Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §32

Known such as he is

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In praying that God, or his name, may be hallowed or glorified, we pray that he may be known such as he is, by all who are capable of it, by all intelligent beings, and with affections suitable to that knowledge. That he may be duly honored, and feared, and loved, by all in heaven above and on the earth beneath, by all angels and men, whom for that end he has made capable of knowing and loving him to eternity.

1771 text

In praying that God, or his name may be hallowed or glorified, we pray that he may be known, such as he is, by all that are capable thereof, by all intelligent beings, and with affections suitable to that knowledge: that he may be duly honoured and feared and loved by all in heaven above and in the earth beneath; by all angels and men, whom for that end he has made capable of knowing and loving him to eternity.

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Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.

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