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A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are…
A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.
London: printed for Edw. Brewster, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. And why do we pray for bread? Is this to teach us to moderate our affection to, and desires after earthly things; and not to desire above what may be sufficient for our comfort, and to be content if we have but Necessaries?
A. Yes.
Q. In what Petition do we pray for temporal things?
A. In the fourth.
Q. 103. What do we pray for in the fifth Petition?