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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. We beg here the Sense and Manifestation of Pardon, though it be not the only thing we pray for. Forgive us our Sins, (that is) let us know it: God may blot Sins out of his Book, when he doth not blot them out of our Consciences. There's the Book of Conscience, and the Book of God's Remembrance. The Book of God's Remembrance may be cancelled (to speak after the manner of Men); as soon as we believe and repent, then the Hand-writing which was against us is torn; but he blots it out of our Consciences, when the ⟨p. 366⟩Worm of Conscience is killed, by the Application of the Blood of Christ through the Spirit; when we are sprinkled from an evil Conscience, as the Expression is, Heb. 10. 22. And David is earnest with God for this Benefit, the sense of his Pardon; Psal. 51. 8, 12. Make me to hear Joy and Gladness; that the Bones which thou hast broken may rejoice; and restore unto me the Joy of thy Salvation. Nathan had told him his Sins were pardoned, yet he wanted the Joy of God's Salvation, that ancient free Spirit, that comforting enlarging Spirit he was wont to have. God may forgive in Heaven, when he doth not forgive in our sense and feeling; therefore we beg the Manifestation of it by the Comforts of the Gospel
3. We beg here the Sense and Manifestation of Pardon, though it be not the only thing we pray for. Forgive us our Sins, (that is) let us know it: God may blot Sins out of his Book, when he doth not blot them out of our Consciences. There's the Book of Conscience, and the Book of God's Remembrance. The Book of God's Remembrance may be cancell'd (to speak after the manner of Men); as soon as we believe and repent, then the Hand-writing which was against us is torn; but he blots it out of our Consciences, when the ⟨p. 366⟩Worm of Conscience is kill'd, by the Application of the Blood of Christ through the Spirit; when we are sprinkled from an evil Conscience, as the Expression is, Heb. 10. 22. And David is earnest with God for this Benefit, the sense of his Pardon;