A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

1. Because God stands upon his Sovereignty; you must stand to God's Allowance, though he gives to others more, and to you less; for God is supreme, and will not be controlled in the disposal of what is his own. The good Man of the House pleaded, Mat. 20. 13, 14, 15. Friend, I do thee no wrong; is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? The fullness of the Earth, and all, is his: and therefore though others have better trading, and finer Apparel, and be more amply provided for than we are, God is Sovereign, and will give according to his Pleasure, and you must be content.

1. Because God stands upon his Sovereignty; you must stand to God's Allowance, though he gives to others more, and to you less; for God is supream, and will not be controll'd in the disposal of what is his own. The good Man of the House pleaded, Mat. 20. 13, 14, 15. Friend, I do thee no wrong; is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? The fulness of the Earth, and all, is his: and therefore though others have better trading, and finer Apparel, and be more amply provided for than we are, God is Soveraign, and will give according to his Pleasure, and you must be content.

2. Nothing is deserved, and therefore certainly every thing should be kindly taken. If a Man be kept at free-cost, and maintained at your Expense, ⟨p. 334⟩you take it very ill, if he murmur and dislike his Diet. Certainly we are all maintained at free-cost, and therefore we should with all humble Contentation receive what ever God will put into our Hands.

2. Nothing is deserved, and therefore certainly every thing should be kindly taken. If a Man be kept at free-cost, and maintain'd at your Expence, ⟨p. 334⟩