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 him we live, and move, and have our being; to him we are indebted for every mercy we enjoy; from him we receive all that we have; and it is owing to his goodness that we are what we are If blessed with health, with strength, or with riches, they are his gifts: of which he may justly deprive us at pleasure, and with equal propriety set us upon the dunghill with the beggar. These certainly are truths that must at once strike the mind of every considerate man and which the most abandoned and profane cannot be hardy enough, when serious to deny How, then, ought every testimony of God's goodness to excite our love, our gratitude, and our praise! The smallest temporal advantage is a blessing to which we have no claim: if we have food and raiment they are infinitely more than we deserve, for in many things we offend all.

Why, Philetus, are we commanded to pray, Give us this day our daily bread, if not to teach us among other things, our daily dependence of God as the dispenser of all