"Thy kingdom come; thy will be done." Wouldst thou have the kingdom
of God come indeed, and also his will to be done in earth as it is
in heaven? Nay, notwithstanding thou sayest, "Thy kingdom come," yet
would it not make thee ready to run mad, to hear the trumpet sound,
to see the dead arise, and thyself just now to go and appeal before
God, to reckon for all the deeds thou hast done in the body? Nay,
are not the very thoughts of it altogether displeasing to thee?
And if God's will should be done on earth as it is in heaven, must
it not be thy ruin? There is never a rebel against God in heaven;
and if he should so deal on earth, must he not whirl thee down to
hell? And so of the rest of the petitions.
Ah, how sadly would even these men look, and with what terror would
they walk up and down the world, if they did but know the lying and
blaspheming that proceedeth out of their mouth, even in their most
pretended sanctity!