An exposition on the Lord's prayer with a catechistical explication thereof, by way of…

I Answer, There are various Things lie couched under this Petition; as,

I Answer, There are various Things lie couch'd under this Petition; as,

First, We pray that God would be pleased to Plant his Church, where it is not, according to his Promise, giving all the Nations of the World to his Son for his Inheritance, and the utmost parts of the Earth for his Possession. That the dark Places and Corners of the Earth, that are yet the Habitations of Cruelty, may be illustrated with the Glorious Light of the Gospel shining into them. That God would reveal his Son to those poor wretched People, that sit in Darkness and in the Region of the Shadow of Death, and would rescue them from their Blind Superstitions and Idolatries, and from the Power of the Devil, who strongly works in the Children of Disobedience, and would translate them into the Kingdom of his dear Son; especially, that he would remove the Veil from the Heart of the Jew, upon whom a sad Judicial Hardness hath long lain, that they at length may be brought into the Unity and Fullness of Christ's Body: We pray that all the World, both Jews and Gentiles, may be gathered into one Sheep-fold, under Christ Jesus the great Pastor and Shepherd of Souls; so that as God is one, so his Name and Service may be one throughout all the Earth. And thus we pray that Christ's Kingdom may come, in respect of the means of Grace and Salvation.

First, We pray that God would be pleased to Plant his Church, where it is not, according to his Promise, giving all the Nations of the World to his Son for his Inheritance, and the utmost parts of the Earth for his Possession. That the dark Places and Corners of the Earth, that are yet the Habitations of Cruelty, may be illustrated with the Glorious Light of the Gospel shining into them. That God would reveal his Son to those poor wretched People, that sit in Darkness and in the Region of the Shadow of Death, and would rescue them from their Blind Superstitions and Idolatries, and from the Power of the Devil, who strongly works in the Children of Disobedience, and would translate them into the Kingdom of his dear Son; especially, that he would remove the Veil from the Heart of the Jew, upon whom a sad Judicial Hardness hath long lain, that they at length may be brought into the Unity and Fulness of Christ's Body: We pray that all the World, both Jews and Gentiles, may be gathered into one Sheep-fold, under Christ Jesus the great Pastor and Shepherd of Souls; so that as God is one, so his Name and Service may be one throughout all the Earth. And thus we pray that Christ's Kingdom may come, in respect of the means of Grace and Salvation.