Lord's Prayer.

Our Father, which art in heaven,

N whom we live, and move, and have our being; grant that I,

and that we may not sin, knowing that we are accounted Thine. We are Thine by adoption; O make us Thine by the choice of our will.

Hallowed be Thy Name.

GOD, whose Name is great, wonderful, and holy, grant that I, and all Thy children, may glorify Thee, not only with our lips, but in our lives; that others, seeing our good works, may glorify our Father which is in heaven.

Thy kingdom come.

MLord and of His Christ.

AY the kingdoms of the world become the kingdoms of the And may all that own Thee for their King, become Thy faithful subjects, and obey Thy laws. Dethrone, O God, and destroy Satan and his kingdom; and enlarge the kingdom of grace.

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Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

E adore Thy goodness, O God, in making Thy will known to us in Thy Holy Word. May this Thy Word be the rule of our will, of our desires, of our lives, and actions. May we ever sacrifice our will to Thine; be pleased with all Thy choices for ourselves and others, and adore Thy providence in the government of the world.

Give us this day our daily bread.

HEAVENLY Father, who knowest what we have need of, give us the necessaries and comforts of this life with Thy blessing; but above all, give us the bread that nourisheth to eternal life.

O God, who giveth to all life, and breath, and all things, give us grace to impart to such as are in want, of what Thou hast given more than our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that
trespass against us.

MAKE us truly sensi do te hy goodness and mercy and

patience towards us, that we may from our hearts forgive every one his brother their trespasses.

May my enemies ever have place in my prayers, and in Thy

mercy.

And lead us not into temptation;

Sun RT that they may yield us the peaceable fruits of

UPPORT us, O heavenly Father, under all our saving trials,

righteousness.

But deliver us from evil:

FROM all sin and wickedness, from our ghostly enemy, and

from everlasting death, good Lord deliver us.

Deliver us from the evil of sin, and from the evil of punishment. Deliver us, O heavenly Father, from our evil and corrupt nature, from the temptations and snares of an evil world, and from falling again into the sins we have repented of.

For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.

B of Thy Namie, and for the love of a Father, grant us all these

Thy Almighty power, O King of Heaven, for the glory

blessings which Thy Son has taught us to pray for.

Unto Him that is able to do for us abundantly more than we can ask or think . . . unto Him be glory, in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

To God, the Creator, the Preserver, and Disposer of all things, be the glory of all the good wrought in us, by us, and upon us. Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

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An Exposition of the Apostles' Creed.

I believe in God

BELIEVE that there is a God, who is one, true, supreme, and alone, infinitely wise, just, good, free, eternal, immense, and blessed, and in Him alone we are to put our trust.

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The Father Almighty,

BELIEVE that He is 1. the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 2. of all that believe in Him, whom He hath begotten by His Word, and adopted to the inheritance of sons: and because He is our Father, He will do us all that good to which we are created and designed by grace; and because He is Almighty, He is able to perform it all; and therefore we may safely believe in Him, and rely upon Him.

Maker of heaven and earth:

E made the sun and the moon, the stars, and all the regions that live in them; He made angels and men: and He who made them does, and He only can, preserve them in the same being, and thrust them forwards to a better. He that preserves them, does also govern them, and intends they should minister to His glory and therefore we are to do worship and obedience to Him in all that we can, and that He hath commanded.

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And in Jesus Christ

ALSO believe in Jesus Christ, who is, and is called, a Saviour, and the Anointed of the Lord, promised to the patriarchs, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit, and with power to become the great Prophet, and Declarer of His Father's will to all the world; telling us how God will be worshipped and served: He is anointed to be the Mediator of the new covenant, and our High-Priest, reconciling us to His Father by the sacrifice of Himself; and to be the great King of all the world. And by this Article we are Christians, who serve and worship God the Father through Jesus Christ.

His only Son
Spirit

ESUS Christ is the Son of God, He alone, of Him alone.

Virgin; by His power He raised Him from the dead, and gave Him a new birth or being in the body: He gave Him all power, and all excellency. And beyond all this, He is the express image of His Person, the brightness of His glory, equal to God, beloved before the beginning of the world, of a nature perfectly divine; very God by essence, and very man by assumption: as God, all one in nature with the Father; and as man, one Person in Himself.

JES

Our Lord,

ESUS Christ, God's only Son, is the Heir of all things and persons in His Father's house: all angels and men are His servants, and all the creatures obey Him. We are to believe in Him, and by faith in Him only and in His Name we shall be saved.

