in our hearts here, and haften the time of his fecond com ing, and our reigning with him for everm: and that he would be pleafed fo to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to thefe ends n. Q. 192. and watching thereunto with all perfeverance, and fupplication for all faints. v. 19. And for me that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Gentiles. v. 20. For which I am an ambaffador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to fpeak, Rom. xv. 29. And I am fure, that when I come unto you, I fhall come in the fulness of the bleffing of the gofpel of Chrift. v. 30. Now I befeech you, brethren, for the Lord Jefus Chrift's fake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye ftrive together with me in your prayers to God for me; v. 32. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. 2 Theff. i. 11. Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of his calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power. 2 Theff. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jefus Chrift himself, and God even our father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlafting confolation, and good hope through grace, v. 17. Comfort your hearts, and ftablish you in every good word and work. Eph. iii. 14. For this caufe I 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 dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love, v. 18. may be able to comprehend with all faints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; v. 19. and to know the love of Chrift, which paf feth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. v. 20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.. in Rey. xxii. 20. He who teftifieth thefe things, faith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even fo, come, Lord Jefus, n Ifa. lxiv. 1. Oh that thou wouldft rent the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy prefence, v. 2. as when the melting fire burneth, the fire caufeth the water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adverfaries, that the nations may tremble at thy prefence. Rev. iv. 8. And the four beafts had each of them fix wings about him, and they were full of eyes within; and they reft not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come. v. 9. And when those beafts give glory, and honour, and thanks to him that fat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, v. 10, the four and twenty elders fall down before him that fat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and caft their crowns before the throne, faying, v. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory. and honour, and power; for thou haft Q. 192. What do we pray for in the third petition? A. In the third petition (which is, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven o) acknowledging that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of Godp, but prone to rebel against his word q, to repine and murmur against his providencer, and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil: we pray, That God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindnefst, weakness v, indifpofedness w, and perverseness of heartx, and by his grace haft created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created, 192. Mat. vi. 10. p Rom. vii. 18. For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. Job xxi. 14. Therefore they fay unto God, Depart from us; we defire not the knowledge of thy ways. 1 Cor. ii. 14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, becaufe they are spiritually difcerned. 9 Rom. viii. 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not fubject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Exod. xvii. 7. And he called the name of the place Maffah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Ifrael, and because they tempted the Lord, faying, Is the Lord among us, or not? Numb. xiv. 2. And all the children of Ifrael murmured against Mofes, and against Aaron and the whole congregation faid unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would God we had died in this wilderness. make SEph. ii. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the courie of this world, according to the prince. of the power of the air, the fpirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Eph. i. 17. That the God of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of glory, may give unto you the fpirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him: v. 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the faints. v Eph. iii. 16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might,by his fpirit, in the inner-man, w Mat. xxvi. 40. And he cometh unto the difciples, and findeth them afleep, and faith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? v. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the fpirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. x Jer. xxxi. 18. I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, thou haft chaftifed me, and I was chattifed, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and make us able and willing to know, do, and fubmit to his will in all thingsy, with the like humility z, chearfulness a, faithfulness b, diligencec, zeal d, fincerity e, and constancyƒ, as the angels do in heaven g. Q.193. What do we pray for in the fourth petition? I fhall be turned; for thou art the y Pla. cxix. 1. Bleffed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. v. 8. I will keep thy ftatutes: O forfake me not utterly. v. 35. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight. v. 36. Incline my heart unto thy teftimonies and not to covetoufnefs. Acts xxi. 14. And when he would not be perfuaded, we ceafed, faying, The will of the Lord be done. z Micah vi. 8. He hath fhewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? a Pfal. c. 2. Serve the Lord with gladnefs; come before his prefence with finging. Job. i. 21. And (Job) faid, Naked came I out of my mothers womb, and naked fhall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. 