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 our selves.
Answer. The first point of the second part is, Give us this day our daily bread.
Question. What dost thou mean by the name of bread?
Answer. Not only those things that minister us food and apparel, but also all other things universally, that are needful to the maintaining and preserving of our life, and the leading of it in quietness without fear.
Scripture References: Psalm 104:15,27, 105:9-11, 144:10-11, and 145:14-16.
Question: Is there any thing else, whereof this word bread doth admonish us?
Answer. That we seek not and gather together curiously dainty things for Banqueting, or precious Apparel, or sumptuous Household stuff, for pleasure : but that we despising delicacies and excess, be contented and satisfied with little, temperate, and healthful diet, and with mean and necessary apparel.
Scripture References: Psalm 78:18,29-30, and 106:14-15; Matthew 6:25; Luke 16:19; 1 Cor. 10:6; 1 Tim. 6:7-9; Heb. 13:5
Question: How dost thou call bread thine, which thou prayest to be given thee of God?
Answer. By God’s gift it becometh ours, when he liberally giveth it us for our daily uses, though by right it be not due to us.
Scripture References: Mat. 7:7-8; 1 Cor. 4:7; 1 Tim. 6:17; James 1:17