true and juft in all my Dealings; to bear no Malice nor Hatred in my Heart; to keep my Hands from Picking and Stealing, and my Tongue from Evil-speaking, Lying, and Slandering; to keep my Body in Temperance, Soberness, and Chastity; not to covet nor defire other Mens Goods; but to learn and labour truly to get my own Living; and to do my Duty in that State of Life unto which it fhall please God to call me.

PART IV.

The Chriftian Prayer.

SECT. X.

Of the LORD'S PRAYER.

2. Mr good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do thefe Things of thyfelf, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to ferve him, without his fpecial Grace, which thou must learn at all Times to call for by diligent Prayer: Let me hear therefore if thou canst fay the Lord's Prayer. ·A. OUR Father, which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name: Thy King

dom come: Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven: Give us this Day our daily Bread: And forgive us our Trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us: And lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from Evil: for thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

2. Why do you call it the LORD'S Prayer?

A. Becaufe our Lord JESUS CHRIST was the Author or Compofer of it.

2. How does it appear that we are directed to use this Prayer?

A. From Matt. vi. 9. ส manner pray ye.' Luke xi. 2. "Father, &c."

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When ye pray, fay, Our

2. What defireft thou of God in this Prayer?

A. I defire my Lord God, our heavenly Father, who is the Giver of all Goodness, to fend his Grace unto me, and to all People; that we may worship him, ferve him, and obey him, as we ought to do. And I pray unto God, that he will fend us all Things that be needful both for our Souls and Bodies; and that he will be merciful unto us, and forgive us our Sins; and that

it will plecfe him to fave and defend us all Dangers, ghoftly and bodily; and that he will keep us from all Sin and Wickedness, and from our ghostly Enemy, and from everlafting Death: And this I truft he will do of his Mercy and Goodness, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. And therefore I fay, Amen.

So be it.

2. What are the general Parts of this Prayer?

A. They are Three, viz. the Preface, the Petitions, and the Conclufion. 2. What is the Preface?

A. Our Father, which art in Heaven,
2. What does this teach us?

A. It teaches us whom we are to pray to, and with what Frame of Spirit we fhould pray,

2. Whom does it teach us to pray unto? A. It teaches us to pray unto God only. 2. What Frame of Spirit doth it teach us to pray with?

A. It teaches us to pray with Reverence, Charity, and Confidence.

2. How does it direct us to pray with Reverence?

A. Becaufe as God is our heavenly Fa ther, he must be invested with Authorfty,

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Majefty and Power, to require Refpect

from us.

Q. How does it direct us to pray with Charity?

A. Because it requires us to pray for others, as well as ourfelves; and therefore we fay, not My Father, but Our Father.

2. How does it direct us to pray with Confidence?

A. Because it reprefents God as the Giver of all Goodness, and one whom we may claim a particular Intereft in, as being Our Father.

2. How many Petitions are there in the Lord's Prayer?

A. Six.

2. What defireft thou of God in these Petitions?

A. In the three first, I defire that God may be glorified by our worshipping him, ferving him, and obeying him as we ought to do and in the other three, that our Wants may be fupplied.

2. What is the first Petition?

A. Hallowed be thy name.

2. What is meant by Halloaving of God's name?

A. By it is meant, the treating of God

imfelf, and whatever relates to him, after an holy manner.

2. What do you pray for in this Petition?

A. I pray that God may be honoured by us, and all Men in every Thing; and that he would enable us to promote the Honour of his Name by an holy, ufeful, and exemplary Life and Converfation. 2. What is the fecond Petition? A. Thy Kingdom còmé.

2. What is meant by the Kingdom of God?

A. His fovereign Authority in the World, and Power of his Grace in the Church, and the Perfection of Glory in Heaven.

2. What do you mean in praying for the coming of his Kingdom?

A. I pray that God would rule in our Hearts, and enlarge the Chriftian Church, by deftroying the Power of Sin and Satan'; and that he would haften the Kingdom of Glory.

2. What is the third Petition?

A. Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven.

2. What do you mean by the Will of God?