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Scudder on Thy Will be Done

Posted on 22. Aug, 2012 by Ryan McGraw in Book Reviews

After much delay due to temporarily becoming a full-time PhD student, here is the next installment of Henry Scudder’s extended paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer:

“O Lord and King, since that unfeigned obedience to thy holy will, doth truly honor and glorify thy name, and doth manifest that they kingdom is come, and is a due debt to be performed of all thy people: may it please thee to cause me, and all thy people to know thy will, and to submit their wills to the same in all things, always, in all faithfulness upon earth, as thy holy Angels and Saints do thy commandments in heaven. And far be it from me, or any other to rebel, or mutiny against thee.” (Scudder, A Key of Heaven, 284-285).