I. The I. To 1. Who he is: God: not Creatures, Saints or Angels. address, whom the ------------------------------------------------------ or prayer 2. How related 1. Our And 1. Our Owner, or preface; is made. to us, he is Creator. therefore Absolute Lord. in which OUR FATHER, Owner, are which 2. Our described comprehendeth, Redeemer. 2. Our Ruler, or or fundamentally, Supreme King. implied, that he is, 3. Our Lord. Regenerator (to the 3. Our Benefactor regenerate) and chief Good, and so our Felicity and our End. ------------------------------------------------------ 3. What he 1. Almighty; and able In this one word is is in his to grant all that we not only implied attributes: ask, and to relieve all these WHICH ART and help us in every attributes of God, IN HEAVEN. strait. but also our hearts Which are directed signifieth 2. All-knowing: our whither to look for that hearts, and wants, and their relief and therefore all things being open direction now, and he is, to his sight. their felicity forever; and 3. Most good: from called off from whom, and by whom, and earthly to whom are all dependences, and things; the Fountain, expectations of the Disposer, and the happiness and rest; End of all, on whose and to look for all bounty and influence from heaven, and at all subsist. And the last in heaven. present tense "ART" doth intimate his eternity. ----------------------------------------------- II. Who are the 1. Man: as to his Being. petitioners-- ----------------------------------------------- Who are 2. By 1. By 1. His Own; Relation, Creation: so God's all are: and 2. His Subjects; children, therefore all may thus far 3. His Beloved call him and Father. Beneficiaries, that live upon 2. By Him, and to Him, Redemption: as to their End. as all are as to the sufficient price and satisfaction.
3. By Regeneration: and so only the regenerate are children. ----------------------------------------------- 3. By 1. Yet 1. Loving All which Quality. Dependent God as is on God. their signified Father. in the 2. word Necessitous. 2. Loving OUR-- themselves, 3. Sinners. as men.
3. Loving others, as brethren. -------------------------------------------- II. The Prayer, I. The 1. For the end simply, which is GOD; in the or Petitions, first part word "THY" repeated in every petition. in two parts: is of which, according 2. For the I. The highest or ultimate, to the end that is, the glory of God; order of respectively "HALLOWED BE THY NAME." estimation, in the intention, interest of II. The highest means of his and desire; God, and glory, "THY KINGDOM COME;" that and is, that is in is, let the world be subject to thee their Creator and Redeemer; the universal King.
III. The next means, being the effect of this: "THY WILL BE DONE," that is, let thy laws be fulfilled, and thy disposals submitted to.