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Duties to be performed by them that dsk daily bread. .341 as being unworthy for him to grant or unnecefivary for us to receive. For the Lords providence floop- eth to the fmalleíl things; to the lighting of a fpar_ row upon the ground, to the feeding of all brute beafls, Matth.6.26. Pfa1r1o4.27. and 145. i 5. and ,147.9. Luke 12.24. And he affirmeth that all both profperity and adverfity proceed from him , Hof.2. 8. that in adverfity we thould pray unto him, and in profperity praife him, and in both acknowledge his mercifull providence. And as for us , certain it is that neither any of us in particular, nor the whole Church in generali can continue our life in this world to the praife of God unleffe it pleafe him to grant unto us a continuall fupply of temporali blef- fangs. Therefore feeing God is the giver of them, and we hand in need of them, it behoveth us by prayer to acknowledge him the giver of them, and to exercife our faith in asking them at his hands. And that we are fo to do it further appeareth by thefe reafons : 1. Becaufe Chrift in this place corn- mandeth us to ask them. 2. Becaufe we have a pro- mile that we thall receive them, i.Tim.4.8. 3. The examples of the godly; Jacob, Gen. 28. 20. Solo- mon, I.Kings8.33,35,37. Agur,Prov. 3o. 8, &c. who have prayed for them. Secondly, it is not fufficient to ask thefe things of s W e m a God, but we mull alfo be carefull to ask them a- right, and according to the will of God: which that we may do, there are duties to be performed both peculiar to prayer for temporali things, and generali and common to all prayer. The peculiar duties are thefe : 1. That in asking Peculiar a;= Z 3 tempo- ties.