was worthy to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing And as he was only worthy so God his Father alone was able to give so great power for it was given which implies that Christ as man had it not of himself it was not an original and primitive but a delegate and derivative power 2. He was no usurper he did not glorifie himself he had a fair and clear title by donation from the universal supream and eternal Soveraign who might justly dispose of it as he pleased he was decreed to this place from of old designed to it from his Birth and Conception and began to act in it after his Baptism But upon his resurrection he was declared more solemnly to be King and Priest The words of the decree and patent were these Psal. 2. 7 8. Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee for then God set him his King upon his holy hill of Zion gave him the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession And as by these words he was made King so by the same he was made Priest for so we read Heb. 5. 5. He glorified not himself nor took upon him to be high Priest but he was made such by him who said Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee This day is the day of resurrection and for God to beget him that day was not only to raise him from the dead but to create him universal King and Priest When he was ascended into heaven he was set at the right hand of God took more full possession of his Kingdom and by oath was confirmed an eternal Priest and from that time began to exercise his universal power to command the Angels and to rule over men Sect. 3. The end wby Christ signified unto them the receiving of this power was 1. To let them know that now in part he had received his glorious reward for his deep humiliation and great service performed upon the Cross and the time of his full glorification was at hand and that suffering was the way to glory 2. That he had full power to grant them a large commission and therefore as his Father sent him so he sends them and as he could so he would make good whatsoever they did according to this patent for upon this universal power received by Christ depends the ministry of the Gospel and the efficacy of Word and Sacraments which must continue unto the worlds end and by vertue thereof the Apostles and their successours shut and open the gates of heaven and what they bind or loose on earth is ratified in heaven and this is the great comfort to the universal Church and especially to the Ministers thereof that the blessed Lord and Saviour who hath made so many and great promises is enabled by this great power to make them all good Chap. 2. Ver. 19. Of Christs mandate Sect. 1. NOw follows the second commission granted by Christ unto his Apostles wherein we have the institution of the Ministry for the dispensation of Word and Sacraments tending to the conversion edification and eternal salvation of sinful man and in the text with the words following three things are observable 1. The party granting the commission 2. The parties to whom it s granted 3. The parts of it 1. The party granting it is Christ as risen from the dead having received all power in heaven and earth and ready to ascend into heaven that he might send down the Holy Ghost to enable the persons commissioned more fully to discharge their trust 2. The parties to whom it was granted were first the Apostles and in them all Ministers lawfully called to succeed them in the dispensation of the Word and Sacraments 3. The parts of the commission are two 1. A mandate 2. A promise 1. The mandate we have in these words Go teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you This mandate in respect of the matter hath four parts 1. They must go to all Nations 2. They must preach and disciple them 3. They must baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost 4. They must teach them to observe all the commandments of Christ. The promise also for the matter is twofold for Christ engageth himself unto them for 1. His presence and assistance I will be with you 2. The continuance of his presence and assistance for he will be with you to the worlds end The mandate did give them power and bound them to exercise it The promise did encourage to go on with the work and gave them hope of success The mandate bound them to Christ the promise bound Christ to them The words of the mandate and promise may be reduced to three propositions or divine axioms The 1. Christ grants a commission to the Apostles 2. In this commission â—se commands them to go disciple baptize teach all Nations 3. He promiseth certainly to be with them always unto the worlds end The 1. Christ grants a commission to the Apostles is to be handled briefly to make way for the enisung discourse A commission issuing out from some eminent power hath two effects for it 1. Gives authority and power to the party commissioned 2. Binds to exercise that power according to the instructions given This Authority and the obligation usually follow upon a Mandate for when God or higher powers command any under their power to do any thing expressed in the mandate then the party commanded hath not only power but is bound to do it when Christ therefore as universal Lord and Soveraign had signified his will and pleasure unto the Apostles and expressed what their work was this signification was not only a sufficient warrant for the dispensation of Word and Sacraments in the administration of his heavenly Kingdom but also bound to the performance of their duty And now if they do any thing specified in the mandate it must needs he valid according to the Constitution of the universal Empire and they must be indemnified as no ways guilty of presumptuous usurpation or intrusion into their Office And if they be diligent and faithful in their place and perform their duty they may make a good account and expect a reward By vertue of this mandate the Apostles received an extraordinary and all Ministers duly qualified elected approved an ordinary power And it s a great comfort and content unto a Minister when he can truly say and his conscience testifie it I did not go before I was sent and the word of the Lord came to me before I did presume to declare it to others I did not assume power before it was given me neither have I done any thing for which I have not my Masters command As Christ gave so the Apostles received this commission yet
