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Duties to be performed by them that etsk daily bread. 349, be burdenfome but rather helpful' unto others: And therefore we are to avoid two extremities : firft, to have no care of that which we here deliire, Y . Tim. 5.8. fecondly, with carking care to hoard up that for many years which we ask but for a day. III. In the ufe either of thofe means which we ufe for the obteining of our delire, or of the thing obteined, we are to crave the bleffing of God , and thereupon to depend. Therefore the temporali bief- fings of God muft be received with prayer and thankfgiving. And in this behalf not onely the poore and needy but alfo the rich and wealthy are to make this prayer, who cannot in truth make this prayer to God, if either they rely upon their own means or null in their own ftore. I V. We mull ca ft our care upon the Lord, Pfal. 37.3,5 and 55.22. and in all our need flic unto hire. for fupply. V. As we are taught to pray, not onely for our felves but alfo for others, fo muft we be delirous and carefull of other mens good, and be ready to communicate thofe good things which we have to the fupply of others need , and that without delay. Here therefore the hypocrifie of worldly and Hipocritic carnali men is difcovered ; i. Who ask bread, as of world - lings difar though a little would content them, and yet are not 1ered, fatisfied with abundance. z. They ask their bread, and yet covet yea take and retein other mens goods; yea fome,the goods of the Church,which they can - not call theirs. 3. They ask r ßm0 án, daily bread, that is, as Agur fpeaketh, neither poverty nor riches, but that which is convenient and necefary ; and yet fomc