ith Understanding, Faith, Sincerity, FervenLove", and Perfeverance, waiting upon my with humble Submiffion to his Will.. 186. Queft. What Rule hath God given for our irection in the Duty of Prayer? Anfw. The whole Word of God is of use to di&us in the Duty of Praying; but the fpecial ale of Direction, is that Form of Prayer which r Saviour Chrift taught his Difciples, commonly lled The Lord's Prayer b. 187. Queft. How is the Lord's Prayer to be used? Anfw. The Lord's Prayer is not only for Direon, as a Pattern according to which we are to ake other Prayers; but may also be used as a Pray,fo that it be done with Understanding, Faith, nk, but have poured out my foul fore the Lord. 1 Sam. 2. 1. And innah prayed, and faid, My heart oiceth in the Lord, mine horn is alted in the Lord: my mouth is larged over mine enemies; be. ufe I rejoice in thy falvation. I 1 Cor. 14. 15. What is it then? will pray with the fpirit, and Iwill ay with the understanding alfo :-Mark 11. 24. Therefore I fay to you, what things foever ye fire when ye pray, believe that e receive them, and ye fhall have m. James 1. 6. But let him ask faith, nothing wavering: for he at wavereth is like a wave of the a,driven with the wind, and toffed. Pf.145.18. The Lord is nigh unto 1 them that call upon him, to all at call upon him in truth. Pfal.17. Hear the right, O Lord, attend to my cry, give ear unto my praythat goeth not out of feigned lips. James 5.16. --The effectual ferent prayer of a righteous man aileth much. V Re W 1 Tim. 2. 8. I will therefore that men pray ever, where,lifting upholy hands, without wrath and doubting. Eph. 6. 18. Praying always with all prayer and fupplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perfeverance, and fupplication for all faints. Y Micah 7. 7. Therefore I will look unto the Lord: I will wait for the God of my falvation: my God will hear me. 2 Mat. 26.39. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, faying, O myFather,if it be poffible,let this cup pafs from me: neverthelefs,not as I will,but as thou wilt. 186.a i John s. 14. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. b Matth. 6.verfes 9, 10, 11, 12,13. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father, &c. Luke 11. verses 2, 3, 4. And he faid unto them, When ye pray, fay, Our Father, &c. Bb 4 C 187. Mate Reverence, and other Graces necessary to the right Performance of the Duty of Prayer ©. 188.Q. Of how many Parts doth the Lord's Prayer confif Anfw. The Lord's Prayer confifts of Three Parts, a Preface, Petitions, and a Conclufion. 189.Q.What doth the Preface of the Lord's Prayer teachus Anfu. The Preface of the Lord's Prayer (contained in thefe Words, Dur Father which art in hea vend) teacheth us, when we pray, to draw near to God with Confidence of his Fatherly Goodness, and our Intereft therein; with Reverence, and all other Child-like Difpofitions, Heavenly Affec ons 8, and due Apprehenfions of his Sovereign Pow er, Majefty, and gracious Condefcenfion : As alfo, to pray with and for Others . 187. Matth. 6.9. Compared with Luke 11. 2. See above in Letter b. 189. d Matth. 6.9. e Luke 11. 13. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more fhall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him? Rom. 8. 15. For ye have not received the fpirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. f Ifai. 64. 9. Be not wroth very fore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, fee, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. & Pfalm 123. 1. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwelleft in the heavens. Lam. 3.41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 190. Quelt And they reftrained? v. 16. Doubtles h Ifai. 63. 15. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory where is thy zeal and thy Acts 12. 5. Peter therefore was ftrength,the founding ofthy bowels, kept in prifon; but prayer was made and of thy mercies towards me? are with 190. Queft. What do we pray for in the First Petition? Anfw. In the First Petition,which is, (Hallowed be thy name *) acknowledging the utter inability ind Indifpofition that is in our felves and all Men o honour God aright', we pray that God would by his Grace inable and incline us and others to now, to acknowledge, and highly to efteem him my is Titles, Attributes, Ordinances, Word P, Vorks, and whatsoever he is pleafed to make himself nown by ; and to glorify him in Thought, Word, 2 and ithout ceafing of the church unto pray for us, that the word of the od for him. 190. k Matth. 6.9. 1 2 Cor. 3.5. Not that we are fufient of our felves to think any ing as of our felves: but our fufiency is of God. Pfalm 51. 15. Lord, open thou my lips, and my outh fhall fhew forth thy praife. Pfalm 67.2. That thy way may known upon the earth,thy faving ealth among all nations. v. 3. Let e people praife thee, O God; let l the people praise thee. m Pfalm 83. 18. That men may now, that thou whose name alone JEHOVAH, art the most high ver all the earth. Pfalm 86.10. For thou art great, nd doft wondrous things: thou God alone. v. 11. Teach me y way, O Lord, I will walk in thy uth unite my heart to fear ly name. v. 12. I will praife ee, O Lord my God, with all my cart: and I will glorify thy name Drevermore. v. 13. For great hy mercy toward me; and thou haft elivered my foul from the lowest ell. v. 15. But thou, O Lord, art God full of compaffion, and graous long-fuffering, and plencous in mercy and truth. P* 2 Thef. 3. 1. Finally, brethren, Lord may have free courfe, and be glorified even as it is with you. Pfalm 147.19. He fheweth his word unto Jacob, his ftatutes and his judgments unto lfrael. v. 20. He hath not dealt fo with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord. Pfalm 138. 1. I will praife thee with my whole heart,before the gods will Ifing praife unto thee. v. 2. I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name, for thy loving kindness,and for thy truth: for thou haft magnified thy word above all thy name. v. 3. In the day when I cried, thou answeredft me: and ftrengthnedit me with ftrength in my foul. 2 Cor.2.14. Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifeft the favour of his knowledge by us in every place. v.15. For we are unto God a sweet favour of Chrift, in them that are saved, and in them that perish. 4 Pfalm 145.throughout. I will extol thee, my God, O king, &c. Pfalm 8. throughout. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! &c. Pfalm 103. 1. Bless the Lord, and Deed': That he would prevent and remove Atheifm, Ignorance, Idolatry ", Profaneness, and whatsoever is difhonourable to him ; and by his over-ruling Providence, direct and difpofe of all things to his own Glory 2. O my foul and all that is within me, blefs his holy name. Pfalm 19, 14. Let the words of my mouth,and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy fight, O Lord my ftrength, and my redeemer. Phil. 1.9. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge, and in all judgment. v. 11. Being filled with the fruits of righteoufnefs, which are by Jefus Chrift unto the glory and praise of God. * Pfalm 67. 1. God be merciful unto us, and blefs us: and caufe his face to fine upon us. Selah. v. 2. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy faving health among all nations. v. 3. Let the people praife thee, O God; let all the people praife thee. v. 4. Olet the nations be glad and fing for joy: forthou fhalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. V Eph. 1. 17. That the God of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wifdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him. v. 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightned; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the faints. 191. Queft Lord, and that the foolish people have blafphemed thy name. v. 22. Arife,O God,plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man re proacheth thee daily. 23. For get not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up a gainft thee, increaseth continually. Y 2 Kings 19. 15. And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and faid, O Lord God of Ifrael, which dwelleft between the cherubims, thouart the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hat made heaven and earth. v. 16. Lord bowe down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and fee: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath fent him to reproach the living God. ? 2 Chron. 20. 6. And Jehofopha faid, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and ru left not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, fo that none is able to withstand thee? . 10. And now behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, whom thou wouldst not let If rael invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and deftroyed them not. v. 11. Behold, I fay, how they re ward us, to come to caft us out of thy poffeffion which thou haft given v. 12. O our God, w Pfalm 97.7. Confounded be. all they that ferve graven images, us to inherit. that boaft themselves of idols: wor-, fhip him all ye gods. * Pfalm 74. 18. Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great! company that cometh against us: net 191. Quest. What do we pray for in the Second Peition? a Anfw. In the Second Petition, which is, (Thy kingdom come 2 ) acknowledging our felves and all Mankind to be by Nature under the Dominion of Sin and Satan b, we pray, That the Kingdom of Sin and Satan may be deftroyed, the Gospel propagated throughout the World, the Jews called, the Fulness of the Gentiles brought in f; the Church fur neither know we what to do, but our his Chrift: for the accufer of our eyes are upon thee. Pfalm 83. through- brethren is caft down, which accuut. Keep not thou filence, O God: fed them before our God day and hold not thy peace, &c. Pfalm 140. night. v. 11. And they overcame 4. Keep me, O Lord, from the hands by the blood of the Lamb, and by of the wicked, preserve me from the the word of their teftimony; and violent man, who have purposed to they loved not their lives unto the overthrow my goings. . 8. Grant death. not, O Lord, the defires of the wicked, further not his wicked devices, left they exalt themselves. Selah. 191. a Mat. 6. 10, b Ehp. 2. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the courfe of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the fpirit that now worketh in the children of difobedience. v. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our converfation in times paft, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. d 2 Theff. 3.1. Finally brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free courfe, and be glorified, even as it is with you. e Rom. 10. 1. Brethren, my hearts defire and prayer to God for Ifrael is, that they might be saved. I John 17. 9. I pray for them: pray not for the world,but for them which thou haft given me, for they are thine. v. 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which fhall believe on me through their word. Rom. 11. 25. For I would not, brethren, that ye fhould be ignorant of this mystery, (left ye fould be wife in your own conceits) that blindness in part is happened to Ifrael, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. v. 26. And fo all Pfalm 68. 1. Lee God arife, len his enemies Be fcattered: let them also that hate him, flee before him. 7. 18. Thou haft afcended on high, thou haft led captivity captive: thou haft received gifts for men ; yea, for Ifrael fhall be faved: as it is written, the rebellious alfo, that the Lord There fhall come out of Zion the DeGod might dwell among them. Rev. liverer, and fhall turn away ungod12. 10. And I heard a loud voice fay- linefs from Jacob. Pfal. 67. throughing in heaven, Now is come falva- out. God be merciful unto us, and tion, and ftrength, and the king- blefs us: and caufe his face to fhine dom of our God, and the power of upon us, &c. |