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A27600 An exposition of the divine standard of prayer, styl'd the Lord's Prayer of the preface, conclnsion [sic], and of every petition of it, as of the prayer of the kingdom of Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1692 (1692) Wing B2141; ESTC R37096 69,284 79

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God and of the Lamb in the New Jerusalem above and also to have regard in their P●ayers according to this Prayer to the New Creation of God in a New Earth a State of Restitution to all the Creatures as in a New Jerusalem below And even through all This our Lord hath in this Prayer peirc'd and soar'd beyond even into the Kingdom of Eternity when God shall be All in All. Now as to the First the State of the Kingdom of Grace which is now and also with relation to the Kingdom of Eternity which shall be at the utmost hereafter of the Kingdom Deliver'd up I presume to add nothing to the General Expositions already so full but shall only endeavour to draw the Lines of the Discourse in parallel to the Epiphania or Lustre of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ in his Glorious Appearance I only premise in the General That I rest upon the Guard of Providence over this Elect Portion of Scripture And that it hath so watch'd over it as to surprize and prevent any Change of it So that we have whatever the Divine Spirit Dictated to the Evangelists concerning it and just as it Dictated to each Evangelist I therefore matter no Difference of Copies but as this Prayer is giv●n by Two Evangelists and at Two several Times and on Two several Occasions or Accounts so God hath preserv'd the Prayer in each Evangelist as we find it and so I proceed to Discourse upon it I begin with this Prayer therefore as we find it in the Evangelist Matthew where it is plac'd in the midst of the Sermon on the Mount in which our Lord gathering together the great Heads of the Spirituality of the Doctrine of Christianity relating to Practice and Action necessarily falls upon that high Point of Prayer First He Regulates the End and Intention of Prayer as having to do with God only in secret and banishes from it all Pharisaic Ostentation and Desire to be seen of Men and from thence he slides into the manner or modelling of Prayer and bars the Heathen way of Praying from making an Invasion into the Christian Church as it seems it had done on the Jews upon whom the Gentiles Times of Servitude under the Romans now sate heavy and their Principles had too much Leav'ned many of the Jews Our Lord therefore Cautions his Disciples against the Leaven of Herod implying the Gentiles and against the Leaven of the Pharisees implying the Corrupted Judaism Mark 8. 15. And undoubtedly in this very Prayer our Lord Remonstrated to All After-Ages of Christians against that False Judaism and the Gentilism of the Antichristian Apostacy in this very matter of Prayer which yet in his Divine Spirit He Fore-saw would come upon it under the working of the Mystery of Iniquity and the Revelation of the Man of Sin And the Apocalyptick Prophecy foretells it under those very Names Jews who Lyed in saying They were Jews and were not and Gentiles who Crouded into the Outer Court and Took away this Daily Sacrifice of Spiritual Evangelical Prayer and brought in Idolatry and Superstition in rhe room of it When therefore our Great High Priest and Prophet Commanded to Pray after this manner giving only the Summary of Prayer that must needs intend Enlargement according to every Head and in this Plain and Unaffected Method and intire Composure of Prayer without interruptions or breakings off without Repetitions without intermixed Responsals or Suffrages He hath for ever Damned All those prescribed imposed Liturgies and Litanies that consist of these and particularly the so often Repetitions of this Prayer which is exceedingly injur'd and affrouted thereby the very avowed intention of it being against all Affected Repetitions and so of it self especially Accordingly the First and purest Times of Christianity pray'd after this Plain Unaffected Manner of Prayer Ye● it is not to be thought It was any part of our Lord's meaning to abridge the pouring out Prayer unto God when the Soul is full of Affection and flows out into Expression as abundant even as Himself continued a whole Night in Prayer and hath left to his Church upon Record that much larger Prayer as it were some Sample of his Great Intercession John 17. Nor does he lay his Prohibition upon the Repetition of the very same Words when the Spirit within insisting earnestly upon the same Thing Naturally chuses again and again the very same Words Fot he himself Thrice used the same Words concerning the Removal of the Cup from him Now with this Prayer as given in this Sermon on the Mount hath our Lord interwoven many great Principles of Christianity as he makes plain by enlarging upon them as that of Forgiveness of Trespasses according to that That we should forgive even as we desire to be Forgiven of seeking the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness of i● in the First place according to that Thy Kingdom come of trusting Providence with the Things of To Morrow according to that Give us this Day and of not trusting to the saying Lord Lord without doing the Will of our Father according to that Thy Will be done Of All which the Exppsitors of this Prayer in general have excellently treated Let it be then allowed and acknowledg'd that the Sum of the Account of our Lord 's giving this Prayer as in the Sermon on the Mount is To give a Prayer Commensurate with the whole Doctrine of Christianity to all his Disciples And his commanding Them to pray after this manner included a Command to obtain an Acquaintance with the Spiritual Sense and Meaning of this Prayer which they are to learn from the whole Word and Gospel of the Kingdom For it cannot be expected the Great Concernmenss of Christianity this Prayer refers unto as they fall within Prayer in general should be found explicitly within this Summary of Prayer for them That Christians therefore may be able to pray after this manner or according to the mighty Importances of this Prayer the Variety of their own States and all the Occasions thereof and according to the various Motions of their own Spirits the whole Word and Gospel of the Kingdom must dwell Richly in them that they may all steer by the Compass of this Prayer as Men upon the Sea shape various Courses and yet all sail by one Compass that never varies So should we in Prayer by this Prayer understood according to the whole Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and no otherwise to be understood And as to the Manner That there should be no Prescribing after Christ For what can the Man do that comes after him who would yet prescribe no otherwise than thus in brief and in this plain sincere way without Artifice without Doublings this way and that way and yet by such an All-Comprehending Wisdom that no Man can pray according to the Word of God but he must pray according to this Prayer For it is as the Sea to Prayer All the Rivulets of Prayer come out of
