Kingdom of Glory hereafter No. And do we not pray that Satan's Kingdom may be destroyed in us Yes So that do we not pray that Christ as King may rule in our Hearts by his Grace here Yes And that the blessed time may hasten when all his Saints shall reign with him in Glory hereafter Yes III. PETITION Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven WHen we say Thy will be done do we not pray that God would enable us to obey his will Yes Can we do God's will unless he enable us No. And do we not pray that God would enable us to suffer his will patiently in all Afflictions Yes So that do we not mean thy will be done by us and thy will be done in us Yes When we say in Earth as it is in Heaven do we not pray that we may do his will on Earth with the like sincerity and chearfulness as the Angels do in Heaven Yes IV. PETITION Give us this day our daily bread WHen we say Give us this day our daily bread do we not pray that God would give us all things needful for our Bodies Yes And do we not pray that God would bless our lawful endeavours in order to such Supplies Yes And do we not pray that God would give us the continual Supply of his Grace for our Souls Yes Is it reasonable to expect Grace for the Soul and Food and Raiment for the Body unless we pray for it No. By saying Bread are we not taught to pray for necessaries not superfluities Yes In saying our bread do we not mean that which is procured by direct and honest means Yes Our bread that is our own not another's is it not Yes Do we not mean by daily bread that which is convenient for our present condition and occasions Yes In short do we not here pray for all Blessings temporal and spiritual to our Souls aâ—â— Bodies Yes V. PETITION And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us WHen we say Forgive us our trespasses do we not pray for pardon of Sins Yes Do we not pray that God would for Jesus sake acquit us from the Guilt and Punishment of our Sins Yes Can a Christian pray rightly to God with hatred malice or desires of revenge in his heart No. Can we expect forgiveness of God unless we forgive others their Offences against us No. But if a man have considerably trespassed us may we seek reasonable satisfaction Yes But may we seek it with any hatred or malice or revenge to the Person No. Must not a Christian then seek satisfaction for damages without rigour spight or bitterness Yes Is it not an unchristian thing to go to Law for trifles Yes Or to go to Law for revenge and stoutness of Humour Yes May I go to Law meerly because another has disquieted me by that means No. Must a Christian love his Enemies Yes Though this be hard yet is not Heaven a great reward for it Yes Must a Christian do good to them that hate him when it lies in his power Yes Though this be hard yet is not the promise of a Crown of Glory enough to make amends for it Yes Should we Christians then return these injuries to others which we receive from them No. When we pray Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive c. do we not pray that no man may fare the worse in the day of Judgment for any wrongs done to us Yes And do we not pray in this Petition that God would give us the Grace of Charity and Forgiveness Yes VI. PETITION And lead us not into temptation ARE not the World the Flesh and the Devil alway by their Temptations drawing us to Sin Yes Can we overcome their Temptations without God's help No. When we say Lead us not into Temptation do we not pray that God would not suffer us to be overcome by their Temptations Yes Do we not pray that God would not withdraw his Grace from us Yes Can we stand in Temptations without his Grace No. Well then do we not pray that we may not be grievously tempted to sin Yes Or if we are tempted do we not pray that we may not fall into it Yes And do we not pray that we may not live impenitently in sin if we should fall into it Yes Is it a sin to be tempted No. Does not the sin lie in yielding to the Temptation Yes Can the Devil tempt us without God's permission No. In short do we not pray that God would either restrain the Temptation or assist us in it Yes And is there not daily need of this Petition Yes VII PETITION But deliver us from evil WHen we say Deliver us from evil do we not pray that God would deliver us from all Evils of this life and that to come Yes Especially that he would deliver us from the Evils to which we are tempted Yes Can we deliver our selves out of any Evil without God's help No. And do we not pray that God would keep none of his wrath in store for us Yes Do we pray that God would deliver us from the evil One that is Satan Yes And from the evil of Sin Yes And from the evil of Punishment Yes And from the evil World Yes And from our own evil Heart Yes From evil Thoughts evil Words and evil Actions Yes The CONCLUSION For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever Amen WHen we pray to God should we ever omit to praise him too No. When we say