their masters as to the Lord, from him expecting their reward. 1 John iii. 15. Keep us from murder, violence, and all injury to our neighbour's life or Matt. v. 22, 39. health; from malice, cursing, reviling, and unadvised anger: let us not resist evil with evil, but forbear one another, and not give place to wrath. Rom. xii. 17. Eph. iv. 2. 1 Thes. v. 22. Keep us from adultery, fornication, and all uncleanness, and the occasions and appearances thereof: let us take care, as becometh saints, that they be Eph. v. 3, 4, 5; not immodestly named among us; and that no corrupt communication proceed out of our mouths. Keep us from chambering and wantonness, from lust iv. 29. 1 Pet. iii. 2, 3. Job xxxi. 1. ful thoughts, and all immodest attire, behaviour, looks, and actions. Eph. iv. 28. Psal. lxii. 10; lxxiii. 8. 1 Thes. iv. 6. Prov. xix. 5; xii. 17; x. 10. Matt. vii. 1, 2. Psal. xv. 3; lxxxii. 2. Keep us from theft and oppression, and any way wronging our neighbour in his property and estate. Keep us from false-witness-bearing, lying, and deceiving: from slandering, backbiting, unjust, uncharitable censuring or reproaching; from all perverting of justice, and wronging the reputation Lev. xix. 17. of our neighbour; and from all consent Prov. xxiii. 6, 7,8. or desire of such wrongs. Gal. v. 21, 26. Phil. ii. 21. Keep us from envy, and from coveting any thing that is our neighbour's to Exod. xx. 17. his wrong, and from seeking our own, or drawing to ourselves, to the injury vii. 12. of his welfare; but let us love our neighbours as ourselves, and do to others as we would they should do to us. Matt. v. 44, 45, Teach us to love Christ and his holy Matt. xv. 40. image in his members, with a dear and 1 Pet. i. 22. special love; and to love our enemies, 46. and pray for them that hate and persecute us, and to do good to all as we are able, but especially to them of the household of faith. Gal. vi. 10. Acts xxi. 14. Cause us with patience to submit to Psal. xxxix. 9. all the disposals of thy will, and wait Matt. xxvi. 30. thy end; and to love the demonstra- Jas. v. 7, 8, 11. tions of thy holiness and justice, 2 Kings xx. 19. Mal. iii. 13, 14. though grievous to the flesh: and keep us from impatient murmurings, and discontent, and arrogant reasonings against thy will. Give us our daily bread, our neces- Luke xi. 13. sary sustentation and provision for thy Deut. xxviii. 45. Rom. xiii. 14. Luke xii. 20. Eph. v. 16. John ix. 4. service; and let us use it for thee, and not to satisfy the flesh: let us depend on thee, and trust thee for it in the lawful use of the means; and bless thou our labours, and give us the fruits of the earth in season, and such temperate weather as tendeth thereunto. Deut. xxviii. 6, Phil. ii. 27. Luke xii. 20. Eph. v. 16. John ix. 4. Deliver us and all thy servants from such wants, distresses, griefs, and sickness, as will unseasonably take us off thy service, and from untimely death: and teach us to value and redeem our time, and work while it is day. Rom. xiii. 13. 1 Cor. ix. 25. contented. 1 Tim. vi. 8, 9. Psal. xxxi. 16; li. 11, 12, 19. Rom. viii. 1. Keep us from gluttony, drunkenness, and all intemperance; from sloth and idleness; from inordinate desires of pleasures or abundance: but having food and raiment, let us be therewith Of thy abundant mercy, through the sacrifice and merits of thy Son, according to thy promise, forgive us all our sins, and save us from thy deserved wrath and condemnation. Remember not, O Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; but, though our iniquities testify against us, spare us and save us for thy mercy' sake. O let not our sin deprive us of thy Spirit, or of access unto thee, or communion with thee; or of thy favour or comfort, or the light of thy countenance, or of everlasting life. Luke v. 28, 29; Cause us to forgive from our hearts Matt. vi. 2,14,15. the injuries done against us, as we Rom. xii. 19. expect to be forgiven by thee the great- xxiv. 47. est debt. Keep us from all revengeful Acts vii. 60. desires and attempts. And do thou convert and pardon our enemies, slanderers, oppressors, persecutors, and others that have done us wrong. Keep us from running upon tempt- Matt. xxvi. 41. Jas. iv. 7. Heb. ii. 10. v. 4. Rom. viii. 13. ations; suffer not the tempter, by Prov. iv. 23. subtlety or importunity, to corrupt our Job xxxi. 1. judgments, wills, affections, or conver- Matt. xii. 36. sations. Cause us to maintain a dili-2 Tim. ii. 3. gent and constant watch over our 1 John ii. 13; thoughts and hearts, our senses and appetites, our words and actions; and, 2 Tim. ii. 8. as faithful soldiers, by the conduct and strength of the Captain of our salvation, with the whole armour of God, to resist and overcome the world, the devil, and the flesh, unto the end. Prov. xxx. 8,9. 1 John ii. 15, 16. Rom. viii. 17. 22; viii. 24. Rom. viii. 18. Save us from the temptations of not forsake thee, or fall in time of trial. Help us Matt. vi. 13. Rom. xvi. 20. Deliver us from the enmity and rage of Satan and his instruments; and give xvii. 2, 12. kingdom. 1 Tim. i. 17. Jude 14, 15. We ask all this of thee, O Lord; for thou art the universal King, holy and Job ix. 4. |