nal life? Ans. Righteously, according to God's law.] Which are most to be desired, the good things of this life, or those of the life to come? [Ans. Those of the life to come.]

The Fifth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---What should we wish there should be throughout the world? [Ans. Peace.] By what means is it in our power to promote the peace of the Church? [Ans. By peaceable behaviour.] If all mankind preserved a peaceable behaviour towards each other, how might we serve God? Ans. Joyfully, in all godly quietness.] Would not this be pleasing to God? [Ans. Yes.]*

The Sixth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---What has God prepared for them that love him? [Ans. Such good things as pass man's understanding.] Where has God prepared them? [Ans. In heaven.] For whom has he prepared them? [Ans. For those who love him.] What do God's promises exceed. [Ans. All that we can desire.] In what degree should we love God? [Ans. Above all things.] In what way can we shew our love to God? [Ans. By keeping his commandments.]

The Seventh Sunday after Trinity.

Instruction.---The word Author signifies the beginner of any thing; to graft is to put something into another to grow there, that it may increase and bear its own fruit; after any thing is grafted, it requires nourishment, or it will die away. Such a love for God's name, as will bring forth the fruits of true religion, is not natural to us, it is ingrafted in our hearts by his grace, and will die away if not continnally nourished by his goodness.

Questions---What is God the author and giver of? [Ans. All good things.] What do we beg God to graft in our hearts [Ans. The love of his name.] What do we beg him to increase in us? [Ans. True religion.] What do we beg him to nourish us with? [Ans. All goodness] And when he has granted us these blessings, what do we beg he will in his great mercy do? [Ans. Keep us in the same.] Will God do all this for us, if we do not use our best endeavours to improve his good gifts? [Ans. No.]

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity.

Instruction.---God's Providence signifies his care of all his creatures. By profitable things, are meant such as are good for our souls.

Questions.---Does God's providence ever fail? [dns. No.] What would become of all creatures, if God's providence should be withdrawn? [Ans. They would perish.] What does God govern? [Ans. All things in heaven and in earth.] What should we pray to God to put away from us? [Ans. All things hurtful.] What should we pray God to give us? [Ans. All things that be profitable to us.] What is meant by profitable things? [Ans. Such as are good for our souls.] Who best knows what is good, and what is hurtful for us, God or ourselves? [Ans. God.]

The Ninth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---Can we do any think that is good, without the help of the Holy Spirit? [Ans. No.] For what pur

Spirit? [Ans. That we may always think and do such things as be right.]

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The Tenth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---Do you conceive God to have a body like ours? [Ans. No.] When we pray God to let his merciful ears be opened, what is the meaning of this petition? [Ans. That he will be pleased to receive our prayers.] If we wish to obtain our petitions, what must we take care to ask for? [Ans. Such things as will please God.] Can we expect God to dispose our hearts to good actions if we neglect to ask him? [Ans. No.] Will God ever disappoint those who faithfully ask the aid of his Holy Spirit? [Ans. No.

The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---Does not God sometimes shew his almighty power, by sending judgments upon the wicked? [Ans. Yes.] How does God most chiefly shew his almighty power? [Ans. By mercy and pity.] Because God is merciful, should we presume upon his goodness, to do wicked actions? [Ans. No.] What should we pray for to enable us to keep in the way of his commandments? [Ans. God's grace.] What are the gracious promises we expect to obtain, if we do the

will of God? [Ans. That we shall partake of the treasures of heaven.] Have we not the greatest encouragement to do our duty? [Ans. Yes.]

The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---When is God ready to hear those who pray to him in spirit and in truth? [Ans. At all times.] Are we always ready to pray? [Ans. No.] Does not God every hour of our lives give us more than we either desire or deserve? [Ans. Yes.] What do we pray him in this Collect to pour down upon us? [ins. The abundance of his mercy.] What do we here beg God to forgive us? [Ans. Those things of which our conscience is afraid.] What things are those? [Ans. Our sins and wickedness.] What things do we here pray God to give us? [Ans. Those good things which we are not worthy to ask.] Are sinners worthy to ask of God any thing in their own name? [Ans. No.] In whose name may we venture to ask any blessing of God? [Ans. In the name of Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.]

