gracious provision of things needfull and usefull for us which art in Heaven the Seat of thy Majesty in the very radiancy of glory the Inheritance of thy children by adoption and grace the Kingdome of endlesse and un-disturbed happinesse hallowed be thy name by the thoughts of our hearts by the words of our mouthes by the works of our hands thy Kingdome come that of grace to inspire us that of power to defend us that of glory to crowne us thy will be done in our weale and in our woe in our fulnesse and in our needfulnesse in our life temporall and at our death the change of this for a better life in Earth as it is in Heaven in us below as it is in the glorious Angels above done willingly readily cheerfully faithfully done without the very least murmuring without any let or any manner hindering without fraudulent and deceitfull jugling the cheating way of serving God in the complementalnesse of Religion Give us this day our daily Bread for the nourishment of these our decaying bodies for the spirituall feeding of our Heaven-bred soules for the reliefe of all our necessities whether bodily or spirituall whether for our sustentation here for a time or preparation for hereafter to the dayes of eternity And forgive us our Trespasses those wher●by thou our Father art in the course of our sinfull live dishonoured our Neighbours any wayes wronged our selves heedlesly endangered and with many miseries perpetually even day by day enthralled as we forgive them that Trespasse against us that have hurt us in our bodies that have hindred us in our goods and estates that have wronged us in our good names and reputations And lead us not into tentation the tentation of the world lying and rotting in all manner of wickednesse the tentation of the flesh our bosome-inticing Dalilah over-neare and over-deare unto us the tentation of Satan our common adversary the perpetuall hunter of us to utter perdition and destruction But deliver us from evill forgive that is past remove that is present what is to come graciously so prevent that nothing may ever make a seperation between thee and us thee our Father and us thine adopted ones in the Lord Jesus Christ the Sonne as of thy nature so of thine entirest love For thine is the Kingdome to rule and over-rule all thine the power to command and to doe all thine the glory to be all in all to all thine and all these for ever and ever in the world that is present and in the world that is to come unlimited is thy Kingdome thy power and thy glory Amen thou sayst it and so it is Amen thou doest promise it and so shall it be Amen is our eccho to what thou sayst and promifest so be it Heavenly Father is the faithfull Amen to all the requests our gracious Lord hath taught us to put up affectionately unto thee And now from the Apostles Exhortations to various duties which in a plaine way we have explained proceed we in the last place to the Apostles closing up of all with a right sutable apprecation and the peaco of God which passeth all under standing shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus I shall briefly closely open this leave it with you as an hearty farewell of your worn-out Pastour whose prayer ever shall be for your thriving to Heaven-wards The peace of God was the Apostles apprecation to his Phillipians and is mine to you once mine but now left to your owne choice of a Preacher and God fit you with one that may fit you for God By the peace of God in this passage conceive that peace which God worketh in beleeving consciences as an effect of the Gospell to them sincerely preached My soule assures me that I never delivered any thing from this Pulpit that was unsound untrue never hucstered the Word of God to the humouring of any for by-ends of mine owne never hood-winked any Parishoner by forged interpretations raked out either of the Channels of Rome or Dung-hils of Amsterdum otherwise even of a child from my beleeving Parents soundly Protestant learned I Christ and both in truth and cleernesse have so taught