107. Queft. What doth the Conclufion of the Lord's Prayer teach us?

Anfw. The Conclufion of the Lord's Prayer, which is, For thine is the Kingdom, thePower, and the Gloyy for ever, Amen, teacheth us to take our Encouragement în Prayer from God only, and in our Prayers to praise him, afcribing Kingdom, Power, and Glory to him And in Teftimony

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 measure. v.8. For this thing
I befought the Lord thrice, that it
might depart from me,

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and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. v. 17. Now therefore, ourGod,hear the prayer of thy fervant, and his fupplica tions, and cause thy face to fhine upon the fanctuary that is defolate, for the Lords fake. v. 18. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; f Dan. 9. 4. And I prayed unto open thine eyes, and behold our the Lord my God, and made my defolations, and the city, which is confeffion, and faid, O Lord, the called by thy name: for we do not great and dreadful God, keeping the present our fupplications before covenant, and mercy to them that thee for our righteousness, but fot love him, and to them that keep thy great mercies. v. 19. O Lord, his commandments. v. 7. QLord, hear, O Lord, forgive, O Lord, righteoufnefs belangeth unto thee, but hearken and do, defer not, for unto us confufion of faces, as at this thine own fake, O my God: for day to the men of Judah, and to thy city, and thy people are called the inhabitants of Jerufalem, and by thy name. unto all Ifrael that are near, and 1 Chron, 29, 10. Wherefore Da that are far off, through all the coun- vid blaffed the Lord before all the tries whither thou haft driven them, congregation: and David faid, Blef because of their trefpafs that they fed be thou, Lord God of Ifraelous have trefpaffed against thee. v.8 O Father, for ever and ever. v. 11. Lord, to us belongeth confufion of Thine, O Lord, the greatness,and face, to our kings, to our princes, the power, and the glory, and the and to our fathers, because we have victory, and the majefty for all finned against thee. v. 9. To the that is in the heaven and in the earth, Lard our God belong mercies and is thine; thine is the kingdom, o forgiveneffes, though we have re- Lord, and thou art exalted as head belled against him. v. 16: O Lord, above all. according to all thy righteoufnefs, 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, Jerufalemi

V. 12. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reign eft over all, and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give ftrength unto all. v.13. Now there

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of our Defire and Affurance to be heard, we say, Amen.

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fore, our God, we thank thee, and ftandeth not what thou fayft? Rev. praife thy glorious name, 22. 20. He which teftifieth thefe 1 Cor. 14. 16. Elfe when thou things, faith, Surely I come quickfhalt blefs with the spirit, how fhall ly. Amen. Even fo come Lord be that occupieth the room of the Jefus. v. 21. The grace of our unlearned, fay Amen at thy gi- Lord Jefus Chrift be with you all. ving of thanks, seeing he under- Amen.

The TEN COMMANDMENTS.
EXODUS X X.

DD spake all these words, laying, Jam the Lord thy God, which have bought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

1. Thou shalt have no other gods befoze me,

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, oz any likeneis of any thing, that is in heaven above, o2 that is in the earth be neath, or that in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not how down thy felf to them, no2 serve them: foz I the Lozd thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the childzen unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: and thewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments,

III. Thou

And albeit the fubftance of the doctrine compri fed in that abridgment commonly called, The Apoftles Creed, be fully fet forth in each of the Catechifms, fo as there is no neceffity of inferting the Creed it felf, yet it is here annexed, not as though it were compofed by the Apoftles, or ought to be efteemed canonical Scripture, as the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer, (much lefs 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 Chrift,

THE

DIRECTORY

FOR

Family-Worship.

Approved by Act of the

General Affembly

Anno 1647.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Watfon, One of the Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majefty. 1718.

EDINBURGH, 21 May, 1711

D GENERAL ASSEMBLY Does ear neftly Recommend to Presbytries, to use their utmott_Endeavours, that the Wochip of God be set up and perfomed in all its Parts, in the Families within their Bounds, according to former Aas of Affem bly, and Direäions given concerning the tame