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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.
If pardon of sin and temptations go together, all is contrary: if thou hadst no grief for sin, no buffeting of the enemies, the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, thou couldst not be in ⟨image 36⟩Gods favour, but under the power of Satan: now this great measure of spiritual temptations is a sign rather of Gods love: for whom God loveth, the Devil hateth: and where God worketh in love, the Devil worketh in malice.
If pardon of sinne and temptations goe together, all is contrary: if thou hadst no griefe for sinne, no buffeting of the enemies, the Flesh, the World, and the Diuell, thou couldst not be in ⟨image 36⟩Gods fauour, but vnder the power of Sathan: now this great measure of spirituall temtations is a signe rather of Gods loue: for whom God loueth, the Diuell hateth: and where God worketh in loue, the Diuell worketh in malice.