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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.
Thine.
What doth this word thine imply?1
- 1Quest.
It implies three particulars.1
- 1Answ.
First, that all authority, sufficiency, and excellency is firstly in God, all is his by possession and propriety. Any thing that we have or enjoy, it is but what we have of him, it is but a glimpse and reflection of that glory in God, and it is all firstly in God, and he leases it out; it is my God and my portion, God is the root of all we are or have, all power and sufficiency is in him firstly.
First, that all authority, sufficiency, and excellency is firstly in God, all is his by possession and propriety. Any thing that we have or enjoy, it is but what we have of him, it is but a glimpse and reflexion of that glory in God, and it is all firstly in God, and he leases it out; it is my God and my portion, God is the roote of all we are or have, all power and sufficiency is in him firstly.