A godly learned exposition, together with apt and profitable notes on the Lords prayer written by the late reuerend orthodoxe diuine, and faithfull seruant of Iesus Christ, Samuel Page ... ; published since his death, by Nathaniel Snape, of Grayes Inne, Esquire.

2 Aduerbiabiter.

1 For our hearts must be established with a full per∣swasion, that it cannot goe well with vs by any meanes, except all this be done that we pray for.

1 The name of God which is our tower and refuge, must be hallowed, else quo fugiemus?

2 The kingdome of God must come, else who shall raigne ouer vs?

3 The will of God must be obeied by vs, and fulfilled vpon vs, for it is his will to saue vs.

4 And if this will of God be not obeyed on earth, according to the patterne of heauenly obedience, per∣formed by the Angels and Saints of God, it will not be accepted in his sight.

5 If he giue vs not bread, and his blessing with it, we shall not liue in his sight.

6 If he forgiue vs not, wee shall dye in our sinnes: who then shall haue pitty on vs?

7 If we forgiue not as we would be forgiuen, will he not say to vs,

Oughtest not thou to haue forgiuen thy fellow ser∣uant, as I forgaue thee? and he will require the vtmost farthing of our debt of vs.

8 If he leade vs into temptation, and suffer our owne corruptions to guide vs, or Sathans temptations to pre∣uaile against vs, how shall we be able to keepe faith and a good conscience?

9 If hee doe not either preuent euils comming, or support in euils incumbent, or deliuer vs out of them, how can we subsist in them?

Therefore our double Amen is requisite in all these.

1 Signaculum sidci, that we beleeue a necessitie of ob∣taining all these for Gods glory and our good.

2 Votum desiderij, that wee expresse an earnest and feruent desire to preuaile with God in all these.

1 We must pray that his name may bee hallowed, that

2 We may be partakers of his kingdome.

3 We must desire that his will may be done, that we may eate of his bread.

4 We must desire forgiuenesse of sinnes past, and pro∣tection against all after temptations, that we may be de∣liuered from all euils of punishment, and that Sathan may not touch vs.

Leaue out nothing, hee is our father of whom wee aske, and he hath a full hand, and our prayers will open it.

They whose hearts doe say Amen to some part of this prayer, and their zeale tooleth in the rest, obtaine no∣thing of God: but pro corona fidei, they haue poenam per∣fidiae.

How many be there in the world that cry heartily, panem nostrum quotidianum, and libera nos a malo, who neither care for the name, the kingdome, nor the will of God, they neither feele any inconuenience in sinne, nor feare, rather like temptations, which haue a pleasing relish.

Like those that dye with tickling.

Others presse the first petition slightly, concerning the name of God, because they are profane, and sweare by it.

They will allow God a kingdome, and take it away by disobeying his will.

Bread they would haue, but they thinke much to bee limited to aske for the day.

They like the forgiuenesse of their owne sinnes, but not the sicut & nos.

They feare not temptation: euils they deprecate. But Amen to all is our lesson.