effed unto us in our holy and comfortable Use of em, and Contentment in them ; and be kept om all things that are contrary to our Temporal upport and Comfort . 194. Queft. What do we pray for in the Fifth Peti on? Anfu. In the Fifth Petition, which is, (Forgive s our debts, as we forgive our debto2s') cknowledging that we and all others are guilty otli of Original and Actual Sin, and thereby become Debtors to the Juftice of God; and that neither we, or any other Creature can make the leaft Satisfaction or that Debt : We pray for our selves and others, That 1 Tim. 4. 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abftain from meats, which God hath created to at was brought again in the mouth. f the facks, carry it again in your and; peradventure it was an overght. v. 13. Take alfo your bro- be received with thanksgiving of her, and arife, go again unto the them which believe and know the man. v, 14. And God Almighty truth. v. 4, For every creature of give you mercy before the man,-- God is good, and nothing to be reGen. 28. 20. And Jacob vowed a fufed, if it be received with thankf row, faying, If God will be with giving; v. 5. For it is fanctified by ne, and will keep me in this way the word of God, and prayer. hat I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on. Eph. 28. Let him that ftole fteal no nore but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have ₫ give to him that needeth. 2 Thess. B. 11. For we hear that there are Come which 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. Philip. 4. 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. v. 7. 1 Tim. 6. 6. But godliness with contentment is great gain. 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. 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 fteal, and take the name of my God in vain. 194. v Matth. 6. 12. 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 C-C proved That God of his free Grace would through the Obedience and Satisfaction of Christ apprehended and applied by Faith, acquit us both from the Guilt and Punishment of Sin, accept us in his Beloved', continue his Favour and Grace to us, pardon our daily Failings, and fill us with Peace and Joy in giving us daily more and more Affurance of Forgivenefs, which we are the rather emboldned to ask, lieveth in Jefus. Heb. 9. 22. And almost all things are by the law) purged with blood; and without shedding 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 forgivenes of fins, according to the riches of his grace. proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; v. 1o. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: v. 11. There is none that understandeth, there is none that feeketh after God. 2. 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 stopped, and all the world may become guilty 2 Pet. 1.2. Grace and peacebe before God, &c. Matth. 18.24. And multiplied unto you through the when he had begun to reckon, one knowledge of God, and of Jelis was brought unto him, which owed our Lord. him ten thousand talents. v. 25. a Hofeah 14. 2. Take with yea But forafmuch as he had not to pay, words, and turn to the Lord, y his lord commanded him to be unto him, Take away all iniquity fold, and his wife, and his children, and receive us graciously so will and all that he had, and payment we render the calves of our lips to be made. Pfalm 130. 3. If thou, Jerem. 14. 7. O Lord, though ear Lord, fhouldft mark iniquities: O iniquities teftify againftus, dothe Lord, who fhall ftand! 4. But it for thy names fake: for our backthere is forgiveness with thee: that flidings are many, we have finned thou mayft be feared. against thee. Tom. 3. 24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Chrift Jelus: v. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith that is in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remiffion of fins that are paft, through the forbearance of God; v. 26. To declare, fay, at this time his righteoufnefs: that he might be juft, and the juftifier of him which be Б Rom. 15. 13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghoft, faim 55. 7. Purge me with hyffop, and I shall be clean; wath me, and I fhall be whiter than fnow. 2. S. Make me to heatjoy and gladness: that the bones we thou haft broken, may rejoice. s. 5. Hide thy face from my instand bior ask, and encouraged to expect, when we have this Teftimony in our felves, that we from the Heart orgive others their Offences". 195. Quelt. What do we pray for in the Sixth Petiion ? Anfw. In the Sixth Petition, which is, (And lead s not into temptation, but deliver us from bil) acknowledging that the moft wife, righteous id gracious God,for divers holy and juft Ends,may order things that we may be affaulted, foiled, id for a Time led captive by Temptations ; that tan f, the World & and the Flesh are ready powfully to draw us afide and infnare us : And that e, even after the Pardon of our Sins, by reafon of r Corruption, Weakness, and Want of Watchful all miné iniquities. v.16. Create to try him, that he might know all me a clean heart, O God; and that was in his heart. rew a right spirit within me. v. 12. ftore unto me the joy of thy faltion: and uphold me with thy e Spirit. 1 Chron. 21. 