LETTER IV

Here I answer, No. The Lord's Prayer was not intended to be a statement

of the Gospel, but the language of those who have accepted it. No doubt

the terms of the prayer may be so explained as to bring in a definition

of the Gospel, working backwards; but a complete explanation would be

longer than the Thirty-nine Articles. There seems to be a serious

confusion of thought here between the offer of salvation to sinners

estranged from God, and the utterance towards God of His reconciled

children.

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