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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.
APPLICATION.
USE 1. To caution us against many Abuses in Prayer, which may be disproved and taxed, either formally, or by just Consequence. I shall instance in five.
VSE 1. To caution us against many Abuses in Prayer, which may be disproved and taxed, either formally, or by just Consequence. I shall instance in five.
1. An idle and foolish Loquacity, when Men take a liberty to prattle any thing in God's hearing, and do not consider the Weight and Importance of Prayer, and what a Sin it is to be hasty to utter any thing before God. Eccles. 5. 2. It is a great Irreverence, and Contempt of the Majesty of God, when Men go hand over head about this Work, and speak any thing that comes into their mind. As Men take themselves to be despised, when others speak unseemly in their presence: Surely it is a lessening, and a despising of God, when we pour out raw, tumultuous, undigested Thoughts, and never think of what we are to speak, when we come to God. Psal. 45. 1. My Heart is inditing a good Matter: The Word signifieth, it boils or fries a good Matter. It is an Allusion to the Mincah, or Meat-Offering, which was to be boiled or fried in a Pan, before it was to be presented to the Lord, that they might not bring a Dough-baked Sacrifice and Offering to the Lord. Such ignorant, dull, senseless Praying, it is a blaspheming of God, and a lessening of the Majesty of God.
1. An idle and foolish Loquacity, when Men take a liberty to prattle any thing in God's hearing, and do not consider the Weight and Importance of Prayer, and what a Sin it is to be hasty to utter any thing before God.