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that form of prayer which Christ taught his difciples, commonly called, The Lord's Prayer. ·

Q. 100. What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?

A. The preface of the Lord's prayer, which is, (Our Father which art in heaven,) teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father, able and ready to help us, and that we should pray with and for others.

Q. 101. What do we pray for in the first petition?

A. In the first petition which is, (Hallowed be thy name, we pray that God would enable us and others to glorify him in all that whereby he maketh himself known, and that he would dispose of all things to his own glory.

Q. 102. What do we pray for in the fecond petition?

A. In the second petition, which is, (Thy kingdom come,) we pray that Satan's kingdom may be destroyed, and the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it, and that the kingdom of glory may be haftened.

Q. 103. What do we pray for in the third petition?

A. In the third petition, which is, (Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,) we pray that God by his grace would make us able and willing to know, obey, and fubmit to his will in all things, as the angels do in heaven.

Q2 104. What do we pray for in the fourth peti-. tion ?

A. In the fourth petition, which is, fGive us this day our daily bread,) we pray that of God's free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy his blessing; with them.

Q105. What do we pray for in the fifth peti tion?

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A. In the fifth petition, which is, (And for give us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,) we pray that God, for Chrift's fake, would freely pardon all our fins; which we are the rather encouraged to ask, because by his grace we are: enabled from the heart to forgive others..

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Q. 106. What do we pray for in the fixth petition?

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A. In the fixth petition, which is, (And lead! us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,) we: pray that God would either keep us from being tempted to fin, or fupport and deliver us when we are tempted.

Q. 107. What doth the conclusion of the Lord's prager teach us? Liz

A. The conclufion of the Lord's prayer, which is (For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever. Amen.) teacheth us to take our encou ragement in prayer from God only, and in our prayers to praise him, afcribing kingdom, pow. er, and glory to him; and in teftimony of our defire and affurance to be heard, we fay, Amen.

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

EXODUS. XX.

OD spake all these words, faying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. Thou fhalt have no other gods before me.

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing, that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them : For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and fhewing mercy unto thoufands of them that love me, and keep my command

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III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

IV. Remember the fabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the feventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy manfervant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea and all that in them is, and rested the feventh day: wherefore the Lord bleffed the fabbathday and hallowed it.

V. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

VI. Thou shalt not kill.

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear falfe witness against thy neighbour.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-fervant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

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The LORD's PRAYER, Matth. vi.

UR Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy

will be done on earth as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, aud the glory. for ever. Amen.

The CREED.

BELIEVE in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth; and in Jefus Christ his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, fuffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he defcended into hell*, the third day he rofe again from the dead, he afcended into heaven, and fitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty; from thence he fhall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghoft, the holy catholic church, the communion of faints, the forgivenefs of fins, the refurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

*ie. Continued in the fate of the dead, and under the power of death, until the third day.

END OF THE CATECHISM.

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