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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
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Lecture 49: The forty nineth Lords day. On the third 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.
The forty nineth Lords day. On the third petition of the Lords prayer.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.
IN this Petition is sought the fulfilling of Gods will, and in that manner, that it ought to be sought to be fulfilled: which is explicated by a comparison of the like; where the things compared are the fulfilling of Gods will by men, and by Angels: The quality or manner, wherein they are compared, is the manner of obedience, that ought to be given to this will: Now by the will of God here properly is understood that which God hath revealed unto us concerning our duty, or that which he hath laid upon us to do, by his revealed will; though the secret will of God also is so far contained under this Petition, as that we ought to rest content with it, when it appears now to us by the event, that it was the will of God, Acts 25. 14. This Petition hath dependence on the first, in as much as it is a m•an tending to that end, that is ⟨p. 286⟩there proposed. It depends also on the second, because it is the effect of that kingdom and administration; and it is also the perfection and accomplishment of the same kingdom: For God is not said to have a perfect kingdom of grace, until he have got all the faithful absolutely subject in all things unto his will: The fulfilling therefore of the will of God, differs from his kingdom, as the government differs from the obedience that is given to it; in the same sort almost, as the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof differ: