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九十二、主祷文六大祈求

190问：我们在第一祈求中求什么？

答：我们在第一祈求“愿人都尊祢的名为圣”中（太6:9），承认我们自身以及其他所有的人，既没有能力，也不愿意正确地荣耀上帝，（林后3:5；诗51:15），因此我们，

  1. 祈求上帝，藉着祂的恩典使我们和他人都能够并且喜欢认识、承认、并高度尊崇祂（诗67:2－3）、祂的尊称（诗83:18）、属性（诗86:10－13，15）、外在方式、话语（帖后3:1；诗147:19－20；138:1－3；林后2:14－15）和作为，以及祂乐意用于显明自身的一切（诗145；8）；
  2. 为了使我们能够在心思、言语（诗103:1；19:14），和行为（腓1:9，11）上荣耀祂，求祂拦阻、消除无神论（诗67:1－4）、无知（弗1:17－18）、偶像崇拜（诗97:7）、亵渎（诗74:18，22－23），以及一切不荣耀祂的事（王下19:15－16）；
  3. 并求祂藉其统管万有的护理，引导并安排万事，使祂自己得荣耀（代下20:6，10－12；诗83；140:4，8）。

Q. 190. What do we pray for in the first petition?

A. In the first petition (which is, Hallowed be thy name), acknowledging the utter inability and indisposition that is in ourselves and all men to honor God aright, we pray, that God would by his grace enable and incline us and others to know, to acknowledge, and highly to esteem him, his titles, attributes, ordinances, word, works, and whatsoever he is pleased to make himself known by; and to glorify him in thought, word, and deed: that he would prevent and remove atheism, ignorance, idolatry, profaneness, and whatsoever is dishonorable to him; and, by his overruling providence, direct and dispose of all things to his own glory.

191问：我们在第二祈求中求什么？

答：我们在第二祈求 “愿祢的国降临”中（太6:10），承认我们自身和全人类生来都处在罪恶和撒但的辖制之下（弗2:2－3），因此我们，

  1. 祈求上帝使罪恶和撒但的国度毁灭（诗68:1，18；启12:10―11），福音在全世界得以广传（帖后3:1），犹太人被呼召（罗10:1），外邦人的数目添满了（约17:9，20；罗11:25－26；诗67）；
  2. 祈求上帝使教会装备有各样的圣职人员和蒙恩之道（太9:38；帖后3:1），清除一切的腐败（太1:11；番3:9），得到公民政府的支持和保护（提前2:1－2）；
  3. 祈求上帝使基督的蒙恩之道得以纯正地施行，有效地使那些仍在罪中的人悔改归正，使那些已经悔改归正的人得坚固、安慰和建造（徒4:29－30；弗6:18－20；罗15:29－30，32；帖后1:11；2:16－17）；
  4. 祈求上帝使基督此时此地就在我们的心中掌权（弗3:14－20），使祂的再来，以及我们与祂一同永远作王快快临到（启22:20）；
  5. 祈求祂按自己的美意在世上行使祂的权柄，尽善尽美地成就这些目的（赛64:1－2；启4:8－11）。

Q. 191. What do we pray for in the second petition?

A. In the second petition (which is, Thy kingdom come), acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan, we pray, that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed, the gospel propagated throughout the world, the Jews called, the fullness of the Gentiles brought in; the church furnished with all gospel officers and ordinances, purged from corruption, countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate; that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting, and building up of those that are already converted: that Christ would rule in our hearts here, and hasten the time of his second coming, and our reigning with him forever: and that he would be pleased so to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to these ends.

192问：我们在第三祈求中求什么？

答：我们在第三祈求“愿祢的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上”中（太6:10），承认我们和所有的人，天生就完全不能也不愿意认识并遵行上帝的旨意（罗7:18；伯21:14；林前2:14），而且倾向于悖逆祂的圣言（罗8:7），对上帝的护理牢骚满腹（出17:7；民14:2），一心想成就肉体和魔鬼的旨意（弗2:2），所以我们祷告，

  1. 祈求上帝藉着祂的圣灵，除掉我们自身和他人的所有盲目（弗1:17－18）、软弱（弗3:16）、不情愿（太26:40－41），和心灵的悖逆（耶31:18－19）；
  2. 祈求上帝藉着祂的恩典，使我们能够并且愿意在所有的事情上（诗119:1，8，35－36；徒21:14），都如天使在天上所作的那样（赛6:2－3；诗103:20－21；太18:10），谦卑（弥6:8）、喜乐（诗100:2；伯1:21；撒下15:25－26）、诚实（赛38:3）、勤勉（诗119:4－5）、热情（罗12:11）、真诚（诗119:80）、持久（诗119:112）地去认识、遵行、顺服上帝的旨意。

Q. 192. What do we pray for in the third petition?

A. In the third petition (which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven), acknowledging that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and to do the will of God, but prone to rebel against his word, to repine and murmur against his providence, and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil: we pray, that God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness, weakness, indisposedness, and perverseness of heart; and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things, with the like humility, cheerfulness, faithfulness, diligence, zeal, sincerity, and constancy, as the angels do in heaven.

193问：我们在第四祈求中求什么？

答：在第四祈求“我们日用的饮食，今日赐给我们”中（太6:11），我们承认在亚当里，并因着我们自己的罪，丧失了享用今生所有外界福分的权利，这些权利理当被上帝全部剥夺，而且我们在享用这些外界福分时，它们对我们而言都当成为受咒诅的东西（创2:17；3:17；罗8:20－22；耶5:25；申28:15－68）；它们本身并不能维系我们的生命（申8:3），我们自己也无功劳可居（创32:10），而且靠我们自己的辛劳也无法取得它们（申8:17－18）；但我们都倾向于违背上帝的律法，追求（耶6:13；可7:21－22）、获取（何12:7）、享用这些福分（雅4:3）；因此我们为我们自身和他人祷告，

  1. 求上帝使他们和我们等候上帝的护理，天天用合乎上帝律法的手段，靠祂白白的恩赐，按祂父般的智慧所看为最合适的，享受足够的部分（创43:12－14；创28:20；弗4:28；帖后3:11－12；腓4:6）；
  2. 求上帝继续如此地祝福我们，使我们藉着圣洁、舒适地享用这些福分（提前4:3－5），并有知足之心而得福（提前6:6－8）；
  3. 求上帝使我们离开一切不利于今生养身和舒适的事物（箴30:8－9）。

Q. 193. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?

A. In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread), acknowledging that in Adam, and by our own sin, we have forfeited our right to all the outward blessings of this life, and deserve to be wholly deprived of them by God, and to have them cursed to us in the use of them; and that neither they of themselves are able to sustain us, nor we to merit, or by our own industry to procure them; but prone to desire, get, and use them unlawfully: we pray for ourselves and others, that both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may, of his free gift, and as to his fatherly wisdom shall seem best, enjoy a competent portion of them; and have the same continued and blessed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of them, and contentment in them; and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal support and comfort.

194问：我们在第五祈求中求什么？

答：在第五祈求“免我们的债，如同我们免了人的债”中（太6:12），我们承认我们和其他所有人都有原罪和本罪的罪咎，因此对上帝的公义欠了债，而且不管是我们自己，还是其他任何受造物，都丝毫不能补偿此债（罗3:9－22；太18:24－25；诗130:3－4）；因此，我们为我们自身和他人祷告，

  1. 祈求上帝出于祂白白的恩典，藉着基督的顺服和补偿，由信心领悟并应用，免除罪给我们带来的罪咎和惩罚（罗3:24－26；来9:22），在祂的爱子中接纳我们（弗1:6－7）；
  2. 并祈求上帝继续恩待我们（彼后1:2），饶恕我们天天的失败（何14:2；耶14:7），用平安和喜乐充满我们，天天赐给我们更大的罪得赦免的确信（罗15:13；诗51:7－10，12）；
  3. 当我们内心拥有此种印证，发自内心地饶恕他人的过犯时（路11:4；太6:14－15；太18:35），圣经就鼓励我们这样祈求，并鼓励我们如此期望。

Q. 194. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?

A. In the fifth petition (which is, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors), acknowledging that we and all others are guilty both of original and actual sin, and thereby become debtors to the justice of God; and that neither we, nor any other creature, can make the least satisfaction for that debt: we pray for ourselves and others, that God of his free grace would, through the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, apprehended and applied by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of sin, accept us in his Beloved; continue his favor and grace to us, pardon our daily failings, and fill us with peace and joy, in giving us daily more and more assurance of forgiveness; which we are the rather emboldened to ask, and encouraged to expect, when we have this testimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive others their offenses.

195问：我们在第六祈求中求什么？

答：在第六祈求“不叫我们遇见试探，救我们脱离凶恶”中（太6:13），我们承认，至智、至义、至慈的上帝，为了各种圣洁与公义的目的，或许吩咐万有，使我们受打击，遭挫折，一时陷于试探之中（代下32:31）；撒但（代上21:1）、世界（路21:34；可4:19）和肉体，时刻准备用力把我们拉到一边，陷害我们（雅1:14）；即使在我们罪得赦免之后，由于我们自身的败坏（加5:17）、软弱，不够警醒（太26:41），不仅易受试探，动辄就把自己暴露于试探之下（太26:69－72；加2:11－14；代下18:3，比较代下19:2），而且我们自身没有能力，也不愿意抵挡试探，脱离试探，善用试探（罗7:23－24；代上21:1－4；代下16:7－10）；理当被弃置于试探的权势之下（诗81:11－12）。所以，我们祷告，

  1. 祈求上帝制伏世界和其中的一切（约17:15），征服肉体（诗51:10；119:133），遏制撒但（林后12:7－8），治理万有（林前10:12－13），赐下并祝福各样蒙恩之道（来13:20－21），激励我们警醒善用，使我们和祂一切的子民，藉着祂的护理蒙保守，不至受试探犯罪（太26:41；诗19:13）；即使受到试探，也求主藉着祂的圣灵使我们得到强有力的扶持，能够在受试探的时候站立得稳（弗3:14－17；帖前3:13；犹24）；
  2. 祈求上帝使我们即使跌倒，也再次站起，恢复过来（诗51:12），并予以善用，从中得益（彼前5:8－10），使我们的成圣和救赎得以完全（林后13:7，9），使撒但被践踏在我们的脚下（罗16:20；亚3:2；路22:31－32），使我们完全从罪、试探及一切的邪恶中得释放，直到永远（约17:15；帖前5:23）。

Q. 195. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?

A. In the sixth petition (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil), acknowledging that the most wise, righteous, and gracious God, for divers holy and just ends, may so order things, that we may be assaulted, foiled, and for a time led captive by temptations; that Satan, the world, and the flesh, are ready powerfully to draw us aside, and ensnare us; and that we, even after the pardon of our sins, by reason of our corruption, weakness, and want of watchfulness, are not only subject to be tempted, and forward to expose ourselves unto temptations, but also of ourselves unable and unwilling to resist them, to recover out of them, and to improve them; and worthy to be left under the power of them; we pray, that God would so overrule the world and all in it, subdue the flesh, and restrain Satan, order all things, bestow and bless all means of grace, and quicken us to watchfulness in the use of them, that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to sin; or, if tempted, that by his Spirit we may be powerfully supported and enabled to stand in the hour of temptation; or when fallen, raised again and recovered out of it, and have a sanctified use and improvement thereof: that our sanctification and salvation may be perfected, Satan trodden under our feet, and we fully freed from sin, temptation, and all evil, forever.

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