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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.
Use 2. It serves to press us to a more tender regard to the Will of God. To this end consider these Motives.
Vse 2. It serves to press us to a more tender regard to the Will of God. To this end consider these Motives.
Mot. 1. His absolute Authority to command. 1 Tim. 6. 15. Who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: His Will is enough. I am the Lord, you shall do thus and thus.
2. Consider the Equity of what he hath commanded; Rom. 7. 12. The Commandment is holy, and just, and good. Nothing God commandeth, but what is agreeable to his own Nature, and what is suited to our Benefit. It is no burden to live justly, soberly, and holily in Communion with God. It is not a Burden, but a great Advantage: The Yoke of Christ is a bountiful Yoke. Our Service and Duty hath its own Reward in the very Mouth and Bosom of it. It is no great wrong to us to govern our Affections, to live soberly, chastely, and in the Exercise of holy Services; here is nothing but what raiseth and sublimates the Nature of Man. If the Commandment of God had been to offer our Children in Sacrifice, or any of those Barbarities which were practised among the Gentiles; yet this had been enough, I am the Lord: But when he hath given such holy and good Commands, which makes you live more like Men, like reasonable Creatures, you should be tender of the Lord's Will.
2. Consider the Equity of what he hath commanded; Rom. 7. 12. The Commandment is holy, and just, and good. Nothing God commandeth, but what is agreeable to his own Nature, and what is suited to our Benefit. It is no burden to live justly, soberly, and holily in Communion with God. It is not a Burden, but a great Advantage: The Yoke of Christ is a bountiful Yoke. Our Service and Duty hath its own Reward in the very Mouth and Bosom of it. It is no great wrong to us to govern our Affections, to live soberly, chastly, and in the Exercise of holy Services; here is nothing but what raiseth and sublimates the Nature of Man. If the Commandment of God had been to offer our Children in Sacrifice, or any of those Barbarities which were practised among the Gentiles; yet this had been enough, I am the Lord: But when he hath given such holy and good Commands, which makes you live more like Men, like reasonable Creatures, you should be tender of the Lord's Will.