An exposition of the Lords prayer in the way of catechism By William PerkinsAn exposition of the Lords praier in the way of catechisme By William Perkins

[Thy] This word doth put us in mind that there is two kingdoms: one Gods, & that is the kingdom of heaven: the other the devils, called the kingdom of darkness. Col. 1. 13. For when all had sinned in Adam, God laid this punishment on all, that seeing they could not be content to obey their Creator, they should be in bondage under Satan: So that by nature we are ⟨image 33⟩all the children of wrath, and the devil holds up the sceptre of his kingdom in the hearts of men. This kingdom is spiritual, and the pillars of it are ignorance, error, impiety, and all disobedience to God, in which the devil wholly delights; which also are, as it were, the laws of his kingdom. Blind ignorant people can not abide this doctrine, that the devil should rule in their hearts: they spit at the naming of him, & say that they defy him with all their hearts: but whereas they live in sin, and practise it as occasion is offered, though they can not discern of themselves, yet they make plain proof, that they line in the kingdom of sin and darkness, and are stat vessels of Satan, & shall so continue, till Christ the strong man come and bind him, and cast him out. And this is the estate of all the children of Adam ⟨image 34⟩in themselves. Wherefore, our saviour in this petition, teacheth us to consider our natural estate, and to pray that he would give us his Spirit, to set us at liberty in the kingdom of his own Sonne.

[Thy] This word doth put vs in mind that there is two kingdoms: one Gods, & that is the kingdome of heauen: the other the deuils, called the kingdom of darknesse.