For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory do we not praise him Yes Do we not in these Words acknowledge God to be of infinite Power and Glory Yes Doth not this teach us that the right end of our Prayers should be the Glory of God Yes When we say Amen do we not express our Belief that God can and our desire that he will grant these Requests Yes Is not this therefore an excellent Form of Prayer Yes When a Christian prays to God should he ever leave out this Prayer No. Question What desirest thou of God in this Prayer Answer I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father to send c. DO we not solemnly own God in this Prayer to be our heavenly Father Yes Is not the word Father an endearing word Yes And should you not live in his sight with the reverential Affections the Love and Obedience of a Child Yes And seeing he is a tender Father should not this encourage us to pray to him Yes Would any Man methinks be excused from asking good Things of him who is the giver of all Goodness No. Is it not reasonable we should beg the Grace of God seeing we can do no good thing without it Yes Can we worship him serve him and obey him without the assistance of his Grace No. Is it not reasonable we should beg daily bread all things needful for our Souls and Bodies of our Father from whom alone
discourage us from the practice of it especially considering we are undone for all Ages if we are not forgiven a thousand times more by God than ever we can forgive our Brother And considering too that we have such glorious Rewards before us that it is a shameless Impudence to expect so great Glories at a less rate than the bearing Christ's easie Yoke and light Burthen at a lower rate than one short but holy Life here And lead us not into temptation THE meaning is We pray that the allurements of the World the Flesh and the Devil may be so restrained by God that if we should by any of them be tempted to sin against him he will not leave us to be overcome by the temptation and fall into sin by it Or if at any time we shall fall into a sin by their Temptations which God forbid we pray that we may not impenitently live in it Thus we pray in this Petition that seeing we are neither willing nor able of our selves to resist and overcome their temptations that God by his Grace would enable us to do it That seeing we have vile Inclinations and corrupt Affections of our own ready to betray us seeing we have a tempting World ready to deceive us and seeing there is a busie crafty watchful Devil that studies to undoe us and all of them constantly alluring us to Sin or discouraging us from our Christian Duties we pray that God would not withdraw his Grace from us so as to leave us to be overcome by them But by the assistance of that Grace by being always upon our guard by holy Resolutions and a watchful Spirit we may be enabled when we are in danger and are tempted to resist subdue and conquer the Temptation In short we pray in this Petition that whenever we are tempted God would please either to restrain the Temptation or give us Grace to withstand it But deliver us from evil THE meaning is We pray that God would please to deliver us from all the Evils of this Life and that to come Especially from the Evils to which we are tempted That he would deliver us from the Evil of Sin from the Evil One that is the Devil From the power of the Tempter From all Evils and Miseries of Soul and Mind and Body either temporal spiritual or eternal Evil Thoughts Evil Words and Evil Actions And if in his Wisdom and Mercy he see it fit for us to be our Lot and Portion to suffer some Evils or Afflictions here in this Life yet that he will reserve nothing of his Wrath in store for us in another but deliver us from an Evil Eternity the unknown Evils of the Kingdom of Darkness the intolerable Evil of Everlasting Burnings which he has prepared for the Devil and his Angels The CONCLUSION For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever and ever THE meaning is This is no Petition but a praising and glorifying of God that we may hence learn not only to pray for what we want but return him Love and Praise and Adoration for what we receive and the end of all may be his Glory So that as we begun this Prayer with Hallowed or Sanctified and Glorified be thy Name so when we have begged of God all necessaries for our Souls and Bodies we then conclude our Prayers with Praises as it is fit we should Thine is the Kingdom Thou art King the great King of Heaven and Earth and we are thy Subjects Vouchsafe us thy Subjects what we humbly petition for and beg Thou hast commanded us O our good and great King to come to thy Throne of Grace and ask and thou hast said Ask and ye shall have Be thou then intreated by us to hear and grant our Petitions For thine is the Kingdom thine is the Soveraignty and Dominion over all the World and therefore hast an infinite right to dispose of all things Thine is the Power That is thou art Omnipotent or able to do