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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. › Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven.
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.
WE are come to the third Petition, which is fitly subjoined to the former. In the Preface we own our Relation to God, Our Father; in the first Petition we express our Care of his Glory; in the second, our Desires of his Kingdom; and now we beg Obedience to his Will. We may judg of our Respect to his Name and Kingdom, by our Obedience to his Will, without which we neither sanctify his Name, nor submit to his Kingdom. The Kingdom of God implieth two things; his Government over us, or the Privileges which we enjoy thereby.
1. As it is taken for his Government over us, so there is a fair Connection between these two Requests. Before, we pray that God would rule us; and now, for a soft and pliable Heart, that we may be ruled by him. Christ is not our King, when we do our own Will. These two are distinct; Government is one thing, and Obedience to it another: As, Mat. 6. 33. The Kingdom of God, and the Righteousness thereof; they are distinguished: The Kingdom of God we plead for in the second Petition, and here for the Righteousness thereof; that Christ may not be a Titular Prince and Sovereign, as certainly he is, when we do our own Will. Every Sovereign stands upon his own Will; and the more absolute, still ⟨p. 243⟩the more his Will is to be looked upon as a Law and Rule. Now God being so absolute a Sovereign, it is but fit his Will should be done in the perfectest Manner: Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven.
1. As it is taken for his Government over us, so there is a fair Connection between these two Requests. Before, we pray that God would rule us; and now, for a soft and pliable Heart, that we may be ruled by him. Christ is not our King, when we do our own Will. These two are distinct; Government is one thing, and Obedience to it another: As, Mat. 6. 33. The Kingdom of God, and the Righteousness thereof; they are distinguished: The Kingdom of God we plead for in the second Petition, and here for the Righteousness thereof; that Christ may not be a Titular Prince and Sovereign, as certainly he is, when we do our own Will. Every Sovereign stands upon his own Will; and the more absolute, still