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A25464	Pater noster, Our Father, or, The Lord's prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture, history, and fathers, methodically cleared and succinctly opened at Edinburgh / by Will Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1670 (1670)	Wing A3223; ESTC R27650	279,663	493

PATER NOSTER OUR FATHER OR The Lord's Prayer explained The Sense thereof and Duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers Methodically cleared and Succinctly opened at EDINBURGH BY Will Annand M. A. one of the Ministers of that City late of Univers Coll. OXON LUKE XI II. And he said unto them when ye pray say OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN August ad Prob. Cap. 10. Absit enim ab Oratione multa locutio sed non desit multa Precatio si servens perseverat intentio Edinburgh Printed by George Swintoun and Iames Glen and are to be sold at their Shops in the Parliament-yard Anno Dom. 1670. To the Right Worshipful Sir ANDREW RAMSAY of Abbots-hall Knight Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh c. My Lord BOoks and Mapps of Navigation represent a long tract of Rocks in the Eastern Seas called the Pater Nosters they putting the Pilot to his prayers I here present a gift of the same name for the same end but differing in the moving cause there being here no hazard but security in bearing up and good Anchorage yea the bearing off from what is here offered in our late times is to be feared was one great cause why so many made shipwrack first of faith next of a good conscience conceiting themselves able to make way against and weather-out the Rule So pray ye And when ye pray say yet harbour in the Haven of bliss by other gales then those from Heaven which was foreseen nay foretold by a Poet then almost because not in this their own who advising for the use of the Lords Prayer in his Vox Pacifica hinteth at that Malady thus Lest that which might of bliss a means have been A means become of letting curses in I concluded to have published these sheets without designation of a Patron Dedications being now so customary that they are near to be interpreted vanity yet reflecting that at least with Divines they are no younger then St. Luke and that Charity and Candor are as cold as were the nights in which most of them were composed it was deemed rudenesse to suffer this Stripling to travel without some recommendation to some excellent Theophilus were it but for one nights lodging for I trust he is better bred then to be troublesome After which resolve let me declare it your Lordship had no Rival your Goodness Care Industry in your House Office and Authority to about and for the Ministry of this City in general and to my self in particular encouraging me and promising a courteous acceptation and enforcing upon me this Epistle so much the more that by many it is accounted a vice reverently to mention the name of a Loyal Levite whereas your Lordship more God-like will Advocat their cause Upon which it was judged disobedience against the Law and temerity against natural affection to address my Pater Noster to any save to your Lordship as a common Father of my Brethren for whose settlement as at first you were a Patron so still continueth to be and that in Solidum Your wonted affablility emboldens to crave protection for this little one under your Roof and Patronage where vertuously disposed if otherwise found faulty let it be corrected in judgment but not in wrath so shall its Parent be more encouraged to joyn in the hearty Antiphonies of this ancient and honourable Cities Ministery for your Lordships prosperity and happinesse joyntly with your Brethren the Baliffs and Councellours adding this as mine own Hymn that our Father which is in Heaven may assure you all of his Kingdom Power and Glory for ever Amen which shall industriously be pleaded-for at the Throne of Grace by My Lord From my Study Iune 15. 1670. Your Lordships Son and Servant in the Lord Iesus WILL. ANNAND TO THE READER IN the composing of these Sermons there were imitated two famous Preachers viz. Solomon and Christ because of the first sordid irreverent and unseemly expressions the Rhetorick of too many were studiously avoided being en●moured not so much with plainnesse as to conclude nothing such but when both Charity and Divinity must be strained yea rack'd and vehemently squeezed to strain the position and offer it for usefulnesse With the second the people is not spoken unto without a parable not to darken but enlighten the discourse and indeed since I knew the right hand from the left in Pulpit-affairs such methods of explication were approved yea much improved by that comparison of a reverend Divine and Historian lately fallen asleep attesting that reasons are the Pillars of the Fabrick of a Sermon but similitudes give the best lights the Parable of the Virgins of the Talents of the History of Siloams Tower discovers the duty of watchfulnesse charity and self-condemning most emphatically and heats the soul in personal application