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A47625	A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh.	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1654 (1654)	Wing L1008; ESTC R25452	1,648,569	942

that Petition and so when evils are praied against their causes occasions and events are praied against 5. What we pray for we ask not for our selves alone but for others specially our brethren in the faith There be three parts say some of the Lords Praier the Preface the Praier it self and the Conclusion Others say two the Preface and the Praier it self consisting of Petitions and the conclusion containing a confirmation of our faith joyned with the praising of God and also a testification both of our faith and the truth of our desire in the word Amen The Preface is laid down in these words Our Father which art in heaven The Petitions are six in number all which may be reduced unto two heads 1. Gods glory 2. Mans good The three first Petitions aim at Gods glory as this Particle Thy having relation to God sheweth The three last Petitions aim at mans good as these Particles Our Us having relation to man imply Of those Petitions which aim at Gods glory The first desireth the thing it self Hallowed be thy name The second the means of effecting it Thy Kingdome come The third the manifestation of it Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Of those that aim at mans good the first desireth his temporal good Give us this day our daily bread The two last his spiritual good and that in his Justification Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us 2. In his Sanctification And leade us not into temptation but deliver us from evil In the Conclusion or form of praise three things are acknowledged 1. Gods Soveraignty Thine is the Kingdome 2. Gods Omnipotency And the Power 3. Gods Excellency And the Glory All these are amplified by the perpetuity of them For ever which noteth out Gods Eternity The entrance or preparation to the praier contains such a description of God as is meet for us whensoever we addresse our selves to praier to have him in our hearts Christ leads us here to direct our Petitions in the terms of affection faith and fear in the terms of affection while we call God Father in the terms of faith whilst we call him our Father and by faith make him to be ours in Christ Jesus and in the terms of fear whilst we acknowledge his power in heaven and earth M. Wischart on the L. P. The Preface containeth a description of God to whom we pray taken 1. From his relation to us that he is Our Father 2. From the place where his Majesty principally appears that he is in heaven The former signifying especially his love the other his power the one his goodnesse the other his greatnesse therefore he is both able and willing to grant our requests A due consideration of these both together is a special means to preserve in us both confidence and reverence Our Father Father is taken 1. Personally My Father is greater then I. 2. Essentially so here God is a Father to us only in Christ and in him only w● are adopted and born again Ephes. 1. 5. Iohn 1. 12. Gal. 4. 4 5. Adoption is an act of the free grace of God the Father upon a believer accounting him a Sonne through the Sonship of Christ. All by nature are strangers and enemies to God have lost their Sonship Adoption is to take a stranger and make him his Son Extranei in locum liberorum samuntur saith the civil Law 2. It is an act of the free grace of God the Father none but he hath power to adopt Ephes. 1. 5. 1 Iohn 3. 1. Men adopt because they want a posterity God had a natural Sonne and the Angels which never sinned were his Sonnes by Creation 3. An act of God upon a believer none are adopted but believers Iohn 1. 12. Gal. 3. 26. till then we are enemies to God 4. The nature of Adoption lies in accounting a man Sonne and that by God 1 Iohn 3. 10. 5. Through the Sonship of Christ imputing Christs righteousnesse to us makes us righteous God accounts you also sons through Christ he gives you the priviledge of sons Iohn 1. 12. It is lawful and sometime profitable for a childe of God to say in his praier My Father to declare his particular confidence not his singular filiation yet it never ought to be so used exclusively in respect of charity but we ought usually to call upon God as our Father in common In secret praier which a man makes by himself alone he may say My Father or my God but not in publick or with others yet in secret praier there must be that love and affection toward others which must be expressed in publick and with others If God be your Father know your priviledges and know your duty 1. Know your priviledges a Father is full of pity and compassion Psal. 103. 13. a Father is apt to forgive and passe by offences Father forgive them said Christ Matth. 6. 14. a Father is kinde and tender good and helpfull you may then expect provision protection Matth. 6. 32. an inheritance from him Luke 12. 32. As he gave his Sonne in pretium for a price so he reserveth himself in praemium for a reward Tam Pater nemo tam pius nemo saith Tertullian Gods love towards us is so much greater then the love of earthly parents as his goodnesse and mercy is greater Isa. 49. 15. 63. 15. Psal. 27. 10. Luke 11. 13. 2. Know your duty Where is the filial disposition you expresse towards him do nothing but what becomes a childe of such a Father Rules to know whether I am the childe of God or have received the Spirit of Adoption First Where ever the spirit of Adoption is he is the spirit of Sanctification 1 Iohn 3. 8 9 10. Secondly Where the spirit of Adoption is there is liberty 2 Corinth 3. 17. Psal. 51. 12. Thirdly The same Spirit that is a Spirit of Adoption is a Spirit of Supplication Rom. 8. 15. Fourthly This works in that mans soul a childe-like disposition makes one tender of his Fathers honour willing to love and obey him Fifthly It raiseth up a mans heart to expect the full accomplishment of his Adoption Acts 3. 19. 1 Iohn 3. 16. Rom. 8. 32. He desires to partake of the inheritance to which he is adopted Heaven is a purchase in reference to the price Christ hath paid an inheritance in reference to his Sonship Isa. 63. 15. Which art in Heaven In Heaven sets forth his Greatnesse Psal. 12. 4. Gods Being Majesty Glory Ioh 4. 19. Heaven is all that space which is above the earth of which there are three parts Coelum Aëreum Gen. 1. 8. Aethereum Gen. 1. 14. Empyreum Acts 3. 21. The first Air in which are the Birds Fowls of Heaven The second is that Heaven wherein the Stars are which are called the hoast of Heaven The third is the seat of the blessed and throne of God called

