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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

services of God we should raise our mind above gross sense and fancy that we should entertain high and worthy conceptions of God that we should apprehend him incomparably superiour to all things which we do see or know that we direct our minds unto him as to a being transcendently perfect in goodness justice wisedom and power above what we can comprehend and think that which our Saviour calls worshipping God in spirit and truth which is as I take it the special positive duty of this Commandment I need not farther to urge how presumptuous and dangerous the practices of those men are who to the great danger and scandal of Christianity among Jews and Mahometans and men of other Religions notwithstanding these commandments of God backed with others of the same import frequently occurring in the Holy Scripture never that we find any intimation of repealed or relaxed particularly against that signal one made use or by our Saviour Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve without any ancient good authority or example without any necessity or good reason inducing do not onely yield themselves but violently force others to yield unto angels and unto the souls of dead men men of dubious state in reference to God not having past the last trial and judgment the result whereof 't is a profane temerity in us peremptorily to anticipate all kinds of worship both internal reposing trust and hope in them of obtaining benefits from them attributing unto them in their esteem the knowledge and power which for all that we can know are incommunicably proper unto God himself and external of prayer and invocation of praise and thanksgiving and not onely thus as to the substance imparting a kind of divine worship to them but as to the manner erecting images of them even in the places devoted to God's own service and affording to them the same expressions of reverence and respect that we do or can present unto God himself with great solemnity dedicating such Images to them with huge care and cost decking them with great semblance of devotion saluting them and casting themselves down before them carrying them in procession exposing them to the people and making long pilgrimages to them so that instead of the spiritual worship of God himself peculiarly required of Christians and to which our Religion is perfectly suted a Religion chiefly employing sense and fancy and for the greatest part directed unto the representations of creatures is substituted in despight as it were and in defiance of these Commandments the plain force of which they endeavour to elude and evade by slender pretences and subtle distinctions by the like to which there is no Law which may not as easily be rendred insignificant and invalid never in the mean time considering that these laws were not given to employ the wits of Sophisters and Schoolmen but to direct the practice of rude and plain people to which purpose no law after such artists have had the handling of it can signifie any thing nothing being so clear which by their cavillations and quirks they cannot confound nothing so smooth wherein they cannot find or make knots There is subjoined to these two Commandments as we reckon them others have accounted them but one and their opinion is somewhat countenanced by what is added here seeming to bear a common respect to both there is I say subjoined a reason or rather a contexture of reasons strongly pressing and encouraging to obedience deterring and discouraging from disobedience to them or indeed generally to all God's Commandments but especially unto these most immediately relating to Him For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God am El kanah fortis zelotes as the Vulg. Latine reads it it may seem to have been a name of God implying as all the other names of God do some attribute of God for it is in the 34th of Exodus said Thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose Name is Jealous or Kana is a jealous God I am a jealous God that is a God very tender of my honour and of my right who am impatient of any mate or competitour in respect to those duties which properly and incommunicably belong unto me I am saith God in the Prophet Esay the Lord that is my name and my glory I will not give to another nor my praise to graven images this Jealousie doth contain in it not onely a strong dislike but a fierce displeasure against the infringers of these Laws For the Lord thy God saith Moses in Deuteronomy pressing the observance of this same Precept concerning the worship of images is a consuming fire he is a jealous God And if God be thus jealous so easily provoked to indignation by our detracting his due honour and imparting it to any other we have great reason to be afraid of incurring the guilt of either for who can stand in his sight when he is angry who can support the effects of his displeasure Uisiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me Visiting the iniquities of fathers upon the children God doth not onely punish those persons themselves who commit notorious and heinous sins such as these of idolatry and profaneness whereby he is publickly wrong'd and dishonoured but the more to deter men who naturally bear much regard to their posterity and are afraid to be ashamed to appear the causes of ruine and calamity to their family he declareth that in respect to their doings it shall go ill with their posterity they shall therefore be more strictly and severely dealt with they shall upon this score be capable of less favour and mercy from God than otherwise they might have been for we must not hereby understand that God will arbitrarily inflict undeserved pains upon the children of bad men for the faults of their ancestours God doth expresly disclaim such kind of proceeding The Son shall not bear the iniquity of the Father the soul that sinneth it shall die saith he in the Prophet and Every one shall die for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sowre grape his teeth shall be set on edge but that he will upon that accompt withdraw his free favours from them 〈…〉 that measure of grace and indulgence which otherwise the son of such a person had he not been a great Traitour against God might according to the general course of God's goodness have received the which might have more effectually restrained him from sin and consequently have prevented his guilt and his punishment God may well in consistence with his justice and goodness to manifest his detestation of heinous wickedness withhold from him Such a son if he do fall into personal offences for that also is to be understood otherwise such is the goodness of God that he hath declared if a son seeing his fathers sins and considering doth not

