...his Divine Master, who came not to do his own will, but the will of him who sent him. His prayer is, that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven. The will of God is the same as the will of Christ, and his will is, that all who believe,...

...thereof, as those of your own country, and that properly belong to you. When we are taught to pray, " that the will of God may be done on earth, as it is in heaven," can it be supposed it ought to be a, strange thing to our thoughts how affairs go there...

...that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." This is the end and object of all true religion, that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven. This the Apostle has already declared is the object for which God "sent His own Son in the...

...it '. It is by doing the will of God that the angels Cyril, dwell in the glory of heaven. In praying that the will of God may be done on earth as it is done in heaven, we pray — (I.) That men on earth may do the will of their heavenly Father as perfectly...

...therefore perfect, as your heavenly FATHER is perfect :" and our blessed LOR D has taught us to pray that the will of GOD may be done on earth, as it is in heaven. We are all invited to this state of perfection ; but how few, alas ! endeavour to attain...

...: He is the free man whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. When, therefore, we pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven, we do not ask that the freedom of the will shall be taken away, or that men may be forced...

...at failures, hope for happiness in a future state of existence ; but those who believe it possible that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven, will never cease to labour as well as pray that this prophecy of prayer may be accomplished....

...resolutely desired and constantly cultivated by us. This is really the personal point of the petition, that the will of God may be done on earth as it is done in heaven ; that the morality of this world may become as the morality of heaven ; that here we...

...promised kingdom of Christ, the other a desire of the consequences to be expected from the coming of the Kingdom, that the will of God may be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven ; which we are told will be the case, when Christ begins his reign. The meaning of the first,...

...revealed to them, this great principle might finally extend from thence over the face of the whole earth, that the " will of God may be done on earth as it is done in Heaven." How could the millennium be ever introduced if no unity existed among the people?...