2 Sam. xv. 25. And the king faid unto Zadock, carry back the ark of God into the city: if I fhall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again and fhew me both it and his habitation. *v. 26. But if he fay thus, I have no delight in thee: be hold, here am I, let him do to me as feemeth good unto him. b Ifa. xxxviii. 3. And said, Remember, now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy fight: and Hezekiah wept fore. c Pfalm cxix. 4. Thou haft commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. v. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy ftatutes, d Rom, xii. 11. Not flothful in bufinefs, fervent in fpirit; ferving the Lord. e Pfal. cxix. 80. Let my heart be found in thy ftatutes: that I be not afhamed. f Pfal. cxix. 112. I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end. g Ifa. vi. 2. Above it stood the feraphims: each one had fix wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. v. 3. And one cried unto another, and faid, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hofts, the whole earth is full of his glory. Pial. ciii. 20. Blefs the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word, v. 21. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hofts, ye minifters of his that do his pleafure. Mat. xviii. 10. Take heed that yo defpife not one of these little ones; for I fay unto you, that in heaven daily bread b) acknowledging that in Adam, and by our own fin, we have forfeited our right to all the outward bleffings of this life, and deferve to be wholly deprived of them by God, and to have them curfed to us in the ufe of themi; and that neither they of themselves are able to fuftain usk, nor we to merit/, or by our own induftry to procure themm; but prone to defiren, geto, and ufe them unlaw their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven. 193. b Mat. vi. 11. i Gen. ii. 17. But of the tree of -the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou fhalt furely die. Gen. iii. 17. And unto Adam he faid, Becaufe thou haft hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hat eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, faying, Thou fhalt not eat of it: Curfed be the ground for thy fake; in forrow fhalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Rom. viii. 20. For the creature was made fubject to vanity, not willingly, but by reafon of him who hath fubjected the fame in hope: v. 21. Because the creature itself alfo fhall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God. v. 22. For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now. Jer. v. 25. Your iniquities have turned away thefe things, and your fins have withholden good things from you. Deut. xxviii. from verse 15. to the end of the chapter. v. 15. But it fhall come to pafs if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to obferve to do all his commandments and his ftatutes which I command thee this day; that all these curfes thall come upon thee, and overtake thee. v. 16. Curfed fhalt fully: thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. v. 17. Curfed fhall be thy basket and thy store, &c. k Deut. viii. 3. And he humbled thee, and fuffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, (which thou kneweft not, neither did thy fathers know) that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. 1 Gen. xxxii, 10. I am not worthy of the leaft of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou haft fhewed unto thy fervant, m Deut. viii. 17. And thou fay in thine heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth. v. 18. But thou fhalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he fware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. Jer. vi. 13. For from the leaft of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetoufnefs; and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falfely. Mark vii. 21. For from with in, out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, v. 22. Thefts, covetoufnefs, wickednefs, deceit, • Hof. xii. 7. He is a merchant, the balances of deceitare in his hand: he loveth to opprefs. ? Jam. fullyp: we pray for ourselves and others, That both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may of his free gift, and as to his Fatherly wifdom fhall feem beft, enjoy a competent portion of them q, and have the fame continued and bleffed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of themr, and contentment in thems: and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal fupport and comfort t. Q. 194. What do we pray for in the fifth petition? A. In the fifth petition (which is, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors v) acknowledging that we and all others are guilty both of original and actual fin, and thereby be Jam. iv. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amifs, that ye may consume it upon your luits. q 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, 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 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, working not at all, but are bufy bodies. v. 12. Now them that are fuch, we command, and exhort by our Lord Jefus Chrift, that with quietnefs they work, and eat their own bread. Phil. iv. 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thanksgiving, let your requefts be made known unto God. r1 Tim. iv. 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abitain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thankfgiving of them who believe and know the truth. v. 4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refufed, if it be received with thanksgiving; v. 5. For it is fanctified by the word of God, and prayer. /1 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 carry nothing out. v. 8. And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. t Prov. xxx. 8. Remove far from me 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. 194. v Mat. vi, 12. w Rom. |