Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §43

Our daily bread

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Give us this day our daily bread. In the three former petitions we have been praying for all mankind. We come now more particularly to desire a supply for our own wants. Not that we are directed, even here, to confine our prayer altogether to ourselves. But this, and each of the following petitions, may be used for the whole church of Christ on earth.

1771 text

11. Give us this day our daily bread. In the three former petitions, we have been praying for all mankind. We come now more particularly to desire a supply for our own wants. Not that we are directed even here, to confine our prayer altogether to ourselves: but this and each of the following petitions may be used for the whole church of Christ upon earth.

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Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.

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