and do you indeed say, "hallowed be thy name" with your heart? do you study, by all honest and lawful ways, to advance the name, holiness, and majesty of god? do your heart and conversation agree with this passage? do you strive to imitate christ in all the works of righteousness, which god commands you, and prompts you to? it is so, if you are one that can truly with god's permission cry, "our father." or is it not the least of your thoughts all the day? and do you not clearly make it appear that you are a cursed hypocrite, by condemning that with your daily practice, which you pretend in your praying with a dissembling tongue?
would you have the kingdom of god come indeed, and also his will to be done in earth as it is in heaven? nay, even though, according to the form, you say, thy kingdom come, yet would it not make you ready to run mad, to hear the trumpet sound, to see the dead arise, and yourself just now to go and appear before god, to give an account of all the deeds you have done in the body? nay, are not the very thoughts of it altogether displeasing to you?
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