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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

the world to save sinners And though all the Psalms be sweet yet some for their excellency are sent to the chief Musician The Scriptures discover the whole will of God yet have a hand to point at some part of it more then another as more eminent in their use and comfort and to which all other portions may be reduced For instance 1. He wills our faithful adhering to his Son Many Commandments he gave but this is his Commandment that we should believe on the Name of his Son Iesus Christ applying Christ unto our selves his death and merits to our souls without which our performances are but nauseating to his spirit and therefore Domine adauge fidem nostram Lord increase our saith is solded up in this Petition Thy will be done 2. He wills our sincere converting from sin It is iniquity causeth him grieve at us and maketh us averse to him and how careful and painful he is to reform the sinner before he be cast out as a Publican shews that if he perish it is by his obstinacy in sin rather then for his committing of it for had he delighted to punish for that he had long ago burned this present world as he spared not but drowned the old We need not many Arguments to evince this having his oath for his being delighted in the conversion of the wicked for miserable we are if we will not believe God when he swears the purposes of his heart unto us But as Gideons one Bastard slew his seventy Sons so one sin left alive will destroy our stock of gifts and graces which God knowing he wills our sincerity desiring us to be not almost but altogether Christians in departing from every evil way the end of his Commandment being charity out of a pure heart a good conscience and love unfeigned 3. He wills humility in our carriage to himself What shall or what can besall thee Reader that can excuse any insolence thy audacious spirit dare shew before him Is it death of kindred loss of goods want of health be perswaded better want all these then once to roave at him for the want of any one for hath he not shewed thee O man what it good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly love mercy and walk humbly with thy God The ancient Gauls suffered not their children even to stand before them that in perfect age they might have them in greater veneration and our Father in Heaven though more condescending will yet have of all his sons a religious reverence sawciness becoming sacriledge robbing him of his just devoir To swell for the removing of thy Gourd as Ionah may have a sadder issue imitat rather Adam whom we read not once to have spoken after banished Paradise a silent sorrow for our delinquency for sin is sorrows Prodrome being the best succour for our weather-beaten souls and is more advantagious then any Fort we can erect by argument or reason to plead against or surmize familiarity with God That of Germanicus is Heathenish giving this attestation of himself at death sifato concederem c. though I should die the common death of men I have just cause to be angry at the gods that in manly age I am robbed from my Parents Children and Countrey by them but when I die by the sorcery or poysonings of Piso c. but the Christian knows he stands at Cesars Iudgment Seat and that enjoyns reverence fear humility and love which makes him behave himself with David like a weaned child and washeth with Naaman upon deliberation in the commanded Iordan though the waters to sense appear never so despicable 4. He wills compassion in behalf of our brethrem This is his great and new Commandment that men love one another and that we put on howels of mercy to all yea the Oxe or Ass of our enemy are within the verge of his authority and law And we are not only to offer our hread but draw out our very souls to the hungry God insinuating thereby that fellow feeling which the fight of an hungry soul ought to stir up in us Non curite quid agat humanum genus not to be solicitious how the world went or careful about the concerns of mainkind was held impious by a Heathen but the religious contrary is diffusive in his charity and his willigness to do good is exemplified in the parable of the Samaritan who secured the person anointed the wounds defrayed the charges and contracted debt for the robbed Traavller Three things evince true compassion Concealed charity 2. Known poverty And 3. Unnatural death being alwayes ready to answer St. Pauls question in the negative who is weak and I am not weak who though they were Bibylonians with the Prophet that testifying good-will with a Father when a Brothers adversity causeth anguish and his tranquility exciteth thankfulness to account anothers loss our own and reckon his gain our profit loving neither friend nor soe for the world but both for God is true charity Love being a great God of whose beginning we have no History and of its ending it were madness to suppose therefore ought our life to be a life of love or then it is not the life of God nor agreeable to his will 5. He wills our folicity with himself He He hath so strong and fatherly a love to his children that he desires yea designs them heirs of his Kingdom For this is the will saith Christ of him that sent me that every one which seeth the Son I might say the Sun may have everlasting life this is a faithful laying and worthy of all acceptation And the Psalm wherein the Psalmists confidence of future glory is attested is called Michtum that is a golden Psalm of David Be not Reader abused by any natural vanity so far as in any thing to become competit or with God and untill thy will can give thee fields and vineyards nay until it can make a feather to please thee a s●raw to ease thee make it not the staple of thy soul but award its blows and avert its plagues for it shall to last be found the armed man to bin● thee and a sword to kill thee whereas Gods will hath nothing more ultimatly its scope then thy salvation There are many other particulars touching our converse discovered to be the will of God such as Modesty in our expressions Righteousnesse in our actions Discipline in our manners enduring injuries loving the brethren delighting in God loving him as a Father fearing him as a Lord to value none in comparison of Christ and therefore inseparably to cleave to his love couragiously to bear his cross constantly to consess his Name which is to be heir with Christ to do the command of God to fulfill the will of the Father but such and many others being reducible to