cry out Holy Holy Holy confessing with the heavenly host in the Apocalypse that he is worthy of all honour glory and power we do also partly declare our hearty wishes that God may be every where had in highest veneration that all things relating to him may receive their due regard that all honour and praise all duty and service may in a peculiar manner be rendred unto him by all men by all creatures by our selves especially that all minds may entertain good and worthy opinions of him all tongues speak well of him celebrate and bless him all creatures yield adoration to his name and obedience to his will that he be worshipped in truth and sincerity with zeal and fervency this particularly in the Prophet Esay and by S. Peter is called sanctifying God's Name in opposition to idolatrous and profane Religion Sanctifie the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your fear let him be your dread saith the Prophet and Fear not their fear nor be troubled but sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts saith the Apostle Thus do we here pray and wish in respect to all men and to all creatures capable of thus sanctifying God's Name but more particularly we pray for our selves that God would grant to us that we by our religious and righteous conversation may bring honour to his name so that men seeing our good works may glorifie our Father which is in Heaven Vouchsafe saith he that we may live so purely that all men by us may glorifie thee so descants S. Chrysostome Thy Kingdom come This Petition or devout wish being subordinate to the former as expressing a main particular of that which is there generally desired we here to the glory of God desiring a successfull and speedy propagation of true Religion seems in its direct and immediate sense to respect the state of things in that time more especially befitting our Lord's Disciples then when the Kingdom of God that is the state of Religion under the Evangelical Dispensation was coming and approaching according to that of our Saviour in S. Luke I say unto you of a truth there be some of you standing here that shall not taste death till they see the Kingdom of God whence it did become them in zeal to God's glory and charity for mens salvation to desire that Christianity might soon effectually be propagated over the world being generally entertained by men with due faith and obedience that is that all men willingly might acknowledge God as their Lord and Maker worshipping and serving him in truth that they might receive his blessed Son Jesus Christ as their King and Saviour heartily embracing his doctrine and humbly submitting to his laws to which purpose our Lord injoins his Disciples to pray that the Lord of the harvest would send labourers into his harvest and S. Paul exhorts the Thessalonians to pray that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified And in parity of reason upon the same grounds we are concerned and obliged to desire that Christian Religion may be settled and confirmed may grow and be encreased may prosper and flourish in the world that God's authority may to the largest extension of place to the highest intention of degree universally and perfectly be maintained and promoted both in external profession and real effect the minds of all men being subdued to the obedience of faith and avowing the subjection due to him and truly yielding obedience to all his most just and holy laws Thus should we pray that God's Kingdom may come particularly desiring that it may so come into our own hearts humbli●● imploring his grace that he thereby would rule in our hearts quelling in them all exorbitant passions and vicious desires protecting them from all spiritual enemies disposing them to an entire subjection to his will and a willing compliance with all his commandments for this is the Kingdom of God which as our Lord telleth us is within us the which doth not as S. Paul teacheth us consist in meat and drink in any outward formal performances but in righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost that is in obedience to God's will and in the comfortable consequences thereof this is the Kingdome of God which we are enjoined before any worldly accommodations first to seek Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven This Sentence is likewise complicated of praise good desire and petition for we thereby first do acknowledge the wisedom justice and goodness of God in all resolutions of his will and dispensations of his providence 1. We profess our approbation of all God's counsels our complacence and satisfaction in all his proceedings our cheerfull submission and consent to all his pleasure joining our suffrage and saying in harmony with that blessed Choire in the Revelation Great and wonderfull are thy works O Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways O thou King of Saints We disclaim our own judgments and conceits we renounce our own desires and designs so far as they appear inconsistent with the determinations of Gods wisedom or discordant with his pleasure saying after our Lord Let not my will but thine be done 2. We do also express our desire that as in heaven all things with a free and undisturbed course do pass according to God's will and good liking every intimation of his pleasure finding there a most entire and ready compliance from those perfectly loyal and pious spirits those ministers of his that do his pleasure as the Psalmist calls them so that here on earth the gracious designs of God may be accomplished without opposition or rub that none should presume as the Pharisees and Lawyers are said to doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to disappoint or defeat God's counsel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to thrust away or repulse God's word as the Jews did in the Acts to resist provoke or defie God by obstinate disobedience as many are said to do in the Scriptures but that every where a free humble hearty and full obedience be rendred to his commands 3. We do also pray that God would grant us the grace willingly to perform whatever he requires of us perfecting us as the Apostle speaketh in every good work to do his will and working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight contentedly to bear whatever he layeth upon us that God would bestow upon us a perfect resignation of our wills unto his will a cheerfull acquiescence in that state and station wherein he hath placed us a submiss patience in all adversities whereinto he disposeth us to fall a constant readiness with satisfaction and thankfulness without reluctancy or repining to receive whatever cometh from his will whether gratefull or distastefull to our present sense acknowledging his wisedom his goodness his justice in all his dealings toward us heartily saying with good Eli It is the Lord