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Duties to be performed by them that ask daily bread. 347 make it, if we make it as we ought; orall bleffings fo would grant outward and p far forth as they nand with Gods glory and our good. And this condition, If it may Rand with thy glory, o Lord, and our eternall good, is in all petitions for temporall bleffings either to be expreffed or to be underfcood: and according to it doth the Lord heare our prayers,granting either that which we do defire or that which is better, &c. Duties to be performed in our lives. Duties to be performed in and lives e if we would make this prayer uprightly I. To have a true defire and care to get our goods by good and lawfull means; becaufe we ask our bread, and that to be given us of God: and therefore that every tnane1 the labour óf his own full calling, that he may hands, and working with quiee T thaw h h may eat his own bread, 2. T 3 2 is P elo q.. 2 8. mutt ende- II. And to this end e f °Ve us which are your to be endued with the inward duties of the eighth commandment. The i . is 47WiNap1,vpía, the not fetting our hearts and affe &ions upon the things of this life, fo that nei- ther inordinately nor immoderately we delire or feek more then is expedient and neceffary for us. This our Saviour teacheth us when he diredeth us to ask for bread, & that bread which is neceffary for us :Whereas contrariwife if once we fet our hearts upon riches, &c.thereupon wil follow an immode- rate defire of having more, that will not be fatiith