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A31058 A brief exposition of the Lord's prayer and the Decalogue to which is added the doctrine of the sacraments / by Isaac Barrow ... Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677. 1681 (1681) Wing B928; ESTC R20292 77,455 270

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A Brief EXPOSITION OF THE Lord's Prayer AND THE Decalogue To which is added The DOCTRINE of the Sacraments By ISAAC BARROW D. D. And late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge LONDON Printed by M. Flesher for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1681. ISAACUS BARROW S.T.P. REG. MA. A SACRIS COLL S. S. TRINI CANTAB PRAEFEC NEC NON ACAD EIUSDEM PROCANC 1676 TO The Right Honourable HENEAGE EARL of NOTTINGHAM Lord High CHANCELLOUR OF ENGLAND AND One of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council THOMAS BARROW the Authour's Father Humbly Dedicateth these DISCOURSES The Publisher to the Reader AMong the Remains of this pious and learned Authour fit to be communicated to the publick none more likely to be of general use and advantage than this Explication of the Lord's Prayer the Decalogue and the Doctrine of the Sacraments whether we regard the brevity and plainness or the admirable weight and fulness of it And therefore I thought fit to publish it in a small Manual by it self and not to join it with other Discourses of the Authour that so this little Treatise which is so necessary and usefull to all might be had upon the easiest terms It were to be wish'd that the Creed also had been explain'd by him in the same manner but that he hath handled in a larger way in a great many excellent Sermons upon the several Articles of it wherein he hath not onely explain'd and confirm'd the great Doctrines of our Religion but likewise shewn what influence every Article of our Faith ought to have upon our practice These Discourses will make a very considerable Treatise which will in due time be made publick In the mean time enjoy and make use of this Jo. Tillotson AN EXPOSITION OF THE Lord's Prayer Orat. Domin Si per omnia precationum sanctarum verba discurras quantum existimo nihil invenies quod non ista Dominica contineat concludat oratio unde liberum est aliis atque aliis verbis eadem tamen in orando dicere sed non debet esse liberum alia dicere Aug. ad Probam Epist. CXXI AN EXPOSITION OF The Lord's Prayer AMong all the Duties prescribed to us by our Religion the rendring due Worship to God is in nature and for consequence the principal God thereby being most directly honoured and served we from it immediately deriving most ample and high benefits to the performance of which duty we are furnished with excellent direction and assistance from that Prayer which our Lord at several times and upon several occasions dictated and recommended to his Disciples both as a pattern according to which they should regulate their devotions Pray thus or in this manner saith he in Saint Matthew and as a form in which they should express them When you pray say that is say this or in these words so he injoins them in Saint Luke unto it therefore we should carefully attend as to our best rule and we should frequently use it as our best matter of devotion to the well performing of both which duties it is requisite that we should distinctly understand the particulars contained therein in order to which purpose we shall endeavour to explain them but first let us premise a few words in general about Prayer Prayer in its latitude of acception doth comprehend all devotion or worship immediately addressed unto Almighty God consisting of praise which we render to God in regard to his most excellent perfections and glorious works of submissive gratulation declaring our satisfaction in all the dispensations of his most wise and just providence of thanksgiving for the numberless great benefits we have received from him of acknowledging our total dependence on him and our subjection to him of professing faith in him and vowing service to him of confessing the sins we have committed against him with the guilt and aggravation of them of deprecating the wrath and punishment due to us for our offences of petition for all things needfull and convenient for us of intercession for others whose good we according to duty or charity are concerned to desire and promote Prayer I say although according to its most restrained sense it onely doth signifie one of these particulars namely the petition of what is needfull or expedient for us yet in its larger acception as it commonly is used it doth comprize them all and so we may well take it here this form although so very brief being with so admirable wisedom contrived as without straining the words beyond their natural importance we may applying a moderate attention discern them all as to their main substance couched therein so that we may indeed reasonably regard this Prayer as a compleat directory and a full exercise of all our devotion toward God of devotion I say the which to engage excite and encourage us to the carefull and constant practise thereof we may consider injoin'd us as a necessary duty commended to us as a requisite means of good and a special instrument of all piety and as a high privilege granted to us by God 1. It is a natural duty and debt we owe to God both in correspondence to the design of our being made and endowed with rational capacities agreeable to our relations and in requital for our being and for all the good we have and do continually receive from him as most highly to love and reverence him in our hearts so to declare our esteem of his excellencies and our sense of his bounty toward us to avow the dependence we have upon his will and providence the obligations we are under to his mercy and goodness to yield our due homage of respect submission and obedience to him if we do acknowledge a God our Maker our Lord our continual Benefactour to be we must consequently acknowledge these performances in reason justice and gratitude due to him and God accordingly requires and positively injoins them He is the Lord our God whom we must worship and serve the God whom praise waiteth for who heareth prayers and to whom therefore all flesh must come the Scripture is very frequent in commanding the duty 2. It is a most usefull means or a condition requisite for the procurement of benefits and blessings upon us God hath declared that he doth accept he hath promised that he will reward all devotions with an honest intention and pure mind offered up unto him that he is nigh unto all them that call upon him in truth that he will be found of them who seek him with all their heart that he will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he will hear their cry and will save them that they who seek him shall not want any good thing that whatever we ask in prayer believing we shall receive that if we ask it shall be given us if we seek we shall find if