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get o, and use 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 fhall feem beft, enjoy a competent portion of them 9,and have the fame continued and bleffed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of them r, and contentment in them f: 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

toufnels: and from the prophete- bufy bodies.v. 12. Now them that venunto the priest,every one deal- are fuch, we command,and exhort eth falfly. Mark 7. 21, For from by our Lord Jefus Chrift,that with within,out of the heart of men pro- quietnels they work, and eat their ceed evil thoughts, adulteries,for- own bread. Phil. 4. 6. Be careful nications, murders. v. 22. Thefts, for nothing: but in every thing Covetoufnefs, wickednefs, deceit. by prayer and fupplication with o Hofea 12.7.He is a merchant, thanfgiving, let your requests be the balances of deceit are in his made known unto God. hand he loveth to opprefs.

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r1 Tim.4.3. Forbiding to marp Jam. 4.3. Ye afk and receive ry,& commanding to abitain from not, because ye afk amifs,that you meats, which God hath created to may confume it upon your lufts. be received with thanksgiving of q Gen. 43.12. And take double them which believe and know the money in your hand: and the mo- truth. v. 4. For every creature of ney that was brought again in the God is good,and nothing to be remouth of the facks, carry it again fuled,ifit be received with thankfin your hand; peradventure it was giving; v:5.For it is fanctified by an overfight.v.13.Take allo your the word of God, and prayer. brother, and arife, go again unto f1 Tim.6.6.But godlinefs with the man.v. 14.And God Almighty contentment is great gain. v. 7. give you mercy before the man,- For we brought nothing into this Gen. 28. 19. And Jacob vowed a world,and it is certain we can carvow, faying, If God will be with ry nothing out. ". 8. And having me, and will keep me in this way food and raiment, let us be therethat I go, and will give me bread with content. to eat and raiment to put on.Eph. 4. 28. Let him that ftole, 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. 3. 11. For we hear that there are fome which walk among you diforderly, working not at all,but are

t Prov. 30. 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.

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by becoming debtors to the justice 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 Chrift apprehended and applied by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of fin x, accept us in his beloved y, continue his favour and grace to us z, pardon our daily faillings a, and fill us with peace and joy, in giving us daily more and more affurance of forgiveness b; which we are the rather emboldned to afk, and encouraged to expect, when

w Rom. 3. 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 andGentiles, that they are all under fin; 2. 10. As it is written, There is none righteous,no not one: v. II. There is none that understandeth, there is nonethat feeketh after God. v. 12. They are all gone out 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 ftopped, and all the world may become guilty beforeGod, &c. Mat. 18. 24. And when he had begun to reckon,one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.v.25. But for as much as hehad 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. 130. 3. If thou, Lord, fhouldft mark iniquities: O Lord, who fhall ftand? v. 4. But there is forgiveness with thee: that thou mayelt be feared.

ftifier of him which believeth in Jefus. Heb. 9. 22. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without thedding of blood is no remiflion,

y Eph.1.6. To the praise 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 forgivenefs of fins, according to the riches of his grace.

z 2 Pet. 1.2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jefus our Lord.

a Hofea 14. 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. 14.7 OLord, though our iniquities teftify against us,do thou it for thy names fake: for our backflidings are many, we have finned against thee.

b Rom. 15. 13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace xRom 3.24. Being juftified free-in believing, that ye may abound ly by his grace, through the re- in hope through the power of the demption that is in Chrift Jefus: holy Ghoft. Pfal. 51.7. Purge me v. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to with hyffop, and I fhall be clean: be a propitiation, through faith wafh me, and I fhall be whiter than in his blood, to declare his righ- fnow. v. 8. Make me to hear joy teoufnefs for the remiffion of lins andgladnefs: that the bones which that are past, through the forbear thou haft broken,may rejoice. v.9. ance of God; v. 26. To declare, Hide thy face from my fins; and fay, at this time his righteoufnefs: blot out all mine iniquities. v. 10 that he might be juft, and the ju- Create in me a clean heart, O God;

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when we have this teftimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive others their offences c.

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

A. In the fixth petition (which is, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil d) acknowledge that the moft 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 é; that Satan f, the world g, and the flesh are ready powerfully to draw us afide, and infnare us h; and that we, even after the pardon of our fins, by reafon of our corruption i, weakness, and want of watchfulness k, are not only fubject to be tempted, and forward to expose ourselves unto temptations 1; but alfo

and renew aright spirit within me. v. 12. Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation: and uphold me with thy free fpirit,

c Luke.11.4.And forgive us our fins; for we allo forgive everyone that is indebted tous,-Mat.6. 4. For if ye forgive men their tref paffes, your heavenly Father will alfo forgive you. v, 15. But if ye forgive not men their trefpalles, neither will your Father forgive your trefpaffes. Mat 18. 35. So likewife fhall my heavenly Father do alfo unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trefpafles.

195. d Mat. 6. 13.

e2Chron 32.31,Howbeit,in the bufinefs of the ambaffadors 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.

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ceitfulness of riches, and the lufts of other things, entring in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

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

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i Gal. 5. 17. For the flesh lufteth against the fpirit, and the fpirit as gainst the flesh. and thele are con trary the one to the other; fo that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

k Mat. 26.41. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation; the fpirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

I Mat. 26. 69. Now Peter fat without in the palace and a damfel came unto him, Saying, Thou alfo waft with Jefus of Galilee, v. 70. But he denyed before them all, faying, I know not what thou fayeft. v. 71. And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid faw him, and faid unto them that were there, This fellow was allo with Jefus of Nazareth. 72; g. Luke 21. 34. And take heedto And again he denied with an oath, your felves, left at any time your I do not know the man. Gal.2.11, hearts beovercharged with furfeit- But when Peter was come to Aning and drunkennels, and cares of tioch,I withstood him to the face, this life,& fo that day come upon because he was to be blamed. 1-2. you unawares. Mark 4. 19. And For before that certain came from the cares of this world, and thede- James,hedideat with the Gentiles;

f1 Chron. 21.1.And Satan flood up against Ifrael, and provoked David to number Ifrael,

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of ourselves unable and willing to refift them, to recover out of them, and to improve them m; and worthy to be left under the power of them n: We pray, That God would fo over-rule the world and all in it o, fubdue the flesh P, and reftrain Satan 9, order all

but whenthey were come, he withdrew,andfeparatedhimfelf,fearing them which were of the circumcifion. 7. 13. And the other Jews diflembled likewife with him, infomuch that Barnabas alfo was carried away with their diffimulation. v. 14 But when I faw that they walked notuprightly,according to the truth of the gofpel, I faid unto Peter, 2 Chron. 18. 3. AndAhab kingoflfrael faidunto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he anfwered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and we

will be with thee in thewar. Comparedwith2 Chron. 19.2And Jehu the fon of Hanani the feer, went out to meet him, and said to king Jehofhaphat,fhouldft thouhelp the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore iswrathupon thee from before the Lord.

m Kom. 7. 23, Rut I fee another lawinmymembers. warringagainst the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. v. 24. O wretched man that I am, who fhall deliver me from the body of this death! 1Chron 21.1. AndSatan ftood up against Ifrael,and provoked Davidto number Ifrael v.2. And David laidto Joab,and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Ifrael,from Beer-fhebaevento Dan, and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.v.3. And Joab aufwered,the Lord make his people an hundred times fo many more as they be: but, my lord the king,are theynot all my Lordsfervants? why thendoth my lord require this thing? why will he be a caufe of treipass to Ifrael? v. 4.

