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342 Duties to be performed by them that a=sk daily bread. with abundance; which if we be once attainted withal! we cannot make this prayer in truth. 2.'Av- dpxHa, contentatian, which is a confequent ofthe for- mer, Heb. r . Áy e9 7r' 3 5 Ata s a olos á xu' of pis gapé or Let your convert tion be without covetoufneffe, and be contented with your prefent of ate. For we ask but that bread which is neceffary and convenient for us. Therefore if we make this prayer in truth, we will be well contented if the Lord heare our prayer,and grant unto us no more but that which is neceífary. And therefore we ought not to covet other mens goods or that which is unneceffary, knowing that our lot is befallen us by the molt juif and wife pro- vidence of God:who if he faw it expedient for thee, would grant unto thee greater abundance; but if not, thou muff fay with David, Here I am; let him do with me as f anal) good in his eyes, 2. Sam. 15. 25, 26. And withal! confider, that if thou art filch an one as feareft the Lord, thou wouldit not change thine eflate with fome of them that have the world at will. For,as Solomon faith, Prov. z 5.16. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, then great treafure and trouble therewith: and, as his father before him, Pfal. 37. 16. fnall thing which the righteous hath is better then the great riches of the ungodly. r. Tim. 6.6 NEsr7roptaretós /444 eiTapteías, Godlinef with content is great gain. 3. A moderate delire of that which is fit and convenient for us; and there- fore not to affect voluntary poverty, which the Spi- ritof God, Prov. 3o. 8. and in this place, doth teach us to pray againft. q.. A moderate care to provide that which is convenient, that we may not be