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A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer
A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer by ... Thomas Manton.
London: printed by J.D., 1684
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.
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A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE Lord's-Prayer.
BY The late Reverend and Learned Divine THOMAS MANTON, D.D.
LONDON; Printed by I. D. and are to be sold by Jonathan Robinson, at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1684.
LONDON; Printed by I. D. and are to be sold by Ionathan Robinson, at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1684.
The Preface,
Such is the Divine Matter, and admirable Order of the Lord's Prayer, as became the Eternal Wisdom of God, that composed and dictated it to his Disciples. In it are opened the Fountains of all our regular Petitions; and the Arguments contained to encourage our Hopes for obtaining them. In our Addresses to Men, our study is to conciliate their favourable Audience: but God is most graciously inclined and ready to grant our Requests; therefore we are directed to call upon him by the Title of Our Father, in Heaven, to assure us of his Love and Power, and thereby to excite our reverent Attention, to raise our Affections, to confirm our Confidence in Prayer. The supreme end of our desires is the Glory of God in Conjunction with our own Happiness: