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become debtors to the juftice of God, and that neither we nor any other creature can make the leaft fatisfaction for that debtw, we pray for ourselves and others, That God of his free grace would, thro' the obedience and fatisfaction of Christ apprehended and applied by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of finx, accept us in his belovedy, continue his favour and grace to usz, pardon our daily failings a, and fill us with peace and joy, in giving us daily more and more affurance of forgiveness b, which we are the rather embold

Rom. iii. from verfe 9. to 22. 7.9. What then? are we better than they? No in no wife; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; v. 10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: v. 11. There is none that underftandeth, there is none that feeketh after God. v. 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 ftopped, and all the world may become guilty before God, &c. Mat. xviii. 24. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, who owed him ten thousand talents. v. 25. But forafmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be fold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. Pfal. cxxx. 3. If thou, O Lord, fhouldft mark iniquities: O Lord, who shall stand? v. 4. But there is forgiveness with thee: that thou mayest be feared.

Rom. iii. 24. Being juftified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Chrift Jefus: v. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufaefs for the remiffion of fins that

are paft, through the forbearance of God; v. 26. To declare, I fay, at this time his righteoufnefs: that he might be juft, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jefus. Heb. ix. 22. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood: and without fhedding of blood is no remiffion.

y Eph. i. 6. To the praife 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 forgiveness of fins, according to the riches of his grace.

z 2 Pet. i. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jefus our Lord.

a Hofea xiv. 2. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord, fay unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; fo will we render the calves of our lips: Jer. xiv. 7. O Lord, though our iniquities teftify against us, do thou it for thy names fake: for our backflidings are many, we have finned against thec.

Rom. xv. 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. Pfal. li. 7. Purge me with

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emboldned to ask, and encouraged to expect, when we have this teftimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive others their offences c.

Q. 195. What do we pray for in the fixth petition?

A. In the fixth petition (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil d,) acknowledging that the most wife, righteous and gracious God, for divers holy and juft ends, may fo order things, that we may be affaulted, foiled, and for a time led captive by temptationse; that Satanf, the worldg, and the flesh are ready powerfully to draw us afide, and infnare usb: and that we, even after the pardon of our fins, by reason of our corruptioni, weakness', and want of watchfulnessk, are not only fubject to be tempted,

thyffop, and I fhall be clean; wash me, and I fhall be whiter than fnow. v. 8. Make me to hear joy and glad nefs: that the bones which thou haft broken, may rejoice. v. 9. Hide thy face from my fins; and blot out all mine iniquities. v. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. v. 12. Re ftore unto me the joy of thy falvation: and uphold me with thy free Spirit.

Luke xi. 4. And forgive us our fins; for we alfo forgive every one that is indebted to us,-Mat. vi. 14. For if ye forgive men their trefpaffes, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. v. 15. But if ye forgive not men their trefpaffes, neither will your Father forgive your trefpaffes. Mat. xviii. 35. So likewife fhall my heavenly Father do alfo unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trefpaffes.

195. d Mat. vi. 13.

2 Chron. xxxii. 31. Howbeit, in the bufinefs of the ambaffadors of the princes of Babylon, who fent

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unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

f1 Chron. xxi. 1. And Satan stood up against Ifrael, and provoked David to number Ifrael.

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Luke xxi. 34. And take heed to yourselves, left at any time your hearts be overcharged with furfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and fo that day come upon you unawares. Mark iv. 19. And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lufts of other things, entring in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

h Jam. i. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lufts and enticed.

i Gal. v. 17. For the flesh lufteth against the fpirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; fo that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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

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1 Mat. xxvi. 69. Now Peter fat without in the palace; and a damfel came unto him, faying, Thou also waft with Jefus of Galilee. v. 70. But he denied before them all, faying, I know not what thou fayeft. v. 71. And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid faw 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. ii. 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 feparated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcifion. v. 13. And the other Jews diffembled likewife with him, infomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their diffimulation. v. 14. But when I faw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gofpel, I faid unto Peter,-2 Chron. xviii. 3. And Ahab king of Ifrael faid unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war. Compared with 2 Chron. xix. 2. And Jehu the fon of Hanani the feer, went out to meet him, and faid to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldft thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? -therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.

m Rom. vii. 23. But I fee another law in my members warring againft the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, 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. xxi. 1. And Satan ftood up against Ifrael, and provoked David to number Ifrael. v. 2. And David faid to Joab, and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Ifrael, from Beer-fheba even to Dan, and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. v. 3. And Joab anfwered, The Lord make his people an hundred times fo many 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 trespass to Ifrael! v. 4. Nevertheless, the king's word prévailed against Joab: wherefore Joab departed,- -2 Chron. xvi. 7. And at that time Hanani, the feer came to Afa king of Judah, and faid unto 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 escaped 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. v. 9. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to fhew himfelf ftrong in the behalf of them, whofe heart is perfect towards him. Herein thou haft done foolishly; therefore from henceforth thou

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under the power of them n, we pray, that God would fo overrule the world and all in it o, fubdue the flesh p, and restrain Satan q, order all things r, bestow and bless all means of grace, and quicken us to watchfulness in the use of them; that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to fint; or, if tempted, that by his Spirit we may be powerfully fupported and enabled to ftand in the hour of temptation v: or, when fallen, raised again and

shalt have wars. v. 10. Then Afa was wroth with the feer, and put him into a prifon-house; for he was in a rage with him, because of this thing: and Afa oppreffed fome of the people the fame time.

n Pfa. lxxxi. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice, and Ifrael would none of me. v. 12. So

I gave them up to their own hearts luft: and they walked in their own counfels.

• John xvii. 15. I pray not that thou fhouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil.

p Pfal. li. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right fpirit within me. Pfal. cxix. 133. Order my steps in thy word; and let not any iniquity have dominion

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q 2 Cor. xii. 7. And left 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, left I should be exalted above measure. v. 8. For this thing I befought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

I Cor. x. 12. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed left he fall. v. 13. There hath no temptation taken you, but fuch as is common to man: but God is faith

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ful, who will not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

/Heb. xiii. 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 fight, through Jefus Chrift;

Mat, xxvi. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation,Pfal. xix. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, let them not have dominion over me: then fhall I be upright, and I fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion.

v Eph. iii. 14. For this caufe I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, v. 15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, v. 16. That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be ftrengthened with might, by his Spirit in the inner-man; v. 17. That Chrift may dwell in your hearts by faith;-1 Theff. iii. 13. To the end he may stablish our hearts unblameable in holiness before God even our Father, at the coming of

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recovered out of it w, and have a fanctified use and improvement thereof x: that our fanctification and falvation may be perfected y, Satan trodden under our feet z, and we fully freed from fin, temptation, and all evil for ever a.

Q. 196. 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, and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen b) teacheth us to enforce our petitions with arguments c, which are to be taken, not from any worthinefs in ourselves, or in any other creature, but from God d: and with

our Lord Jefus Chrift with all his faints. Jude ver. 24. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to prefent you faultlefs before the prefence of his glory with exceeding joy.

w Pfal. li. 12. Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation: and uphold me with thy free Spirit.

x 1 Pet. v. 8. Be fober, be vigilant; because your adverfary the devil, as a roring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. v. 9. Whom refift ftedfast in the faith, knowing that the fame afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. v. 10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jefus, after that ye have fuffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, ftrengthen, fettle

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peace fhall bruise Satan under your feet shortly,-Zech. iii. 2. And the Lord faid unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee: is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire? Luke xxii. 31. And the Lord faid, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath defired to have you, that he may fift you as wheat: v. 32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, ftrengthen thy brethren.

a John xvii. 15. I pray not that thou fhouldft take them out of the world, but that thou shouldit keep them from the evil. 1 Theff. v. 23. ' And the very God of peace fantify you wholly and I pray God your whole fpirit, and foul and body be preferved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jefus Christ.

196. b Mat. vi. 13.

e Rom. xv. 30. Now I befeech you, brethren, for the Lord leius Chrits fake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you ftrive together with me in your prayers to God for me.

d Dan. ix. 4. And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confeffion, and laid, O Lord, the Bb great

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