A09432:723
A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount
A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his executors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one, of special points here handled; the other, of choice places of Scripture here quotedA godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his exequutors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one, of speciall points here handled; the other, of choise places of Scripture here quoted
Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1608Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1608
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, &c. This prayer hath three parts: I. a preface: II. the petitions: III. the conclusion. The Preface in these words: Our Father which art in heaven. In the handling whereof, as also in the rest of this prayer, I will first propound the Meaning; then the Instructions.
Our Father which art in heauen, halowed be thy name, &c. This praier hath three parts: I. a preface: II. the petitions: III. the conclusion. The Preface in these words: Our Father which art in heauen. In the handling whereof, as also in the rest of this praier, I will first propound the Meaning; then the Instructions.
I. The Meaning. Our Father] This title Father, properly belongs to God, who is a father simply, by creation giving being to all things, and preserving them by his providence. Men indeed are called fathers, but that is only secondarily, because in some properties of fatherhood they resemble God. Now this title is given to God, sometime simply considered without personal relation; as Deut. 32. 6. Do ye s• reward the Lord, O foolish people? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Otherwhile it is given to the particular persons in Trinity; as first and principally to the first person, who is commonly called the Father. And the second person in Trinity is sometime called Father, as Isa. 9. 6. the father of Eternity: because he is the ground of our adoption, whereby we become eternally the sons of God: and therefore he is brought in thus complaining of reproach; Behold, I, and the children which the 1Lord hath given me, are as signs and wonders in Israel: for the author to the Hebrews expounds that place of Christ, Heb. 2. 13. & he is said ⟨p. 253⟩