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 confift? 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 teach us? Anfw. The Preface of the Lord's Prayer (contained in thele Words, Our Father which art in heavend) 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 Affections, and due Apprehenfions of his Sovereign Power, 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.

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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.

8 Ffalm 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..

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 ftrength,the founding of thy bowels, and of thy mercies towards me? are

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they reftrained? v. 16. Doubtless thou art our father, though Abrahami be ignorant of us, andIfrael acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer, thy name is from everlafting. Nehem. 1. 4. And it came to pafs when I heard these words, that I fate down and wept, and mourned certain days, and faited, and prayed before the God of heaven. v. s. And faid, Ibefeech thee,OLordGod of heaven,the great and terrible God,that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and obferve his commandments: v. 6. Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayeft hear the prayer of thy fervant, which I pray before thee now,day and night, for the children of Ifrael thy fervants, and confefs the fins of the children of Ifrael, which we have finned against thee: both I and my fathers house have finned.

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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 and Indifpofition that is in our felves and all Men to honour God aright', we pray that God would by his Grace inable and incline us and others to know, to acknowledge, and highly to efteem him ", his Titles", Attributes, Ordinances, Word P Works, and whatsoever he is pleased to make himself known by 9; and to glorify him in Thought, Word, and

without ceafing of the church unto pray for us, that the word of the God for him.

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r 2 Cor. 3. 5. Not that we are fufficient of our felves to think any thing as of our felves: but our fufficiency is of God. Pfalm 51. 15. O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth fhall fhew forth thy praife.

Pfalm 67.2. That thy way may be known upon the earth,thy faving health among all nations. v. 3. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praife thee.

Pfalm 83. 18. That men may know, that thou whofe name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

• Pfalm 86.10. Forthou art great, and doft wondrous things: thou art God alone. 11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. v. 12. I will praife thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. 2. 13. For great thy mercy toward me; and thou haft delivered my foul from the lowest hell. v. 1. But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compaffion, and gra cious long-fuffering, and plen teous in mercy and truth.

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Lord may have free course, and be glorified even as it is with you. Pfalm 147. 19. He fheweth his word unto Jacob, his ftatutes and his judg ments 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 forthy truth: for thou haft magnified thy word above all thy name. v. 3. In the day when > I cried, thou answeredft me: and ftrengthnedft me with ftrength in my foul. 2 Cor.2.14. Now thanks be unto God which always caufeth us to triumph in Chrift, 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 faved, and in them that perish to

9 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.

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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 dispose of all things to his own Glory.

191. Queft. What do we pray for in the Second Petition?

Anfu. In the Second Petition, which is, (Thy Kingdom come) acknowledging our felves and all Mankind to be by Nature under the Dominion of Sin and Satan, we pray, That the Kingdom of Sin and Satan may be deftroyed, the Gospel propagated throughout the World, the Jews called e the Fulnels 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 accu but. Keep not thou filence, O God: fed them before our God day and hold not thy peace, &c. Pfalm 140. night. v. II. And they overcame 4. Keep me, O Lord, from the hands by the blood of the Lamb, and by of the wicked, preferve 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. v. 8. Grant death. not, O Lord, the defires of the wicked, further not his wicked devices, left they exalt themselves. Selah. 191. Mat. 6.10.

5 Ehp. 2. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the fpirit that now worketh in the children of difobedience. u. 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.

< Pfalm 68. 1. Let God arife, let his enemies be scattered: let them alfo that hate him, flee before him. v. 18. Thou haft afcended on high, thou haft led captivity captive: thou haft received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious alfo, that the Lord God might dwell among them. Rev. 12. 10. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come falvation, and ftrength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of

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2 Theff. 3. 1. Finally brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free courfe, and bẹ 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.

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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 alfo which shall believe on me through their word. Rom. II. 25. For I would not, brethren, that ye fhould be ignorant of this mystery, (left ye fhould 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 Ifrael fhall be faved: as it is written, There fhall come out of Zion theDeliverer, and shall turn away ungod liness from Jacob. Pfal. 67. through out. God be merciful unto us, and blefs us: and cause his face to fhine upon us,

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 *.

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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 trength, and my redeemer.

f 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 righteousness, which are by Jefus Chrift unto the glory and praise of God.

* Psalm 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 carth, 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 righteoufly, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

Eph. 1. 17. That the God of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom 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 inhes ritance in the faints..

Pfalm. 97. 7. Confounded be all they that ferve graven images, that boaft themselves of idols: worfhip him all ye gods.

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Lord, and that the foolish people have blafphemed thy name. v. 22. Arife,O God, plead thine own caufe: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. 23. For get not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up againft thee, increaseth continually.

Y 2 Kings 19. 15. "And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and faid,

Lord God of Ifrael, which dwelleft between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou haft 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.

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2 2 Chron. 20.6. And Jehofophat faid, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and ruleft not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so 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 Ifraelinvade, 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 reward us, to come to caft us out of thy poffeffion which thou haft given us to inherit. v. 12. O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us:

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