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A30289 Three questions resolved briefly and plainly, viz. What conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God? What are those truths, whereof the knowledge appeareth most indispensibly necessary unto our salvation; and (therefore) to be first and most learnt by us? What is the change wrought in a man by God's H. Word and spirit, before he can safely conclude himself pass'd from death to life? Being the summ of three sermons. By Daniel Burgess. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1688 (1688) Wing B5718A; ESTC R213037 36,052 94

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Order And Desire them in this Order Let the Shame be on me if thou lose by this Use If God preserve us not in Being we are then incapable of Doing and Receiving any good Being we therefore first pray for If God Pardon not our Sins our Being is a cursed one and worse than none at all For we cannot avoid his Wrath which is the Hell of Hell. Pardon therefore we pray for in the second place If God deliver us not from sinful Temptation's prevalence our Being and past Pardon are very sorry things For Sin after Pardon is worse Sin and 't will kindle a worse Wrath of God. And what then becomes of us Deliverance from it we therefore Pray for in the third place We content us not to Pray but for the two former We Pray for all these and in this natural Method that our dear Redeemer teaches 5. High and honourable Thoughts of God must 〈◊〉 in all that Pray unto Him. And must be expressed in the entrance of their Prayer The Preface of the Lord's Prayer so teacheth us Father signifies Creator Ruler Benefactor These words Art in Heaven do not speak God's place for He is every where and is Place it self They signifie God's eternally being of such Perfections as neare above our minds as the Heavens are above the Earth Our Father also speaks much Our doth express Him to be the whole Church and World's Father I and so Loveful a Father that He has bound●●s Children every one to Love and Pray for all 6. Kingdom Power and Glory are the three steps by which our Minds rise in the Praise of God. Kingdom signifies his just Right to govern all things Power signifies his perfect Strength wherewith to do it Glory signifies his forth-shining Excellency which does and will for ever be in it The Excellency I mean of all his Perfections We do or should conceive of God as a Ruler most rightful and powerful and amiable or beautiful 7. Praise that is the highest of all Worship must not be sparingly used in Prayer The Preface and Conclusion of the Lord's Prayer are an Heaven if all of the Stars of Praise And no wonder for Greatness and Goodness are comprehensive of all God's Perfections Thanksgiving it self which is a Worship more noble than that which is more on the receiving hand it confiders but the Divine Goodness Yea and that it self but little more than as it derives and streams unto us But Praise considers and exalts God both as Great and as Good. In Himself and to us Good. Praising God can never be enough Prais'd or Practised by Us Psa 50. penult 8. Prayer is as necessarily to be Ended with Amen as to be Begun with Our Father My meaning is it must be concluded by all means with Desire Faith and Hope Amen signifies all Listlesness Vnbelief and Want of waiting and looking for Prayers returns do make Prayers as no Prayers Without the Heart's actual Amen after Prayer you interpretatively say Lord my mind 's already altered I now am indifferent whether Thou dost grant or deny me I believe Thou wilt Deny And I will not wait or look for thy Grant. Without an Amen with the mouth uttered some do suppose the Congregation injured 'T is certain where holy Amen's be not found Prayers be lost Commandment Truths twelve 1. The Object unto whom all supreme worship is to be paid is God Only To Him it must be paid by all Souls in all times with all strength And unto no other 'T is Treason to pay a penny Tribute to a rebellious Vsurper Or to worship with divine worship any tempting Creature If Jesus Christ were not God by Eternal nature I would not be Baptized into his name Or Pray unto Him any more than unto a Star. 2. 'T is as necessary that God be the Author as the Object of all religious worship We must give Him no worship but such as is prescribed by his Word His Worship must suit his blessed Nature and Will. And who can Know them but by his Word Idolatry is officious foolery Will-worship a like Phrenzy 3. 'T is not enough to worship the true God by the true Will of God for the Matter of it but the Manner also must be far from Prophane It must be with holy Reverence and humble Complacence and hearty Truth 4. 'T is not enough to worship the true God by the true Rule in the true and right Manner unless we also keep holy unto Him all such Time as He demands from us Such portions of every Day time and such of every Weeks time For the Lords-day against Judaizers read Mr. Ben Dr. Owen Mr. Baxter Holy Observance of the Lords day and of hour● of Worship on our own days is the Practi●● and Pleasure of men sincere 5. Obedience to all the former Commands sufficeth not without Duty unto Men. Especially Superiors Principally Honor of Parents natural The which are our Governors in time before Kings On a deeper foundation than that of Contract even of very Nature To them are we most Obliged and by them most Loved Well is the 5th Command called the hinge of both Tables I am sure this being broke all are broke And would Children and Parents but do their Duties toward each other it would make a sweet change of our English familys But hereof elsewhere Parents and Rulers are God's Vicegerents over us and next unto God should be Honored by us Loaded with honor as the Hebrew word is 6. As of our Duty toward man preservation of just Honor is the first Preservation of his Life is the next Death takes away time of Repentance and Earthly mercies all Look how near you come unjustly to Kill a man so near you come to the Devil's first service From the beginning he was a Murderer And so near come you to deprive him of all the good of this World and if he be not already Converted to throw him into Hell. If you do Murder a man you rob God the King and the Countrey of a Servant in this world 7. The third Kind of duty towards Man-kind is preservation of Chastity in our selves and others To defile is next to Kill one Obscene thoughts words and deeds be next unto Murderous ones Lascivious Goats and bloody Wolves be much like odious in God's eyes 8. The fourth part of our Duty towards man is preservation of his Estate To Contemn to Kill or to Defile is worse but to Rob and Injure in ever so little a matter is a Sin that God will not let go unrevenged Of how great infamy among men is the name of a Thief O that Thieves knew but God's thoughts of them 9. The fifth sort of duty to Man is preservation of them in their Causes and Suits of Law. By bearing true witness when called and abhorring all false All that tends to pervert publick Justice Lyars be Satan's Pictures 10. The sixth duty toward man is such Love of him as we bear unto our selves Such