What is the fourth Petition?

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Give us this Day our daily bread; that is, give unto us all things which are needful for this Life, that by them we may acknowledg and confess thee to be the only Fountain from whence all good things flow; and all our Care and Industry, and even thine own Gifts to be unfortunate and noisom unto us except thou bless them; wherefore grant that turning our Trust away from all Creatures, we place and repose it in thee alone.

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  • Give us this Day our daily bread; that is, give unto us all things which (Psalm 145:15–16; Psalm 10:4; Matthew 6:25,&c)
  • are needful for this Life, that by them we may acknowledg and confess thee to be the only Fountain from whence all good things (Acts 17:27–28; Acts 14:16–17)
  • flow; and all our Care and Industry, and even thine own Gifts to be unfortunate (1 Corinthians 15:58; Deuteronomy 8:3; Psalm 27:13)
  • and noisom unto us except thou bless them; wherefore grant that turning our Trust away from all Creatures, we (Psalm 62:11)
  • place and repose it in thee alone.