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required of them that oak daily bread. fake joyn them together. Every requeff prefup- pofeth want, Jam. 1. 5. Whereas therefore Chrift biddeth us ask, it proveth r .our nullity, kld vb .4s, and ob , r: poverty in our (elves, who neither have any thing but what it pleafeth God to give us; neither can we by our means procure any thing that is good, ex- cept it pleafe God to bleffe our means; neither can we ufe and enjoy that which we have, unleffe it pleafe God to grant us the ufe thereof; neither will the ufe thereof avail us, except it pleafe God to bleffe the ufe of them, giving them vertue to nou- rifh and to cherifh us, and make them effeftuall to our good. Wants to be bewailed. In true fenfe therefore of this our want we are to pray that it may be fupplied by the contrary gifts; namely, that God would be pleafed to give unto us that portion of temporali benefits which he know - eth to be moli fit and convenient for us; and to that end that he would bleffe our means for the obtein- ing of that which we have not, and alto grant unto us the ufe of that which we haves and lafUly, that he would bleffe the ufe thereof unto us, making them effetuall to our good. 2. Whereas Chrift teacheth us every day to fay, Give us this day, &c. it argueth our mortality and frailty, who cannot continue our lives, except it pleafe God to make a daily fupply of his temporali benefits whereby we may be fuf}eined. In fenfe of which our frailty we are day by day to pure forth our fouls before the Lord, faying, Give us this day our daily bread, that is, that bread which sue Z4 have 43