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The meaning ofthef words, Give us. 337 the children of the rich, which are both daintily and plentifully fed. What is meant by Give us. Vs] that is, not onely me that pray, but alto the reft of my brethren. Where z . we are taught this duty of love ( which feeketh not her own) not for'.i3 onely to feek our own good, but alfo the common good of our brethren. Covetoufnefíe and fell love fay,Give me this day my daily bread,without care ofothers:but brotherly love and charity faith, That good which I ask for my felf, I all beg for others : Give us, &c. z. We are to pray not onely for private benefits, as food, apparel , health , peace, good name, &c. but alfo for publick bleß'ings, as plenty, profpe- rity and peace, Pfal. 144. 13, 14. and 122. 6, 7. Jer. 29.7. 3. We are to efieem that what good thing fo- ever God hath given to any one of us, that he bath given it unto us, that is, the body, whereof all be members: and therefore that we fhould not envy the profperity of others, nor yet envy to communi- cate thole good things which we have unto others, conidering that what I have received I am to eíleem it as given not to me alone but to us. Nei - thermayea thou think that thy prayer is upright,if having obteined that which thou hada asked for us, thou fhalt keep it to thy fell. Thou beggeft not onely in thine own name, but alto in the behalfof others. Therefore when God heareth thy prayer, he giveth not onely to thee,but by theehe giveth to others ; making thee not lord of that which he gi- veth,