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Volume 1 begins with a biographical memoir of Thomas Manton by William Harris, which traces the formative events of Manton’s childhood and education. The remainder of Volume 1 contains a 253-page line-by-line exposition of the Lord’s Prayer, seven sermons on the temptation of Christ, seven sermons on the transfiguration of Christ, and seven sermons on Christ’s eternality.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors WE have now done with the supplications of this prayer, and are come to the deprecations. The supplications are those petitions which we make to God for obtaining of that which is good. The deprecations are those petitions we make to God for removing of that which is evil. Now of this latter sort there are two:—(1.) We pray for the remission of evil that is already committed; (2.) We pray for the prevention of the evil which may be inflicted. The
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