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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
Introduction › AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPOSITION OF THE Lord's-Prayer. › APPLICATION.
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 The Spirit of God will direct you. There are certain Times when God hath Business with you alone; when he doth (as it were) speak to you, as to the Prophet in another Case, Ezek. 3. 22. Go forth into the Plain, in the Desert, and there I will talk with thee: So, get you to your Closets, I have some Business to speak with you. Thou saidst, Seek ye my Face: my Heart answered, Thy Face, Lord, will I seek, Psal. 27. 8. God invites you to Privacy and Retirement; You are sent into your Closet, to deal with God about the Things you heard from the Pulpit. This is the actual Profit we get by a Sermon, when we deal ⟨p. 32⟩seriously with God about what we have heard. When God sends for us (as it were) by his Spirit, and invites us into his Presence by these Motions; it is spiritual Clownishness to refuse to come to him.
3 The Spirit of God will direct you. There are certain Times when God hath Business with you alone; when he doth (as it were) speak to you, as to the Prophet in another Case, Ezek. 3. 22. Go forth into the Plain, in the Desart, and there I will talk with thee: So, get you to your Closets, I have some Business to speak with you. Thou saidst, Seek ye my Face: my Heart answered, Thy Face, Lord, will I seek, Psal. 27. 8. God invites you to Privacy and Retirement; You are sent into your Closet, to deal with God about the Things you heard from the Pulpit. This is the actual Profit we get by a Sermon, when we deal ⟨p. 32⟩seriously with God about what we have heard. When God sends for us (as it were) by his Spirit, and invites us into his Presence by these Motions; it is spiritual Clownishness to refuse to come to him.