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Nevertheless,the kings word prevailedagainst Joab:wherefore Joab departed,- 2Chron. 16.7.Andat that time Hanani the feer came to Afa king of Judah, and faid unto him, Becaule thou haft relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the Lord thy God, therefore is the hoftofthe king ofSyria efcaped out of thine hand. v. 8. Were not the Ethiopians and Lubims a huge hoft, with very many chariotsand horfemen? yet because thou didst rely onthe Lord,hedelivered them into thine hand. v.9. for the eyes of the Lord run toandfro throughout the whole earth, to fhew himfelf ftrong in the behalf of them, whofe heart is perfect towards him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; therefore from henceforth thou fhalt have wars. v. 10. Then Afa was wroth with the feer, and put him into aprifon-houfe:forhe was in a rage with him, because of this thing; and Afia oppreffed fome of the people the fame time.

n Pfal. 81. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice, and Ifraelwould none of me. v. 12. So I gave them up to their own hearts luft: and they walked in their own councils.

o John 17. 15. I Pray not that thou should't take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil.

p Pfal. 51. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right fpiritwithinme.Pfal.119.133. Order my fteps in thy word; and let notanyeniquityhave dominion over me.

q 2 Cor. 12. 7. And left I should be exalted above meafure, throngh the abundance of the revelations.

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things r; beftow and blefs all means of grace f, 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 fpirit we may be powerfully fupported and enabled to stand in the hour of temptation v; or, when fallen, raifed again and recovered out of it w, and have a fanctified use and improvement thereof x : That our fanctification and falvation may be perfected y, Satan troden under our feet z, and we fully freed from fin, temptation, and

there was given to me a thorn in inner man; v. 17.That Chrift may the flesh, the meffenger of Satan to dwell in your hearts by faith; buffet me, left I fhould be exalted 1 Thefl. 3. 13. To the end,he may above measure.. 8. For thisthing ftablish yourhearts unblameable in I befought the Lord thrice; that it holinefs before God even our Famight depart from me. ther, at the coming of our Lord

II Cor. 10. 12. Wherefore let Jefus Chrift with all his faints. him that thinketh he standeth,take Jude.. 24,Now unto him that is heed left he fall, v. 13. There hath able to keep you from falling,and no temptation taken you,but fuch to prefent you faultlefs before the as is common to man: But God is prefence of his glory with exceed faithful,who will not fuffer you to ing joy.

be tempted above that you are able; w Pfal. 51.12. Reftore unto me but will with the temptation alfo the joy of thy falvation: and upmake away to escape,that ye may hold me with thy free spirit.

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XI Pet. 5.8.Be fober, bevigilant f Heb. 13. 20. Now the God of because your adverfary the devil,as peace that brought again from the a roaring lion, walketh about seekdead our Lord, Jefus that great ing whom he may devour v. 9. thepherd of the fheep, through the Whom refift ftedfast in the faith, blood of the everlasting covenant, knowing that the fame afflictions v. 21. Make you perfect in every are accomplished in your brethren good work,to do his will, working that are in the world. 10. But in you that which is well pleafing the God of all grace, who hath calin his fight,through Jefus Chrift; led us unto his eternal glory by t Mat, 26. 41. Watch and pray Chrift Jelus, after that ye have that ye enter not into temptation, fuffered a while,make you perfect, Pfal. 19.13.Keep back thy fervant ftablish, ftrengthen, fettle you. alfo from prefumptuous fins, let y 2 Cor.13.7. Now I prayto God them not have dominion over me: that ye do no evil; not that we then fhall I be upright, and I fhall fhould appear approved, but that be innocent from the great tranf- ye fhould do that which is honeft greffion. tho' we be as reprobates v.9. For v Eph.3. 14.Forthis caufe I bow we are glad when we are weak my knees unto the Father of our and ye are ftrong: this also we Lord Jefus Chrift, v. 15.Of whom with, even your perfection. the whole family in heaven and z Rom 16. 20. And the God of earth is named, v. 16 That he peace fhall bruife Satan underyour would grant you according to the feet shortly,--Zech. 3, 2 And the riches of his glory,to be ftrength- Lord faidunto Satan, The ord rened with might,by his spirit in the buke thee, O ́Satan, even the Lord

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