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gift, and as to his fatherly wifdom shall seem beft, enjoy a competent portion of them, and have the fame continued and bleffed unto us in our holy comfortable ufe of them', and contentment in them'; and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal fupport and comfort'.

Q. 194. What do we pray for in the fifth peti'tion ?

A. In the fifth petition (which is, Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors) acknowledging that we and all others are guilty both of original and actual fin, and thereby become debtors to the justice of God, and that neither we nor any other creature can make the least fatisfaction for that debt": We pray for ourselves and others,

q Gen, 28. ao. And Jacob vowed a vow, faying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment toput on, then fhall the Lord be my God. Jam. 4. 13, 15. Go to now ye that fay, To-day or to-morrow we will go into fuch a city, and continue there a year, and buy and fell and get gain; For that ye ought to fay, If the Lord will, we fhall live and do this or that. Pfal. 90. 17. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands eftablish thou it. Pfal, 144 12--15.

r1 Tim. 4. 4, 5. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving; for it is fanctified by the word of God, and prayer. Prov. 10. 22.

f1 Tim. 6. 6, 8. Godliness with contentment is great gain. And having food and rai ment let us be therewith content.

t Prov. 30. 8, 9. Remove far from me vanity and liesfeed me with food convenient for me; left I be full and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord? or left I be poor, and fteal, and take the name of my God in vain.

v Matt. 6. 12.

w Matt. 18. 24. And when

that God of his free grace would, through the obedience and fatisfaction of Chrift apprehended and applied by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of fin, accept us in his Beloved', continue his favour and grace to us, pardon our daily failings, and fill us with peace and joy, in giving us daily more and more affurance of forgiveness, which we are the rather emboldened to afk, and encouraged to expect, when we have this teftimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive others their offences.

he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. Rom. 5. 19. By one man's difobedience many were made finners. Rom. 3 9-19 We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin. That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Pfal. 13c. 3. If thou, Lord, fhouldéft mark iniquitics, O Lord, who fhall ftand? Mic. 6. 6, 7.

x Rom. 5. 19.By the obedience of one fhall many be made righteous. Rom. 3. 24, 25. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Chrift Jefus; whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufnefs for the remiffion of fins that are paft, through the forbearance of God. Acts 13. 39.

y Eph. 1. 6. To the praife of

the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved.

z 2 let, 1. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you, through the knowledge of God, and of Jefus our Lord.

a Hof. 14. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: fay unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us gracioufly. Pfal. 143. 2. Enter not into judgment with thy fervant, for in thy fight fhall no man living be justified. Pfal. 130. 3.

b Rom. 15. 13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghoft. Rom. 5. 1, 2. Pfal. 15. 7-12.

c Luke 11. 4. And forgive us our fins; for we alfo forgive every one that is indebted to us. Matt. 18. 35. So likewife fhall my heavenly Father do alfo unto you, if ye, from your,

Q. 195. What do we pray for in the fixth peti tion ?

A. In the fixth petition (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil") acknowledging that the most wife, righteous and gracious God, for divers holy and just ends, may fo order things, that we may be affaulted, foiled, and for a time led captive by temptations; that Satan, the world" and the flesh, are ready powerfully to draw us afide, and enfnare us; and that we, even after the pardon of our fins, by reafon of our corruption', weakness and want of watchfulnefs", are not only fubject to be tempted, and forward to expofe ourselves unto temptations', but also of ourselves unable and unwilling to refift them, to recover out of them,

hearts, forgive not every one his brother their trefpafies. Matt. 6. 14, 15.

d Matt. 6. 13.

e 2 Chron. 32. 31. God left him to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart. Job. 2. 6. And the Lord faid unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but fave his life.

f Pet. 5. 8. Be fober, be vigilant; because your adverfary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, feeking whom he may devour. Job 2. 2.

g Luke 21. 34. And take heed to yourselves, left at any time your hearts be over charged with furfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and fo that day come

upon you unawares. Mark 4. 19.

h Jam. 1. 14. Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed.

i Gal. 5. 17. For the flesh lufteth against the spirit, and the fpirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other; fo that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Rom. 7. 18.

k Matt. 26. 41. Watch and pray that ye enter, not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

1 Eccl. 9. 12. Man alfo know. eth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the fnare, so are the fons of

and to improve them"; and worthy to be left under the power of them": We pray, that God would fo over-rule the world and all in it, fubdue the flesh", and reftrain Satan", order all things', bestow and bless all means of grace, and quicken us to watchfulness in the ufe of them; that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to fin'; or, if tempted, that by his Spirit we may be

men fnared in an evil time, when it falleth fuddenly upon them. 1 Tim. 69. They that will be rich, fall into tempta tion, and a fnare, and into many foolish and hurtful lufts. Prov. 7. 22.

m Eph. 6. 11, 12. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to ftand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against fpiritual wickedness in high places. I Chron. 21. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2 Chron. 16. 7, 8, 9. 10.

n Pfal. 18 11, 12. But my people would not hearken to my voice, and Ifrael would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lufts and they walked in their own counfels.

o John 17. 15. I pray not that thou fouldeft take them out of the world, but that thou fhouldeft keep them from the

evil. Rom. 8. 28.

p Pfal. 51. 10. Create in

me

a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Pfal. 119. 133. Let not any iniquity have dominion over

me.

q Heb. 2. 18. For in that he himself hath fuffered, being tempted, he is able to fuccour them that are tempted. I Cor, 10. 13. God is faithful, who will not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. 2 Cor. 12.. 8.

r Rom. 8. 28. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

f Heb. 13. 20, 21. Now the God of peace-make you perfect in every good work, to do his will working in you that which is well pleafing in his fight, through Jefus Chrift. Eph 12. II, 12.

t Matt. 26. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. Pfal. 19. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, let them not have dominion over me.

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powerfully fupported and enabled to stand in the hour of temptation"; or, when fallen, raised again and recovered out of it", and have a fanctified use and improvement thereof; that our fanctification and falvation may be perfected", Satan trodden under our feet, and we fully freed from fin, temptation, and all evil for ever".

Q. 196. What doth the conclufion of the Lord's prayer teach us?

A. The conclufion of the Lord's prayer (which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen) teacheth us to enforce our

VI Cor. 10. 13. God is faithful, who will not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation alfo make a way to efcape, that ye may be able to bear it. Eph. 3. 14, 15, 16.

w Pfal. 51. 12. Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.

x I Pet. 5. 10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Chrift Jefus, after that ye have fuffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, fettle you. I Pet. 1.6, 7. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a feafon (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than that of gold that perifheth, though it be tried with üre, might he found unto praise

and honour and glory at the appearing of Jefus Chrift.

y I Theff. 3. 13. To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jefus Christ with all his faints.

z Rom. 10. 20. And the God of peace fhall bruise Satan under your feet fhortly.

a 1 Theff. 5. 20. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly and I pray God your whole fpirit, and foul, and body be preferved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

b Matt. 6. 13.

c Job 23. 3, 4. O that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his feat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Jer. 14. 20, 21.

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