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342 Particular andgenerallduties temporali blefsings we fubmit our (elves to the will and good pleafure of God,faying with our Saviour, Not my quill, &c. And therefore when we ask tern- porall things, our Saviour teacheth us to deny our own wills, and to defire that not our will but his will may be fulfilled. 2. That we ask them not ab- folutely, but fo farre forth as they are blefsings and good things, with this condition, that if they may ftand with Gods glory and our own good:For God bath promifed to give good things to them that ask them : But thefe are not fimply good, but as they have reference to Gods glory and our fpirituall and everlafling good. We mull remember, that in tem- porall matters God heareth men either in mercy as a father, or in wrath as a judge : but we come unto him as a father, and defire him as a father to heare us, &c. 3. That we ask them to good ends; not to fpend them on our lulls, but to imploy them to Gods glory in the fupply of our own wants and theirs that belong unto us, and alto in the relief of other mens necefsities , either private or publick, Ephef. 4.28. Therefore we are to ask, and to ask aright: and this is that which James faith, chap.4.2, 3. Ye get nothing, becaufe ye ask not: ye ask and receive not, becaufee ye ask ami ff é, that ye may confume it on your fins. Generall The generali duties to be performed in prayer duties. for temporali bleffings are, that we ask them in fer- vency and in faith. That we may ask them in fer- vency, we muff have i, a true fenfe of our wants, & 2. a true defire that our wants may be fupplied by the contrary gifts and graces. We will for brevities fake