get o, and ufe them unlawfully p: we pray for ourselves and others, That both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the ufe of lawful means, may of his free gift, and as to his Fatherly wisdom shall seem best, enjoy a competent portion of them q, and have the fame continued and bleffed unto us in our holy and comfortable ufe of themr, and contentment in themf: and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal fupport and comfortt.

194. What do we pray for in the fifth petition? A. In the fifth petition (which is, Forgive us our debts, as

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oufnefs; and from the prophet even V. 12. Now them that are fuch we anto the priest, every one dealeth command, and exhort by our Lord falfly. Mark' vii. 21. For from Jefus Chrift, that with quietnels within, out of the heart of men pro- they work, and eat their own bread. ceed evil thoughts, adulteries, for. Phil.iv.6. Be careful for nothing: but nications, murders, v. 22. Thefts, in every thing by prayer and upcovetoufnels, wickedness, deceit,plication with thankigiving, let your • Hof. xii. 7. He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand he loveth to opprefs.

Jam iv. 3. Ye afk and receive not, because ye afk amiis, that ye may confume it upon your lufts.

Gen. xliii. 12. And take double money in your hand : and the money that was brought again in the mouth of the facks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an overfight. v. 13. Take also your brother, and arife, go again unto the man. v. 14. And God Almighty give you mercy before the man,-Gen xxviii. 19. And Jacob vowed, a vow, say ing, 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 to put on. Eph. iv. 28. Let him that stole, fteal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 2 Theff. iii. 11. For we hear that there are fome who walk among you diforderly, work ing not at all, but are busy bodies.

requests be made known unto God.

r 1 Tim. iv. 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth. V 4 For every creature God is good, and nothing to be refufed, if it be received with thankfgiving; v. For it is fanctified by the word of God and prayer.

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I Tim vi. 6. But godliness with contentment is great gain. v. 7. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can car-. ry nothing out. v. 8. And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content.

t Prov. xxx. 8. Remove far from time vanity and lies; give me neither poverty, nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: v. 9. Left I be full, and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord, or left I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

we forgive our debtors v) acknowledging that we and all others are guilty both of original and actual fin, and thereby become debtors to the juftice of God, and that neither we nor any other creature can make the leaft fatisfaction for that debt w. We pray for ourselves and others, That God of his free grace would, thro'the obedience and fatisfaction of Christ apprehended and applied by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punifhment of fin x, accept us in his beloved y, continue his favour and grace to us z, pardon our daily failings a, and fill us with peace and joy, in giving us daily more and more affurance of forgiveness b, which we are the rather emboldened to

194. Mat. vi. 12.

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his blood, to declare his righteousnefs for the remiflion of fins that are paft, through the forbearance of God; v. 26. To declare, I fay, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jefus. Heb. ix. 22. And almost all things are

y Eph, i. 6. To the praife of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved: v. 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgivenness of fins, according to the riches of his grace.

Rom. iii. from verfe 9. to 22. v. 9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wife; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; v. 10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: v. 11. There is none that understand-by the law purged with blood: and eth, there is none that feeketh after without shedding of blood is no reGod. v. 12. They are all gone out miffion. of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one, &c. v. 19. That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God, &c. Mat. xviii. 24. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, who owed him ten thousand talents. v. 25. But forafmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be fold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. Pfal. cxxx. 3. If thou, Lord, fhouldft mark iniquities: O Lord, who fhall ftand? v. 4. But there is forgiveness with thee: that thou mayeft be feared.

x Rom. iii. 24. Being juftified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Chrift Jefus: v. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in

≈2 Pet. i. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jefus our Lord.

a Hofea xiv. 2. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord, fay unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; fo will we render the calves of our lips: Jer. xiv. 7. O Lord, though our iniquities teftify against us, do thou it for thy name's fake: for our backflidings are many, we have finned against thee.

b Rom. x. 13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace

ask, and encouraged to expect, when we have this teftimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive others their offencesc. Q. 195. What do we pray for in the fixth pition?

A. In the fixth petition (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil d) acknowledging that the most wife, righteous and gracious God, for divers holy and juft ends, may fo order things, that we may be affaulted, foiled, and for a time led captive by temptations e; that Satan f, the worldg, and the flesh are ready powerfully to draw us afide, and infnare us b: and that we, even after the pardon of our fins, by reafon of our corruption i, weakness, and want of watchfulnefsk, are not only fubject to be tempted, and forward to expofe ourfelves

in believing that we may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost Pfal. li. 7. Purge me with hyffop, and I fhall be clean; wash me, and I fhall be whiter than fnow. v. 8. Make me to hear joy and gladness: that the bones which thou hast broken, may rejoice. v. 9. Hide thy face from my fins; and blot out all mine iniquities. v. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me, v. 12. Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation: and uphold me with thy free Spirit.

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< Luke xi. And forgive us our fins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.-Mat. vi. 14 For if ye forgive men their trefpaffes, your heavenly Father will alfo forgive you. V. 15. But if ye forgive not men their trefpaffes, neither will your Father forgive your trefpafies. Mat. xviii. 35. So likewife fhall my heavenly Father do alfo unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trefpaffes..

195. d Mat. vi. 13.

2 Chron. xxxii. 31. Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of

the princes of Babylon, who fent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

fi Chron. xxi. 1. And Satan ftood up against Ifrael, and provok ed David to number Ifrael.

g Luke xxi. 34. And take heed to yourselves, left at any time your hearts be overcharged with furfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and fo that day come upon you unawares. Mark iv. 19. And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the luits of other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

h Jam. i. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lufts and enticed.

i Gal. v.17. For the flesh lufteth against the fpirit, and the fpirit againft the flesh and thefe are contrary the one to the other: fo that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

k Mat. xxvi. 41. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation : the fpirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

felves unto temptations /, but also of ourselves unable and unwilling to refift them, to recover out of them, and to improve themm, and worthy to be left under the power of themi

them n, we pray, That God would fo over-rule the world and all in ito, fubdue the flefhp, and restrain Satanq, order all things r, bestow and bless all means of grace, and quicken us to watchfulness in the use of them; that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to fin t; or, if tempted, that by his Spirit we may be powerfully fupported and enabled to stand in the hour of temptation v: or, when

with the feer, and put him into a prifon-house: for he was in a rage with him, becaufe of this thing: and Afa oppreffed fome of the people the fame time.

# Pfàl. lxxxi. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice, and Ifrael would none of me. v. 12. So I gave them up to their own hearts luft: and they walked in their own counfels.

• John xvii. 15. I pray not that thou shouldft take them out of the world, but that thou fhouldft keep them from the evil.

p Pfal. li. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right fpirit within me. Pfal. cxix. 133. Order my fleps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion

over me.

q 2 Cor. xii, 7. And left I should be exalted above meafure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the fiefh, the meffenger of Satan to buffet me, left I fhould be exalted above measure. v. 8. For this thing I befought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

1 Cor. x. 12. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed left he fall. v. 13. There hath no temptation taken you, but fuch as is common to man: but 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 escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Heb. xiii. 20. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jefus, that great Shepherd of the fheep, through the blood of the everlafting covenant, v. 21. 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;

Mat. xxvi. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation,Pfal. xix. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, let them not have dominion over me: then fhall I be upright, and I fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion.

v Eph. iii. 14. For this caufe [ bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift. v. 15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, v. 16. That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be ftrengthened with might, by his Spirit in the inner-man; v. 17. That Chrift may dwelt in your hearts by faith; -1 Theff. iii. 13. To the end he may establish our hearts unblameable in holiness before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift with all his faints. Jude v. 24. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to prefent you faultlefs before the prefence of

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