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…

Thirdly, every action, so far forth as it is an action, is good, and of GOD, for in him we live, move, and have our being: Therefore God is a worker in temptations, so far forth as they are actions. One man kills another, the very moving of the body in the doing of this villainy is of God, but the wickedness of the action, is from man and the Devil: a man rideth upon a lame horse ⟨image 40⟩and stirs him, the rider is the cause o• the motion, but the horse himself o• the halting in the motion: so, God is th• author of the action, but not of the evil• in the action.

Thirdly, euery action, so farre forth as it is an action, is good, and of GOD, for in him we liue, mooue, and haue our being: Therefore God is a worker in temptations, so farre foorth as they are actions. One man kils another, the very moouing of the body in the doing of this villany is of God, but the wickednesse of the action, is from man and the Diuell: a man rideth vpon a lame horse ⟨image 40⟩and stirs him, the rider is the cause o• the motion, but the horse himselfe o• the halting in the motion: so, God is th• author of the action, but not of the euil• in the action.

The fourth way, is in regard o• the end, for God tempts his servants to correct and humble them for their sins, to try their patience, faith, and love, &c.

The fourth way, is in regard o• the end, for God tempts his seruants to correct and humble them for their sinnes, to trie their patience, faith, and loue, &c.