all things and therefore sure able to grant what we humbly ask and sue for It were to no purpose to come and ask a thing of him that were not able to bestow on us what we seek for Here therefore we acknowledge God's infinite Power In all Requests or Suits the two chief things to be considered in the Person we address to are these 1. That he be able to grant us And 2. That he be willing to grant what we beg for Now here in the end of this Prayer we acknowledge God to be able to grant when we say Thine is the Power In the beginning of it we acknowledge him to be willing when we call him by the endearing name of Our Father for what Father will not readily grant a Child what he sees necessary for him Lastly we not only praise God by ascribing to him the Kingdom and Dominion over all the World and by ascribing to him the Power of being able to do all things but by ascribing to him all Glory and Honour And this also is necessary in all our Petitions not only because God says Them that honour me I will honour 1 Sam. 2.30 but because the right end of our Prayers should be the Glory of God Thine is the Glory To thee we give Honour Praise and Adoration in these and all our Devotions and if thou please to answer our Petitions and grant what we beg to thee shall be returned the Praise and Glory for all Ages Amen By Amen we declare our firm Belief that he can grant us what we pray for and our earnest Hope and fervent Desire that he will do it for the sake of him in whom all the Promises are Yea and Amen even the Lord Jesus Question What desirest thou of God in this Prayer Answer I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who c. THE meaning is I desire God who is my Heavenly and compassionate Father and from whom every good and perfect gift comes and from whom alone I have Grace and Strength to do my Duty that I may Worship him aright when I say Hallowed be thy Name I desire Grace to serve him sincerely and acceptably here and the favour to enjoy him for ever hereafter in Glory by Praying that his Kingdom of Grace may come to us here and we may come to his Kingdom of Glory hereafter This we do when we say Thy Kingdom come We desire that we may obey him as we ought to do and in acceptable degrees and measures as the Holy Angels do in Heaven when we say Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven We pray unto God to send us all things needful both for our Souls and Bodies when we say Give us this day our daily Bread We request him to be Merciful to us and forgive us our Sins when say And forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us We pray that he will please to save and deliver us in all
glorifie me Prove that you are to honour his Holy Name 1 Sam. 2.30 Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed And his Word Esa 66.2 To this Man will I look even to him that is Poor and of a contrite Spirit and trembleth at my Word Prove that you are to serve him truly all the days of your Life Luke 1.74 75. That we being delivered out of the hand of our Enemies might serve him without fear In Holiness and Righteousness before him all the days of our Life Prove that you are to love your Neighbour as your self Rom. 13.9 If there be any other Commandment it is briefly comprehended in this Saying namely Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self Prove that you should do unto all Men as you would they should do unto you Matth. 7.12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that Men should do unto you do ye even so to them For this is the Law and the Prophets Prove that you are to Love Honour and Succour your Father and Mother Prov. 6.20 My Son keep thy Father's Commands and forsake not the Law of thy Mother Col. 3.20 Children obey your Parents in all things for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Prove that you are to honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him 1 Pet. 2.13 14. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of Evil doers and for the Praise of them that do well Ver. 17. Fear God Honour the King Prove that you are to submit your self to all your Governours Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers Ver. 7. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Prove that you are to submit your self to your Teachers and Spiritual Pastors Heb. 13.17 Obey them that have the Rule over you and submit your selves For they watch for your Souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with Joy and not with Grief 1 Tim. 5.17 Let the Elders that Rule well be accounted worthy of double honour especially they who labour in word and doctrine Prove that Servants are to be obedient to their Masters Eph. 6.5 Servants be obedient to them that are your Masters 1 Pet. 2.18 Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward Prove that you are to order your self lowly and reverently to your Betters 1 Pet. 5.5 Likewise ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be cloathed with humility Philip. 