Enemy Death is subdued and then is the End 3. When this Heaven and Earth Fled away There was no Place Found For them When any one dies it is said Their place knows them no more Their place remains but it knows them no more Another comes in their place Or as it is said in Job Out of their Earth another grows So when the Heaven and Earth that now are are burnt up another Heaven and Earth shall come in their room But when this Heaven and Earth Fly away there is no place for them not so much as place where they may be and so not where any other may come 4. The Heaven and Earth that now are are Treasur'd up for fire and are to be for the perdition of ungodly men and so in other Scriptures But these fly from the sole Presence of Him that sits on the white Throne These Two Descriptions are very differing But if All These Things could be Accommodated and it be said There are New Heavens and a New Earth that succeed c. 21. those which fly away c. 20. I further Argue Argum. 4 The Heavens and Earth that fly away c. 20. are no other nor can be any other than the very New Heavens and New Earth that John saw c. 21. And though to draw a Veil on Prophecy They are set as it were in a Succession to the Heaven and Earth that Fled away yet there are several Great and Undeniable Arguments That the Flying away of the Heaven and Earth spoken of c. 31. must be after the New Jerusalem State and therefore must be of the New Heavens and New Earth that were created New together with the New Jerusalem For the New Heaven and Earth John saw are so close Tied with the New Jerusalem as not to be separated For after the mention of them it is immediately subjoyn'd I John saw the New Jerusalem that made her self Ready as a Bride Adorned for her Husband cap. 19. Come down cap. 21. And again after the seeing both the New Heavens and the New Jerusalem He that sate on the Tbrone said Behold I create All New So there is a Locking in the New Heaven and the New Earth even on purpose with the New Jerusalem that they may not be Divided But the Flying away of Heaven and Earth from him that sate on the white Throne must needs be after the New Jerusalem For it is after the Holy City and the Beloved City which was no other than the Bride the New Jerusalem that was therefore Beloved because the Bride and therefore Holy because Arrayed in Linen White and Clean which is the Righteousness of the Saints Now this New Jerusalem must be together with the Thousand Years also for at the end of the Thousand Years Satan was Let Loose to make the Attempt on the Holy and Beloved City by deceiving the Nations into that Attempt Now Satans being let Loose is expresly said to be when the Thousand Years were expired so the City must needs be during the Thousand Years in Peace and Safety and Attempted at the end of the Thousand Years when Fire Comming down to destroy the Enemies and Satan not being Sealed up only but cast into the Lake after this Attempt immediately Following the White Throne and Heaven and Earth flying from the Face of Him that Sat upon it So then the Heaven and Earth that Fled away must be the New-Heaven and Earth that were together in the Holy City during the Thousand Years And yet hath not this Kingdom End when the Thousand Years End because Christ delivers up the Saints into the Enjoyment of God the Principal Part of this Kingdom but yet much more strictly and properly the Kingdom is delivered up Because what was more Immediately mannaged by Christ in the Humane Nature in a Visible and Conspicuous Glory is now mannaged by the Divine Nature conveying his Love by the Eternal Word through the Human Nature in Grace to his Saints and in Wrath to those in the Lake For the Kingdom delivered up is the Power delivered up and it is explained by the Son being Subject and by God even the Father therein opposed to the Son being All in All All things else Being then Subdued and the Glory shining from the Father by the Eternal Word Vibrated by the Eternal Spirit through the Human Nature For so Assures us our Lords whole Discourse John 17. 21. to the End And with this whole State of things upon close Examination will be found to Agree all the Oeconomies of Scripture and otherwise none of them will be found to Agree So that if it should be said why should not this Prayer be understood of the present State of the Kingdom as High as we can attain in it and then of the Absolute Perfect and Supreme Kingdom of Eternity The Answer is very plain He who is the only Wise God hath found the Oeconomy of this Kingdom of Christ necessary both as a Mirror of his own Wisdom and Glory in Relation to his Creation as Restored by the Redemption of Christ and also as a preparation of his Saints by Christ in the Glory and Holiness of Human Nature for that Union with himself in the Absolutely Divine Kingdom of Eternity In which That Last Act of Jesus Christ as in our Nature seeking not his own Will nor Glory but the Glory of the Father He does not only in and by himself perform as that Highest Act of Obedience and self Resignation but he United all his Saints with him in that Act that however the State of the Kingdom of Christ might seem more proportioned to the Human Nature as of Spirits in Bodies Christ the Head for his whole Body of Saints the Church and they in and by him Choose and are most gladly Delivered up into that whole State to have Body as much as can stand with Remaining Highest Spiritualiz'd Bodies and Distinct Beings swallowed up of God all Spirit and Created swallowed up of Increated and is that Last and most perfect Act of Christs Declaring to All the Name of the Father and wherein He will declare it that the Love wherewith the Father Loved Christ may be in them and He in them John 17. ult All which is in cluded in this Prayer for the Kingdom I have now so far as I can understand setled the Principal design and find the true Elevation of this Prayer as the Prayer of the Kingdom and Vindicated it from all objections I now come to Adjust each part of this Prayer hereunto which Consists of a Prefatory Address and a Doxological Conclusion and as they are Generally Accounted Six but as I Account Seven Petitions Answerable to the many Sevens in the Revelation Leading to the Kingdom of Christ And the reason why I Account Seven what others Account but six is Those Two Lead us not into Temptation But deliver us from Evil very naturally fall into Two Petitions and express Two distinct very High things though Both fall into one State