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An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire.

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An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire.
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Burton, William, d. 1616.
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At London :: Printed by the widdow Orwin for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater-noster row at the signe of the Talbot,
1594.
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Lord's prayer -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
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"An exposition of the Lords Prayer made in diuers lectures, and now drawne into questions and answers for the greater benefite of the simpler sort: whereunto is prefixed a briefe treatise of prayer for all men. Published at the request of diuers godly and well disposed: by W. B. minister of the Word at Reading in Barkshire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17326.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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Of this worde, Giue.

Q. WHy doe we say giue?

A. This worde doth teach vs many things.

  • 1. That God is the author and giuer of all the good that wee haue either spiri∣tuall or corporall.
  • 2. That such is our miserie by sinne, that of our selues wee are not worth a peece of bread.
  • 3. That if wee haue but bread, wee ought to thank the giuer, and much more ought wee to thanke him for our aboun∣dance.

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  • 4. To get our riches in such sorte, as we may rightly call them the gift of God, and that is when we get our liuing, either by right inheritance, or by true honest la∣bour.
  • 5. To shew that all our labour is to no purpose (although we be commanded to labour) except the Lorde giue a blessing, See Psal. 128. 1. 2. Eccles. 6. 7. Psal. 127. 1. Psalm. 107. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. Mic. 6. 15. Hag. 1. 6.
  • 6. To shew that the nourishment of bread, and the vse of our goods is of God, aswell as goods themselues, See Leuit. 26. 26. Eccles. 6. 1. Dan. 1. 10. 12. 13. 15.

Q. You say that wée be not worthie of a péece of bread, but in the worthines of Christ, whether are we then worthy of heauen as the Papists saye?

A. If we be not worthie of a peece of bread,* 1.1 much lesse are wee worthie of the kingdome of heauen: but if bread be the free gift of God, much more is the king∣dome of heauen the free gift of God.

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