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A learned and fruitful exposition upon the Lords prayer. By Arthur Dent, sometime minister…A learned and fruitful exposition vpon the Lords prayer. By Arthur Dent, sometime minister…
A learned and fruitful exposition upon the Lords prayer. By Arthur Dent, sometime minister of the Word of God at South-Suberry, in EssexA learned and fruitful exposition vpon the Lords prayer. By Arthur Dent, sometime minister of the Word of God at South-Suberry, in Essex
London: printed by Thomas Snodham for Nicholas Bourne, 1613
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answer.
Answere.
Though a man had all the wealth in the world, and want nothing that can be desired, yet all is nothing without Gods blessing: if he wants Gods blessing, in effect he wants all: wherefore even Kings and Potentates are as much bound to use this Petition as the poorest. For though a man have abundance, yet his life standeth not in his riches, Luke 12.15. Bread of it self cannot nourish and sustain our life, no more then a stone, or a chip, but the staff of bread, Isaiah 3. that is, a blessing upon bread.
Though a man had all the wealth in the world, and want nothing that can be desired, yet all is nothing without Gods blessing: if hée wants Gods blessing, in effect hée wants all: wherefore euen Kings and Potentates are as much bound to vse this Petition as the poorest. For though a man haue aboundance, yet his life standeth not in his riches, Luke 12.15. Bread of it selfe cannot nourish and sustaine our life, no more then a stone, or a chip, but the staffe of bread, Esay 3. that is, a blessing vpon bread.