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Q. 183. Whether doe these two clauses, Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evill; make but one Petition?

A. First, it matters not much, whether they make but one or no; for it is a signe of Pride to strive about words, 1 Tim. 6. 4. Secondly, 'tis more likely that they make but one Petition, and that is, as our Saviour summes both these clauses up in one, that our heavenly Father would keepe us from the evill, Ioh. 17. 15. For first, the one clause is Negative, and the other is Affirmative; now the Negative and Affirmative make but one truth. As we see in this passage. Thou shalt dye and not live, Isa. 38. 1. Secondly, our Saviour does not put them downe copulatively, Lead us not in∣to temptation, and deliver us from evill; for then they mought have some colour of being two, but hee unites them with a But, as though the first were not a whole Petition without the second, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from ••••ill, Luk. 11. 4. Thirdly, it is enough to say, it is one Petition consisting of two parts. The one for preventing Grace, to prevent us from falling into evill, the other for recovering Grace; that

at the furthest, if we fall into evill, yet how soever, the Lord would deliver us out, according to that of the Psalmist, Psal. 37. 24. Fourthly that con∣ceipt of the Papists to make seaven Petitions in the Lords Prayer, according to the number of the seaven Graces of the Spirit, is but frothy, for there be many moe graces of the Spirit. His grace is manifold, 1 Pet. 4. 10.