v{nd hir Son .fefur Chrifi. In a Word,this.comprehends all the Glory due unto his Name.Which Expreffio; 1 f' r you find in two Tfobm, Pfal. 29. I, 1. Give unto the Lord, 0 ye ?Jn15 hty, pve unto C the Lord glcry andjlrength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name; wor- '-"'" jhip the Lord in the beautyofholimji. Pfal.96.7,8. Give_unto the Lord, 0ye f«ndreds ofthe People, Give unto the Lordglory andjlrength. G1Ve nnto the Lord the glory dHe unto his Name: bring an Ojfiring and come into his Courts. In the Hebrew, 'tis the Hono11r ofhis Name: That Honour which from you his wholeNamt<is worthy o£ And unto fuch a frame ofSpirit, I would provoke you all; I. To afpire to the obtainmentofit. 1. To comfort youifyouhaveattained it. And, 3. To exhort you to feek that it may not flag in your Spirits, but be fixed in you. This high and holy F'rame and ~emper, was certamiy m the Apo!lles_ Heart~ when they endited thefe Doxologtes, and thereby excited others to the like. And my Grounds (bdides what hath been faid, and which carries its own Evidence with it) are; 2. HaUowed be thy Num, is the top-Petition in that Gofpel"Prayer Chrilt hath taught us, and the heighth and top ofdefires, and ofAfpirements to hallow it, are therefore in feme meafure, in feme ofthe Souls ofthem that are taught to pray [o: And that Petition is ofan higher Key, than Thy Kingdo1n come, that follows; and yet in that we pray that his manifeltative Glory may be fet up above all,in all his Works,and over all his Works, and in his giving his Church all Benefits, and in his confounding his Enemies, &c. But, Hallowed be thy Name, is tar above all this, and therefore therein the Soul in the highelt place detires that it felf, and all others may give Glory to God for all that is due to his :J{ame, any way, end principally for what his Name is. His Glory and his Bleffedncfs is in himfelf,and they are to glorify God on this behal£ Now therefore, feme !\rains of this are· attainable in this World: for we are taught to pray It, and fo are to have feme difpofitions of Heart fuitable that accompany thofe Prayers. 2. Certainly Old-Tetiament-Grace rofe not up higher, than now New-Te!la– ment-Grace will be found in fome Chriltians to have done, and to do; nor did any oftheir Spirits afpire higher, in any oftheir givings of Glory to God, than the Apoltles in thefe oftheirs. The Prophecy ofGofpel-Times, Zech. xo. 8. is, In that day he that if feeble among JOH, jha!l be as David, &c. Therefore David's Grace was at lea!\ to the highe!l acted in them, as it was in the primitive Chri!li– ans many ofthem. Now ifyou confult David's Pfolms, in which we have his Spirit and his Heart expre!fed, (the Holy Gho!l being wimefs thereof, in that through him and his Grace he penned them.) We find he was railed to this Elevation, in multitudes ofPaffages in hisPfolms. In which he doth ab!lral.l:ly confider God in his Great– nefs, Power and Wifdom, &c. And then his Works in all the World, and to– wards his Creatures ; ·then his Revelations to his Church, his gracious dealings with all his Saints, and his Glory that arifeth from all thefe, and upon thcfc Ac· counts, gives Glory, Praife, &c. to him : and provokes all others tu do fo. That his Heart was filled with a fuitable frame ofSpirit, triumphantly, and from his whole Soul to do this, appears in the very Pa!fages abundantly. There do occur fo many Records ofthis, as I know not well where to begin, or whlch ro infilt on moll. I !hall fingle forth but one for all the reil, which is ther45th Tfolm, of which I !hall give a briefdelineation. There is this oneTfolm ofhis which beareth this Title, David's Praife, or the Praife ofDavid,_ [o in the Original; and altho there are muhitudes ofother high {hams thts way m other Pfolms? yet the Holy Gho!l !ltled thiS [David's Praife]; nam~l~, ofGod. Now you ~Ill find the whole ofthat Tfolm, to be a prailing or giVIng Glory unto God, etther fimply ab!lrailly, for what IS m his Nature, or what he is in his Works toall Creatures, efpecially to his Saints: and you fhal! not find one Word in it about any Benefit proper to himfelfin that whole Pfolm: that in the rjl Verfe that he ltileth this God his God, was from herice,the cxercife offo high a !train ofGrace, carries fo clear an evidence ofthis with it, that that God whom any o~e fhould extol fo much (as his Heart was enlarged to in that PJ..!m) mull certamly be his God that fo extolled him. But yet betidts, that [As he is GudJ IS the prmc1palofthe two; you have his Heart elfewh.ere exprelied for that, as in Pfa\.43·4· 1willpraifo thee, 0 God, my God. 1, [0God] in the chief E place,
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