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A53275	The generation of seekers, or, The right manner of the saints addresses to the throne of grace in two treatises : the first being a sober vindication of the spirit of prayer, with the resolution of diverse practical cases related thereunto : the second a plain exposition of the Lord's prayer, with notes and application, mainly intended as a directory to those who desire to attain the gift of prayer.	Oldfield, John, 1627?-1682.	1671 (1671)	Wing O221; ESTC R31049	228,802	474

used in sincerity when speaking of God they add blessed or worshipped may hee bee so here But as the opinion is singular so the verb here being in the same mood as in the following Petitions speaks this to be of the same nature with the following I conclude it therefore to be a Petition the sense whereof wee shall better understand by explaining the Terms of it 1. What is meant by the name of God 2. What by sanctifying Explicat Thy name The name of God is put 1. for God himself an usuall Hebraism to put names for persons which the Greeks also imitate Acts. 1. 15. The number of names were about 120 Rev. 3. 4. Thou hast a few names c. i. e. persons So the name of Christ is put for Christ himself Acts. 4. 12. Ephes 1. 21. Thus the Name of God is equivalent to God himself Gen. 4. 26. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord and this is very frequent and obvious 2. Name is put for that which notifies and distinguishes God from all others So those Attributes whereby God hath revealed himself are frequently called his name Se Exod. 3. 15. 15. 3. Isa 43. 6. Exod. 34. 5 6. They that know thy name will put their trust in thee Psam 9. 10. i. e. Thy power wisdom goodness c. 3. It is also put for fame and celebrity for the glory of praise that is publickly given to any one so 't is attributed to God 1 Kings 8. 41. 42. they shall hear of thy great Name Neh. 9. 10. so didst thou get thee a name as wee say A mans name is up when hee is spoken of with general applause 4. Name is put for what ever God makes himself known by as in the 3d. Commandment Now the word and works of God are the things whereby hee discovers himself Here the two first senses are most proper q. d. Be thou magnified and glorified in thy Essence and Attributes Hallowed or sanctified To open that word take the following Conclusions 1. Man is said to sanctify himself or others thus God commands the Israelites to sanctifie to him their first born Exod. 13. 2. and the Priests to sanctify themselves Exod. 19. 22. In this sense to sanctify is to dedicate and set a part to God a thing or person or to prepare for any speciall service 2. God is said to sanctify Man which is either to choose him to some peculiar office as Aaron and his Sons Exod. 29. 44. Or else to infuse habits of graces and make him holy by reall communications of the graces of his Spirit of which 1 Thess 5. 23. and many other Scriptures 3. God is said to sanctify himself Numb 20. 13. when hee vindicates himself from any dishonour or wicked reflexions of mens sins So Ezek. 36. 23. I will sanctify my great name which was profaned among the Heathen which ye have profaned in the midst of them i. e. I will wipe off the reproach which your miscarriages have brought upon my Name amongst the Heathen Thus God sanctified himself upon Aarons Sons Levit. 10. 3. See also Isa 5. 16. But amongst his own people God is said to sanctify himself when hee restores to them the purity of his worship Ezek. 20. 41. or delivers them from any grievous affliction Ezek. 28. 25. and 39. 27. In a word when God by any signall providence declares what hee is or writes any of his attributes so legibly upon his Providences that men may plainly read it hee doth herein sanctifie himself 4. Lastly Man is said to sanctify God Isa 8. 13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself that is not to make but to declare God holy and glorious to acknowledge him to be what hee is and to ascribe to him what ever speaks his transcendent excellency In a word to refer our whole life and all our actions and endeavours to his glory according to that 1 Cor. 10. 31. Now the two last senses are proper to this Petition Let thy name be sanctified both by thy self and by us thy Creatures doe thou reveal thy glory and enable us to acknowledg and celebrate it And by the way it is well observed Sr. Rich. Baker how generally these Petitions run that relate to God It is said Hallowed be thy name Not by us lest wee make the Musick of too few voices Thy Kingdom come not to us lest wee assign God too small a Territory Thy will be done Not by us lest wee stint God to too few Servants But wee say Hallowed be thy name and stop there that no mouth may be stopt from glorifying God Thy Kingdom come but not whither because wee should desire its coming into all places Thy will be done Not by whom because it should be done by all The sense then of this Petition may be given in these Scriptures Psam 80. 12. Thou that dwellest between the Cherubins shine forth and Psal 21. 13. Be thou exalted Lord in thine owne strength And Psal 57. 5 11. Be thou exalted O God above heavens let thy glory be above all the earth These may express it as it relates to Gods sanctifying himself And then as it relates to our sanctifying of him Ps 67. 3 5. Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee may be a good exposition or Paraphrase upon it So Psal 13. 18. c. The more particular explication I reserve to the Application The Point is this Doctr. 6 The gloryfying or sanctifying of Gods name should be our chief Petition in our addresses to God by prayer This needs no great proof that one Scripture speaks fully to it 1 Cor. 10. 31. Whether yee eat or drink doe all to the glory of God If every thing if our naturall and civil much more our religious actions and if the glory of God must be the highest end of our prayers it clearly followes that it must be first and chief in our Petitions as well as in our intentions I shall for further clearing the thing and preventing mistakes briefly answer a 3. sold Query and then apply it Quest 1. Is it necessary that wee should alwayes keep this order in our Petitions must wee alwayes pray in the first place that Gods name may be sanctifyed Ans 1. The glory of God should alwayes fit highest in our hearts and all our desires and Petitions should be subordinate to this as their end and as far as wee can discern directed to it so that all wee ask should be implicitly and intentionally Petitions that Gods name may be sanctified since in what ever wee ask wee should chiefly intend this and our desires should be ever bounded with this as the condition if wee ask outwards health riches deliverance c. or if spirituals grace or comfort still wee must have an ey to this mark and the nearer any thing comes to this mark the more intense may our desires be and the move earnest our Petitions about it So that

