flesh withall for because Salomon did neither aske riches honor not long life but wisedome therefore the Lord gaue them al to him So that the like was not vnto Salomon 2. Chro. 1. 12. before nor since for wisedome riches and honor 2. Secondly it teacheth vs that euery day we must come to God by prayer 3. Thirdly these words daily bread or as in Luk. 11. Bread for the day It teacheth vs this lesson not to haue any mistrustfulnesse of Gods promises nor vse no vnlawfull meanes to get our liuing seeing the Lord is faithfull that hath said I will not leaue thee nor forsake Heb. 11 thee Yea the scriptures say cast your care vpon God for he careth for you Math. 6. and knoweth whereof yee haue neede before ye aske Neither will he that clotheth the Lillies feedeth Rauens suffer any of his to want their food For if God cloath the grasse of the field which to day flourisheth and to morrow is cut downe Then much more will he man whome he hath so dearely loued and so dearly bought And this made Dauid say The Lions shal Psal 34. be hunger bit but those that feare God shall lacke nothing Beleeue we not this O we of little faith are we like the Israelites in the wildernesse to tempte God or are we as incredulous as the Prince that told the Prophet though God should 2. Kings 7. 17. make wonders in heauen yet that great dearth could not be turned into such a plentie as God by his Prophet tolde it should be And surely infidelitie and vnthankfulnesse is the cause of all wante Therefore if we would want nothing let vs trust God ô we of little faith then fides Famem non timet Faith feareth not Dearth Giue So the word in the originall signifieth Gen. 3. 20. to giue or bestow freely Psa 4. 7. From which we learne these lessons Pro. 23. 26. First that all we haue commeth Ps 104. from God and therefore whether Gen. 43 14. we haue little or much we must giue him praise for the same Isa 9. 6. Secondly that man may toyle and labour and if God giue not a blessing all is in vaine for saith Dauid promotion is neither from the east nor from the west but of the Lord. Therefore ô rich man seeing thou hast nothing of thy selfe but all that thou hast thou hast receiued boast not of it as if thou hadst not receiued it neither be thou proud of that which is not thine owne To vs. BY this we learne euery one to seeke anothers good and euery man to pray for the good of his brother Not like Ahab neuer to be at rest till we haue got Naboths Iob. 31. 19. vineyarde But with Iob not to eat our morselles alone but the fatherlesse to eate with vs neither to see any perish for want of clothing but to couer them that whē the Lorde shall call vs to account for these earthly riches we may be found faithfull stewards hauing beene faithfull in small matters he * The old Prouerbe euery mā for himselfe but true diuinitie teacheth one for another and God for vs all may make vs rulers ouer greater saying wel done faithfull seruāts true enter into your maisters ioy Application BVt what shall a man say to these last dayes wherein charity is waxed cold men do not relieue but reuile the poore members of Christ shall such men bee heard when they pray or doe they vnderstand what they pray when they say Giue vs and yet are for no man but themselues Surely these men are no better then mockers of this heauenly prayer and therefore bootelesse is it for them to call vpon the Lord For Salomon hath told them they shall not be Pro. 21. 13. hard †yea and he that iniureth the poore doth as one that sacrifiseth * Eccle. 34. 21. the sonne before the fathers eyes Therefore if any would haue his prayers hard of God to whome he is a begger let him shew mercy here to his brother That with hart as well as with tongue he may say this petition least there be iudgement mercilesse to him that sheweth no mercy otherwise Iam. 2. 13. make they neuer so faire a shew of religion all is hipocrisie And God will not here the prayers of hipocrites Iob. 27. 9. Wherefore ô rich men here the counsaile of Daniel Breake of your sinnes by righteousnesse Dan. 4. 24. and your iniquities by mercy towardes the poore and let there be a healing of this errour The 5. petition And forgiue vs our debts euen as we forgiue our debtors LEt vs consider that this followeth the other petition very fitly for in the former we begge foode of God to the end our life might be preserued in this we beg remissiō of sins that we may liue in God In the former we aske those things which concerne this life but in these two latter those things which concerne vs here-after These petitions as all the former are grounded on Gods promises if we haue a repenting hart Their iniquities saith GOD I will Ier. 31. 34. forgiue and remember their sinnes no more Forgiue Selach signifieth freely to forgiue as 1. Ki. 8. 36. THe First word of this petition which is forgiue teacheth vs that we are saued imputed righteous through faith in Christ only Psa 103 2. and without any of our own good Psal 86. 130. 4 workes for saith Paule we are iustified freely by faith not of workes also Rom. 3. 