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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

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

and fidelity in maintaining truth and right in avenging iniquity and falshood the reason of using it was derived from or grounded upon a persuasion about God which hath ever been common among men that God the Governour and Judge of the world the Protectour and Patron of right is always ready upon our invocation and reference unto him to undertake the cognizance of matters in debate and controversie between men for the protection of truth the maintenance of right and preservation of peace among them An oath saith the Apostle for confirmation is to men an end of all strife so that the use thereof becometh a main instrument of promoting those purposes the strongest tye of fidelity the surest ground to proceed upon in administration of justice the most sacred band of all society which therefore he that shall presume to violate doth not onely most unworthily wrong this or that person this or that society of men but doth what in him lies to subvert the foundations of all publick justice and peace withall most impiously abusing and affronting God Almighty himself profaning his most sacred ordinance making his name instrumental to the compassing his deceitfull and base purposes despising his judgment and defying his vengeance This seems to be the first and direct meaning of this Law but it may by parity of reason well be extended farther so as we may hereby understand all light and vain swearing all wanton and irreverent use of God's holy name and hitherto our Lord hath plainly extended it forbidding us to swear at all and charging us in our conversation to use onely the simple and plain manner of assertion or promise saying onely yea yea or nay nay without presuming upon any slight occasion to introduce the Holy Name of God which indeed we should not without extreme awe of spirit ever think upon nor without high veneration dare to mention 't is an instance of the most sottish folly 't is an argument of most horrible impiety that can be thus without any cause or temptation thereto without any profit or pleasure thence to trifle with the divine Majesty to abuse his glorious Name and provoke his dreadfull vengeance who will no wise hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain IV. Commandment Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy c. The Decalogue is in several places of Scripture as we before noted called a Covenant with the Jewish People and the observation of this Law is likewise so called in a particular and special manner It is expressed to have been appointed as a sign or characteristical note whereby their peculiar relation to God might be discerned and they distinguished from all other People As Circumcision was a seal of the Covenant made with Abraham and his posterity so keeping the Sabbath did obsignate the Covenant made with the Children of Israel after their delivery out of Egypt The children of Israel saith the text shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual Covenant it is a sign between me and the Children of Israel for ever and I gave them saith God in Ezekiel my statutes and shewed them my judgments which if a man do he shall live in them moreover I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them and Thou camest down from mount Sinai say the Levites in Nehemiah and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgments and true laws good statutes and commandments and madest known unto them thy holy Sabbaths where making known to them the Sabbaths as also otherwhere giving them the Sabbath are expressions together with the special ends of the Sabbath's appointment which are mentioned in those places confirming the judgment of the ancient Christians Justin M. Irenaeus Tertullian c. who refer the first institution of the Sabbath to Moses affirming that which indeed the history by its total silence concerning the Sabbath before him sufficiently doth seem to confirm that the Patriarchs were not obliged thereto nor did practise it And we may observe that the Law concerning the Sabbath is mentioned and insisted upon separately from the body of their Laws as being in nature different from the rest and enacted upon a special design as from the forecited passages appeareth and farther may appear from considering how the condition of Proselytes those of the stricter sort called Proselytes of Righteousness is described in Esay The sons of the strangers saith God in that Prophet that join themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love the name of the Lord to be his servants every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and taketh hold of my Covenant even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyfull in my house of prayer where to undertake the observance of the Sabbath and to lay hold of the Jewish Covenant are signified to be coincident or especially coherent All the other Precepts indeed one passage in the Second Commandment as it may be understood to prohibit absolutely the making of any similitude being liable to exception are immediately grounded in the reason of the thing and have a necessary obligation even visible to natural light they consequently have been acknowledged as reasonable and obliging by the general consent of men or might be so propounded and asserted by argument as easily to extort such consent but this Command although as to its general and remote matter it is most evidently reasonable and requireth that which no man can deny to be matter of necessary duty yet as to the more immediate matter as to the determinate measure and manner of performing those general duties no reason can discern an obligation distinct from or antecedent to the Law givers will to practise according thereto that we should frequently with gratefull and joyfull sense reflect upon the glorious works of God especially that grand and fundamental one wherein God's wonderfull excellencies of goodness wisedom and power were so illustriously displayed the creation of the world wherein so great accommodations and benefits were generally dispensed to all the creatures and to us eminently among them remembring with deepest respect and most hearty thankfulness our bountifull Maker that we should be unmindfull of the special favours by God's gracious providence vouchsafed to our country our relations our selves especially such very signal ones as was that of the delivery from Egyptian slavery in a manner so remarkable and miraculous that we should not spend our selves and our time in perpetually carking and labouring about affairs touching our body and this present life but should assign some competent time both for the relaxation of our mind and for attendance to the concernments of our soul that also we should allow fitting time of respite and refreshment to those of our brethren whom divine Providence hath disposed into a meaner