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412. Duties to be learned out o fthefixth petition. Wants to be bewailed. I. The malice and power ofour fpirituall ene- mies that fight again( us, Ephef. 6. i 2. The flefh fending forth concupifcences which fight againfl the foul; the law of our members carrying us captive unto finne: The world by her enticements alluring unto evil, and carrying us out of the way, I. Cor. 7.31. by her terrours terrifying from good,by bad exam- ple feducing us : The devil our mortali enemie,go- ing about like a roring lìon, feeking whom he may de- voure, i. Pet.5. 8. II. Our weaknelfe to refill; our negligence in not preparing and arming our felves againIl tentations, but rather by idleneffe and fecuri- tie fweeping and preparing a room for the tempter, Luke i r. 25. III. Our proneneffe to firme, our quailing in tentations, our running into tentations, and feeking baits of finne. IV. Our fubjeéion to finne and Satan, Rom.. i4.and exhibition of our members as inftruments to the tempter. V. The evil offinne with which we are corrupted, and the evil of punifhment which we have deferved. VI. Our inability in our felves to free us from thefe evils. Contrary graces to be defired. In fenfe of which wants we are with fervencie to crave the contrarie graces: Which we are to diflin- guifh according to the former diflindions of tenta- tions and evils from which we defire to be prefer - ved and delivered. And firft for the tentations of God or trials; we do not pray againft them, but ra- ther for them, I. That the Lord would trie us, Pfal. 26. 2. and 139. 23. and II. That when he Both