14. we haue the forgiuenesse of our sins through his rich grace for by grace Rom. 9. 11. are we saued through saith not of our selues it is the gift of god Thus was Rom. 11. 6. Mary Peter and the publican saued yea all are saued by grace This must teach vs humility and not to say I thanke thee ô Lord I am not like this publican but to say with Paule †But papists that say they cā merit heauen are the successors of the proud Pharises and Publicans shall be iustified before them Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners of whom I am cheife and then if we humble our selues God will exalt vs. Secondly the word forgiue teacheth vs that we ought to confesse our sinnes to God that so we may finde mercy for Dauid said Doct. 2 whilst I helde my tongue my bones consumed Therefore he confessed Psal 32. to the Lord his owne wickednes against himselfe and he forgaue the wickednes of his sinnes Iob saith though God should kill me yet wil I trust in him I will reproue my Iob. 13. 15. wayes in his sight Also wise Salomon giues vs this lesson he that hideth his sinnes shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them he shall haue mercy Iust Iob confessed his sinnes so did Dauid and the prodigall sonne also the Publican and the theife
one of him that hath the other for indeed they be Relatiues and S. Iames saith faith that is without workes is dead Yea our sauiour saith not euery one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen Therefore whosoeuer is truely iustified is in some good measure sanctified and indeede faith can no more be without good workes then fire can be without heate The vse FIrst we learne to aske nothing in our prayers which is not agreeable to Gods word Secondly we learne to take all crosses patiently that with Christ we may say not my will but thine ô father be fulfilled Lastly we are here taught to striue towardes perfection for Gods children haue an earnest desire to doe his will And with Dauid to say it is written O Lord in the volume of thy booke that I shall doe thy will O God and loe I come Application SVch therefore as despise knowledge and set light by the word of God their prayers will God despise for saith the Prophet Zachary Zach. 7. 13. as God cried to them and they would not here so when they cry he will not here them But where the worde of the Lord is imbrased there the Lord is nigh to vs in all that wee call vppon him for Yea they that Deut. 4. 7. keepe Gods commaundements receiue whatsoeuer they aske but as for such as haue no care to doe 1. Ioh. 3 22. Gods will the Lord is farre from them Therfore ô man if thou wouldest that God should here thy praier Pro. 15. 29. when thou callest vpon him heare thou the Lorde and amend thy wayes when by his good spirit he calleth vnto thee els thy prayer is vaine babling Pro. 35. 13. The second part of this petition As in heauen so also in earth THis saith one is no otherwise but as the Angels serue thee in heauen euen so should we serue thee in earth with all alacritie and willingnesse in all humility and faithfulnesse And howsoeuer no Christian can performe such obedience in this life yet this petition teacheth that we ought to haue a desire so to do From the consideration of these things we learne three profitable lessons First that God ought to raigne here in our hartes on earth as well as hee doth in heauen but seeing it is not so how ought we to bee humbled and cast downe in our selues when we consider how disobedient we haue beene to the will of our heauenly father Secondly it ought to mooue vs to all possible thankfulnesse for our redemption when wee consider this example of the Angels who were but once created but we miserable sinners put God to a new worke to redeeme vs by the bloud of his owne sonne Lastly it teacheth vs that we ought to loue God more then the Angels in as much as wee haue put him to a greater busines and haue receiued greater mercies then they and they which haue much forgiuen them ought to Luke 7. loue much Application BEhold thy duty ô man consider but the Angels the scriptures describe them to haue six winges two to couer their face by which they signifie to vs that they are not able to looke into the depth of Gods counsailes they haue two also to couer their feete shewing their owne insufficiencie and vnworthynesse to serue so glorious a God yet haue they two wings also about their hart to signifie vnto vs that with hearty obedience they do the will of God Therefore ô sinfull man looke to the heauens and beholde the Angels looke into the firmament behold the Sunne the Moone the starres yea in the earth also behold times and seasons all these obay Gods will Therefore ô mankinde for whose sake these were created and for whose sake God equall to the father thought it no scorne to take vnto him our nature and to be our brother according to the flesh that hee might condempne sinne in the flesh let vs not therefore walke after the flesh but let our conuersation be in heauen whether our eldest brother is gone before vs that in his time we may be with our head Christ Iesus Amen The 4. petition Giue vs this day our dayly or continuall Bread O praise the Lord of Lords for his mercie endureth for euer which giueth foode to all flesh for his mercie endureth for euer Psal 136. 