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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. › As we forgive our Debtors.
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.
Secondly; What Respect hath our forgiving of others to God's forgiving us.
I shall speak to it Negatively, and Positively.
I shall speak to it Negatively, and Positvely.
(1.) Negatively.
1. It is not a meritorious Cause, or a Merit and Price given to God why he should pardon us, for that's only the Blood of Christ. Every Act of ours is due, it is imperfect, and no way proportionate to the Mercies we expect; and therefore it cannot be meritorious before God. It is due, it is a Duty we are bound to do, and paying of new Debts doth not quit old Scores. God hath laid such a Law upon us, that we are to forgive others; that cannot expiate former Offences. And it is imperfect too: The Remembrance of Injuries sticks too close to us. When we do most heartily and entirely forgive others, even then we have too great a sense of the Injury and Wrong that is offered to us. Now that which needs Pardon, cannot deserve Pardon. And it is disproportionate to the Mercy which we expect. What a vast Disparity and Difference is there between God's pardoning of us, and our pardoning of others? whether we respect the Persons that are interested in this Action; or the Subject Matter, or Manner and way of doing; or