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A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing.…
A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasioned by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasion'd by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1714
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Matthew VI.10. Thy Will be Done.
THE Lord Jesus Christ gave to his Disciples an admirable Platform of Prayer, which in Six short Petitions comprehends what ever it is our Duty to Pray for. In the preceding Verse he shows who is the only Object of Prayer, viz. the God of Heaven: Unto whom the true Disciples of Christ may come as unto their Father. Our Father which art in Heaven. The Three First Petitions have a peculiar reference to God, (1.) To his Name; (2.) To his Kingdom; (3.) To his Will. These are fitly conjoined: If God's Name is Hallowed, his Kingdom will Come: ⟨p. 2⟩And where his Kingdom comes in the Power of it, the Subjects therein will do his Will. The Original Word [Greek or Hebrew], here rendered, Be done; signifieth, Let it be done. It is expressed impersonally, denoting the extent of the Prayer. It is not said, Let us do thy Will; that's but part of what is intended; but, Let it be done, sc. by us and all the Men on the Earth, and that in all things.
THE Lord Jesus Christ gave to his Disciples an admirable Platform of Prayer, which in Six short Petitions comprehends what ever it is our Duty to Pray for. In the preceding Verse he shews who is the only Object of Prayer, viz. the God of Heaven: Unto whom the true Disciples of Christ may come as unto their Father. Our Father which art in Heaven. The Three First Petitions have a peculiar reference to God, (1.) To his Name; (2.) To his Kingdom; (3.) To his Will. These are fitly conjoyned: If God's Name is Hallowed, his Kingdom will Come: ⟨p. 2⟩And where his Kingdom comes in the Power of it, the Subjects therein will do his Will. The Original Word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, here rendred, Be done; signifieth, Let it be done. It is expressed impersonally, denoting the extent of the Prayer. It is not said, Let us do thy Will; that's but part of what is intended; but, Let it be done, sc. by us and all the Men on the Earth, and that in all things.