2. 25. Bread ×œ×—× THis word Bread is tooke in diuers sences in the Scriptures whereof there are fiue principall 1. First it is taken for bread properly as Gen. 14. 18. Exod. 25. 30. Prou. 28. 19. 2. Secondly for bread corne as Gen. 47. 15. Iob. 28. 5. 3. Thirdly it is neither tooke for bread nor corne but for Manna Exo. 16. 15. Behold I will raine to you bread froÌ„ heauen Also Psal 105. 40. he satisfied them with bread from heauen which Manna was a figure of Christ who is the true bread of heauen and many of the ancient fathers vnderstand by Bread in this petitioÌ„ Christ who is the true bread of life whom we are to desire and pray for before all other things 4. Fourthly it is tooke for sacrifices Leuit. 3. 11. Mal. 1. 7. What is meant by bread in this petition 5. Lastly it is taken generally for all things necessary for this life as Gen 3. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate thy bread That is thou shalt get thy liuing Also in Psal 38. 25. Which giueth food to all flesh Also Pro. 30. 8. * So doth Tremelius vnderstand it in his Hebrew catechisme Feed me with food conuenient for me So likewise in this petition we vnderstand saith Bucer Victum quibuscunque Bucer in Mat. 6. pag. 62. vita praesens opus habet all things that be necessary for this life from which word wee may consider the bountifull liberallitie of God towards all his creatures but more especially towards man for whom he both careth and prouideth And therefore the Apostle in the 1. Tim. 6. saith Trust not invncertaine riches but in God that giueth to all aboundantly Secondly this word Our bread doth not import that it is ours by * Riches are not ours properly but lent vs and wee are stewards of them must giue account for them desert but being got with a good conscience not by defrauding of our brother any way that so we may eate our owne bread The which cannot be except we liue in a lawfull calling Oh thou that hast no calling or an vnlawfull calling how canst thou say this petition Let gamesters and such as haue no lawfull calling consider in what state they stand in and let them saith the Apostle rather labour with their hands for he that will not labour let him not eate Our continuall or dayly Bread BY this word continuall or daylye Bread I gather these lessons 1. First that none must aske riches or any other thing to satisfie the
the fourth commandement This kingdome is in righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost The onely meanes to attaine this is by beleeuing in Christ and seeing faith is by hearing the worde preached therefore hath God ordained one day of seauen for that purpose For surely he that keepeth not the Sabboth day which was ordained to meditate on Gods workes and to heare Gods worde preached can neither be skilfull rightly to know the vse of creatiō and redemption and if he be ignorant in this neither is God his King nor he anye way fit to doe Gods will for that is farre more hard to attaine to then but barelie to know it surely if any should aske me the cause of so much losenesse in our conuersation and so great blindnesse in this glorious time of the Gospel I should say it was the neglect of the Saboth day Therfore I would desire all Christians to remember when God bids vs remember and especiallie the Magistrate in his place that where no conscience of this dutye is there may be correction duly administred For the neglect of this commandement is the cause of breaking all the rest and it is the very gate either to knowledge or an entrance for all the workes of darkenes Consider Christian reader if the Lordes day were kept of euery one and spent in reading hearing Gods word preached what delight knowledge would it bring thee to in a very short space Therefore saith God remember to do my will not thine owne Neither can we pray thy kingdome come and let vs do thy will when in deed Gods will is we should spend the day in hearing reading and meditating of his meruelous workes both of creation and redemption Thus we see the three petitions Sab. Mun. on the 5. of Mat. answer to the foure first cōmandements both liuely shewing our duty to God for frō the first table I vnderstand the whole worship of God namely faith in God feare of God confidence loue of God euen as it is said thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy hart with all thy soule and in thy whole endeuour for loue trust faith and feare are in the hart and in them consisteth the true worship of God The second table of the law com 5 Honor thy father and thy mother that thy daies may be prolonged vpō the land which Iehouah thy God giueth thee This saith Paule was the first commandement with promise Thou shalt not kill com 6 Christ expoundeth this in Mat. 5. The second part of the Lords praier Giue vs this day our daily bread petitiō 4 This sheweth that we may lawfully pray for earthly things that are necessary but God