is represented the universal and supreme and efficient cause of all things out of himself the Scriptures inform us of 3 things His Wisdom contriving All things His Will decreeing All things His Power effecting All things For God beholding himself and his Almighty power and knowing that he could do many great and glorious things out of himself and that nothing was impossible to him did before the foundation of the world exercise 1. His Wisdom in contriving all things he was pleased to effect 2â— His will in decreeing them according to his Wisdom 3. His power in effecting all things he had decreed In his Wisdom contriving we have the true Idea and model of all things in his Will decreeing the certain and unmoveable foundation of the future existence Thus all things being prepared before hand by the counsel of his will when he thought good he issues out of himself with his Almighty executive power and begins to effect what he had thus contrived and decreed And the works effected are two 1. Creation 2. Providence 1. Creation whereby he made and that by himself alone this vast stately magnificent and stupendious pile and Fabrick of Heaven and Earth and all the hosts thereof which in all Nations in all times and places proclaims his glory and his eternal power and Godhead The stuff and matter was nothing the workmanship most curious the work it self wonderful the beauty was pure and glorious and the order excellent and far above all expressions of the tongue of man The principal and most noble creatures amongst all the rest were Men and Angels immortal intellectual and free creatures created holy and righteous and capable of Eternity felicity when God finished this great work and saw that all every thing that he had made was very good he ceaseth from this work of Creation and kept his Sabbath which was a rest not from all working but only from this first for he did not leave his creatures to themselves but took care of all and every one and continued to work though in another kind and is working still For saith Christ Jo. 5. 17. My Father worketh hitherto and I work For he did exercise his power in preserving and ordering all things created Hence the works Of Preservation Of Ordination 1. He preserveth supporteth all things made and continues their being so long as he will have them to enjoy their being substance vertues For by him all things do subsist If he either withhold his hand or stretch out to destroy them they perish and cease to be what they were 2. Because all things were made in an excellent order and had their ends for which they were created therefore he doth not only preserve them but directs every thing unto its end The principal subject of this Ordination are Men and Angels and especially Men and in the Ordination of men the principal work of all was Redemption which God before the world did decree and in the beginning of the world upon the fall of man did promise and in fulness of time issued out of himself by his eternal word made flesh to redeem man performed And so we come unto the second part of our Saviours Creed infolded in the word Son For as we have the most glorious being of God his eternal acting upon himself with the great and excellent works of Creation and providence implyed in the word Father so we must understand by this word Son God the word made flesh redeeming sinful man In this part of providence the Scriptures inform us 1. Of the person Redeemed 2. Of the party Redeeming 3. Of the work of Redemption 1. The party redeemed is sinful man who being tempted by the Devil sinned and fell into a miserable condition yet God pitied him and entertained thoughts of his deliverance and did chuse one who was mighty to save 2. The party redeeming was the word made flesh anointed with the Holy Ghost so that for his person he was the eternal word and Son of God for his Natures nited in one person and eternally distinct which were his Godhead and his Manhood for his Offices they are three for he was made a Prophet a Priest a King who as man was coceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary This was the way whereby the word was made flesh 3. The work of Redemption which was begun in his humiliation and accomplished by his exaltation For the Scriptures tell us that it was the will of God according to the contrivance of his wisdom that his eternal Son made flesh should so humble himself in this flesh assumed as to become a servant and in that low estate be obedient unto death the death of the Cross which he suffered with greatest patience in obedience to his heavenly Fathers command for to expiate the sin of man This he did as a Priest sacrificing himself unto God the supreme Judge and by this offering he so pleased God and was so much accepted as that by his own blood he entred the holy place of heaven and obtained eternal Redemption purged the conscience from dead works and confirmed the new covenant for ever By this Bloody sacrifice of his Consecration he satisfied divine justice and merited all mercies