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;