The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Instruction.---By laudable service is meant, any thing that deserves praise.

Questions.---What is meant by laudable service? [Ans. Any thing praiseworthy.] Can we, as sinners, do any thing praiseworthy of ourselves? [Ans. No.] By what gift are we enabled to do such service? [Ans. By the gift of the Holy Spirit.] If by the help of the Holy Spirit we serve God faithfully in this life, what shall we finally obtain? [Ans. God's heavenly promises.] What is meant by finally? [Ans. At the end of the world.] What has God promised to those who serve him faithfully? [Ans. Everlasting life and happiness.]

The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Instruction.---Faith, Hope, and Charity, are the three great virtues of a Christian. They are first implanted in the heart by the Holy Spirit, but we must be desirous of their increasing in us, and must act according to them, or they will die away. When we pray to God to make us love him, we must resolve to prove our love, by a willing obedience to his commandments.

Questions.---What are the three great Christian virtues.] [Ans, Faith, Hope, and Charity.] By whom are these first implanted in the heart? [Ans. By the Holy Spirit.] What will happen if we do not pray to God to increase those virtues in our hearts? [Ans. They will die away.] When we have prayed to God to make us love that which he commands, have we done all that is necessary? [Ans. No.] What must we resolve in order to prove our love? [Ans.. To obey God.] If we do not love to keep God's commandments, what can we never hope to obtain? [Ans. His gracious promises.]

The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---What do we here pray God to keep with his continual mercy? [Ans. The Church.] What is meant by the frailty of man? [Ans. His weakness, and readiness to fall into sin, Are we not soon tempted to forget our duty? [Ans. Yes.] What do we here beseech God to do? [Ans. To keep us from all things hurtful.] And what do we beg him to lead us to [Ans. All things profitable to our salvation.] Where may we learn the way of salvation? [Ans. In the scriptures.] Can we understand its doctrines without the help of the Holy Spirit? [Ans. No.] Can we practise what we learn there without it? [Ans. No.]

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The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Instruction.---To defile, is to make any thing foul or impure. Every sin committed by the members of the Church defiles it, and it can only be cleansed by the Holy Spirit. There always have been wicked people in the world, who would root up true religion, but God is able to preserve his Church upon earth, and he is ever ready to help and succour his faithful people, if they pray to him.

Questions.What defiles or renders the Church impure? [Ans. The sins committed by the members of it.] Can any thing be agreeable or pleasing to God while it is in an impure state? Ans. No] What would wicked people do, if God did not defend his Church? [dus. Destroy it, and root up true religion.] What is meant by succour? [Ans. Help in time of need.] Whose succour is necessary to uphold and preserve the Church in safety? Ans. God's.] What do we at the end of this Collect pray God to do in

respect to the Church? [Ans. Preserve it evermore by his help and goodness.] Would it not be a dreadful thing if the Church were to be destroyed? [Ans. Yes.]

The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity.

Instruction.---The word prevent, signifies in this place to go before as a guide to keep us from committing sin. When we pray therefore that the grace of God may both go before and follow us, we express cur desire to be under its constant influence, and to have it ever present with us; and in order to obtain this, we must yield our minds to those good impressions it gives rise to, and search the scriptures diligently.

Questions.---What does the word prevent mean in this Collect? [Ans. To go before as a guide.] If the grace of God is always with us, what sort of works shall we be inclined to do? [Ans. Good works.]

The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions.---What are our three great spiritual enemies? [Ans. The world, the flesh, and the devil.] When was it promised in our name that we should renounce these? [Ans. At our baptism.] What is necessary to enable us to withstand their temptations? [Ans. The grace of God.] With what hearts and minds should we desire to follow God? [Ans. With pure hearts and minds.] What are pure hearts and minds? [Ans. Hearts and minds clear from guilt.]

The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. Questions.---Are we able to please God without the help of the Holy Spirit? [Ans. No.1 What should we pray God mercifully to grant? [Ans. That his Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts? [Ans. When may we be sure that the Holy Spirit rules our hearts? [An's. When we take pleasure in doing the will of God rather than our own.]

The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

Questions---What do we here pray God by his bountiful goodness to keep us from? [Ans. All things that may hurt us.] For what purpose do we desire him to do so? [Ans.