do: for they think they fhall be heard for the much fpeaking. 8. Be not ye therefore like unto them for your Father knoweth what things ye have need o before ye ask him. 9. After this (9) manner therefo pray ye: Our Father which art in Heave

1 Kings 18. 26, 29. They -called on the name of Baal from Morning even until Noon, faying, O Baal hear us. And it came to pafs, when mid-day was paft, and 5 they prophefied until the time of the offering Evening Sacrifice; that there was neither Voice, nor

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Ч Luk. 11. 2, &c. The Lora Prayer.

Pf. 11. 4. The Lords Thro is in Heaven. Ifa. 66. 1. Thus fait the Lord, the Heaven is my Thron and the earth is my footstool.

(9) Concerning this divine and most excellent Prayer we ma obferve,

First, That this which is here recorded, was not delivered at the fam time with that in Luk. 11th. but a confiderable Time before it. Fo this being a part of the Sermon on the Mount, was delivered in the Yea of our Lord 31. but that in St. Luke in the beginning of the 3 3d Year which accounts for the little Variations between them. The Difciples d not seem to have understood that their Mafter defign'd it for a Form but only for a Pattern of Prayer, and as fome general Heads to which they were to reduce their Petitions. It is therefore faid in St. Luk that our Lord having been at Prayer with his Difciples, one of them fai anto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his Difciples. Where upon our Lord gives them the Form there fet down, When ye pray, Say &c. He does not forbid them to ufe other Forms, but he enjoins then to ufe this.

Secondly, Grotius, Dr. Lightfoot, Drufius, &c. obferve, that this Prayer, ex cepting only the following Words, as we forgive them that trefpafs again us, is to be found in the Jewish Liturgies or Forms of Prayer. Our Fa ther which art in Heaven, is in their Seder Tephilloth, or Form of Prayers Let thy great Name be fantified, and thy Kingdom reign, in their Form cal led, Kaddish; Let thy Memory be glorified in Heaven above, and in Eart beneath, in the Seder Tephilloth; forgive us our Sins, in the fixth of thei eighteen daily Prayers. Deliver us not into the Hand of Temptations, and de liver us from the evil Figment, in that and in the Book Mufar. For thin is the Power, and the Kingdom for ever and ever, is, faith Drufius, their usua Form of Doxology.

Thirdly, How ealie would it have been for our Lord to have compofed Prayer confifting entirely of new Matter? But it is plain, he did no affect novelty, nor difapprove of the Use of Forms of Prayer; for if h had, we may reasonably fuppofe he would, on this Occafion, have tol his Difciples as much. But fo far was he from this, that when he wa hanging on the Crofs, he made ufe of Forms taken out of the Book Pfalms. Some think he ufed a great Part of the 22th Pfalm, but that h did of the firft Verfe is recorded by St. Mark, Chap. 15. 34 My God, m God, why haft thou for faken me? Another Prayer our Lord ufed, when h

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go and fay, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the houfe of the God of Jacob,. and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion fhall go forth the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerufalem.

P. 8. 1. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the the Earth.Pf. 111. 9. Holy and reverend is his name. Pf 145, 10, 11. All thy works fhall praise thee, O Lord, and thy Saints halbles thee. They fhall speak of the gly of thy Kingdom, and talk of thy Power. Pf. 148. throughout. Joh. 12. 28. Father, glorifie1oif thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, faying, I have both glorified it, and will glorifie it a gain. Ifa. 6. 3. Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hofts, the whole earth is full of his glory. Ifa. 8. 13. Sanlife the Lord of hofts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Mat. 26. 42. O my Father, this cup may not pafs away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. A&s 21. 14. When he [Paul] would not be perfwaded, we ceafed, faying, The will of the Lord be 15done. Pf. 103. 20, 21. Bless the Lord, ye his Angels, that excel in Strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Blefs ye the Lord all ye zohis hofts, ye minifters of his that do his pleasure.

Ifa. 2. 2, 3. It fhall come to pafs in the laft days, that the moun tain of the Lord's houfe fhall be e- dt See Job 23. 12. I have ftablished in the top of the Moun- esteemed the words of his mouth tains, and fhall be exalted above more than my necessary food. † Prov. the Hills, and all Nations fhall flow 30.8. Give me neither Poverty, unto it. And many People fhall25

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Fourthly, Had our Lord intended that his Difciples fhould have used this Prayer only till they were endued with Power from on high, by their receiving the miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghoft, it is probable he would have told them fo, and that they would have told their Followers as much, and this Prayer would not have been fo generally used by Chriftians as it was, efpecially from the third Century downwards, and probably long before. Thofe who think that the Silence in the Hiftory of the Acts, an Argument to the contrary, may confult Dr. Whitby's Notes on the 9th Verfe; from which, what is faid on the fecond Obfervation is for the most part taken.

(1)TheWord Day, in Scripture, often ftands for the whole Time of our Warfare on Earth, as in that Place in the 95th Pfalm, To Day if you will hear his Voice. Exhort one another daily, that is, every Day, Heb. 3. 13. And Bread is put for all Neceffaries, Conveniencies, and Comforts of Life, as may be obferved from the References.

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nor Riches, feed me with food conwenient for me. 1 Tim. 6. 8. Having food and raiment,let us be there with content. Joh. 6. 33, 34. The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then faid they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Exod. 16. 21. They gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating. Gen. 43. 25, 31, 34. They made ready the prefent against Jofeph came at noon: for they heard that they fhould eat bread there.15come upon all the world, to try Set on bread. He took and feut Meffes unto them from before him.

them from the evil. 1 Cor. 10. I There hath no temptation taken you but fuch as is common to man but God is faithful, who will no 5fuffer you to be tempted above wha ye are able; but will with th temptation alfo make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear i 2 Pet. 2. 9. The Lord knowet 10how to deliver the godly out o temptation. Rev. 3. 10. Becauf thou haft kept the word of my Pa tience, I will alfo keep thee from the hour of temptation, which fhal

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nother, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Chrift's fake hath forgiven you. + Col. 3.13. Forbearing one another, Mat. 26. 41. Watch and pray,40and forgiving one another, if any that ye enter not into temptation. man have a quarrel against any, Joh. 17. 15. I pray not, that thou even as Chrift forgave you, fo alio hould take them out of the do ye. World, but that thou fhouldft keep

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Mat. 18. 35. So likewife fhall my heavenly Father do alfo unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trefpaffes Jam. 2. 13. He fhall have judgment without mercy,that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth againft judgment.

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f Luk. 17. 3, 4. Take heed to25from your felves: If thy brother tref pass against thee, rebuke him and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trefpafs against thee feven times in a day, and feven times in a day30eft, &c. Mar. 11. 25. And whe turn again to thee, faying, I repent, ye ftand, praying, forgive, if f thou fhalt forgive him. Mat. 18. have ought against any that you 21, 22. Then came Peter to him, Father alfo which is in Heave and faid, Lord, how oft fhall my may forgive you your trespasse brother fin against me, and I forgive35† Eph. 4. 32. Be ye kind one to him? till feven times? Jefus faith unto him, I fay not unto thee, Until feven times: but, until feventy times feven.

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nother, tender hearted, forgivin one another, even as God fo Chrift's fake hath forgiven you + Col. 3.13. Forbearing one another 40and forgiving one another, if any man have quarrel against any even as Chrift forgave you, fo alle do ye.