The Lord's Prayer Exposition - (2of2) 1612

This narration is dedicated to Leonia M and Esther with heart felt gratitude. First published in the year 1612, five years after Arthur Dent's death, this treatise remains a nourishing guide for believers who long to grow in both the understanding and practice of prayer. Dent, a faithful preacher and minister of God's Word, draws his readers into the deep spiritual contours of the Lord's Prayer, expounding each petition with theological clarity and heartfelt exhortation.
Forgive us our Debts In this petition and the next, we ask for spiritual blessings, which teaches us that, since there are two petitions for spiritual things and only one for temporal things, our concern for our souls must be twice as great as our concern for our bodies. Coherence. God's will is done when we trust His providence for our daily needs and trust His mercy for the forgiveness of our sins. Reason for the order (why we ask first for things of the body, and only afterwards for things of the soul) even though the body is not more excellent than the soul: