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Heavens treasury opened in a fruitful exposition of the Lord's Prayer together with the…Heavens treasvry opened in a fruitfull exposition of the Lord's Prayer together with the…
Heavens treasury opened in a fruitful exposition of the Lord's Prayer together with the principal grounds of Christian religion briefly unfolded / by Tho. Hooker.Heavens treasvry opened in a fruitfull exposition of the Lord's Prayer together with the principal grounds of Christian religion briefly unfolded / by Tho. Hooker.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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.
Let us then think it an indignity to God to appear with a slovenly disposition before him: he that is to perform a solemn ⟨p. 26⟩duty to a Prince, will lay aside all other occasions, so as he said in an other case well, lie by all, lie by world, let me now have heavenly joy, for I am come before an heavenly father.
Let us then thinke it an indignity to God to appeare with a slovenly disposition before him: hee that is to performe a solemne ⟨p. 26⟩duty to a Prince, will lay aside all other occasions, so as he said in an other case well, lie by all, ly by world, let me now have heavenly joy, for I am come before an heavenly father.
2. It is a ground of comfort that our spirits may be cheered: since God is in heaven, he is able to effect what ever our hearts desire; To be in heaven argueth Majesty; now we do not pray to an earthly parent who is liable to corruption, but to an heavenly Father, who can do what he will; he that is in an high place hath the vantage, so our heavenly Father ⟨p. 27⟩hath the vantage of all other creatures, therefore what we crave is done already, our God is in heaven, and can do what he will.
2. It is a ground of comfort that our spirits may bee cheared: since God is in heaven, hee is able to effect what ever our hearts desire; To be in heaven argueth Majestie; now wee doe not pray to an earthly parent who is liable to corruption, but to an heavenly Father, who can doe what hee will; he that is in an high place hath the vantage, so our heavenly Father ⟨p. 27⟩hath the vantage of all other creatures, therefore what we crave is done already, our God is in heaven, and can doe what he will.