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An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism by Joseph Stump
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_What is meant by this Petition?_

We pray in this petition, as in a summary, that our heavenly Father
would deliver us from ail manner of evil, whether it affect the body or
the soul, property or character, and at last, when the hour of death
shall arrive, grant us a happy end, and graciously take us from this
world of sorrow to Himself in heaven.

* * * * *

As in the sixth Petition we pray to be preserved from sinning, so in
this seventh Petition we pray to be delivered from all the evil which
has come upon our race as a consequence of sin.[10] But this petition
comes last, because we should be more anxious to be delivered from the
sin itself, than from the evil results which follow upon it.

[Footnote 10: There is a very close connection between the last two
petitions, marked by the word "But." "Temptation will not cease until
deliverance from evil [and from the evil one] has come; and again, when
deliverance from evil has come, temptation will cease to assail
us."--Luekrs.]

WE PRAY IN PETITION AS IN A SUMMARY. All the petitions which precede it
are included in this last one.

THAT OUR HEAVENLY FATHER WOULD DELIVER US FROM ALL MANNER OF EVIL:--

I. IN THIS WORLD.

WHETHER IT AFFECT THE BODY,--sickness, pain, hunger, thirst,
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