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Question. Is there any other cause why thou callest it thy Bread? Answer. By this word we are put in mind that we ought to get our living with our labour, or by other lawful means, and that being therewith contented, we do never by covetousness or fraud seek any thing...

Question. Now thou hast well answered touching the first part of the Lord’s Prayer, which part containeth these three points that belong only to the glory of God.  I think it good for us to go forward to the second part, which properly concerneth things profitable for...

Question. What followeth? Answer. That God’s will be done. For it is the duty of children to frame their life according to the will of their fathers, and not contrarywise the parents to conform themselves to the will of their children. Scripture References: Psalm...

Question. Go forward. Answer: Secondly, we pray that God’s kingdom come, that is, that he suffer not the divine truth of his word  ( and Gospel of Christ )  whereby he reigneth in good and godly men’s hearts, to lie hidden in darkness ;  but that it daily more and...

Question. This then so happy a beginning, and entry of Prayer being now opened unto us, go to, rehearse me the first Petition. Answer. First, we pray that God’s name be hallowed. Question. What meaneth that? Answer. Nothing else, but that the name of God be made known...

Question. How many parts hath the Lord’s Prayer? Answer. It containeth six :  or as some divide it, seven petitions, but in the whole there are but two parts.  Whereof the first belongeth only to the Glory of God, and containeth the three former Petitions:  the...