euer maketh the disobediēt to parents to want or at leastwise curseth the labour of their hands for the lord hath said cursed is he that curseth father or mother Therefore Salomon saith his light shal be put out in obscure darkenes This was the first commandement with the promise of Canaan annexed to it which was the land that had aboundance of earthly riches and was a figure of heauen Forgiue vs our debtes as wee forgiue our debtors which teacheth petitiō 5 vs that we must not onely do no murther but euē shew no crabbed looke nor to vse a churlish word nor conceiue a hatefull ire against our brother So far should we be from making him our prey as euer we should remēber him to God in our prayers this our sauiour taught expounding this commandement in the fift of Mathew Thou shalt not commit adultery com 7 Thou shalt not steale com 8 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse com 9 againe thy neighbour Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours com 10 house neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife nor his man seruant nor his maid nor his oxe nor his asse neither any thing that is thy neighbours Leade vs not into temptation petiti ∣ on 6 but deliuer vs from euill This answereth to the foure last commandements for man is most subiect to be ouercome by these workes of the flesh which are adultery theft lying and couetousnes And so the sum of the second table is to loue our neighbour as our selues But deliuer vs from euill sheweth we are to desire that God would grant vs his assistance to walke in obedience to his holy commādements and this ought euer to be the desire of all Christians in their prayers to God as is shewed before Thus beloued brethren we see that the law is holy and good also that Christ came not to destroy the law or to giue men liberty to sin but to establish the same and to fulfill the same which none but he could doe therefore in a worde know the vse and end of the law The vse is that we should striue towardes perfection and bring Vse forth fruite as beseemeth trees of Gods planting The end is that End our own infertility barennesse should make vs confesse the equity of the law the iniquity of our selues and the euerlasting mercy of God for wheras by the law we are vnder the curse because it concludeth all vnder sinne By the Gospell we are made happy through faith in the sonne of God for that which the law could not doe Christ did for he turned the water into wine saith Theophilact and that that was not able to norish vs he hath made good to vs and profitable for vs. And whereas before we were bond men vnder the law that is the curse we are now made free men by him which became a curse for vs yea he hath made vs a chosen generation a royall priesthood Titus 2. 14. a holy nation a pecultar people let vs not now therfore sinne that grace 1. Pet. 2. 9. may abound God forbid that wee should do so for if we be his chosen we haue crucified the flesh with Paule we must be crucified to the world and the world to vs so we may be the more able to resist sathan when he shall tempt vs in our praiers or otherwise let vs that professe Christ walke as Christ hath walked and aboue all things let vs not faint in our praiers for if we be faithful God is louing merciful and he wil giue whatsoeur we haue neede of for as the Psalmist saith there is no good thing that he withholdeth from them that feare him Now the God of peace that brought againe from the dead the Lord Iesus Heb. 13 20. the great shepheard of the sheepe through the bloud of the euerlasting couenant make vs perfit in all good workes to do his will working in vs that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ to whome be praise for euer and euer Amen FINIS
of Christ it was to do it in the power and vertue of Christ Also where the Apostle saith At the name of Iesus euery knee shall bow c. is meant that euery creature shall be subiect to the power of Christ Therefore we will conclude that man blessed whose strength is Iehouah * Prou 18. 20. For the name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runne to it and are exalted Secondly note whereas we say What is meant by halowing the name of God in this place halowed be thy name We do not meane that God or his name is vnholy in it selfe but as it is said of wisedome which is most iust that shee is iustified of her children because they so account Sebus Mun. his and acknowledge her so heere meane wee that by the halowing of Gods name that hee would graunt vs to confesse acknowledge honour and obay this holye name of his and this is the halowing of the name of God First therefore wee learne from The vse hence that both by faith obedience in knowledge practise we must sanctifie the name of God Also with soule and body in word and thought whatsoeuer yee doe in word or deede do all to the glory of God saith Paule Secondly let vs take heede that whatsoeuer we aske it may bee to Gods glory and that we preferre the glory of God before any other thing in the world whatsoeuer and then haue we promise to be heard The 