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Yfes concerning the coming of Gods kingdome. to the world, the flefb with the lulls thereof morti- fied : That we may renounce and forfake ( accord- ing to our vow in baptifme ) the flea], the world, and the devil : That all other impediments of his kingdome of grace and our falvation being remo- ved, we may be preferved blamele fe to the coming of Chrift , and may be kept by the power of God through faith anto f lvation. fifes. Wants to be bewailed. Now let us come to the ufes. Firfi, our need which we have to make this prayer,byreafon ofour defec`lion from God in our firfi parents, and our ori- ginall finne derived from them. For before man fell from God by fume, he was wholly fubjed to the kingdome of God, and conformable to his will in all righteoufneífeand holineffe; his mind inlighten- ed with knowledge,endued with wifdome,his con - fcience pure, his will holy and juíi, his affe &ions or- derly, the inferiour powers of his foul fubordinate to the fuperiour, and all to God, the members of the body infiruments of holineffe unto righteouf- neffe. But when as man fell from God by finne, he became the fubjea of Satan, his mind darkened with ignorance & folly in fpirituall things, his con - fcience impure, his will not onely unjufi but alfo unable to will that which is good, his affelions in- ordinate, the inferiour faculties rebelling againft the fuperiour, the members of the body infiruments of finne unto iniquity. We therefore that are bred and born in this flare of difobedience, have great need to pray that the Lord would rule in us, that we may be renewed according to the image of God in holinefe andri;hteoufnefJ"è. 2. Our 287