1. And Satan food up against Ifrael, and provoked David to number Ifrael. 8 Luke 21.34. And take heed to Luke 11. 4. And forgive us our your felves, left at any time your $; for we also forgive every one hearts be overcharged with furat is indebted to us,-- Mat. 6.14. feiting, and drunkennels, and cares , if ye forgive men their tref of this life, and so that day come fles, your heavenly Father will upon you unawares. Mark 4. 19: lo forgive you. b. 15. But ifye And the cares of this world, and give not men their trefpaffes, the deceitfulness of riches, and the ither will your Father forgive lufts of other things entring in, ut trefpaffes. Matthe 18. 35. So choke the word, and it becometh tewife thall my heavenly Father unfruitful. alfe unto you, if ye from your arts forgive not every one his other their trefpaffes. 195. Matth. 6. 13: e 2 Chron. 32. 31. Howbeit, in the nefs of the ambaffadors of the inces of Babylon, who fent unte m to enquire of the wonder that as done in the land, God left him h James 1. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed. 1 Gal. 5. 17. For the flesh lufteth againt the fpirit, and the fpirit againft the flesh and thefe are con trary the one to the other; fo that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Märst fulness *, are not only fubject to be tempted, and forward to expofe our felves unto Temptations; but also of our felves unable and unwilling to refift them, to recover out of them and to improve them "; Matth. 26. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the fpirit indeed is willing, but the Beth is weak.' and Jehoshaphat, fhouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hat the Lord? therefore is wrathupon thee from before the Lord. : m Rom 7.23. But I fee another law in my members,warring again the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law offin, which is in my members. v. 24 O wretched man that I am, who fhall deliver me from the body of this death! 1 Chron. 21. 1. And $2tan ftood up against Ifrael, and provoked David to number Ifrael. And David faid to Joab, and to the rulers of the people, Go, num ber Ifrael from Beer-fheba even to Dan, and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it, And Joab anfwered, The Lord make his people an hundred times fomany more as they be but my Lord the king, are they not all my lords fervants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a caufe of trefpafs to Ifrael 0.4 Nevertheless, the kings word prevailed against Joab: wherefore Jos departed,-- 2 Chron. 16.7. And sty that time Hanani the feer cameto Afa king of Judah, and faid unte him, Because thou haft relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the Lord thy God, therefore is the hoft of the king of Syria efcaped. out of thine hand. v, 8. Were not the Ethiopians and Lubims a huge hoft, with very many chariots and horfemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand, p.9. For the eyes Matth. 26. 69. Now Peter fat without in the palace: and a damfel came unto him, faying, Thou alfo waft with Jefus of Galilee. v. 70. But he denied before them all, faying, I know not what thou fayeft. 718 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and faid unto them that were there, This fellow was alfo with Jefus of Nazareth. v. 72. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. Gal. 2. 11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. v. 12. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcifion. v. 13. And the other Jews diffembled likewife with him; infomuch that Barnabas alfo was carried away with their diffimulation. 2.14. But when I faw that they walk ed not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I faid unto Peter,-- 2 Chron. 18. 3. And Ahab king of Ifrael faid unto 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 the war. Com pared with 2 Chron. 19. 2. And Jehu the fon of Hanani the feer, went But to meet him, and faid to king nd worthy to be left under the Power of them ": We pray that God would fo over-rule the World nd all in it, fubdue the Flesh P, and reftrain Sain 9; order all things; beftow and bless all Means f Grace', and quicken us to Watchfulness in the fe of them; that we and all his People may by his rovidence be kept from being tempted to Sint; or tempted, That by his Spirit we may be powerlly fupported and inabled to ftand in the Hour of emptation; or when fallen, raised again and re Coverabove measure, v. 8. For this thing I befought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. I * 1 Cor. 10. 12. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed left he fall. v. 13. There hath no temptation taken you, but such 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. f Heb. 13. 20. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jefus, that great fhepherd 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 sight, through Jesus Christ ;- Matth. 26.41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation,-~ Pfalm 19. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, let them not have dominion over me: then fhall I be upright, and I hall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion. Eph. 3. 14. For this caufe I bowmy knees unto the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, v. 15. Of whom Cc 3 the |