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Q. 105. What do we pray for in the fifth petition? A. In the fifth petition (which is, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors 1) we pray, that God, for Christ's fake, would freely pardon all our finsm; which we are the rather encouraged to afk, because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others n.

Q. 106. What do we pray for in the fixth petition?

A. In the fixth petition (which is, And lead us not inte temptation, but deliver us from evil o) we pray, that God would either keep us from being tempted to fin P, or fupport and deliver us when we are tempted 9.

Q. 107. What doth the conclusion of the Lord's prayer teach us?

A. The conclusion of the Lord's prayer (which is, For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever, amen r) teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only s, and in our prayers to praise him, afcribing king

me bread to eat, and raiment to
put on. 1 Tim.4.4. For every crear
ture of God is good, and nothing
to be refused, if it be received with
thanksgiving: v.5. Foritis sancti-
fied by the word of God, andprayer,
125.1 Mat. 6. 12.

m Pfal. 51.1. Have mercy upon
me, OGod, according to thy loving
kindness: according unto the mul-
titude ofthy tender merciesblot out
my tranfgreffions. v. 2. Wash me
throughly from mine iniquity, and
cleanse me from my fin. 2.7. Purge
me with hyflop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, & I shall be whiter than
snow. v.9. Hide thy face from my
sins, and blot out all mine iniqui-
ties. Dan. 9. 17. Now therefore, O
our God, hear thou the prayer of
thy servant, and his fupplications,
and cause thy face to shine upon
thy fanctuary that is desolate, for
the Lord's lake, v. 18.Omy God,in-
cline thine ear, and hear, open thine
eyes, and behold our defolations,
and the city which is called by thy
name: for we do not present our
fupplications before thee for our
righteousness, but for thy great

mercies, v. 10. O Lord hear, O
Lord forgive, O Lord hearken and
do, defer not, for thine own fake,
O my God: for thy city, and thy
people are called by thy name.
n Luke 11.4. And forgive us our
fins; for we alfo forgive every one
that is indebted to us. Mat. 18.35.
So likewife shall my heavenly Fa-
ther do also unto you, if ye from
your hearts forgive not every one
his brother their trespasses.

106. o Matth. 6. 13.

Matth.26.41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Q2 Cor. 12. 7. And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 7.8. For this thing I befought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me, 107, r Matth. 6. 13.

1 Dan. 9. 4. And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confeffion, and faid, O Lord, the great

kingdom, power, and glory to him t. And in teftimony of our defire and afsurance to be heard, we say, Amen v.

greatanddreadful God, keepingthe covenant, and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments. v. 7. O Lord, righteousnessbelongethunto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day: to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerufalem, and unto all Israel that are near, and that are far off, throughallthe countries whither thou haftdriven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. v.8. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have finned against thee. v. 9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him. 2. 16. O Lord according to all thy righteousness, I befeech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerufalem, thy holy mountain: because for our fins, and for the iniquities of ourfathers, Jerufalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. v. 17. Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy fervant, and his fupplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy fanctuary that is defolate, for the Lord's fake. v. 18. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our defolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our fupplications before

thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies, v.1. Lord hear, Lord forgive, Lord hearken and do, defer not, for thine own fake, O my God: for thy city, and thy people are called by thy name.

t1 Chron.29.10. WhereforeDavid blessed the Lord before all the congregation: And David faid, Bleffed be be thou, thou, Lor LordGod of Ifrael our father, for ever and ever. v.11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth, is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. v. 12. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest overall, and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 2.13. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

VI Cor. 14. 16. Elfe when thou shalt bless with the fpirit, how ihall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned, say amen at the giving of thanks, leeing he understandeth not what thou layest? Rev.22.20. He which testifieth these things, faith surely 1 come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jefus. 2.21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Chrift be with you all. Amen.

The TEN COMMANDMENTS.
EXODUS XX.

OD spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy
God, which have brought out of the land

Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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I. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.

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II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing, that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

IV. Remember the fabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-fervant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the fabbath-day, and hallowed it.

V. Honour thy father and thy mother,: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

VI. Thou shalt not kill.

VII. Thou Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-fervant, nor his maid-fervant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

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The LORD'S PRAYER. Matth. vi. Ur Father whichart in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, & the power, & the glory, for ever. Amen.

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The CREE D.

Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth: And in Jefus Chrift his only Son our Lord, which was conceived by the holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, fuffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and bu

dead and un

ried; he defcended into hell ‡ The † i. e. Con- third day he arose again from the dead, tinued in the he afcended into heaven, and fitteth on ftate of the the right hand of God the Father Alderthepower mighty from thence he shall come to of death till judge the quick and the dead. I bethe thirdday lieve in the holy Ghost; The holy Catholick Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of fins, the refurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Sochitch of

O much of every question, both in the Larger and Shorter Cate repeated in the answer, as maketh every answer an intire proposition, or fentence in itself; to the end the learner may further improve it, upon all occafionts, for his increase in knowledge and piety, even out of the course of catechising, as well as in it.

And albeit the substance of the doctrine comprised in that abridgment commonly called, The apostles creed, be be fully fet forth in each of the catechisms, so as there is no neceffity of inferting the creed it felf; yet it is it is here annexed, not as though it were composed by the apostles, or ought to be esteemed canonical Scripture, As the ten commandments, and the Lord's prayer, (much less a prayer, as ignorant people have been apt to make both it & the decalogue) but because it is a brief sum of the Chriftian faith, agreeable to the word of God,andanciently received in the church of Chrift

SUM

OF

SAVING KNOWLEDGE;

Or, a Brief SUM of

CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE,

Contained in the

HOLY SCRIPTURES

And holden forth in the foresaid

CONFESSION Of Faith and CATECHISMS:

Together with

The PRACTICAL USE thereof.

John vi. 37. All that the Father hath given me, shall come unto me; and him that cometh unto me, I will in no wife caft out..

GLASGOW,

Printed by JAMES KNOΧ. 1752.

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