An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire.
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An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire.
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Burton, William, d. 1616.
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At London :: Printed by the widdow Orwin for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater-noster row at the signe of the Talbot,
1594.
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Lord's prayer -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
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"An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17326.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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VVhich art in heauen.
Q. Why are these words added?
A. In the former words wee are
taught what the Lord is concerning vs,
viz. a louing father.
In these words wee learne what he is in
himselfe, viz. a God of all maiestie, power
and dominion.
The 1. sheweth his willingnes to help vs.
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The 2. sheweth his abilitie to helpe
vs.
Q. Why doth the Lord Iesus speake
of his willingnes and abilitie?
A. To shew that of those two we must
be perswaded in prayer, or els we cannot
pray aright. Some came to Christ doubt∣ing
of his willingnes,* 1.1 as the leper, Master,
if thou wilt thou canst make mee cleane.
Some doubting of his power, as the man
whose sonne had a dumbe spirit:* 1.2If thou
canst doe any thing for vs, helpe vs, &c. But
here we are taught not to be like either
of them.
Q. God is euery where, why then is
he sayd to be in heauen?
A. Because he is euery where, therfore
he must needes be in heauen.
Q. But why is hee sayd to haue his
dwelling in heauen, rather then in any
place of the world, or in all the world?
A. For two causes.
1. Because his glorie is most apparant
there.
2. Because we see from thence most e∣uident
signes of his properties, and attri∣butes,
more then in other places, as of his
1. They teach vs that God hath power
ouer all, and can performe that which he
promiseth.
Q. How doe you gather that?
A. I gather it thus: As the heauen is
hier then the elementall world, so he that
sits▪ in the heauen, must needes haue all
things in subiection vnder him.* 1.3 And as
wee cannot see any thing aboue heauen,* 1.4
so we are not to imagine any thing aboue
him.* 1.5 See Psal. 2. 4. Psal. 24. 3. Psal. 113. 4,
Q. What els may wee gather from them?
A. They teach vs that God is no earth∣ly
father, but heauenly and immortall,
therefore not subiect to alteration in na∣ture,
nor change in his purpose, as men be.
And this makes much for the certaintie of
the election of Gods children,* 1.6* 1.7 seeing it
dependeth vpon such a father.* 1.8 See the
places quoted.* 1.9
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Q. What els doe wee learne from
them?
A. They serue to breede a reuerence
in vs when we pray,* 1.10 because wee bee but
dust and ashes, and wee speake vnto that
God that (as the Psalmist sayth) hath de∣uouring
fire going before him,* 1.11 and migh∣tie
tempests are stirred vp about him, &c.* 1.12
Q. Declare your meaning more ful∣lie.
A. I meane that seeing in prayer wee
speake vnto the immortall king of hea∣uen
and earth, we should not clappe our
selues downe so vnreuerently, (as vsually
many doe) thinking of any thing rather
then of the mightie Maiestie of him to
whom wee pray: but with a reuerende
trembling and affection of all our parts:
and (to vse the very words of a reuerend
father) leisurely, carefully, and heartely,
considering the puissance, glorie, and im∣periall
Maiestie of him to whome wee
speake.
Q. What els doe they affoord vs?
A. Lastly, they teach vs, That not onely
our mindes ought to be sequestred from other,* 1.13
but in all our conuersation to be∣haue
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our selues as becommeth the chil∣dren
of such a heauenly father.