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woman_n	child_n	mother_n	womb_n	3,217	5	9.6644	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96361	Pantheologia or the summe of practical divinity practiz'd in the wilderness, and delivered by our Saviour in his Sermon on the Mount. Being observations upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St Matthew. To which is prefixed a prolegomena or preface by way of dialogue, wherein the perfection and perspicuity of the Scripture is vindicated from the calumnies of Anabaptists and Papists. By Tho. White B.L. minister of Gods word at Anne Aldersgate, London.	White, Thomas, minister of St. Anne's, Aldersgate.	1653 (1653)	Wing W1806; Thomason E1466_1; ESTC R208673	167,277	207

viz. for all for it is not said Give me but us c. The Prayer it self is divided into three parts 1. Introduction Our Father c. 2. Petitions which are divided into supplications Hallowed be thy Name c. and deprecations Forgive us c. 3. The Conclusion or Doxology For thine is the Kingdom c. In the Introduction 1. There is the Person prayed to viz. God 2. The relation he hath to us Our Father 3. The place where he in a more especial manner is present viz. Heaven That we are to pray to none but God is apparent 1. Because none else knows our wants Isa 63.16 2. None can know our prayers 1. Because at the same time there are an hundred thousand praying 2. Because he that knows our prayers must know our hearts because it is the heart that prayes and not the tongue otherwise though the desires were never so fervent if the words were not so significant the prayers would be lesse regarded 3. Because none else can grant our prayers 4. Because there are none so willing for he is our Father the Saints but our brethren 2. The Parent loves his children better then they one the other The LORDS PRAYER Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give vs this day our dasly bread And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debters And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever Amen THe prayer is divided into four parts 1. The Preparatory part or Introduction Our Father which art in heaven 2. The body of the Prayer which is divided into two parts Supplications which are four and Deprecations 3. The Doxology For thine is the kingdom c. Or it may be brought as hereafter shall be shewed as a reason why we beg these things of God 4. The Conclusion of all viz. Amen or if you will the praying over the whole prayer again in one word There are some small differences between our Translation and the Original The first is this Oh Our Father not Our Father The second the word art is not in the Original The third that which we translate Heaven is Heavens in the plural number For the expository part there is little difficulty I am only in this that it is said that God is in heaven 1. We must take heed that we do not understand it exclusively as if God were no where else as in Job 22.15 that God walked in the circuits of the heaven For God is as truly and as essentially in earth as in heaven and Solomon saith That the heaven of heavens is not able to contain him 2. We must take heed of thinking that God is so in heaven as a place which makes him happy for if so he should neither be infinitely nor eternally happy for heaven is not the happinesse of God but God the happinesse of heaven the heaven of heavens God is said to be in heaven 1. In respect of manifestation here we see him but darkly there face to face 2. In respect of union 3. In respect of fruition all these shall be abundantly greater for their own faith shall be turned into vision our hope into fruition our love into union Or else this may be added not onely not as a limitation of Gods presence but to distinguish him from our earthly fathers there are two words that distinguish God from our natural fathers 1. That he is in heaven 2. The word Our since there is none that is the Father of all the elect save one God We may consider these words either in themselves or as a preface or introduction to the prayer 1. In themselves the first truth therefore in the words is this that God is the Father of all his people Now God does not take empty titles upon himself but fils up whatsoever relation he takes upon himself to the utmost therefore whatsoever the tenderest lovingest parents in the world are to their children God is much more First We have our beings under God from our parents but we have our beings more from God then from them 1. Because we have it originally from God but from them instrumentally 2. We have our bodies from our parents but our souls from God Eccles 12.7 Heb. 12.10 3. We have our being but our depraved being from our parents but our well-being from God By generation we have it from our parenrt by regeneration from God 4. Though we have our bodies in some sense from our parents yet we have them much more from God for a mother knows not her childe before it be born whether it be beautifull or deformed knows not what parts it hath and what it wants but Psal 139. in his book are all our members written Secondly Parents know their children there are many Kings and Monarchs that know not their servants but none but knows their children Can you go to any mother that cannot tell you how many children she has and their names but God knows his children farre better then any parent and to help our faith God does use many rare expressions and to signifie what special notice he takes of his children Exod. 28. to write down their names is not so much as to engrave them and God thinks no matter good enough to engrave his peoples name in the preciousest stones in the world he must have for them to be engraven in nay he will have their names engraven twice as you may see Exod. 28. and Aaron is not to appear before him but with the names of his people upon his heart nay to shew that there is no precious stone or any thing under heaven that is good enough to engrave his peoples names on he engraves them in the palms of his own hands Isa 49.16 that is the first thing God knows his people by name and that is a wonderfull honour 2. A wonderfull comfort Isa 43.1 Exod. 33.12 2. God knows the dispositions of his children Psalm 103.13 3. He does more then any father for he numbers the very hairs of their heads Mat. 10.30 Nay as God knows his people so he never forgets them a father may nay a mother which is fullest of affections nay a mother may forget her sucking childe who as yet has not by any disobedience provoked her to forsake him for she is not only the nurse of it but the mother of it the son of her womb Nay a mother may forget though she has but one the sonne of her womb Isa 49.15 Nay all women may forget for it is said though they should for a woman to forget one childe if she has many but for all the women in the world to forget their childe whiles it sucks though they have no more is a kinde of an impossibility yet it is more impossible for God to forget his people Nay but God sets down the