1. To arrogate nothing to our selves, but to ascribe all kingdome, power and glory to the Lord, Psal. 29. 1, 2. and 115. 1. and of all good things received to ascribe the praise to God. 2. If God be our King, then must we behave our selves as du∣tifull and obedient subjects: If his be the power, then are we both to fear him and to trust in him: If his be the glorie, then of him must we beg all good things, and to his glory must all be referred: If his power, kingdome and glorie be everlasting, then are we taught whom to fear, whom to serve, whom to trust in; namely, him that is able not onely in this life to blesse us, but also after to crown us with im∣mortall glorie in his eternall kingdome. If we serve the flesh, the devil, the world, we shall have the mo∣mentanie fruition of sin, and after this life is ended eternall torments. God liveth for ever, as to crown eternally the godly, so to punish the wicked eternal∣ly. He then will exclude them out of his kingdome,
A godly and learned treatise of prayer which both conteineth in it the doctrine of prayer, and also sheweth the practice of it in the exposition of the Lords prayer: by that faithfull and painfull servant of God George Downame, Doctr of Divinity, and late L. Bishop of Dery in the realm of Ireland.
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"A godly and learned treatise of prayer which both conteineth in it the doctrine of prayer, and also sheweth the practice of it in the exposition of the Lords prayer: by that faithfull and painfull servant of God George Downame, Doctr of Divinity, and late L. Bishop of Dery in the realm of Ireland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20735.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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and will be of power to destroy both body and soul in hell; and he will glorifie his justice in their end∣lesse confusion.
But here the hypocrisie of men is to be discover∣ed, who ascribe kingdome to God, and yet obey him not; power, and fear him not; glory, and glorifie him not: and they adde all these reasons to their pe∣titions, as if they should say, Thou, Lord, wilt grant our requests; for thine is the kingdome, power and glory for ever, and yet do not believe that the Lord will grant their requests.