necessary for the eternal salvation of man That this Redemption might be complete he that was humbled so low was advanced as high and the degrees of this advancement and exaltation were 1. His Resurrection 2. His Ascension into Heaven to sit at the right hand of God to exercise all power in heaven and earth till all enemies be subdued and then he shall come to the universal judgment of the quick and the dead When Christ was set at the right hand of God and confirmed in his everlasting Priesthood the Scriptures inform us that to make his sacrifice and death effectual and communicate the blessings which he thereby had merited he first sends down from heaven the holy Ghost God from the beginning and the first promise of a Redeemer issued out of Eternity to sanctifie sinful man but when the great high Priest had offered his great sacrifice and rose again and was established in his Throne at his right hand this spirit was poured out in great abundance upon all flesh reveals the Gospel makes it effectual upon the hearts of men converts them by faith ingrafts them into Christ upon his intercession regenerates them sanctifies adopts them raiseth them up at the last day makes them fully holy and fills them with eternal joy before the face and Throne of God for ever All this is to be understood in the last word of this Creed the Holy Ghost who is thus represented to us in the Scriptures of God Sect. 3. Yet here it s to be observed 1. That though Creation and Providence be attributed and as it were appropriated unto the Father yet the Father doth neither create nor preserve nor govern the world but by the Son by the Holy Ghost 2. That
did give the promise and he was only fit to do it for there can be no doubt either of his fidelity or power as he was able so he was resolved to make good what he had said and his word was his deed and will be so unto the end He and he alone could procure the Spirit and send him down from heaven the Angels were at his command all creatures at his beck and as he had begun so he was resolved to finish the work of mans salvation This his purpose he might have concealed or reserved to himself a liberty yet he was willing to promise and by a promise not only to signifie his mind that they might know it to their comfort but also to bind himself unto them And now he cannot go back This promise is a ground of unspeakable comfort and encouragement to all faithful Ministers and doth assure us the Church shall continue to this worlds end Sect. 4. The third thing to be considered is the thing promised and that is Christs certain presence with them to the worlds end where we have 1. His presence 2. The continuance 3. The certainty of it 1. His presence is signified in these words I am with you which implies that he will not be against them nor will he be absent from them for there are enemies who are against us and there are friends which are absent and far from us but Christ will not be an enemy or a Friend at distance 2. It 's Christ that will be present I will be with you and that 's more then if all men and Angels should be for us and ever present with us 3. This presence is not bodily for Christ was justly after this promise taken up into Heaven bodily and the Heavens must contain him till the restitution of all things 4. It s a spiritual presence and the same far more excellent than that of his body for though a body may at several Times be present in many places yet it cannot be present in more places than one at one time but Christ by his Spirit might be with them in all places at all times for he promised before his death and passion to send the Comforter which should comfort their hearts in his absence teach them and lead them into all truth and upon Penticost he sent down his Spirit upon the Apostles which hath continued and will continue in the Church for ever 5. This is not a bare or meer presence for so this Spirit is present in all places at all times neither is it a presence with some general power for so he is with all things to preserve them But it s a special presence with a special active power for spiritual ends to produce spiritual and supernatural effects It is a presence not only to comfort strengthen assist and deliver them but also a powerful presence to make their Ministrry effectual for the eternal Salvation of mens Souls This Holy Ghost discended and rested upon Christ when he was ready to preach the Gospel and execute publickly his Offices When he first sent these Apostles he gave them the gifts of this Spirit After his Resurrection he breathed on them saying Receive ye the Holy Ghost commanded them to stay at Jerusalem and wait for this Spirit upon the day of Penâ—ecost as before this Spirit came upon them By this Spirit all the Members of the Church are sanctified the Ministers qualified the Word and Sacraments made effectual and sentence of the Church so valid and of such mighty force Take away this spirit you take away the life and soul of the Church the power of the Ministry the efficacy of Word and Sacraments and without it all the Preaching Praying and other works of the Ministry will not be able to convert or comfort one Soul It s said I will be with you that is with you mine Apostles and your Successors in the Ministry to assist and bless and guide you in the discharge of your trust and execution of your office Dispense you the Word and Sacraments by the faithful observance of my mandate endeavour to save poor Souls and in that work I am with you no ways else so that such as are most faithful and diligent are most certain of his gracious presence Here is no promise made unto any particular Church or Ministers more than to others here is no express mention or