2.3 In lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves Prove that you are to hurt no body by word or deed Philip. 2.15 That ye may be blameless and harmless the Sons of God without rebuke 1 Thes 4.6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such 1 Thes 5.15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among your selves and to all men Prove that you are to be true and just in all your dealings Rom. 12.17 Provide things honest in the sight of all men Philip. 4.8 Finally Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure think on these things Prove that you are to bear no malice nor hatred in your heart Lev. 19.17 Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy heart 1 John 3.15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer Matth. 5.44 Love your Enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you Prove that you are to keep your hands from picking and stealing Zach. 5.3 For every one that stealeth shall be cut off Eph. 4.28 Let him that stole steal no more 1 Cor. 6.10 Nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God Prove that you are to keep your tongue from evil-speaking James 1.26 If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's Religion is vain James 4.11 Speak not evil one of another Brethren Eph. 4.31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Prove that you are to keep it from lying Col. 3.9 Lye not one to another Eph. 4.25 Wherefore putring away lying speak every man truth with his Neighbour Prove that you are to keep your tongue from slandering Psalm 101.5 Whoso privily slandereth his Neighbour him will I cut off Ps 15.1 3. Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacle He that back-biteth not with his tongue nor doth evil to his neighbour nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour Prove that you are to keep your Body in Temperance Soberness and Chastity Psalm 84.11 The Lord will give grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from them that live uprightly Prove that you are to worship him Rev. 15.4 Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou only art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee Prove that you ought to serve him Luke 4.8 And him only shalt thou serve Prove that you ought to obey him Heb. 5.9 He became the Author of eternal Salvation to all them that obey him Prove that 't is God that sends us all things needful for our Souls and Bodies James 1.17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above Prove that he will be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins upon our unfeigned Repentance Joel 2.13 Rent your hearts and not your garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful flow to anger and of great kindness Acts 3.19 Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out Prove that he is our defender in all Dangers Psalm 89.18 For the Lord is our defence the holy one of Israel is our King Prove that we are to pray him to keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly Enemy and from everlasting death Matth. 6.13 Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Prove that you are to trust that of his mercy and goodness he will do this when you ask him James 1.6 But let him ask in Faith without wavering Psalm 37.5 Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass Question How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church Answer Two only as generally necessary to Salvation that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Prove the Sacrament of Baptism from Scripture Matth.
as bad as stealing to withhold what a Man has voluntarily promised Yes Though a Man have promised something which is much to his own disadvantage is he bound to make it good Yes Ought a Man in Conscience to pay those Debts which he is bound for in case the principal cannot or will not Yes Is it not a crying sin to withhold the wages of the Servant or the hire of the Labourer Yes ¶ Sunday XII ¶ Not to receive or buy stollen Goods IS not Robbery on the way or plundering a great Iniquity Yes May a Christian receive stollen Goods if he know or believe them to be stollen No. May a Christian buy stollen Goods if he know or believe they are stollen No. If a Man conceal those Goods which he finds Of things found Deceit in trust and does not restore them if he can learn out the owner is he not a Thief Yes May a Christian be deceitful or unfaithful in any Trust whether to the Living or the Dead No. Can Executors or Guardians for Children or Servants be unfaithful to their Trust without Sin No. In traffick Is it not deceit in selling any thing to conceal the faults of it Yes If a Man know any faults by the thing he sells and if the Chapman find them not out should a Christian in Justice tell him Yes Deceit in Buying and Selling. May a Seller use deceitful arts to hide the faults of what he sells No. May Sellers pick out silly and ignorant Chapmen to put off their deceitful Wares to No. Are false Weights and Measures an abomination to the Lord Yes If a seller find his Chapman ignorant should he therefore over-rate him No. May a seller take advantage upon the necessities of him that buys No. Is not that Extortion and Oppression Yes Should a Seller raise the Rate of any thing above moderate allowable gains because the Buyer greatly fansies the thing and resolves to have it No. If a Seller knows not the worth of what he sells may the Buyer take advantage of his Ignorance No. When a Man's Wants and Necessities compel him to sell any thing speedily should the Buyer for this grate upon him and beat him down much below the worth of the thing No. Should not Buyers and Sellers both labour for a strict Justice in Traffick Yes Does not Deceit and Injustice in buying and selling commonly bring a Canker and a Curse with it Yes The necessity of Restitution Is a Christian bound to make Restitution to those whom he has wronged as far as he can before he can be a true Penitent Yes But what if the Party be dead must not the Restitution be made to his Heirs or Executors Yes But what if a Man have wronged so many that he cannot now remember who they were is not the Restitution to be made to the Poor Yes Ought the Restitution to come short of the Injury No. Should it not rather exceed it Yes Has every Man Restitution made him and Justice done him when himself is satisfied though by a Word or a Farthing Yes Though this business of Restitution be so much a stranger to many in the World ought not a Christian seriously to consider it Yes Should a Christian neglect to make Restitution for any known injury for fear of shame or reproach No. If he find any other difficulties in the Case of Restitution should he not ask counsel and direction of a Minister Yes ¶ Sunday XIII ¶ Credit of our Neighbour False Reports IS it not a great sin to lessen the good name of our Brother by false Reports Yes Should a Man report Ill of his Neighbour though he have some slight surmise that the thing is true No. Should a Christian be apt and forward to believe ill of his Neighbour No. When we hear ill of another Man should a Christian report it to others No False witness Is not the bearing false Witness in Courts of Justice a heinous sin Yes Railing and Is not railing backbiting or slandering a great sin Yes Is not the Whisperer Whispering that privately vents his slanders and spreads ill reports secretly under a great guilt Yes Should any Man that would secure his Charity and his Peace give ear to Tale-bearers and encourage them No. Seessing for infirmities or calamities May we dispise or scoff at another for any infirmity of Body or Mind No. May we despise or scoff at another for his Calamities or Afflictions No. Or Sins May we despise and scoff at another for his sins No. Is it not a sin to judge any Man rashly Judging and censure him Yes May a Christian bear any malice in his heart toward his Neighbour or hate any Man No. May we wish any evil in our heart to any Man No. May we rejoice in any evil that befals another No. May we take any pleasure in the sin of his Soul or the hurt of his Body No. May we envy our Neighbour any good thing he enjoys No. Envy Repairing the injury of defamation Seeing the taking away a Man 's good name by spreading false reports slandering whispering railing and the like are such great sins ought not a Christian to make what satisfaction he can Yes Should not the Restitution be made by endeavouring to restore his Neighbour to that degree of Credit which he deprived him of Yes Or at least should he not make him satisfaction by confessing his fault begging his pardon and making his peace with him Yes Can a Man be a true Penitent for such Injuries without Restitution No. Of Lying May a Christian tell a Lye No. May he not do it out of fear to avoid danger or to hide a fault No. Is it not a sin to tell Lyes by way of Story Yes Or out of Malice Yes Or to tell Lyes out of Covetousness or to cheat another Yes Is it not a sin to tell Lyes out of Pride or to set a Man's self out Yes Should not a Christian be of a courteous Behaviour toward all Men Yes May a Christian render evil for evil or railing for railing by any means No. Is not a proud and churlish Behaviour hateful to God and Man Yes Churlishness Ought not a Christian to be meek and gentle and patient toward all Yes Should not a Christian do good even to those that hate him Yes If any Enemy were in distress should not a good Christian relieve him if he could Yes Should not all brawling Brawling quarrels bitter reproaches and revilings and causeless anger be far from a Christian Yes May a Christian in his anger curse any man No. Is not cursing any Cursing quite contrary to the Duty of praying for them that despitefully use us Yes Should a Christian pray for them who injure him and despitefully use him Yes Seeing Christ himself did so should we not follow his Example Yes Respect due to Better◠Should we not bear a