A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

APPLICATION.

If we have a Father in Heaven, let us look up to Heaven often.

1. If we have a Father in Heaven, and a Saviour at his right-hand, to do all things that are needful for us; let us look upon the aspectable Heavens with an Eye of Sense, with our bodily Eyes, It is good to contemplate the Glory of the heavenly Bodies, or the Outside of that Court which God hath provided for the Saints. It is not an idle Speculation I press you to: The Saints of God have thought it to be worthy of their Morning and Evening-Thought. It is notable, David doth (in two Psalms especially) contemplate Heaven▪ […] seems to be a Nightly, the other a […] -Meditation. The Night-Meditation you have, Psal. 8. 3. When I consider thy Heavens, the Work of thy Fingers, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained. David was got abroad in a Moon-shining Night, looks up, and had his Heart affected. But now the 19th Psalm, that seems to be a Morning-Mediation; he speaks of the Sun coming out like a Bridegroom from his Chamber in the East, and displaying his Beams, and Heat, and Influences to the World; and then saith he, v. 1. The Heavens declare the Glory of God. Morning and Evening, or when ever you go abroad to see the Beauty of the outward Heavens, say, I have a Father there, a Christ there; this is the Pavement of that Palace, which God hath provided for the Saints. Christians, it is a sweet Meditation, when you can say, He that made all Things, is there. It ⟨p. 125⟩will be a delightful, profitable thing, sometimes with an Eye of Sense to take a view of our Father's Palace, as much as we can see of it here below.