QUESTIONS.--1. What three things do we do in this petition? 2. What is
to be said about the close connection between this petition and the
preceding one? 3. What does this petition presuppose? 4. Why do we need
to confess our guilt to God? 5. Is sin ever excusable? 6. Why does this
petition presuppose faith? 7. What do we pray God to do with our sins?
8. If God regarded our sins, how would He treat our requests? 9. Why do
we promise to forgive others? 10. Why must we be willing to forgive
them?

SCRIPTURE VERSES.--Ps. 32:5. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine
iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto
the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.

Ps. 130:3. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand?

Luke 15:18, 19. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more
worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Matt. 6:14, 15. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their
trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

READING.-The Unmerciful Servant, Matt. 18:23-35.