servidly With St. Matthew al 's for the most part I shew where it is written for if I but light my Candle at anothers Torch or borrow one beam from anothers Wood or a rough Stone from anothers Quarry for perfecting my building notwithstanding of polishing and carving in gratitude to my Benefactor his name is insculped yea if from a teeming word my fancy be so raised that with the Lark it soar may be higher then my Author attempted yet as far as my small notes could allow me I go not out of sight untill it be known whence that word came Toilsome I confess was this search unto me but if it prove profitable to any one I have sufficiency of reward To shew that importunity of friends and pressings of my Hearers occasioned the Pressing of these Papers or that my self was pressed untill I yeelded their publication were to cause all intelligent to smile that complement not to say rant being now so threed-bare that its deformity I had almost writ vanity is beheld with scorn The true cause of my publishing was this viz. that I found no Act of Parliament discharging me to scrible and that my solitary life created some hours of Melancholy especially in long nights the tediousnesse whereof I comfortably evited in blacking paper on several subjects and did really doat so much upon this my Pater Noster that pardon the boast I verily thought it might do the world as much good as half a score Books I have se●n withall finding few of our country write upon this Subject and of these few could never see one that Treatise of Mr. Wisharts excepted which came not to my hands untill I was within few leagues of shore To the Printer went I who it may be was of my mind and we agreed Yet for all this my papers sleep'd a full year by me and then growing bulk some not to say troublesome they were aired and dressed as thou Reader now sees them Thy humour I know not yet charity enforceth me not to conceit thee uncourteous or uncharitable but kind and Christian which will induce thee either to forbear reading 〈◊〉 papers altogether as unprofitable

affaires and they take up a great deal of time against our own wills that this must be done against the spring that this is fit for such a countrey and this is suitable for such a coast gives us no time to study the will of God As fishers have several baits for different fishes so the world hath variety of snares for its multitude of traders Demonaae when questioned if the world had a soul then if it was round With indignation answered you are very carefull about the world yet about your filthiness contracted in the world you are carelesse Here this man is settling his heir there that man bewailing his poor crop he casting up his accounts and a fourth is preparing for a forreign plantation because of all which there is such a bumming in the ears of man that with the maniest the sound of the words carrying the sense of the will of God hath not admittance into that gate of the soul the ear which if it had we should not be so far embased about the drudgery of this pelf but write with a holy man for direction and instruction about sub jugating our wills to the will of God and what we ought to do therefore It is desired on earth though to our sorrow we know it will never be there exactly done suppose our hearts for once holy ground yet the Rod of Moses I mean the Law when cast thereon becomes a Serpent and we are scarce able to endure the sight of the just holy and good commandment sin by it taking occasion to work in us all manner of concupiscence sed hic inter in ex parte oramus we pray for some measure of obedience here that we may be perfected in all obedience hereafter God crowning in heaven with perfection our sincere service performed on earth though through weaknesse imperfecte clamemus igitur in Coelum we therefore list up our voices to Heaven because under it there is nothing but labour sorrow vanity and vexation The earth hath its heats and colds according to the cloudiness of the air or distance of the Sun obedience likewise hath her colds and heats her workings and faintings her runings and stumblings and sometimes a great intermission of her spiritual pulse On earth Faith hath her distrusts Hope her doubts Charity her damps there this opinion raiseth Choler that doctrine provoketh Rancour he caufeth offence by an ill example these are scandalled through supposed mistakes whereby the Earth that is the best of its inhabitants is but a bad copy yea indeed no copy at all hence our Lord teacheth that not Earth but Heaven be the rule for doing our Fathers will Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven THE rule of our obedience is now before us and the mould in which all actions are to be cast for Heavens that is for Gods plaudit As it is in Heaven is a Doctrine of comparing qualities not substances it respects neither Earth nor Heaven Physically but Morally pressing a conformity in the inhabitants of either to the will of the Lord of both and grand Master of each It is also a doctrine of holinesse among Spirits that the souls of the righteous here