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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. › And lead us not into Temptation.
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.
And lead us not into Temptation.
WE are now come to the sixth Petition: which is doubly expressed.
WE are now come to the sixth Petition: which is doubly exprest.
I. Negatively; Lead us not into Temptation. II. Affirmatively; But deliver us from Evil.
The first part doth more concern preventing Grace, that we may not fall into Evil: and the second, recovering Grace, that if we fall into Evil, we may not be overcome of it, nor overwhelmed by it, but may find deliverance from the Lord. Here we pray, (1.) that we may not be tempted. Or (2.) if the Lord see it fit we should be tempted, that we may not yield. Or (3.) if we yield, that we may not totally be overcome. As the former Petition concerned the guilt of Sin, so this concerns the Reign and Power of it.
In this first Part, take notice;