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fifes concerning the coming of Gods kingdome; 289 or rather our heaps of finnes and corruptions ; our continual' lufis and concupifcences. 7. Our yielding to the temptations of Satan; our worldly minds following after pleafure, profit, or preferment ; our not crucifying of the flea], but ra- ther walking therein. And as we are to ask good things for others , fo muff we alto bewail their wants. As whenwe fee men plunged in finne, and carried away headlong to their perdition, as the'fwine were into the fea,we ought to lament their defperate efface, Pfal. 119. 136, 5 8. Ezech.9.4. We are to bewail all the im- pediments of the kingdome of Chriff, diforder in the Church, confufion in the Commonweal, the want of the word, and caufes thereof. Our hearts ought to yern within us, as our Saviours chd,Matth. 9.36. when we fee a people living in ignorance and finne, without means & without God in this world: and therefore for the fupply of all thefe wants, we are in fenfe thereof to pray fervently, Let thy king- dome corne. our duties in our lives. x. In refpe& of the kingdome of power, That we acknowledge the Lord to be our abfolute King: That we fubmit our felves to his providence : That we reft contented and well pleafed with whatfoever he doth towards us, who doth all things according to the counfel of his will. z. In refped ofthe kingdome of grace,we ought to have an earneíf defire of the advancement of Gods kingdome, and zeal of the Churches good; and more particularly, that the Lord would reigne V in