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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.
Object. 2. Is taken from the Text, Forgive us our Debts, as we forgive those that trespass against us.
I answer: In Sin, there is the Obliquity or Fault in it, and the Hurt or Detriment that redounds to Man by it. As it is a Breach of the Law of God, or an Offence to his Infinite Majesty, God can only pardon it, or dispense with it: As it is an hurt to us, so restitution is to be made to Man, and Man can pardon or forgive it.
Object. 3. 'Tis said, Joh. 20. 23. Whosesoever Sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever Sins ye retain, they are retained. So that it seemeth Man hath a power to remit Sins.
I answer; They do it Declaratively, and by Commission from God. The Officers of the Church have the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven committed to them; the Key of Knowledge or Doctrine, and the Key of Order and Discipline. Accordingly this Power is called, The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, Mat. 16. 19. And the use of them is to open or shut the Doors of God's House, and to bind or loose, as the Expression is,