A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

1. The Example of Christ Jesus, who wholly yielded up himself to the Will of God; and wilt thou stand upon thy terms? Jo. 5. 30. I seek not mine own Will, but the Will of him that sent me. Christ did not seek to please his human, his own natural Will, but the Will of his Father. This is true Religion, to be like him whom we worship. Now we are never like Christ, until we make doing of God's Will to be the great business of our Lives: Wherefore doth he come into the World? He tells you, to do his Father's Will; Luke 2. 49. Wist ye not that I must be about my Fathers business? This was his sole Employment: so it should be ours, if we have the same Mind which Christ had.

1. The Example of Christ Jesus, who wholly yielded up himself to the Will of God; and wilt thou stand upon thy terms? Io. 5. 30. I seek not mine own Will, but the Will of him that sent me. Christ did not seek to please his human, his own natural Will, but the Will of his Father. This is true Religion, to be like him whom we worship. Now we are never like Christ, until we make doing of God's Will to be the great business of our Lives: Wherefore doth he come into the World? He tells you, to do his Father's Will; Luke 2. 49. Wist ye not that I must be about my Fathers business? This was his sole Employment: so it should be ours, if we have the same Mind which Christ had.

2. Consider God's Right. We are not at our own dispose, but at the Lord's use. God hath a right in us as he created us. The Perfection of every thing lieth in fulfilling the Creator's Will, ⟨p. 261⟩for that's the end wherefore they were made. The Creatures are all thy Servants, and continue this day according to thine Ordinances: Psal. 119. 91. We owe our Being, and all we have, from him. We see among Men, Dependence begets Observance; a Man that lives upon another, will be careful to please him. Thou holdest all by the Indulgence and Bounty of God, therefore it should be thy study to do his Will. Jesus Christ hath bought thee;