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1. What is meant by giving. 2. What is meant by Bread, with all the circumstances, daily bread, and our daily bread.

1. What is meant by giving. 2. What is meant by Bread, with al the circumstances, dayly bread, and our daily bread.

For the first, the word giving implies 3. things.

1. That the Lord out of his goodness and wise bounty, would provide what may be profitable for us, and which we stand in need of; in a word, that he would supply whatsoever we want. 2. That he would preserve those good things ⟨p. 106⟩he hath bestowed upon us, that he would graciously continue our lot and portion unto us, Psal. 16. Thou maintainest my lot. The Lord doth not only give a patrimony to his children, but preserves and continues that which is needful to them. 3. That the Lord would be pleased to send in the sweet of his blessings and mercies he hath been pleased to bestow on us; the blessing of the Lord is the staff of bread. It is not enough to have these blessings, for bread may choke us; the houses we inhabit may fall upon our heads, if they be not blessed to us. The covetous ⟨p. 107⟩is as if he had nothing, if the Lord let in but a secret curse and vein of vengeance into his soul: a man may have many outward blessings, and yet have all the sweetness took off from them, that many times all that a man hath, may be a torment unto him: the Lord can take off all the sweet, therefore we pray and entreat that the Lord would give us the sweet of them, that they may be comfortable to us, as they are in themselves.