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A brief exposition of the Lords PrayerA briefe exposition of the Lords Prayer
A brief exposition of the Lords Prayer: wherein the meaning of the word is laid open to the understanding of weak Christians, and what the carriage of their hearts ought to be in preferring each petition. / By Mr. Tho. Hooker preacher of Gods word.A briefe exposition of the Lords Prayer: wherein the meaning of the word is laid open to the understanding of weake Christians, and what the carriage of their hearts ought to be in preferring each petition. / By Mr. Tho. Hooker preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Moses Bell for Benjamin Allen, 1645
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
It appears in two things.1
- 1Answ.
First, it is willing to do it it self.
Secondly, it is willing, and desires to help and stir up others, to the utmost of its power, to do the will of God.
First, the soul ought to be forward to know the will of God, and to labour to do it it self, and this appears in four particulars.
First, the soul ought to be forward to know the will of God, and to labour to do it it self, and this appears in foure particulars.
First, the heart is willing to do the will of God in laying down its own will, so far as it may be a hinderance from doing Gods will, for oftentimes our will and the will of God are contrary: there is naturally a sturdy toughness that lifts up it self above the LORD, this must be removed, Not my will, (saith our Saviour) but thy will be done. If our will and Gods will cannot stand, we must lay down ours; but sometimes we say desperately, (as they did) We will walk in our own ways &c. and we will have a King as other Nations, we will have our base lusts to sway and rule us. But so long as this is in us we cannot do the will of the LORD, we cannot serve two masters: I came not (saith our Saviour) to do