A plain exposition of the Lords-prayer a prayer according to the exposition / by Grindal Wilson. Wilson, Grindal. 1684 Approx. 12 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A66547 Wing W2895 ESTC R9247 12589885 ocm 12589885 63867 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A66547) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63867) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 970:5) A plain exposition of the Lords-prayer a prayer according to the exposition / by Grindal Wilson. Wilson, Grindal. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for the author, and sold by William Marshall ..., London : 1684. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Broadside. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Lord's prayer. Broadsides 2008-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-04 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Plain EXPOSITION OF THE LORDS-PRAYER . By GRINDAL WILSON , Minister in Glocestershire . OUR This shews we must pray for others : we are all Brothers under one Father ; therefore we must pray for all . * Father , Lo , how he encourageth thee ! Will not a Father hear ? Three ways he is a Father ; by Creation , Redemption and Regneration . May a wicked man thus pray ? Yea , God is his Father by Creation , and Christ died for him : this must be an encouraging step to go higher . His wants should not hinder , but move him to ask ; especially , when the things are offered . Pray he can outwardly ; but what he cannot do , must not hinder him from what he can do : One Talent must be improved , as well as Five . Veryfew but have some desires after God , and Deliverance ; those that fully resolve to reject Pardon and Duty , are uncapable of the Question which art in Heaven This is to move us to Reverence , Humility and Confidence . He that rules there by right of Creation in that place of unspotted Purity , seeing all the thoughts of Angels , gloriously pouring out his Mercy and Goodness , must needs be higher than the Heavens , Infinite , Eternal , Just , Merciful , Omnipotent , Omniscient , and have in himself eminently , and unconceivably all other Titles , which the Scriptures manifest . Hallowed be thy Name * . Name here stands for God manifested in his Attributes , Word , and Works . Hallowed , that is , made holy . A thing may be made Holy two ways . 1 st , By receiving something within it self ; but we must abhor to think thus of * God. 2 dly , A thing may be made Holy by another , and that by a right knowledg of it , and a holy Disposition to Act upon , and for the sake of it , according to this knowldg * . This is Regeneration , which we desire God to work in us . The Position may dearly be understood in this form ; Lord , let the Knowledg of Thee , and thy Will , and a Holy Disposition of Soul and Body to Act according to this Knowledg , upon , and for the s●ke of Thee , be wrought in us by thy Almighty Power . Thy Kingdom come , The Kingdom of God , is the sending of the Son from the begeninng ol the World , to ordain Ministers , by them to gather a Church , Rule it by his Word and Spirit , Defend and Preserve it from Enemies , cut off all that are implacable , raise us from Death , Jude Angels and Men , and at List glorifie his Church , that God may be all in all . Thy will be done in Earth as it is in heaven , You may see Gods Will in his Precepts . But can we do his Will as the Angels ? T is Answered * , According to the same kind , tho not according to the same degree . I humbly add , In continued Acts , a perfect * completion may be prayed for in a particular place and time , including what God will work in us then , and there , of his rich Mercy ; yet not excluding the perfection of this hereafter . In the following Petition all our earthly comforts are beg'd on a particular day . What is objected by Mr. Cartwright against that cause in the Liturgy ( keep us this day without Sin ) will here vanish . A perfect Freedom from Sin is promised ; but we speed on by degrees . Give us this day our daily bread , Bread is put for all things that we need in this Life . Daily , Sufficient for the daies of our Life . 'T is said this day , that we may depend upon him , and ask for it every day . Forgive us our trespastes as we forgive them that trespass against us , Our Sins in the Original are called Debts ; because they make us Deb●ors to God in Obedience and Punishment . Did Paul forgive Alexander , when he said , The Lord reward him ? Yea , he did not satisfie any private Revenge , Wrath , or Envy of his own , bur he prayed for Gods glory , for he knew that he would implacably persist . Lead us not into Temptation , but Deliver us from evil , * Temptation properly signifies , A trying to find out any thing unknown ; whether it is , or may be done . The means which discover this , are called Tryals ; which are either from God , for his Glory , mans amendment ; or the discovery of man to himself , or others . This we pray not against * , but for . Here it signifies a Tryal that causes Sin. Lead us not , that is , suffer us not to fall into * ; so the Greek word imports . God cannot tempt us to Evil ; the Devil , the Flesh , and wicked Men do . But deliver us from evil . This , with the other part , makes but one Petition , and asks Affirmatively , what the other doth Negatively . Some curiously refer this to the time present , that to the time to come ; but to be sure , we beg that Temptation may not draw us into Sin , that in our fall God would raise us up , never leave us , but make us Conquerors through him that loved us . For thine is the kingdom , the power and the Glory , for ever and ever , Take heart , my Brother ; he * teacheth how we may overcome him with Arguments . Will not our heavenly King be bouniful ? Is not his Power Infinite ? Will he suffer his excellency to be obscured ? to which is due all Praise and Admiration . Amen . In this the Soul breathes out her Faith and Desire . A PRAYER According to the EXPOSITION . O Eternal and ever merciful God , thou art our Father by Creation , and to all that withstand not thy great Love , byeffectual Redemption and Regeneration . Thy Son tasted Death , and merited Grace for every man , and thou cryest to the poor Sinner to come and take part in him , that thou mayest thus rejoyce over him ; This my Son was dead , but he is now alive again ; he was lost , but now found . Where should poor Children go , but unto their Fathers house ? If the men of this World know how to give good gifts unto their Children ; how much more will our Father which is in Heaven , give good things unto us that ask him ! He that spared not his own Son , but delivered him up for us all , how shall he not with him also freely give us all things ? Thou art in Heaven , God over all , glorious in holiness , looking down upon all our ways , pouring out there abundantly thy Goodness and Mercies ; but lo , the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee . How poor and beggerly are those glorified Cherubims , to thy self , to whom the World is nothing , yea , less then nothing ? We desire therefore to draw nigh with Fear , Humility , and Reverence ; and yet with a Holy Boldness and Confidence in thy Mercy . Hallowed be thy Name . Make us to know thee as thou art revealed in thy Attributes , Word and Works ; to Believe , Admire , Joy , Trust , and be ravished with thee ; and for the sake of thy glorious Beauty , Sweetness and Excellency ; let us praise and declare thee openly , both in Word and Works , that others may glorifie thee . Our Father which art in Heaven . Thy Kingdom come . Give us a saving interest in thy Son , send forth faithful Labourers into thy Harvest ; carry such Stars in thy right band , bring in lost Sinners , kill Sin daily , and incrcase the Graces of thy People , make Kings Nursing Fathers to thy Church , Queens Nursirg Mothers , and all great ones seekers of the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness ; rule us by thy Word and Spirit , Defend and Preserve us from all our Enemies , cut off all that are Implacably Obstinate ; take these Souls when our Bodies fall ; raise us from Death ; Sentence the Sheep on thy right hand , the Goats on thy left , and at last glorifie Body and Soul in thy heavenly Kingdom . Thy will be done in Earth , as it is in Heaven . Inable us to do our Duty toward God , and our Duty towards Man ; to have no other Gods but thee , to Worship thee in holy Manner , Reverence thee in thy Name , Word , and Works ; remember to keep holy the Sabbath-day , to obey our Parents , the King as Supreme and all that are in Authority under him ; to preserve the Life , Chastity , Goods and good Name of our Selves and Neighboured not so much as covet that which is his ; and tho we cannot perfect thy Will as the Angels ; yet let us do it like them , Sincerely , Readily , Cheerfully , and Speedily ; more and more perfect us , till we keep pace with Angels . Give us this day our daily bread . All things needful for this natural Life , Health , Strength , Peace , Prosperity , a happy Government , Food and Raiment , and thy blessing with all these , that we may use them for the good of us and others ; our heavenly Father knoweth that we have need of these things . Forgive us our trespasses , as we forgive them that trepass against us . Our Sins fearfully cry in thine Ears ; but hearken to thy Sons precious Blood , which was offered up without spot to thy self ; purge us with his Merits and Satisfaction , that our black Souls may be whiter than Snow . Pour out thy Mercies on our Enemies , forgive their Sins , season them with thy Grace , provide for their Bodies , wipe all Revenge and Hatred out of our hearts towards them , that we may be forgiven of thee , who hast said by thine own Son , That if we forgive not men their Trespasses , thou our heavenly Father wilt not forgive us . Lead us not into Temptation , but deliver us from evil . Give us strength according to the trials which we are exercised with , or else eminently appear in our weakness , that we fall not into sin , and darken thy Glory . Let neither pleasure , our evil Hearts , Trouble , Pains , Hunger and Nakedness , neither Life , nor Death , nor Angels , nor Principalities , nor Powers , things present , nor things to come , nor any other Creature , draw us from thy self , who art the very Life of all , and the true rest of our Souls . Raise us up in our falls , never leave us until we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us . For thine is the Kindgom , the Power , and the Glory , for ever and ever . Thou art our King , therefore Defend , Preserve , and do richly for thy Subjects . Thine is the Power , nothing is too hard for thee ; thou art mightier than our Enemies , able to deliver us out of the depth of Misery , and bring us unto the top of Happiness , and in the end to Rivers of Joy , and never-cloying Pleasures . Thine is the Glory . This thou art tender of , what wilt thou do for thy great Name ? Fill us with the Knowledg of thy self , work mightily upon our Wills , give us abundance of Grace , that we may shew forth much of thy Glory , who hath called us out of Darkness into the marvellous Light. Hear us , for thou art our Kimg for ever ; thine is for ever the Power , whose hand cannot be shortned ; and thine is for ever the Glory : Thou art worthy of all Praise and Admiration from everlasting to everlasting . Amen . We desire , we believe , help our unbelief ; which we beg , and all other things , in that Prayer which Christ hath taught us . London : Printed for the Author , and Sold by William Marshall , at the Bible in Newgate-street . 1684. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A66547-e10 * Father in the Hebrew is , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that wills all good , and delights to do it to his Sons . * Nomen of ●osco to know , because things are Known by Names . * He is a pure Act of all perfection , and receiveth nothing . * Sanctifiare De●est farere , quod san●tas ejus postulat . * Secundum 〈◊〉 non secundum gradum * The Hebrews express a thing , in facto ( perfectly done ) when it is fieri ( a doing ) Jo. 3.36 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * The Devil tryed to know whether Christ was God , as well as to draw him to Sin. * * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Jam. 1. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal . 26. 2. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the form . H phil . which signifies not always 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ( an affirmative ) but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ( a negative ) do not suffer . * He that maketh Prayers , will hear Prayers .