Sermons On The Catechism Vol 1 The Lords Prayer

Author : Robert Eyton
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458901958
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Lord's Prayer written by Robert Eyton and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... SERMON XII. " Give us this day our daily bread."--St Matt. vi. II. It is God's bread, then, that we ask for, i.e., bread that comes to us in God's way; and though we find it hard to ask for it, because it comes so much as a matter of course, we have always need to ask that it may come in God's way. And the very attitude of asking, the very expression that we use, " Give," tells us of God as the Giver and not the Exactor, and so colours all our religion. Thus far we have come. We pass on to-day to that little word " us," to which we so often give but little attention, but which implies so much. The moment we emphasize it, we see that it means very much more perhaps than we have ever thought of before. It implies a wish that others should receive all that we ask for ourselves. It implies a disposition to share with them in some sense what we have. So it seems to have struck those who first said it, that little band who were so much "of one heart and of one soul," that no one said, " ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." They F. D. Maurice on "The Lord's Prayer." understood it as a petition to the same Father Who had given His Son and His Spirit to all, that He would give to all the necessities of life; they understood it to imply, that it was the privilege of those who had much to give to those who had little; they thought of the prayer as a reality, not as though it were, "keep me in comfort and save others from starvation," but " give to us all what we need." And so they translated quite sincerely their prayer into the forming of a common stock, they even sold their houses and lands, though they might have kept them by the rules of the Church; the sense of their common heritage so possessed them, that they c...