![]() ![]() We must begin our prayers with praising God, and it is very fit he should be first served, and that we should give glory to God, before we expect to receive mercy and grace from him. In these words, (1.) We give glory to God it may be taken not as a petition, but as an adoration as that, the Lord be magnified, or glorified, for God's holiness is the greatness and glory of all his perfections. But here the old word hallowed is retained, only because people were used to it in the Lord's prayer. It is the same word that in other places is translated sanctified. The method of this prayer teaches us to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then to hope that other things shall be added.ฤก. The petitions, and those are six the three first relating more immediately to God and his honour, the three last to our own concerns, both temporal and spiritual as in the ten commandments, the four first teach us our duty toward God, and the last six our duty toward our neighbour. ![]()
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