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Q. 104. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?

A. In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread) we pray, That, of God's free gift, we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy his bleffing with them k.

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 /) we pray, That God, for Christ's fake, would freely pardon all our fins m; which we are the rather encouraged to aík, becaufe by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others n.

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

b Pfa. ciii. 20. Blefs the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in ftrength; that do his commandments, hearkning unto the voice of his word. v. 21. Blefs ye the Lord, all ye his hofts, ye minifters of his that do his pleafure.

104. i Mat, vi. 11.

* Prov. xxx. 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 leit I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Gen. xxviii. 20. And Jacob vowed a vow, faying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on. 1 Tim. iv. 4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: v 5. For it is fanctified by the word of God, and pray

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105. Mat. vi. 12.

m Pfa. li. 1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out

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my tranfgreffions. v. 2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanie me from my fin. v. 7. Purge me with hyffop, and I fhall be clean: wafh me, and I fhall be whiter than fnow. v. 9. Hide thy face from my fins; and blot out all mine iniquities. Dan. ix. 17. Now therefore, O our God, hear thou the prayer of thy fervant, and his fupplications, and caufe thy face to fhine upon thy fanctuary that is defolate, for the Lords 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 prefent our fupplications before thee for our righteoufneffes, but for thy great mercies. v. 19. O Lord hear, O Lord forgive, O Lord hearken and do, defer not, for thine own fake, O my God: for thry city, and thy people are called by thy

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n Luke xi. 4. And forgive us our fins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. Mat. xviii. 35. So likewife fhall my heavenly Father doalfo unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trefpafies.

A. In the fixth petition (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evilo) we pray, That God would either keep us from being tempted to finp, or support and deliver us when we are tempted q.

Q. 107. What doth the conclufion of the Lord's prayer

teach us?

A. The conclufion of the Lord's prayer (which is, For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever, Amenr) teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only, and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory to himt. And, in teftimony of our

106. Mat. vi. 13.

Mat. xxvi. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

92 Cor. xii. 7. And left I fhould be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the meffenger of Satan to buffet me, left I fhould be exalted above meafure. v. 8. For this thing I befought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

107. Mat. vi.

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Dan. ix. 4. And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confeffion, and faid, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant, and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments. v. 7. O Lord, righteoufnefs belongeth unto thee, but unto us confufion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerufalem, and unto all Ifrael that are near, and that are far off, thro' all the countries whither thou haft driven them, because of their trefpafs that they have trefpaffed against thee. v. 8. O Lord, to us belongeth confufion

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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 forgiveneffes, though we have rebelled against him. v. 16. O Lord, according to all thy righteoufness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerufalem, thy holy mountain: becaufe for our fins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, 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 prefent our fupplications before thee for our righteoufneffes, but for thy great mercies. v. 19. O Lord hear, O Lord forgive, Ó Lord hearken and do, defer not, for thine own fake, O my God: for thy city, and thy people are called by thy name.

1 Chron. xxix. 10. Wherefore David bleffed the Lord before all

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defire and affurance to be heard, we fay, Amen v.

the congregation: and David faid, Bleffed be thou, Lord God 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 majefty: 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 over all, and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give

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ftrength unto all. v. 13. Now ther fore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

v I Cor. xiv. 16. Elfe when thou fhalt blefs with the fpirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned, fay Amen at thy giving of thanks, feeing he underitandeth not what thou fayeft? Rev. xxii. 20. He which teftifieth thefe things, faith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even fo, come, Lord Jefus, v. 21. The grace of our Lord Jefus Christ be with you all. Amen.

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The TEN COMMANDMENT S.

EXODUS

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OD fpake all these words, faying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

I. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likenefs 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 ferve them: For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vifiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me: and fhewing 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 guiltlefs that taketh his name in vain.

IV. Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou fhalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy man fervant, nor thy maid fervant, nor thy cattle, nor thy ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the feventh day: wherefore the Lord bleffed the Sabbathday, and hallow-ed it.

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

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VI. Thou shalt not kill.

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear falfe witnefs againft thy neighbour.

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

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The LORD's PRAYER. Matth. vi.

UR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on 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, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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The CRE E 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 Ghoft, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; He defcended into hell + The third day he arofe again from the dead, He afcended into heaven, and fitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from thence he fhall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghoft; The holy catholick church, The communion of faints, The forgivenefs of fins, The refurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

ti. e. Conti nued in the ftate of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day.

O much of every question, both in the Larger and Shorter Catechifm, is repeated in the answer, as maketh every answer an entire propofition, or fentence in itself; to the end the learner may further improve it, upon all occafions, for his increase in knowledge and piety, even out of the course of catechifing, as well as in it.

And albeit the fubftance of the doctrine comprised in that abridgment, commonly called the Apoftles Creed, be fully fet forth in each of the catechifins, fo as there is no neceflity of inferting the Creed itself: yet it is here annexed not as though it were compofed by the apoftles, or ought to be esteemed canonical fcripture, as the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer, (much less a prayer, as ignorant people have been apt to make both it and the Decalogue) but because it is a brief fum of the Chriftian faith, agreeable to the word of God, and anciently received in the churches of Christ.

FINI S.

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

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