intimation of the Bishop or Church of Rome or Jerusalem or Antioch or Constantinople The promise is made to the Church in general and their Ministers especially to such as are most faithful in their place and office Sect. 5. This is the presence the continuance of this presence is the second thing observed and is expressed in two words 1. Always or every day 2. To the worlds end 1. Always signifies that there shall be no intermission or interruption of Christs presence and assistance He will not absent himself or neglect them or desert them for a day so that they shall never have any cause to complain or say where is my Saviour now whether is he gon why hath he forsaken me There may be sad and woful times wherein Christ may seem to hide his face and to have forgotten them for a certain time yet even then Christ is with them and his faithful Ministers though he doth not appear and instantly manifest himself He must be with them always or else he breaks his promise and that he will never do Let us therefore do our duty always and Christ will be always with us 2. He will be with us to the worlds end this may be a longer this may be a shorter time Some understand the last period and end of that present generation the destruction of Jerusalem and the death of the Apostles and the reason of this opinion may be because some take the promise to be personal and to be made only to the Apostles for their lives yet this is rather a conceit than any solid well grounded truth especially seeing the end of the world in other places signifies either a far longer time than the life of a mortal man on earth unto the consummation of the creatures and to all eternity So the person or the time of the final judgment when the world shall be no more but Christ shall raise the dead deliver up the Kingdom to the Father and God shall be all in all for when the number of Gods Saints is finished there will be no need of Word or Sacraments or Ministers and then this promise is performed to the full But whilst these continue as they shall continue to the end Christ is bound and will certainly be with them that he may make his redemption effectual by them in the 〈…〉 sion and salvation of poor sinners 〈…〉 3. The certainty of this perp 〈…〉 seems to be implyed in the note of attention Loe and in the verb of the present tense for Christ doth not say I will be but I am with you for nothing is more certain than that which is present Besides some Copies have Amen added which is a strong confirmation of the promise But this certainly doth chiefly depend upon the power and fidelity of Christ who hath made the promise and hath kept it in all times unto this day And the particle Loe doth require as their so our special attention and serious consideration both of the person promising and the thing promised that they might be fully assured of performance to the utmost By vertue of this promise it is come to pass that in the midst of the tumults and confusions of the world and af ter the ruine of so many glorious kingdoms of so many potent Empires and of so many flourishing Churches of particular Nations yet an universal Church with Word Sacraments and Ministry do continue to this day and the gates of Hell could never yet prevail against it so that we may take up the Words of the Psalmist Come behold the works of the Lord what desolations he hath made in the earth the Lord of Hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge for this God is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide unto death Amen FINIS
means of Conversion of the Word Sacraments Sabbaths Ministery of Information and Instruction Promises Threatnings Conmands Reproofs Exhortation good Examples Afflictions and many other things used by God in the vocation the power of the spirit accompanying these means and working upon the heart of the sight and sence of sin of godly sorrow fear hope prayers tears hearkning unto the word receiving it into the heart longing after Christ some beginning of comfort faith and conversion To this place also reduce the Scriptures which speak of the contrary as God passing by a people and denying them the means of conversion of such as to whom the means is vouchsafed yet they refuse to receive them despise them blaspheme rebel persecute Gods messengers and seek the abolition of Gods Laws and Kingdom Of such as seem to receive these means yet do not use them or if they use them yet not diligently and aright but are like to the high way the stony or the thorny ground Such places as speak of impenitency hardness of heart unbelief neglecting the day of Visitation unfruitfulness under the means of Salvation Hypocrisie Apostacy all neglect or resistence of any motives unto repentance deferring the time of conversion after conviction and falling off from any resolutions to repent or any degree of grace To that of Justification which presupposeth not only Gods mercy and Christs merit but also the sinners Repentance Conversion and sincere faith may be reduced all Scriptures which speak of Christs Intercession Remission Regeneration Reconciliation Adoption Manifestation of Gods special love hope of glory a right unto eternal life peace of conscience joy in the Holy Ghost freedom from condemnation removal of judgements the earnest and first fruits of the spirit abiding in us the guardance of Angels near communion with God Gods special care of the justified the turning of every thing to their good mortification of sin sanctification continued good works heavenly affections divine vertues patience and perseverance in Hearts Afflictions Persecutions Martyrdom Conflicts with sin Satan the world fastings falls recoveries increase of heavenly vertues longing desires