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

and heathnish bachanalia this making the ballance of our iniquity more ponderous that wee celebrat our Victimes daily against the express Law of that God whom wee pretend to worship I say pretend for really he hath little service our hands being defiled with blood our eyes full of adultery and as it is in the Satyre wee delight so much about the dressing-board and like the nourishment upon it so well that God's Altar is not minded and when approached unto it is to be feared our breath favours of the Kitchin and our cloaths of the Cellar and our heart panting after a strange woman All which I say will certainly have direful effects and cast our body politick into some formidable and dreadful distemper for sear●h the Scriptures we shall find desolation and sicknesse coupled together in a threat sent to chastise a stuborn and perverse generation and for crying in a sensual sense Our bowels our bowels it may be suggested that for punishment hereof we shall be made in a dispairing temptation to roar Our head our head when Christ our head shall depart from us because of pride uncleannesse uncharitablenesse idlenesse and fulnesse of bread Give us this day our daily bread THe mood in which this prayer is offered in order offers it self for contemplation which for the avoiding of presumption we shall examine in common with the property the bread hath we ask for and that is our bread which properly presseth humility and dependance We say Give us so that here is no bartering no selling nor indeed no returning save that of praise and glory in the conclusion It is give us our bread unto which we may add that of Rachel in her suit for children give it us or else we die The Church once complained that she got her bread with the peril of her life yet here she gets it for asking for asking nay for commanding give us our bread But remembring a Father may condescend to but children ought not to be irreverent to a father especially knowing he is such an one that if we ask for bread will not give us a stone nor a serpent when we demand a fish Give us If this eye God we see his readinesse to hear our complaint at first needing neither preface nor argument if pinched with necessity to adorn our request Christ in earth had compassion on an hungry multitude so he hath in Heaven and such as complain shall have Give us if it eye man shews our confidence in coming with so humble boldnesse to the Throne of his Grace wanting hesitation and doubts which to be intimated in this plain request is as conspicuous as the bread we desire and he that runs to God when hungry shall have a spiritual demonstration of the truth of this observe But to be more particular and reach the ground upon which this Petition is framed that is the proper arguments of our asking from God our dayly bread which are such as these 1. Because be bequeaths the means by which we purchase bread He is the Father of rain and of the dew by wh●● the earth is virtuated for production of necessary fruit we living moving and having our being from him as the efficient cause of our animal life of our rational life by which he is nearer to us then we are unto our selves uniting the very ●●●insick principles of our essence and by them ●●using us to move our joynts and change our places for convenient subsistance Yet this must not cause sloath but he that would have bread must manure his ground observe the season applying himself diligently and skilfully to the several parts thereof all which are gifts of God and being apt mediums for obtaining of food the most ●aborious may be said to have not from himself but of God his daily bread 2. Because he gives the blessing even nourishment with bread The co●● may be good the meal ●●ne the loaf great yet may not be bread to the eater Thou shalt eat saith the Prophet but not be satisfied which though applyed to lea●nesse not withstanding of knowledge in the Scripture yet it is better to understand that Caninus appetitus greedy appetite when either the digestive faculty is destroyed in us or the nutritive power taken from the grain which may be that which is called the staff of bread and is ordinarily ●elt in wet years or dayes of famine As David was covered with cloaths yet could get no beat so we may have bread yet want food a medicinal potion yet no ease unless he give a blessing wherefore his goodnesse and co-operating being that right side of the ship out of which we must cast our prayers as nets let us do as he commands otherwise we may toyl all day and catch nothing yea not only so but for bread we shall find a stone and swallow a serpent in stead of a fish 3. Because undeservedly he presents us with bread The very style of this Petition deba●s our thoughts of buying or meriting accounted extravagant by this word Give A father will both lodge and sup his son though both wantonly and tru●ntly he consume the day and God even our Father presents us with comfortable morsels notwithstanding of our lusciousnesse in and lasciviousnesse since excluded Paradise untill our readmitting into the heavenly Garden of God and to the impaled Tree of Life He gave Adam and Evah coats and to both their sons and daughters hath he given change of raiment and many loaves of bread when nothing but stripes might have been dispensed and as he proves himself to be God by giving rain so we may infer him a good God by our breaking of his bread his bounty in which being one of those footsteps wherein we ought to trace him love him and follow him Though our comment and text only mention bread yet our sense and gratitude ought to know that this bread is multiplicated Gods liberality with it giving us a large portion of other good things yea Patrimonies of ample possessions not like that Roman who would not give or endeavoured to hinder the giving wine to the Citizens because with that they would expect more delicate sare as Fowls Geese c. Whereas we from the inexhaustible treasure of his overflowing goodnesse are invited commanded yea incouraged to go to the Wine-presse for our stomacks sake and many infirmities the sweetnesse of which care and condescendence of such a God from the mouth of such an Apostle as Paul from the cheeks of such a trumpeter as the Apostle of the Gentils a song set by the hands of such a heavenly Musician as heard the musick of the third heaven ought to cause reflection upon that No good thing will be withhold 4. Because of that necessity we stand in to have bread Buy it we cannot steal it we dare not and yet it must