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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Lecture 47: The forty seventh Lords day. On the first petition of the Lords prayer.
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.
Hallowed be thy Name.
All the petitions of the Lords Prayer are very short, & yet such, as contain all things that are to be sought for in their own way, and that in an order most convenient. For the four first Petitions concern the obtaining of good; and the two last, the removing of evil. Amongst the former, these have the first place, which nearliest concern the glory of God: And first of all the glory of God it self is sought and prayed for in the first petition, where by the name of God, God himself is understood, & such things as most intimately belong unto him, in as much as he hath revealed himself unto the creatures. By sanctifying of this name then is understood, the manifestation of Gods glory, as most becomes his most holy majesty.
ALl the petitions of the Lords Prayer are very short, & yet such, as contain all things that are to be sought for in their own way, and that in an order most convenient. For the four first Petitions concerne the obtaining of good; and the two last, the removing of evill. Amongst the former, these have the first place, which nearliest concerne the glory of God: And first of all the glory of God it self is sought and prayed for in the first petition, where by the name of God, God himself is understood, & such things as most intimately belong unto him, in as much as he hath reveal'd himself unto the creatures. By sanctifying of this name then is understood, the manifestation of Gods glory, as most becomes his most holy majesty.
Doct. 1. All prayers that we offer to God, are to be followed with great zeal and affection.