An exposition of the Lords prayer in the way of catechism By William PerkinsAn exposition of the Lords praier in the way of catechisme By William Perkins

WE are here admonished to be displeased with our selves, for our imperfect obedience to God, & for our hypocrisy, privy pride, presumption, deadness of spirit▪ and many other wants which break out, when we are in ⟨image 44⟩doing Gods will. There is no servant of God, but hath wants in his best works, so we must understand, Paul. Ro. 7. 18. he saith as much, as if he could begin a good thing, but not perfect it, & go through stitch, as we say. When the godly do good works, as hear, speak Gods word, pray, praise God, &c. they perform things acceptable to God: but in these actions, they find matter of mourning; namely; the imperfection of the work, therefore, David prayeth. Psal. 143. 2. Enter not into judgement with thy servant, and here we may see, how far wide the Church of Rome is, that holds good works to be any way meritorious, that be every way imperfect. If the men of that church had grace, they might see that the corruptions of the flesh were as gins & fetters about their legs, that when they would fain run the ways of Gods commandments, they are constrained to ⟨image 45⟩halt down right, and to trail their loins after them.

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