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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.
6. All those that come to God by Christ, are interested in the Comfort of this Offer and Proclamation of Grace, and may plead with God about their Discharge from this great and heavy Debt. I put it mainly in that Notion, (those that come to God by Christ) because you will find that's the Description of those whom Christ means to save; Heb. 7. 25. He is able to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him. Who are those that come unto God by him? Those that in Christ's Name, do seriously, and with Brokenness of Heart, deal with him about a Release and a Discharge. To come to God by him, it is to come in his Name, to plead his Propitiation, or his Satisfaction, as the only meritorious Cause; and the Promise of God in Christ to blot out our Offences, as the only ground of Hope; and as to our selves, acknowledging the Debt; that is, in confessing our Sins, and our desert of Punishment, with a purpose to forsake them.
6. All those that come to God by Christ, are interested in the Comfort of this Offer and Proclamation of Grace, and may plead with God about their Discharge from this great and heavy Debt. I put it mainly in that Notion, (those that come to God by Christ) because you will find that's the Description of those whom Christ means to save; Heb. 7. 25. He is able to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him. Who are those that come unto God by him? Those that in Christ's Name, do seriously, and with Brokenness of Heart, deal with him about a Release and a Discharge. To come to God by him, it is to come in his Name, to plead his Propitiation, or his Satifaction, as the only meritorious Cause; and the Promise of God in Christ to blot out our Offences, as the only ground of Hope; and as to our selves, acknowledging the Debt; that is, in confessing our Sins, and our desert of Punishment, with a purpose to forsake them.
1. There is required an Acknowledgement of the Debt. God stands upon it, that his Justice may be owned with a due sense, according to the Tenor of the first Covenant: For though the