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A08806	A godly learned exposition, together with apt and profitable notes on the Lords prayer written by the late reuerend orthodoxe diuine, and faithfull seruant of Iesus Christ, Samuel Page ... ; published since his death, by Nathaniel Snape, of Grayes Inne, Esquire.	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.; Snape, Matthew.	1631 (1631)	STC 19092; ESTC S924	210,836	387

of such offences are properly against our selues Sworne men are bound by vertue of their oath to enquire after such as doe not liue in the obedience of the lawes of the Church and of the Common-wealth their oath is faithfull to present such delinquents to superiour authority that the ecclesiasticall or ciuill Magistrate may proceed against such delinquents to punish them according to law This is the oath of Church officers and of the Sworne-men of the Iewry let me admonish such that they make conscience of that oath for the wisedome of the State hath put them in trust to giue intelligence of law-breakers for the common good that by punishing of offenders the law may stand in full strength In this case let no Sworne-man take vpon him to forgiue an offender by suppressing this sworne intelligence for the faults detected are not personall trespasses done to them but of an higher nature preuarications of the lawes of God of the Church or of the Common-wealth and therefore out of our power to remit them against their oath to conceale them Mercy here is cruell to such as doth deceiue the trust committed to them and breake the oath sworne by the holy name of God for God will not hold such innocent and it is cruelly to society which is best preserued by inquisition and delation of offenders This resolution of this case of conscience doth also cleare another for a Magistrate to whom the supreme and soueraigne authority doth giue subordinate regencie for administration of equall iustice though as a priuate person he ought to remit offences done to him as he would haue God forgiue him yet in offences done against the law he hath rules set him from which hee must not swarue The soueraigne Magistrate doth commit to the subordinate the dispensation of his iustice and to this he is sworne but he reserueth to himselfe the dispensation of mercy to qualifie and mitigate the rigour of law so that remission of offences in that case is out of the power of deputed Iudges Concerning cases of difference betweene man and man the question is whether those that solicite God in this petition may prosecute suits of law one against another seeing wee stand so strictly obliged to forgiuenesse Our answer is that in regard of the many differences which grow betweene men here God hath ordained Magistracie and politicall gouernment to set all to rights and to assigne suum cuique Therefore in all cases of variance we ought to resort to our Iudges and by men experienced in the lawes to alleadge what wee pretend for our right and to submit our selues to their iudicature So as children goe to a father to iudge between them and this may be done in charity of them who seeke for nothing but equall iustice They that mingle trickes of wit vntrue suggestions cunning suppressions of truth corruption of Iudges or witnesses or any other indirect conueyances with their iust cause or bumbast an euill and leane cause with this vniust addition doe highly offend God and abuse the remedy which God hath ordained to establish peace They that malitiously pursue rightfull cases or cunningly colour vnrightfull with the false dye of seeming pretences striue against charity and peace They that reinduce suits of molestation making iust lawes vniust roddes to scourge those whom God would haue spared trespasse loue But in a case of personall iniury by deprauation of our good name by hurt to our persons or to any thing belonging to vs we may charitably forgiue the wrong done to vs and iustly pursue the offender ad dignam emendationem LVC. 11.4 And leade vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill THis Petition is commonly by our late Writers called the sixt and last Petition of the Lords prayer But the Fathers heretofore haue diuided it into two making seauen petitions whom I follow These foure last petitions are chained together with a coniunction copulatiue Giue vs our daily bread that we may liue and forgiue vs all our sinnes past and present that we may bee reconciled to thee And leade vs not into temptation that we may liue in all godlinesse and honesty hereafter But deliuer vs from the euill one that is from Sathan that hee may haue no power to corrupt our vnderstandings or affections This coniunction is doctrinall 1 It teacheth that wee haue no warrant to pray to God for the necessaries of life except our desire bee to liue well for why should we desire life of God but that we may liue to good workes which God hath ordained for vs that we should walke in them 2 To liue in our sinnes vnrepented of vs vnpardoned of God is to liue most vnhappily therefore the former petition is to reconcile vs to God for all things past amisse and these following petitions serue for preuentions of offences to come O let me liue and I will praise thy name Sinne no more said Christ lest some greater euill fall vpon thee In the storie of the poore widow that was much indebted whom the creditor threatned to take her two sonnes for bondmen in satisfaction of the debt when she made her moane to Elisha that he would take compassion of her Elisha demanded what she had in the house she answered nothing but a pot of oyle he willed her to borrow many empty vessels and she did so and poured out of her pot and filled them all then said the Prophet Goe and sell the oyle pay the debt and liue thou and thy children of the rest In this miracle of Gods mercy our sinnes bee our debts iustice is the creditor which exacteth satisfaction the oyle that must pay the debt is the grace of God which bringeth saluation to all men My grace saith Christ to Paul is sufficient for thee Sufficient it is to pay the debt of all our sinnes past sufficient for vs to liue on in the time to come for this oyle we pray in these petitions forgiue vs our sinnes demandeth so much as will pay the debt and leade vs not into temptation desireth enough to maintaine vs for the time to come that we may not runne againe vpon the score in a new reckoning These two cares must not be parted Christ hath put them together Ecce sanus factus es then followeth Noli amplius peccare For without this nothing that we heare from God nothing that we aske of God speedeth with him or vs for Dauid saith If I regard wickednesse in my heart Dominus nom ex audit we must not be like dogs and swine returning c. We must as Saint Peter aduiseth consider that the time past of our life may suffice vs to haue wrought the will of the Gentiles when wee walked in lasciuiousnesse lusts excesse of wine reuellings banquettings c. There must be a forsaking of sinne before there can be a partaking of mercy as Salomon saith who so confesseth and forsaketh sinnes shall haue mercy There be two things

