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2. In regard of the manner of setting down this Petition negatively, we are taught to pray for Freedom against the power of sin, ¹as the Psalmist doth where he saith, Cleanse me from secret faults: keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. For in sin there is a guilt which maketh us liable to Gods vengeance (this is prayed against in the Fifth Petition) and a power which holdeth us in bondage, and maketh us such slaves thereto, as we cannot serve God.

2. In regard of the manner of setting downe this Petition negatiuely, we are taught to pray for Freedome against the power of sinne, ¹as the Psalmist doth where hee saith, Cleanse meè from secret faults: keepe backe thy seruant also from presumptuous sins; let them not haue dominion ouer mee. For in sinne there is a guilt which maketh vs lyable to Gods vengeance (this is prayed against in the Fift Petition) and a power which holdeth vs in bondage, and maketh vs such slaues thereto, as wee cannot serue God.

1. 1Psal. 19. 13. 13.

3. For this end we are taught to pray for Participation of the power of Christs death, and

4. Participation of the Spirit of Christ. For in Christs death there is distinctly to be considered a Merit, and a Power. The Merit thereof freeth from the guilt and punishment of sin. The Power thereof from the dominion, yea and by degrees from the very act of sin: which in the Saints after the death of their body shall utterly cease. Of this power of Christs death thus speaketh the Apostle,