Q. 1. Is the Lord's Prayer to be used as a form of words, or
only as a Directory for Matter and Method

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Q. 2. What need is there of any other Prayer, if this be perfect? 290

Q. 3. Is it lawful to pray in a set form of words ?. . . . . .

Q. 4. Are those forms lawful which are prescribed by man,

and not by God?......

Q. 5. Is free Praying, called extempore, lawful?

Q. 6. Which is the better? ..

....

Q. 7. Must we ever follow the Method of the Lord's Prayer?

Q. 8. Must we pray only when the Spirit moveth us, or as

reason guideth us?

...

Q. 9. May he pray for grace, who desireth it not?

Q. 10. May he pray that doubteth of his interest in God, and

dare not call him Father as his child?

Q. 11. May a wicked man pray, or is he ever accepted?

Q. 12. May a wicked man use the Lord's prayer?

Q. 13. Is it idolatry or sin always to pray to saints or angels?

Q. 14. Is a man bound to pray ordinarily in his family? ....

Q. 15. Must the same man pray secretly, that hath before

prayed in his family?....

Q. 16. Is it best to keep set hours for prayer?

291

ibid.

292

ibid.

293

294

295

ibid.

296

ibid.

297

298

ibid.

ibid.

Q. 17. May we join in family prayers with ungodly persons? ibid.

Q. 18. What if the master or speaker be ungodly or a heretic?

Q. 19. May we pray absolutely for outward mercies, or only

conditionally?

299

300

Q. 20. May we pray for all that we lawfully desire?

Q. 21. How may we pray for the salvation of all the world?

Q. 22. Or for the conversion of all nations?

Q. 23. Or that a whole kingdom may be converted and saved? ibid.

Q. 24. Or for the destruction of the enemies of Christ, or the

kingdom?

Q. 25. What is to be judged of a particular faith?

Q. 27. With what faith must I pray for the souls or bodies

of others?

ibid.

Q. 28. With what faith may we pray for the continuance of

the church or Gospel?

304

Q. 29. How to know when our prayers are heard

ibid.

Q. 30. How to have fulness and constant supply of matter in

our prayers

ibid.

Q. 31. How to keep up fervency in prayer

306

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Q. 32. May we look to speed ever the better for any thing in

ourselves or our prayers? Or may we put any trust in them? 308

Q. 33. How must that person and prayer be qualified, which

God will accept?••••

Tit. 3: Special Directions for Family Prayer

Tit. 4. Special Directions for Secret Prayer

309

ibid.

311

CHAPTER XXIV.

Directions for Families about the Sacrament of the Lord's

Supper

312

What are the ends of the Sacrament? What are the parts of it? ibid.

Q. 1. Should not the Sacrament have more preparation than

the other parts of worship?

Q. 2. How oft should it be administered?

318

319

....

Q. 3. Must all members of the visible church communicate?

Q. 4. May any man receive it, that knoweth himself unsanc-
tified?

320

ibid:

Q. 5. May an ungodly man receive it, that knoweth not him-
self to be ungodly?

Q. 6. Must a Christian receive who doubteth of his sincerity?

Q. 7. What if superiors compel a doubting Christian to re-

ceive it, by excommunication or imprisonment: what

should he choose?

....

ibid.

321

322

323

Q. 8. Is not the case of an hypocrite that knoweth not him-

self to be an hypocrite, and of the sincere who knoweth not

himself to be sincere, all one, as to communicating?

Q. 9. Wherein lieth the sin of an ungodly person if he receive? ibid.

Q. 10. Doth all unworthy receiving make one liable to dam-

nation? or what?

324

Q. 11. What is the particular preparation needful to a fit

communicant?

325

Marks of sincerity

ibid.

Preparing duties...

327

Q. 1. May we receive from an ungodly minister?

Q. 2. May we communicate with unworthy persons in an

undisciplined church?

329

ibid.

Q. 3. What if I cannot communicate unless I conform to an

imposed gesture, as sitting, standing, or kneeling? .•••••

331

Q. 4. What if I cannot receive it, but as administered by the

Common Prayer?

Q. 5. If my conscience be not satisfied, may I come doubting?

Obj. Is it not a duty to follow conscience as God's officer ? •

What to do in the time of administration?

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331

332

333

ibid.

334

2. On what objects

ibid.

3. The Season and Order of Sacramental Duties

336

1. What graces must be exercised?

CHAPTER XXV.

Directions for fearful, troubled Christians who are perplexed

with doubts of their sincerity and justification

Causes and Cure

.....

CHAPTER XXVI.,

342

343

way of falling into sects, and heresies, and errors

And of declining in heart and life

Tit. 1. Directions for declining, backsliding Christians: and

about Perseverance

The several sorts of backsliders

The

Tit. 2. Directions for perseverance, or to prevent backsliding ibid.

Antidotes against those doctrines of presumption which would

Tit. 1. Directions for a safe death, to secure salvation

403

I. For the unconverted in their sickness. (A sad case.) 1.
For examination; 2. For repentance: 3. For faith in
Christ; 4. For a new heart, love to God, and resolution for
obedience.

ibid.

Q. Will late repentance serve the turn, in such a case?

II. Directions to the godly for a safe departure

Their temptations to be resisted

414

Tit. 2. How to profit by our sickness

416

420

Tit. 3. Directions for a comfortable or peaceable death

Directions for resisting the temptations of Satan in time of

sickness

433

Tit. 4. Directions for doing good to others in our sickness

439

CHAPTER XXXI.

Directions to the friends of the sick that are about them

Q. 1. Is it meet to make known to the sick their danger of

death?

446

Q. 2. Must we tell bad men of their sin and misery when it
may exasperate the disease by troubling them?

ibid

.

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Q. 3. What can be done in so short a time?

Q. 4. What to do in doubtful cases?

Q. 5. What order should be observed in counselling the ig-
norant and ungodly when time is so short?

Helps against excessive sorrow for the death of friends; yea,

of the worst

447

448

ibid.

451

A Form of Exhortation to be read in sickness to the ungodly,

or those that we justly fear are such

A Form of Exhortation to the godly in sickness, for their com-

fort. Their dying groans and joys

452

465