to be with Christ watching praying providing for removal hence and the last account comfortable death conveyance into Abraham's bosom the secure expectation of the Resurrection freedom from all sin misery temptation and troubles of this life To this Head must be referred all such Scriptures as speak of the contrary as of Gods desertion after disobedience to his heavenly call withdrawing the light of the Gospel taking away his blessed spirit leaving the parties thus deserted to the power of Satan delivering them up to a reprobate mind security in sin despair terrours of conscience loss of all the former mercies and graces or rather a dinial of them exemplary judgments as forerunners of eternal destruction abiding under Gods eternal displeasure a cursed death and a reservation of the parts thus dead unto final condemnation and that sad condition till that time To the last of Glorification refer such places as speak of the universal Resurrection of the power and spirit of God raising us the manner of this Resurrection the nature and excellent qualities of the body raised as being immortal uncorruptible glorious spiritual and like the body of Christ our final Justification and glorious reward of ejoyment of the blessed presence of God and Jesus Christ our full and final Sanctification by the spirit our Society with Saints and Angels our spiritual glorious pleasant Paradice our full joys eternal pleasure unspeakable content freedom from all sin temptation sorrow songs of praise and the certainty and security of the continuance and perpetuity of full bliss Here also must come in those parts of Gods word which speak of the contrary as of the resurrection of such as are designed to eternal death upon their final impenitency of the immortality of their bodies that they may eternally suffer in body and soul their appearance before the dreadful Judge their condemnation their ejection out of Gods blessed presence into utter darkness and unquenchable fire their society with the Devil and his Angels their everlasting and intollerable sorrows and pains and the certainty of the continuance thereof without any hope of ease intermission deliverance Sect. 7. After that I have first declared the substance of the Scripture abridged in the Creed and secondly given some directions how to reduce the principal particular places of the word of God unto the heads of the Creed I now proceed to reduce the former particulars into the form of a Confession in this manner I believe in God the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost who is only One Infinite Incomprehensible Eternal infinitely and eternally Wise Just Holy Powerful Glorious and every way Perfect and perfectly knows and loves himself from everlasting and is blessed in himself unto all eternity I believe that this One Glorious God did by his wisdom contrive and by his will decree to do many things out of himself and when he thought good he issued out with his Almighty Power to effect those things which he had before contrived and first he created Heaven and Earth and all things therein and the most glorious place which he made was the Heaven of heavens and the most excellent creatures were Men and Angels intellectual immortal free capable of Laws and of an eternal estate Man for his body was created of the dust of the earth and by the breath of God became a living soul and he was sanctified by the holy Spirit endued with heavenly gifts and virtues whereby he was righteous and holy and like unto his God and capable of eternal bliss tho his present estate was not immutable he might stand he might fall When this great work was finished by his Word Spirit without any pre-existent stuff any assistant any tool or instrument he continued by his Almighty power to support and preserve all things which do subsist by that word whereby they were created at the first By creation he manifested his eternal power and God-head became the absolute surpreme and universal Lord of all things and so continues by his preservation I believe that as he preserves all things created so he orders all things preserved in such a manner as that a Sparrow falls not to the ground without his will And as he created all things in an excellent order and gave them their inclinations power moving and tending to some end so he by his wonderful Wisdom directs every thing unto its several end and all things to the supream which is the manifestation of his glory In this ordination the government of his most noble creatures Men and Angels which he orders by certain Laws and Judgements unto an eternal estate as most excellent and wonderful to both he gave certain laws which they were able to observe and upon the observation they might certainly expect a confirmation in that blessed estate for which they were created many of the Angels sinned and were
pray in charity and love towards others 7. As he is Almighty and Almerciful in Christ in whom he hath promised all things we must pray in greatest confidence 8. Because our necessity is great and we seek great and necessary things from him so we must be instant importunate wrastle with him and not let him be quiet till he hear help and bless us Sect. 3. In the body of the prayer we must observe the Method and excellent order to which he hath reduced all matters to be prayed for To understand this we must consider that he hath made two general heads and parts of petition the 1. Of supplication the 2. Of deprecation In the former we petition for all good we can justly desire In the latter we seek deliverance from all evil where unto we are subject The good we pray for is spiritual or temporal the spiritual respects Gods glory in 1. Hollowed be thy name or our