last to it For as the Psalmist The Lord is king be the earth neuer so impatient hee sitteth betweene the Cherubimes But the kingdome of God is opposed by sundry enemies and he hath committed the vengeance of his enemies to his Son who when he hath subdued all the enemies of his fathers kingdome to him then shall the kingdome of God appeare in ful glorie and there shall be none left to oppose it or to rise against it 3. Where it is said that the Sonne himselfe by whom all the enemies of this kingdome shall be subdued shall then be subiect to the father this reuealeth a double mysterie of grace to the Church 1 That the Sonne hauing finished the office of his Mediatourship betweene God and man shall not lay downe his humanity with it for when it is said that the Sonne shall be subiect to the Father that cannot be in respect of his Diuinity for so he is equall to the Father he must therefore continue man still 2 The vse of the humanity of Christ retained after the accomplishment of his office and the deliuery vp of the kingdome of his Father is another gratious mystery for he remaineth still the head of the Church and that is the knot of our vnion to the Father for Christ hath a double Office 1 One of reconciling the Church to his Father 2 Another of confirming and establishing the Church in this glory He drawes vs to him by his word by his spirit that he may reconcile vs and so he presenteth vs to his father without spot or wrinckle and confirmeth vs in that state both of fauour glory by maintaining our vnion with him for which he keepeth the hypostaticall vnion eternally vndissolued Indeed that Hypostaticall vnion of the Diuine nature with our humanity is not compleate in absolute perfection till wee be one with him as he is with the father which hee prayeth for And therefore the Apostle calleth the Church triumphant The fulnesse of him that filleth all in all for when he hath drawen all to him and made them one with him as he is one with the Father then there is that perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he desireth and no opposition left to resist or disturbe it for euer Then the father is declared vniuersall King and his glory is reuealed without any Eclipse all the clouds which obscured it are remooued all the enemies of it vtterly confounded Then is he both reuealed and confest The King of glory Now you haue heard how many sorts of kingdomes God hath the next question is which of these kingdomes we pray for that it may come And here I wonder that I finde great interpreters both ancient and moderne at some difference some vnderstanding the petition of one others of another of these kingdomes but the solution is easie and it is worke for another day to resolue it To cleare this question of which of these kingdomes this is meant one obiection is made that these three first petitions of this prayer by consent of most interpreters are to be referred wholly to the glory of God and concerne God onely from whence it is concluded that wee pray not here for the kingdome of grace by which God ruleth in his Church at large and particularly in the soules and consciences of the faithfull for to pray so is to pray for our selues And the same is alleaged for the kingdome of glory which God giueth to his chosen for they say to pray for the comming of that is also to pray for our selues and for our owne future glory And for the first which is the kingdome of Gods power by which hee ruleth the world which hee hath made that is thought not to be here meant because that kingdome hath euer beene come since God began the world begun in the creation and proceeding in the conuersation and gubernation thereof Therefore it is concluded that no other kingdome here is praied for but the last of Gods full glory when Christ shall haue subdued all his enemies vnder his feet and shall then himselfe be subiect to him when God shal be all in all To which obiection my answer is that the ground of this dispute is false and fallacious that only the glory of God is desired in the three first petitions without respect had at all to our selues For in the first petition when wee desire of God the hallowing of his name doe we not desire that it may be hallowed by vs and therein we doe as well begge our owne sanctification to that holy seruice as the speciall honour of Gods name for as I haue shewed the name of God will be glorified in despight of all opposers but it is sanctified onely by such as are holy So in this second petition we exclude not our selues though we seeke the glory of God we doe withall seeke our owne glorie in it therfore I am not carried with the strong streame of our later writers though of reuerend memorie in the Church of God to shrinke vp this petition to any one of these aboue mentioned kingdomes but I shall euer in my deuotions comprehend them all 1 We desire the comming of the kingdome of Gods power in the generall gouernment of the world for though that kingdome be come already in part yet it may be more declared to the world then yet it is and it must be exercised with the continuation of the world yet more and more and that we pray for For how many nations and languages of the world yet are there who though they doe confesse some deity whom they pretend to serue yet they are not come to this knowledge to beleeue and confesse that The Lord is King The comming of the Kingdome of Gods power to these may declare him King of kings and Lord of Lords Though the Deuill could not catch the Sonne of God in this net hee hath preuailed with many to make them beleeue that hee is the supreme Monarch of this world and that all the kingdomes of the earth are at his dispose which maketh many goe to the Deuill for the kingdomes of this world though some ouer-weaning the Popes temporall power by which hee claimeth a Monarchicall supremacie ouer the kingdomes of all the world haue sought to him for such high preferment For the Pope stands as stiffly vpon the claime of all the kingdomes subiection to him as the Deuill doth They are all giuen to me and to whomsoeuer I will I giue them Therefore I pray let thy kingdome O Lord declare it selfe and let the Deuill and the Pope both know and learne the lesson which thou taughtest proud Nabuchadnezar that The most high ruleth in the kingdome of men and giueth it to whomsoeuer he will Let all the nations of the earth know that these two great impostors the Deuill the Pope do gull their credulous deuotoes for neither of them hath any thing to doe with the kingdomes of the