Institutes 3.20.35 — OF PRAYER—A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT.

**OF PRAYER—A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT.**

This form or rule of prayer is composed of six petitions . For I am prevented from agreeing with those who divide it into seven by the adversative mode of diction used by the Evangelist, who appears to have intended to unite the two members together; as if he had said, Do not allow us to be overcome by temptation, but rather bring assistance to our frailty, and deliver us that we may not fall. Ancient writers August. in Enchirid. ad Laurent. cap. 116. Chrysost. in an imperfect work. See end of sec. 53. “Dont il est facile de juger que ce qui est adjousté en S. Matthieu, et qu’aucuns ent pris pour une septieme requeste, n’est qu’un explication de la sixieme, et se doit a icelle rapporter;”—Whence it is easy to perceive that what is added in St Matthew, and which some have taken for a seventh petition, is only an explanation of the sixth, and ought to be referred to it. OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN.

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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