spiritual happiness in the coming of his Kingdom 2. In doing of his will Temporal good we pray for when we say Give us this day our daily Bread Deliverance from evil is two fold either from sin or affliction The evil of sin is either guilt of sin past or temptation to sin in time to come The former we seek in these words Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them who trepass against us The latter in these Lead us not into Temptation Deliverance from evil we pray for when we say Deliver us from evil Sect. 4. We begin our petitions with these words Hallowed be thy Name where by name we must understand the excellent Majesty and supream Dominion of God our heavenly Father in respect of which all honour glory power and praise are due to him and ought to be ascribed unto him by men and Angels for ever yet all this doth not make him more glorious and excellent then he is in himself for what can be added to that which is infinite This excellency and supream dominion we profess to believe in the first Article of our Creed and promise to acknowledge in the first commandment of the moral Law And here we pray for the universal acknowledgment in the first Petition for such must be our respect to him as that above all things his name may be glorified therefore in these words we pray that his name and supream excellency may be manifested more and more both by his Ordinary and Extraordinary works of creation and providence and also by his blessed word especially by the Gospel of Christ. â— That being manifested to us and to all others it may be more and more clearly known 3. That being known we and all others may acknowledge it and submit with all our hearts to him as supream Lord and that he may be glorified in the eternal destruction of such as will not honour him as supream Lord. In these words we pray against all Atheism Idolalatry Profaneness Rebellion Apostasie and the usurpation of divine power 2. We pray Thy Kingdom come where we have 1. A kingdom 2. The coming of it 3. A petition for the coming of it Gods Kingdom is two-fold 1. Universal and general over all 2. Special over men The latter here is meant this second Kingdom respects Men as sinful and ready to perish yet as having some hope of Salvation by the Redemption of Jesus Christ therefore it s the kingdom of God Redeemer looking upon Man as first redeemed and so ordinable unto everlasting salvation for sinful Mans happiness begins in Gods love which moved him to give Christ to death for the Expiation of our sins for this was the laying the foundation of Eternal Life The coming of this Kingdom is the exercise of his power to make redemption effectual for then this kingdom comes to any person or persons when God Redeemer begins to reign by his Word and Spirit and by them calls men to repentance and faith The end where at this government aims is the ruine of all enemies and the eternal peace of all such as shall submit unto his power and continue to be loyal and obedient subjects Thus God did alwayes reign since the first promise of Christ made unto Adam but this reign advanced and became more glorious after that Christ was â—et at the right hand of God sent down the Holy Ghost revealed the Gospel and it shall be consummate when all enemies shall be subdued and Gods chosen Saints fully and for ever glorified Some make two degrees of this Government the first of grace and the second of glory The one begins with our first conversation the other with the resurrection In this petition therefore we do not seek of God the coming of Christ nor the conquest of Sin and Satan upon the Cross nor of death by his resurrection nor his exaltation to the right hand of God nor the beginning of his reign for all these are past But we pray that our heavenly Father would 1. Send his Ministers with the Gospel and the power of his Spirit into all nations who sit in darkness and the shadow of death and contrive the means of conversion to all people who enjoy them and in particular to us 2. That he would make these means effectual to the conversion of many 3. That he would justifie sanctifie adopt all such as are converted 4. That he would do these things more and more till he hath subdued all sin in them 5. That he would hasten to subdue death the last enemy by the resurrection and the last change of mortal bodies 6. That all enemies being conquered he may reign perfectly and that when Christ hath delivered up the kingdom God may be all in all his Saints and give them perfect holiness full joy and peace everlasting 7. That he would by degrees and at last totally and finally destroy all the power of Satan Sin Death wicked Men which oppose our Salvation and Eternal Peace The principal thing desired is first eternal life then all means which conduce unto the end The principal effect of this Government is destruction of Rebels and Enemies and the conversion and salvation of his People To this head may be referred all Petitions for the ruine of Babylon and Antichrist persecuting Enemies both open and secret for good Magistrates Ministers and Governours in Church and State for powerful preaching of the Gospel for good discipline and due administration of the Sacraments and here is to be observed that the more his Kingdom comes the more his name is hallowed and glorified 3. Yet because no man can enjoy the benefits peace and priviledges of any Kingdom tho never so excellent except he will submit unto the power of the Prince observe his Laws and do his will therefore that we may attain to the eternal peace and felicity of this Kingdom we pray that the will of our heavenly Father may be done where we have 1. The will of God 2. The doing of it 3. The manner or pattern of doing 4.