Luke 11

Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread.

Give us that provision of maintenance for this present life, which may be fit and requisite for it; and be pleased to proportion thy gifts to our necessities: we do not distrustfully cast forward, and crave the supply of a large store for the time to come, but we beg of thee a sufficiency for the present day; desiring to depend ever upon thy gracious Providence, for the daily renewing of our competent provisions.

Luke 11:4

And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Do thou not give us over into the hands of Satan, our Spiritual Enemy, to tempt us; for we know our own weakness and disability to resist him; and, whensoever it shall please thee, for our trial and thy glory, to give way to that Tempter to assault us, give us the issue, together with the temptation: shew thyself strong in our weakness, and let not that Evil One prevail against us.

Luke 11:20

But if I with the finger of God cast out derils, &c. See Matthew xii. 27.

XI. 24-26. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, &c. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished, &c. See Matthew xii. 43-45. VOL. IV. P

Luke 11:28

But he said, Yea rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

It is indeed a great honour and happiness to her, that is my mother, according to the flesh, that she should be chosen out of all women-kind, to bear and nourish the Lord of Life; yet her chief happiness consisteth not in this, but rather in that her right and interest, which she hath in me by her faith: this is that happiness, wherein all ye, my faithful disciples, may also communicate with her: Blessed are they, that bear the word of God, and do carefully and conscionably retain, observe, and practise it. XI. 29, 30. This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but &c. For as Jonas was a sign &c. See Matthew xii. 39, 40.