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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.
3. In discharge of this Work, as they must do all for God, so they can do nothing without God. Every morning we should revive the Sense of it upon our selves, as the Care of our Work and Aim, so the Sense of our Impotency: This day I am to live with God; but how unable am I? and how easily shall I dishonour him? The way of Man is not in himself. Jer. 10. 23. When a Christian goeth abroad in the Morning, he must remember he is at Christ's dispose; he is not to do as he pleaseth, but to be guided by Rule, and act for God's glory, and fetch in Strength from Christ. Col. 3. 17. Whatsoever ye do in Word or Deed, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus: Not only in our Duties, or immediate Converses with God, but in our Sports, Business, Recreation. What is it to do things in the Name of Christ? That is, to do it according to Christ's Will and Command. He hath allowed us Time for Recreation, for conversing with God, and calling in Christ's Help, and aiming at his Glory. If we have any thing to do for God, we must do it in his own strength, in every Word and Deed.
3. In discharge of this Work, as they must do all for God, so they can do nothing without God. Every morning we should revive the Sense of it upon our selves, as the Care of our Work and Aim, so the Sense of our Impotency: This day I am to live with God; but how unable am I? and how easily shall I dishonour him? The way of Man is not in himself. Jer. 10. 23. When a Christian goeth abroad in the Morning, he must remember he is at Christ's dispose; he is not to do as he pleaseth, but to be guided by Rule, and act for God's glory, and fetch in Strength from Christ. Col. 3. 17. Whatsoever ye do in Word or Deed, do all in the Name of the Lord Iesus: Not only in our Duties, or immediate Converses with God, but in our Sports, Business, Recreation. What is it to do things in the Name of Christ? That is, to do it according to Christ's Will and Command. He hath allowed us Time for Recreation, for conversing with God, and calling in Christ's Help, and aiming at his Glory. If we have any thing to do for God, we must do it in his own strength, in every Word and Deed.