I

Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,

BELIEVE that Jesus Christ was not begotten of a man, nor born by natural means, but that a divine power from God (God's Holy Spirit) did overshadow the Virgin-Mother of Christ, and made her in a wonderful manner to conceive Jesus in her womb; and by this His admirable manner of being conceived, He was the Son of God alone, and no man was His father.

THOUG

Born of the Virgin Mary,

COUGH God was His Father, and He begat Him by the power of the Holy Ghost, and caused Him miraculously to begin in the womb of His mother; yet from her He also derived His human nature, and by His mother He was of the family of King David, and called the Son of Man; His mother being a holy person, not chosen to this great honour for her wealth or beauty, but by the good will of God, and because she was of rare exemplary modesty and humility and she received the honour of being a mother to the Son of God, and ever a virgin, and all generations shall call her blessed.

AFT

Suffered under Pontius Pilate,

FTER that Jesus passed through the state of infancy and childhood, being subject to His parents, and working in an humble trade to serve His own and His mother's needs, He grew to the estate of a man: He began to preach at the age of thirty years, and having for about three years and a half preached the Gospel, and taught us His Father's will, having spoken the Gospel of His kingdom, and revealed to us the secrets of eternal life, and resurrection of the dead, regeneration, and renewing by the Holy Spirit, perfect remission of sins, and eternal judgment; at last, that He might reconcile the world to His Father, He became a sacrifice for all our sins, and suffered Himself to be taken by the malicious Jews, and put to a painful and shameful death; they being envious at Him for the number of His disciples, and the reputation of His person, the innocence of His life, the mightiness of His miracles, and the power of His doctrine: and this death He suffered when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judæa.

Was crucified,

ESUS Christ, being taken by the rulers of the Jews, bound

persecuted violently; at last, wanting matter and pretences to condemn Him, they asked Him of His person and office; and because He affirmed that great truth, which all the world of good men longed for, that He was the Messias, and designed to sit at the right hand of the Majesty on high, they resolved to call it blasphemy, and delivered Him over to Pilate, and by importunity and threats forced him, against his conscience, to give Him up to be scourged, and then to be crucified. The soldiers, therefore, mocking Him with a robe and reed, and pressing a crown of thorns upon His head, led Him to the place of His death; compelling Him to bear His cross, to which they presently nailed Him: on which for three hours He hanged in extreme torture, being a sad spectacle of the most afflicted and the most innocent person of the whole world.

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Dead,

7HEN the holy Jesus was wearied with tortures, and He knew all things were now fulfilled, and His Father's wrath appcased towards mankind, His Father pitying His innocent Son groaning under such intolerable miseries, hastened His death; and Jesus, commending His Spirit into the hands of His Father, cried with a loud voice, bowed His head, and died, and by His death sealed all the doctrines and revelations which He first taught the world, and then confirmed by His blood. He was consecrated our merciful High-Priest, and by a feeling of our miseries and temptations, became able to help them that are tempted; and for these His sufferings was exalted to the highest throne, and seat of the right hand of God; and hath shewn, that to heaven there is no surer way than suffering for His name; and hath taught us willingly to suffer for His sake, what Himself hath already suffered for ours. He reconciled us to God by His death, led us to God, drew us to Himself, redeemed us from all iniquity, purchased us for His Father, and for ever made us His servants and redeemed ones, that we being dead unto sin, might live unto God. And this death, being so highly beneficial to us, He hath appointed means to apply to us, and to represent to God for us in the holy Sacrament of His last supper. And upon all these considerations, that cross which was a smart and shame to our Lord, is honour to us, and as it turned to His glory, so also to our spiritual advantages.

And buried,

THAT He might suffer everything of human nature, He was by the care of His friends and disciples, by the leave of Pilate, taken from the cross, and embalmed (as the manner of the Jews was to bury), and wrapped in linen, and buried in a new grave, hewn out of a rock. And this was the last and lowest step of His humiliation.

He descended into hell;

THAT is He went down into the lower parts of the earth (as Himself called it), into the heart of the earth; by which phrase the Scripture understands the state of separation, or of souls severed from their bodies. By this His descending to the land of darkness, where all things are forgotten, He sanctified the state of death and separation, that none of His servants might ever after fear the jaws of death and hell; whither He went, not to suffer torment (because He finished all that upon the cross), but to triumph over the gates of hell, to verify His death, and the event of His sufferings, and to break the iron bars of those lower prisons, that they may open and shut hereafter only at His command.

AFT

The third day He rose again from the dead,

FTER our Lord Jesus had abode in the grave the remaining part of the day of His Passion, and all the next day, early in