of that seeing a man may do the secret will of God and perish as Iudas 4. A man may do the secret will of God and yet sinne and desire what is disagreeable to the secret will of God and not sin Deut. 29. 29. Vide Scultet Exercit Evang. l. 2. c. 33. Secondly As revealed The will of God setting down what we ought to do believe and leave undone That very same will of God which being hidden from us is called the secret will of God being manifested to us is called his revealed will There is 1. The will of Gods Purpose called Voluntas beneplaciti this is to be admired and adored There is no reason of this but his own pleasure This is infallible Rom. 11. 33. called the counsel of his will Acts 4. 28. Immutable and effectual shall take place in all ages 2 Tim. 1. 9. 2. Of his Word called Voluntas signi what ever it is by which he hath declared his purpose his counsel commands prohibitions threatnings promises ●●s Commandments are to be obeyed his counsels to be followed his threatnings ●● be feared and his promises believed 3. Of his providence this consists in his permission of evil and oper 〈…〉 good the one is to be submitted to the other to be acknowledged Heb. 1 〈…〉 life is worthy the name of life till we be subject to God then we live the 〈…〉 f grace and comfort He is better and wiser then our natural parents and our 〈…〉 on to him stronger Be done It is set down impersonally to shew the extent of our desire In Earth That is by men dwelling upon Earth As it is in Heaven By the creatures in Heaven the Angels their habitation being put for them Psal. 103. 20 21. as here is not a note of equality but of quality and likenesse as 1 Iohn 3. 3. Forgive us as we forgive them that trespasse against us not that our forgiving is a patern for God The Angels 1. In all their worship have high and glorious apprehensions of Christ Isa. 6. 1. Ezek. 1. 26. especially of his holinesse Isa. 6. 26. Revel 4. See 1 Chron. 29. 1. 1 Cor. 14. 25. 2. They are not acted by their own spirits in their services Ezek. 1. 19 20. See Cant. 4. 16. Rom. 8. 14. 3. They are abundant and constant in duty Psal. 103. 20 21. they cry day and night 4. They are harmonious in their worship Ezek. 1. 6. the Curtains in the Tabernacle had their hooks and t●ches See Zech. 14. 9. 5. They are zealous in all their services therefore they are called Seraphim they go and come as lightening Ezek. 1. 14. See Rom. 12. 11. 6. After all their services they give an account to God Ezek. 9. 11. Here we pray for grace and strength to obey Gods will in all things This Petition depends on the first as it is a means tending to that end which is there proposed on the second because it is an effect and complement also of that Kingdom Gods will is 1. Really good Deut 3● 16. 2. Essentially originally the measure and rule of goodnesse Omnis boni bonum 3. Perfectly good without any mixture of evil Rom. 12. 2. 4. Immutably and infinitely good Iob 23. 13. 5. Effectually he brings good to passe Psal. 135. 6. 6. Supreamly and ultimately Petition 4th Give us this day our daily bread Our Saviour according to the use of the Scripture which commonly handleth the shortest first dispatcheth this Petition that concerneth the preservation and maintenance of this present life A man must live before he can live vertuously therefore we pray for the maintenance of this present life We are first taught to ask temporal things 1. Because it is an easier matter to depend upon the providence of God for the maintenance of this life then to relie on his mercy for the salvation of our souls and therefore the Lord would have faith trained up by the easier that we may learn to repose our trust in him for the greater 2. Because the things of this life are amongst those things which we ask of the least value therefore they are cast into the middle rank this order is inverted Prov. 30. 7 8. This is an expresse Petition for good as the three former are but the two last are deprecations from evil It was therefore requisite that all the good things to be craved should be mentioned before the evils against which we pray The things craved in the two last Petitions are to be obtained in this life In this life if pardon of sinne and freedom from Satans power be not had they can never be had it is meet therefore that life be first prayed for and such things as are requisite for the preservation thereof The Lord by placing temporal blessings whereof we are more sensible before spiritual doth endeavour by degrees to raise up in us a desire of spiritual blessings which though they be more needful are lesse sensible The Ruler whose sonne Christ healed was thereby brought to beleeve in Christ. To give is freely to bestow and so it implies two things 1. That the thing given be good for a giftlesse gift is no gift 2. That it be bestowed freely By Us is meant every one here we beg for our selves and others This day That is as Luke expounds it for a day Quantum huic diei sufficit so much as sufficeth for this day or as others expound it According to the day that is Give unto us that which is fit and convenient for us in this our present estate Our daily bread Bread is said to be ours 1. When we are in Christ and have title to it in him God put all things in subjection under him Heb. 2. 2. When it is gotten by good means in a lawful calling Ephes. 4. 28. 3. When it is lawfully left or given us or we are born to it 4. That which we lawfully possesse and use to the praise of God that is not ours which we should give to the poor By bread some understand Christ because this is set before the two other Petitions So Mr Finch in his sacred Doctrine of Div. on the L. P. and gives divers reasons for it Others expound it of the Sacrament 1 Cor. 10. but this being a platforme of prayer earthly blessings must necessarily be here expressed otherwise there should be no Petition for earthly blessings Daily That is that bread which is fit and meet for our substance and our condition and state of life answerable to that Prov. 30. 8. Some expound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supersubstantial or above substance that is that bread which is above substance and better then all wealth and riches meaning thereby our Saviour Christ Iohn 6. 33. But the word it self if we derive it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth rather agreeing to our substance then exceeding above substance as the Greek Authors As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word like