all people, with the same ready obedience, cheerful zeal, and holy love, that blessed spirits perform his will in heaven.

"Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word." Psa. ciii. 20.

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They are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple." Rev. vii. 15.

What do you desire in the first three petitions of the Lord's Prayer?

The glory of God: that our heavenly Father would send his grace to me and all people, that we may worship him, serve him, and obey him as we ought to do.

"The Lord will famish all the gods of the earth, and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen." Zeph. ii. 11.

"Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. Heb.

xii. 28.

What do we pray for in the fourth petition?

In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread, we pray that God would be pleased to give us all things needful, both for our souls and bodies.

"Feed me with food convenient for me." Prov. xxx. 8.

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every

word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Matt. iv. 4.

"The bread of God is he that cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." John vi. 33.

"Lord, evermore give us this bread." 34.

What may you learn from this petition for daily bread?

To depend entirely on God for the supply of our wants, without care and anxiety for the future.

"Take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or wherewithal shall we be clothed? for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Take, therefore, no thought for the morrow." Matth. vi. 31, 32, 34.

What do we pray for in the fifth petition, Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us?

We pray that God would be merciful to us, and forgive us our sins; and if he enables us by his grace to forgive others, we are assured he will forgive us.

"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matth. vi. 14, 15.

Is our forgiveness of others the ground on which we receive forgiveness from God?

The mercy of God, through Jesus Christ, is the only ground of pardon; but the readiness of God to forgive us our sins, should lead us willingly to forgive others.

"Be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you." Eph. iv. 32.

What do we desire of God in the sixth petition, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil?

We pray that God, in his providence, would not lead us into circumstances of temptation, or that he would support and deliver us when tempted by sin and Satan.

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." Matth. iv. 1.

"Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Rev. iii. 10.

"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations." 2 Pet. ii. 9.

"What is the evil from which you pray to be delivered?

From all evil, spiritual and temporal; especially from sin, the greatest of evils; from Satan the evil one, who is continually tempting us to sin; and from everlasting death, which is the wages of sin.

"Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake." Psa. lxxix. 9.

What do you learn from the conclusion of this prayer, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever?

We are here taught that God is able to answer all our petitions, and that we ought to render praise and adoration to him for evermore.

"Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: 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. Now, therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name." 1 Chron. xxix. 11.

What do you then desire of God in the Lord's Prayer?

I desire my Lord God, our heavenly Father, who is the giver of all goodness, to send his grace unto me, and to all people; that we may worship him, serve him, and obey him, as we ought to do. And I pray unto God, that he will send 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 please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily; and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death. And this I trust

he will do of his mercy and goodness, through our Lord Jesus Christ. And therefore I say, Amen, so be it.

"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." 1 John v. 14, 15.

CHAPTER V.

THE SACRAMENTS.

How many sacraments hath Christ ordained in his church?

Two only, as generally necessary to salvation: that is to say, Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord.

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Matth. xxviii. 19.

"I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, &c." 1 Cor. xi. 23.

Why is it said, that the sacraments are generally necessary to salvation?