prayed for For shame never plead for the repetition of this pattern of prayer while the world may read in your lives a visible contradiction to each Petition in it 'T is worse then a Judas kiss thus to deal with Christ to pray that his Kingdom may come and yet to doe our utmost to oppose it either leave praying or begin to practise up to what you pray for in this Petition else you doe but in effect pray for your owne damnation This Kingdom will come in justice and Terror to all its opposers So much to this Petition CHAP. VI. III. PETITION Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven THis is the third and last of those Petitions that do more immediately respect God it is very fitly connected to the former for having prayed for the coming of his Kingdom that is that wee may be brought under his Government and become his subjects 't is fit that his will not ours should be done Having acknowledg'd him supream Monarch of the world and that all subjection is due to him wee are very fitly taught to pray that hee will so bend and bow our hearts and bring us into compliance with his will that wee may yield him cheer-full obedience as subjects not as slaves and that wee may be a willing people in the day of his power Psal 110. 3. In this Petition you have 1. The matter of it that Gods will may be done 2. The manner how wee are to doe it or to endeavour and this is as it is in Heaven For explication Explic. 1. Will The will of God to our capacity is ●●ve●sly distinguished it would be but mis spent time to trouble you with them one distinction is sufficient to our purpose and that is this The will of God is either his Decretive Will called his Will of Purpose Or 2. His preceptive Will or Will of Precept There is ground enough for such a distinction though not in the Will or effence of God which is purely simple and uncompounded yet in the wayes by which God declares and executes his Will Briefly 't is easy to conceive the difference betwixt what God will doe that 's his Will of Purpose and what hee commands and requires us to do That 's his Will of Precept by the former God determines all events and futurities and governs those things which to us are most contingent by the latter hee determines mans Duty and what wee are to do Of the former you may read Psal 136. 6 11. Eph. 1. 5. To this wee are taught submission Jam. 4. 15. and 1 Pet. 3. 17. By this hee orders times and seasons Act. 1. 17. and disposes chances and contingencies Prov. 27. 1. By this hee permits and over rules many actions of men Of the latter read Mich. 6. 8. Hee hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee The word declares it both in the precepts what wee are to doe and in the promises what wee are to beleeve 'T is not necessary to say more Only let us inquire Quest Which of these or whether both be not here meant for Answer to which Query It is unquestionable that the Will of Precept is here meant the very words clear it for What is meant by his Will being done on Earth c. but that it be done by men more especially who are the Inhabitants of the earth and What will is it but that which God hath given them in precept The only d●ffi●ulty is about the Will of Purpose whether it be at all included in this Petition and if at all how far Whether in the whole latitude and extent of it or only in part The Reason of the difficulty lies here Partly because the Purposes of God are hidden to us wee know not what shall be de Event● and therefore how can wee pray concerning that which depends on the secret and unknown Purpose of God partly because the permission of many wickednesses and enormities of men comes within this will of purpose such as the betraying and murthering of Christ Act. 4. 28. Gods hand and Counsel had before determined it Now none will say that had wee lived before Christ and understood the Prophe●ies concerning Judas his betraying Christ c. wee should have prayed for these ●hings so that the question seem's to carry some difficulty in it I find some quite ●xcluding Gods purposes on● of our prayers One quotes Cyprian speaking thus N●n 〈◊〉 oramus ut faciat Deus quid vult facere 〈◊〉 ut nos possimus facere quid vult à nobis 〈◊〉 Wee pray not here that God would doe what hee willeth to doe but that wee may be able to doe what hee willeth ●s to doe Notwithstanding which and ●ome other things that might be urged I conceive that the Will of Purpose is neither wholly included in this Petition nor wholly ●xcluded out of it for though much of it ●e hidden yet something of it is revealed ●nd that by way of gracious promises which ●ertainly may be pleaded in prayer And ●hough it take in the permission and order●ng of the vilest acts of men which wee are ●o be so far from praying for as that wee ●hould abominate them yet it takes in ●ther things unquestionably lawfull to be ●rayed for so far and in such a way as ●hey are revealed to us The case is so plain forbear Instances more will be said to this when wee come to Application 2. Be done i. e. not only intended ●urposed endeavoured so that wee are here ●ught to pray that wee may not only pro●●ss and pretend obedience as those Jer. 42. ● 6. or as that Son Matth. 21. 30. who said I goe Sir but went not but that wee may actually and throughly perform his will that he will work in us to will and to doe of his own good pleasure Phil. 2. 13. that wee may not deceive our owne souls that wee may not be forgetfull hearers but doers of his will Jam. 1. 23. 26. That it may be done by us though our corruptions be never so opposite and upon us though flesh and blood think it never so grievous and we cheerfully yield obedience to the one and submission to the other 3. On earth as in Heaven that is by us and others on earth as by the Angels in heaven so that hereby wee are taught ●● what heighth we should endeavour and pray for obediential grace not any degree We● should not content our selves to bungle 〈◊〉 a duty but to be exact and exquisite in it that wee may do the will of God with th● same readiness sincerity zeal constancy c. as the Angels Of this more particularly in the application Only to take away a scruple Object To what purpose is it to pray so● this degree of obediential grace since w● know it unattainable Are we not clog'● with corruption and in many things 〈◊〉 all what hope then to have this Petitio● granted or to