throughout the world d, the Jews called e, the fulness of the Gentiles brought inf; the church furnished with all gospel officers and ordinances g, purged from corruption h, countenanced and maintained by the civil magiftrate i: that the ordinances of Chrift may be purely difpenfed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their fins, and the confirming, comforting and building up of those that are al him. v. 18. Thou haft afcended on high, thou haft led captivity captive; thou haft received gifts for men, yea, for the rebellious alfo, that the Lord God might dwell among them. Rev. xii. 10. And I heard a loud voice faying in heaven, Now is come falvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Chrift: for the accufer of our brethren is cast down, which accufed them before our God day and night. v. 11. and they overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their teftimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. d2 Theff. iii. 1. Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free courfe, and be glorified, even as it is with you. e Rom.x.1. Brethren, my heart's defire and prayer to God for Ifrael is that they might be fayed. f John xvii. 9. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me, for they are thine. v. 20. Neither pray I for thefe alone, but for them alfo who fhall believe on me through their word. Rom. xi. 25. For I would not, brethren, that ye fhould be ignorant of this mystery, (left ye fhould be wife in your own conceits) that blindness in part is happened to Ifrael, until the fulness of the ready Gentiles be come in. v. 26: and fo all Ifrael fhall be faved: as it is written, There fhall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. Pfal. Ixvii. throughout. God be merciful unto us, and blefs us: and caufe his face to fhine upon us, &c. g Mat. ix. 38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will fend forth labourers into his harvest. 2 Theff. iii. 1. Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free courfe, and be glorified, even as it is with you. b Mal. i. 11. For from the rifing of the fun, even unto the going down of the fame, my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incenfe fhall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name thall be great among the heathen, faith the Lord of hofts, Zech. iii. 9. For then will I turn to the people, a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to ferve him with one confent. i 1 Tim. ii. 1. I exhort therefore, that first of all, fupplications, pray. ers, interceffions, and giving of thanks be made for all men: v. 2, For kings, and for all that are in authority: that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Acts ready converted k: that Chrift would rule in our hearts here /, and haften the time of his fecond coming, and our reigning with him for ever m: and that he woull be pleafed fo to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to thefe ends n. k Acts iv. 29. And now Lord, behold their threatening and grant unto thy fervants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, v. 30. By ftretching forth thine hand to heal; and that figns and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jefus. Eph. vi. 18. Praying always with all prayer and fupplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perfeverance, and fupplication for all faints. v. 19. and for me that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Gentiles. v. 20. For which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to fpeak. Rom. xv. 29. and I am fure, that when I come unto you, I fhall come in the fulness of the bleffing of the gofpel of Chrift. v. 30. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jefus Chrift's fake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye ftrive together with me in your prayers to God for me; v. 32. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. 2 Theff. i. 11. Wherefore alfo we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of his calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, 2 Theff. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jefus Chrift himself, and God even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting confolation, and good hope through grace, V. 17. Comfort your hearts, and Q. 192. stablish you in every good word and work. 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; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, v. 18. May be able to comprehend with all faints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; v. and to know the love of Christ, which paffeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. v. 20. Now unto him that is 19. able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we afk or think, according to the power that worketh in us, m Rev. xxii. 20. He who tellifieth these things, faith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even fo, come, Lord Jefus, n Ifa. Ixiv. 1. Oh! that thou wouldst rent the heavens, that thou wouldt come down, that the mountains, might flow down at thy prefence, v. 2. as when the melting fire burneth, the fire caufeth the water to boil to make thy name known to thine adverfaries, that the nations may tremble at thy prefence. Rev. iv. 8. and the four beafts had each of them fix wings about him, and they were full of eyes Q192. What do we pray for in the third petition? A. In the third petition (which is, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaveno) acknowledging that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of God p, but prone to rebel against his word q, to repine and murmur againft his providence r, and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil: we pray, That God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindnefst, weakness and indifpofednefs w, perverfenefs and eyes within; and they reft not day the name of the place Maffah, and 192.0 Mat. vi. 10. p Rom vii. 18. For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. Job xxi. 14 Therefore they fay unto God, Depart from us: we defire not the knowledge of thy ways. 1 Cor. ii. 14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are fpiritually difcerned. Rom. viii. 7. Becaufe the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not fubject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. • Exod. xvii. 7. And he called /Eph. ii. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the courte of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the fpirit that now worketh in the children of difobedience. Eph. i. 17 That the God of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of glory, may give unto you the fpirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him: v. 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened: that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the faints. Eph. iii. 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. Mat. xxvi, 40. And he cometh unto the difciples, and findeth them afleep, and faith unto Puter, What, could verfeness of heart x, and by his grace make usable and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things y, with the like humility z, chearfulness a, faithfulness b, diligencec, zeald, fincerity e, and constancy ƒ, as the angels do in heaven g. Q. 193. could ye not watch with me one hour? V. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation, the fpirit indeed is willing, but the Mesh is weak. x Jer. xxxi. 18. I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou haft chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. v. 19. Surely after that I was turned, Í repented; and after that I was inftructed, I fmote upon my thigh: I was afhamed, yea, even confounded; be cause I did bear the reproach of my youth. y Pfal. cxix. 1. Bleffed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. v. 28 I will keep thy ftatutes: O forfake me not utterly. v. 35. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight. v. 36. Incline my heart unto thy teftimonies and not to covetoufnefs. Acts xxi. 14. And when he would not be perfuaded, we ceafed faying, The will of the Lord be done. z Micah vi. 8. He hath fhewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, bat to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? a Pfal. c. 2. Serve the Lord with gladnefs; come before his prefence with finging. Job i. 21. And (Job) faid, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked fhall I return thither the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: bleffed be the name of the Lord. 2 Sam. xv. 25. And the King faid unto Zadock carry back the ark of God into the city: if I fhall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again and fhew me both it and his habitation. § v. 26. But if he fay thus, I have no delight in thee: behold, here am I, let him do to me as feemeth good unto him. 'b Ifa. xxxviii. 3. And faid, Remember,now, O Lord, I beseech thee,' how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy fight: and Hezekiah wept fore. e Pfal. cxix. 4. Thou hait commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. v. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy ftatutes. d Rom. xii. 11. Not flothful in bu finefs, fervent in spirit; ferving the Lord. e Pfal. cxix. 8o. Let my heart be found in thy ftatutes, that I be not ashamed. ƒPfal. cxix. 112. I have inclined mine heart to perform thy ftatutes alway, even unto the end. g Ifa. vi. 2. Above it stood the feraphims: each one had fix wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and And with twain he did fly. v. 3 one cried unto another, and faid, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hofts, the whole earth is full of his glory. Pfal ciii. 20. Blefs the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in ftrength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. v, 21. blefs ye the Lord, all ye his holls, A a Q. 193. What do we pray for in the fourth petition. A. In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread b) acknowledging that in Adam, and by our own fin, we have forfeited our right to all the outward blefings of this life, and deferve to be wholly deprived of them by God, and to have them curfed to us in the use of them i; and that neither they of them felves are able to fuftain us k, nor we to merit, or by our own industry to procure them m; but prone to defire, ye minifters of his that do his pleafure. Matth. xvii. 10. Take heed that ye defpife not one of thefe little ones; for I fay unto you, that in heaven their angels do always be hold the face of my Father who is in heaven. 193. Mat. vi. 11. i Gen. ii. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou halt furely die. Gen. iii. 17. And unto Adam he said, Because thou haft hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and haft eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, faying, Thou shalt not eat of it: Curfed be the ground for thy fake; in forrow fhalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Rom. viii. 20. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reafon of him who hath fubjected the fame in hope: v. 21. Because the creature itlelf alfo fhall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God. v. 22. For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now. Jer. v. 25. Your iniquities have turned away thefe things, and your fins have withholden good things from you. Deut. xxviii. from verfe 15. to the end of the chapter. v. get, 15. But it fhall come to pafs if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to obferve to do all his commandments, and his ftatutes which I command thee this day; that all thefe curfes fhall come upon thee, and overtake thee. v. 16. Curfed fhalt thou be in the city, and curfed fhalt thou be in the field, v. 17. Curfed fhall be thy basket and thy ftore, &c. k Deut. viii. 3. And he humbled thee, and fuffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, (which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know) that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. / Gen. xxxii. 1o. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou haft thewed unto thy fervant, m Deut. viii. 17. And thou fay in thine heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth. v. 18. But thou fhalt remember the Lord thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may eftablish his covenant which he fware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. » Jer. vi. 13. For from the leaft of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covet oufnels; |