Militant may in vertue and well-doing totally resign themselves in imitation of the Spirits Triumphant for the will of God that they may be found without fault before the Throne of God That their conversation may be in Heaven by contemplating the things which are not seen here and affecting the things that are only there by working all things according to the Angels Samplar Yea even to follow God himself it being not unlawful per divina ire vestigia to walk as Christ himself walked The word is singular Heaven not Heavens as in the Preface excluding all but the very in-side of Heaven the interior parts of the Heaven of Heavens there being there exactness in opposition to Earths crookedness and stateliness against its baseness 1. Exactness Examples are to be eminent and as far as possible contrived above the censure of ordinary operators in things wherein honour is concern'd but in things divine wherein are couched the most pressing interests of the souls eternity patterns ought not to have so much as an umbrage or shadow of sensuality which not being sound on earth a David will trip a Iacob will halt and a Noah lye uncovered we are to eye Heaven for acquiring of righteousness and ture holiness 2. Stateliness How slovenly so to speak do we handle the mysteries of God Is not a trembling hand a glazy eye a blubred face commended in the approaches of the devout to the greatest pledges of their salvation and yet in these addresses not only faith but their love to God is then more sublimely to be acted that it may be felt heard and understood so that the highest raptures and most ravishing transportations like high Steeples are not without their Cob-webs whereas in Heaven the divine beams of glory shining upon the faces and hearts of the Elect both heats their souls and beautifies their exercise to that degree that with redoubled acclamations of ineffable joy they stand before their Saviours Throne and go about their Masters errant in a Royal Majestick and Authoritative deportment These are so well known to be in Heaven that good men do not only mistrust others but fear themselves pray against themselves ask forgivenesse both in and for their most religious undertakings which must cede to the performance of those Sainted above they being incapable of pollution laxation or he●itation through the spiritualizing of all their faculties In this Prayer there are two sicuts two as-es one is As we forgive our debters forgive us in which Earth draws a pattern from Heaven to follow sets it a copy to write a pardon by the other is this Petion As thy will is done in Heaven let it be done in Earth in which Heaven is recommended as worthy for imitation of Earth and sets before it a picture for Earth to draw the lively features of exact and acceptable duties For note in Heaven there are three whom we must imitate and follow viz. Christ Angels and the Saints glorified Behold Christ as man and as when upon earth it was meat to do his Fathers will for himself giving us in that consideration an example to prevent sin and as God a remedy against it from which it is deducible that our eyes feet hands and tongue are to be observant observers of the whole Law and will of God as Christ was we making his life our book our glass our rule our way his present residence in Heaven and work there is the Churches salvation in general thy soul Reader and that other mans in particular for it is the will of the Father that none of these little ones perish hence Christ becomes their Advocat that they all may

or glory of God are three such as relate to mans salvation are also three this respecting the body being but one demonstrats upon what the vehemency of our affections should be fixed And if any contrary to this rule hath minded their body with a three-●old more zeal then their souls let them know that God and not bread is to be the Alpha and Omega of all their duties but more especially at this duty to Prayer and say with Isaeus whose pallat had been a touch-stone for tastes when demanded what fish or sowl was sweetest replyed de hisee cur are desii it is long since I left off such foolish doings because unprofitable and sinful As the Sun shineth and enlighteneth the Orbs above as well as those under so it is thought this Petition hath an aspect upon these precedent and subsequent requests in the whole body of this Prayer sensing the Prayer thus Hallowed be thy Name this day Thy Kingdom come this day c. Forgive us our debts this day c. which is the Petition in our Saviours holy method we are next indebted unto for explication and shall cum Deo endeavour to discharge the same CHAP. VI. Matth. 6. 12. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debters Luke 11. 