. Sermons on the following subjects ... SERMON XV. Of the KINGDoM of GOD. ^VV^V^V*^^^V^^ A^VV^ Vv^v^vv M A T T. Vi. IO. 7^ Kingdom come. HOUGH euery Chrijiian ac- S e r this Prayer of our ^^Lords compofing to be a ^^complete Pattern and Direc-tion, as to the SubjeB-mat-ter of the things we are to pray for;yet Many, very Many, tis to be feared,perpetually repeat the Words, with verylittle Attention to the Senfe exprelTed bythem: Not confidering, that All Devo-tion. 33 2 Of the Kingdom of GOD. S E R M. votlon confifts entirely in the Appllca -^^* tion of the Mind to God with an Un-


. Sermons on the following subjects ... SERMON XV. Of the KINGDoM of GOD. ^VV^V^V*^^^V^^ A^VV^ Vv^v^vv M A T T. Vi. IO. 7^ Kingdom come. HOUGH euery Chrijiian ac- S e r this Prayer of our ^^Lords compofing to be a ^^complete Pattern and Direc-tion, as to the SubjeB-mat-ter of the things we are to pray for;yet Many, very Many, tis to be feared,perpetually repeat the Words, with verylittle Attention to the Senfe exprelTed bythem: Not confidering, that All Devo-tion. 33 2 Of the Kingdom of GOD. S E R M. votlon confifts entirely in the Appllca -^^* tion of the Mind to God with an Un- derfianding of what it defires , and not at all in the mere repeating with the Lips certain cuftomary Forms of Words. Our Lord in the former part of thisPrayer, after having taught us that theTrue and Proper Objed of Worfhip, towhom our Petitions ought conftantly(through His Mediation) to be direcfled,is the Father which is in Heaven j (thatis, the Moft High ; he who, not in Flaceor Situation^ but in Dignity and Domi-nion^ is Supreme over All:) Our Lord, Ifay, in the former part of this Prayer,after directing us to the True Obje(ft ofWorfhip, our Heavenly Father^ inflrudtsus to pray in the firfl place for Bleffingsfpiritiial and eternal-, and then, in the following part of the Prayer, to ask forthe Comforts and Necejfaries of this pre- fent Life. In the former part, amongthe Petitions for Bleffings of a Spiritual . nature, and one of the Prificipal of Thofe Petitions,


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