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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE Lord's-Prayer. › Our Father, which art in Heaven. › APPLICATION.
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.
Well then, labour to see God is yours, if you would find acceptance with him. It is not enough ⟨p. 106⟩to know the Goodness and Power of God in general, but we must discern our Interest in him; that we may not only say, Father, but Our Father. It is the Nature of Faith, thus to appropriate and apply. John 20. 28. My Lord, and my God. How is God made ours? How shall we know it, that we may come and lay our Claim to him? Behold, Christ teacheth us here to say, Our Father, by taking hold of his Covenant; and this is God's Covenant-Notion, I will be your God, and you shall be my People. When we give up our selves to be God's, then he is ours. Resignation and Appropriation go together. I am my Beloved's; there's the Resignation of Obedience: And he is mine; there's the Appropriation of Faith. A Believer cannot always say, God is his, but, I am thine; however it be with him, he would be no others but the Lord's. If he cannot say, he is God's, by an especial interest; yet he will be God's, by the resignation of his own Vows. He knows God hath a better Right and Title to him, than he hath to himself.
Well then, labour to see God is yours, if you would find acceptance with him. It is not enough ⟨p. 106⟩to know the Goodness and Power of God in general, but we must discern our Interest in him; that we may not only say, Father, but Our Father. It is the Nature of Faith, thus to appropriate and apply. Iohn 20. 28. My Lord, and my God. How is God made ours? How shall we know it, that we may come and lay our Claim to him? Behold, Christ teacheth us here to say, Our Father, by taking hold of his Covenant; and this is God's Covenant-Notion, I will be your God, and you shall be my People. When we give up our selves to be God's, then he is ours. Resignation and Appropriation go together. I am my Beloved's; there's the Resignation of Obedience: And he is mine; there's the Appropriation of Faith. A Believer cannot always say, God is his, but, I am thine; however it be with him, he would be no others but the Lord's. If he cannot say, he is God's, by an especial interest; yet he will be God's, by the resignation of his own Vows. He knows God hath a better Right and Title to him, than he hath to himself.