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Q. What doth the acknowledgement of Gods properties singly considered import?

Q. WHat doth the acknowledgement of Gods properties singly considered import?

A. A form of praise.¹ For where mention is made of Davids blessing God, it is set down in this form, ⟨p. 322⟩Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, &c. Thus is this clause (Thine is the Kingdom and the power, and the glory for ever) the second part of the Lords Prayer: whereby the perfection of that Prayer is set out.² For prayer consisteth of these two parts Petition & Praise. ³They therefore who wholly omit this clause, and cast it out of this pattern of Prayer make it an imperfect pattern: as Papists who throughout their whole Liturgy have omitted it. Yea the vulgar Latin translation hath left it out of the text, in that place where it is expressed by S. Matthew: and the Rhemists english translation doth so also.⁴ And the great Champion of Papists, where purposely he undertaketh to expound the Lords Prayer, clean omitteth this clause▪ and avoucheth that It is certain that those words are not of the evangelical Text, but were inserted by the Greeks. But as diligent searchers into all sorts of greek copies, as he, have found it, not only in the expositions and commentaries of greek Fathers, but also in most of the greek copies of the New Testament. And the ancient Syriac translator, who was none of the greek expositors, hath it. Yea many of the Latin Fathers also make mention thereof, as of a part of the Lords Prayer, though some of them sometimes in their expositions have omitted it.