A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

For the first. Tho the Church be never so afflicted, Psal. 102. 14. when all is defaced, as to external appearance, lying in a ruinous Heap, yet it is beloved and pitied by God's Servants: Thy Servants take Pleasure in her Stones, and favour the Dust thereof. There is nothing God's People desire so much as Zion's Welfare. Psal. 106. 54. That I may see the Good of thy Chosen, that I may rejoice in the Gladness of thy Nation, that I may glory with thine Inheritance. And David in this Psalm, Psal. 51. 18. having prayed for himself, prayeth for Mercy to the Church and State: Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the Walls of thy Jerusalem. But how cometh David, who was in the depth of private Humiliation, so suddenly to fall upon the Case of the Church? There was a special Reason for annexing this ⟨p. 216⟩Request to his own private Complaints and Confessions. The Reasons will occasion so many Observations.

For the first. Tho the Church be never so afflicted, Psal. 102. 14. when all is defaced, as to external appearance, lying in a ruinous Heap, yet it is beloved and pitied by God's Servants: Thy Servants take Pleasure in her Stones, and favour the Dust thereof. There is nothing God's People desire so much as Zion's Welfare. Psal. 106. 54. That I may see the Good of thy Chosen, that I may rejoyce in the Gladness of thy Nation, that I may glory with thine Inheritance. And David in this Psalm, Psal. 51. 18. having prayed for himself, prayeth for Mercy to the Church and State: Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the Walls of thy Jerusalem. But how cometh David, who was in the depth of private Humiliation, so suddenly to fall upon the Case of the Church? There was a special Reason for annexing this ⟨p. 216⟩Request to his own private Complaints and Confessions. The Reasons will occasion so many Observations.