A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

2. From the Subject, or Persons which make this Prayer, Forgive us, Observe,

Doct. Even those that call God Father, ought to beg, daily and humbly, Pardon of their Sins.

Forgive Us; who is that Us that can say in Faith, Our Father, daily. For this is a Pattern for daily Prayer, as the word [Greek or Hebrew] in the former Petition noteth. We need beg, for Christ hath taught us here to sue out our Discharge. In which begging there is an Exercise of Faith eying Christ; Rom. 3. 25. God hath set forth him ⟨p. 358⟩to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood. And there is an Exercise also of Repentance, as to mourning for Sin; 1 John 1. 9. and Prov. 28. 13. He that confesseth and forsaketh his Sin, shall have Mercy: and as to loathing of Sin; Acts 3. 19. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your Sins may be blotted out. And certainly it must be humbly begged; for if we seek Pardon, we must seek it in God's way. We do not beg God to rescind and make void his Laws, and those wise Constitutions he hath appointed, whereby the Creature shall receive this Grace; and the manner wherein he will deal and transact this business with the offending Creature: But we seek it, as exercising our renewed Repentance; (that is) mourning for Sin, and loathing of Sin. But of this more hereafter.

Forgive Vs; who is that Vs that can say in Faith, Our Father, daily. For this is a Patern for daily Prayer, as the word in the former Petition noteth. We need beg, for Christ hath taught us here to sue out our Discharge. In which begging there is an Exercise of Faith eying Christ;