Downame - BV209_D69_G6_1640_v1

4w ourfaith confirmedly this conclufion.' For thine is the kingdome, and the power andthe glorie, for ever and ever: and partly a tefiification both of our faith and of the truth of our defires in all the former petitions, in the word Amen. Our faith Our Saviour teacheth us to confirm our faith by confirmed three reafons.For that they be reafons the wordFor cl by u tíihison bcß y b ns y n f nifietlia And reafo the are not fo much to per- three reafons fwade God that he would grant our requefis as to drawn from perfwade and affure our felves that we fhall obtein. three of Gods attri- The reafons are taken neither fro our own worthi- butes. neffe nor from the dignitie of our prayers, ( for if our faith were to be grounded thereon, we fhould neither dare to pray nor hope to be heard)but from the nature& attributes of God;that wemight know that the obteining our requefis dependeth not upon our own worth but on the power and goodneffe of God. The reafons, I fay, are drawn from three attributes of God: viz, his eternal." Kingdome,eternall Power, eternall Glorie. His is the kingdome: therefore he hath right to give us whatfoever we defire: His is thepower and might: therefore he is able to grant our requefls: His is the glory ,both of giving all good things, and alfo ofall good things given; and there- unto our requeffs do tend: and therefore he is ready and willing to grant our requefis for the manifefla- tion ofhis own glorie. And this we fha11 the eafier believe if we confider to whom we afcribe thefe things; namely, to our heavenly Father, whole fiat is in heaven, and his kingdome ruleth over all, Pfal. 103. 19. who is in heaven, and doth what he will, Pfal. 115.3. who fitteth on the heavens as his throne, full of majeflie and glory, and rideth on the heavens for