2. petition Let thy Kingdome come THe kingdome of God is threefold 1. His kingdome of power 2. His kingdome of grace 3. His kingdome of glory For the first that is his kingdome of power whereby he causeth all his creatures to serue him as well bad as good that is not meant in this place for God will neuer lessen and take away this his authority Therefore saith the Psalmist whatsoeuer it pleased the Lord that did he in heauen in earth in the sea and in all deepes But in this place we meane the kingdome of grace that God would raigne in our hartes that he would put to flight all our old sinnes both originall and actuall that our bodyes might be prepared fit temples for the holy ghost for this kingdome is neither meat nor drinke but righteousnesse peace and ioy in the holye ghost For this kingdome comes not by obseruation but it must be considered within And saith that godlye Father Theophilact Nam si quempiam videris quasi absque carne viuere vitam Euangelicam an non diceres quod regnum coelorum iam habet for if thou shalt see any man to liue an Euangelicall life as being not in the flesh wilt thou not say that he hath already the kingdome of God And in another place he saith to beleeue aright and to walke accordingly is called to be worthy our vocation which is indeede to be subiects of this kingdome And the same author saith on Mat. chap. 23. vppon these wordes the Scribes and the Pharises would neither enter into the kingdō of God nor suffer other It is saith he they would neither beleeue in Christ nor yet suffer others that would In this petition therefore wee pray that God would raigne in our hearts by a true and a liuely faith And if we vnfainedlie beleeue we haue the promises of this life and of that which is to come For saith Christ Seeke first the kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof and all other things shall be cast vnto you Also note that in this petition we pray for the meanes to beget faith which is preaching also for the right vse of the Sacraments which is a meanes to strengthen our faith and godlie Magistrates for to keepe the * Which is the Church body in order and how can any good Christian but remember our good Prince in his prayers Praising God for her and praying him to prolong her dayes to raigne long amongst vs here and after this life with God for euer The third kingdome is the kingdome of glorie the state of happinesse after this life which we in deed pray for in this petition but it is mediatly as being first members of the kingdome of grace for whome God rules Rom. 8. them he sanctifieth and whome hee sanctifieth them also he iustifieth and whome he iustifieth them also he will glorifie Application But alas what shall we say by such as haue such wauering and vnstedfastnesse in religion can they pray in hope to be heard Surely no for seeing they haue delighted to wander saith the Lord and haue not refrained their seete therfore when they fast I will not heare Ier. 14. 10. 11. their crie and when they offer burnt offrings and oblations I will not accept them Therefore purge your harts yee wauering minded men else are yee not subiects of this kingdome the admission wherevnto is by faith and if yee be not subiects God taketh you for his enemies against whome he will execute a heauie iudgement Luk. 19. 2. 7. Bring hether those mine enemies that would not I should Luk. 19. 27. raigne ouer them and slaye them before me Oh consider this yee that forget God Least I teare you in peeces and there be none that can deliuer you saith the Eternall But he that offereth praises shall glorifie me and to Psa 50. 32. him that disposeth his waye aright will I shewe the saluation of God The 3. petition Thy will be done as in heauen so also in earth THis petition rightly and fitly agreeth with the former for in the other we pray that GOD may rule our hearts to beleeue which cannot be if we be vnwilling to doe the will of God our heauenly Father Therefore aptlie wee pray in the next place for the effects of faith obedience to Gods lawes in these wordes Thy will be done Which petition hath two principall parts that is First what the will of God is Secondly that is not enough to know the same but to doe it For the first the will of God we pray may be done is his reuealed will in his word This teacheth vs how precious knowledge is and that it is a great meanes to make vs able in some good measure to doe Gods will for first we must know what is to be done before we can doe it Secondly it teacheth that wee must not do our owne wils eyther in prayer or in any matter of religion For God will be prayed vnto and serued as he hath commanded in his word and therefore hee saith obedience is better then sacrifice Wherefore let vs looke to our feete before we come to pray least we offer the sacrifice of fooles and let vs learne the will of God This saith Christ is the will of God to beleeue in him whome he hath sent and the Apostle Paule saith This is the will of God euen our sanctification So that here we see that faith and a holy life are ioyned together God requiring the