4. And forgive us our sins for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us HItherto we have been begging from our Father and in that hath attained to such degrees of familiarity that in an humble confidence we sinlesly prescribe directions for him to walk and act by for what other is this Petition forgive us as we forgive or Forgive us for we forgive This Petition making a Jubilee in the soul and inviting every one that is in debt to run to God as they did to David for security pardon and a discharge we offer our selves to open it for purchasing a release in your application of the same unto your lives of all former delinquencies transgressions and enormities In this form of Prayer we shall keep our old set form of method and see the matter and next the order of this Petition The first relating to debt a word borrowed from the French debte and that from the Roman debitum to owe or be engaged to any thing or person being varied by two Evangelists sheweth how to expound the phrase the one calling debts what the other calleth sins discovering that our sins being debts we pray that what we owe may not be exacted i. e. for forgiveness as we forgive or for we forgive both concurring to this Interpretation that sin is debt yet not properly but by similitude and by similitude nos sumus debitores we because sinners are debters and owned such in the parables of the Gospel yea and condemned to pay the utmost farthing if we stand to a reckoning For clearing of which the word debt is first to be explain'd next the extent of this term forgive After that the necessity and equity of the condition as we forgive And lastly resolve some questions about forgivenesse Forgive us ne quis sibi quasi innocensf let no man conceit himself free or exalt himself in that fancy lest by contracting more in denying just debt he perish more severely and be surprized more suddenly Solida vitae puritas it being madnesse to fancy a Church pure from ●in since this Law is given to the Church pray after this manner forgive us our sins which are as debts being contracted booked and must be cleared 1. They are contracted Our meat lodging washing dwelling cloathing we receive from the Lord Paramount the great Landlord of Heaven and earth and all is noted down with the returns we make unto him the highest of us all being but Tenant Parravail Sub-sub-tenants What we owe may be guessed at by the justs mans falling seven times a day by which we may understand sin which is as debt and riseth again which we may interpret mercy and that also expects a discharge and must by us be accounted for Two wayes men contract debt by poverty by prodigality the poor must live and therefore must borrow and our wantonesse compelleth us to take up more then we need Adam was not hunger-starved but had great store yet that morsel of the forbidden fruit must go down David had many Lambs yet that one in the house of Vriah as fairer fatter goodlier then any in the royal flocks must be dressed for that stranger of carnal lust which visited his Palace How unnecessary eating abundant drinking rash swearing intemperat living enlargeth the scores of many is matter of no great difficulty seeing men hourly swallowing by hand-fulls mouth-fulls cup-fulls what without calling for forgivenesse shall take eternity to de●ray To passe the curtains of the womb where our poverty was excessively great were we not met in this world with clouts and milk in our infancy which our being men will make us to repay And though we came naked into this world yet in ordinary gracious providence we go not out so naked as to want a burial-place and winding-sheet which exected kindnesse is good debt and with thankfulnesse remembred if we know it was given to our relations But wastfully and in prodigious debauchery to borrow from our creditor for entertainment of insatiable lusts or unbridled vanity may justly cause him immediately to demand discharging of the Bill without giving us a day not to pay but to pray for a remittment 2. They are booked My transgressions sayeth Iob thou-hast sealed up in a bag For nisi Poenitentia interveniente without a hearty Forgive us and sorrow for the debt the sins publickly committed are concealed in the secret judgment of God untill as Clarks do Charges or Processes they be brought forth into open Court. And hence that of Moses Is not this laid up in store with me and sealed up among my Treasures to wit for a just punishment That though as a thief may gallop away with a stollen horse the wicked may conceit himself secure and gallantly mounted yet he shall be found and a Court fenced and his charge before him unto him and against him read for his thieving vapouring and sinful revelling To passe also the Book of life there shall be two Bookes used in the sinners condemnation that of the Law which shews the duties to be done upon the receiving of the mercy and that of the Conscience which discovers vices done under that mercy and as Peters Cock it will make the most secure to think upon all that ever he did and cause the dryest eye weep All Raps Fornications Oppressions Adulteries being therein written and not vanished as the profligat may suppose A Phythagorean taking shoes upon his credit came to make payment some few dayes after but understanding of his creditors death concluded a discharge within himself yet his conscience gave him such a summonds that he went to the dead mans