ttndperpetutJII quide• .is the reafon that youdo pray fo,r your daily Bread, and a bleffi.ng upon it? Why,Detlt.8. 3. Man"lives ·not by Bread onely, &.c?. If this be fo, much more' ought you to pray fof ableffi.og upon your fpiriP · ~ . tuall food. · - Now for the particulars : Firft, you ought to pray for the Teachers,That they may fo fpeake,as they ought to.fpeake, Col. 4· 3, 4,. fo ~bey are to pray for· the power and peace of the Minifterie, zThej]:3. x,z.- Secondly,you mufr pray for your felves, that through Gods affiftance· you may heare profitably,.a~dbe ble!fed in the hearing : ·. I oh.3. 1:7. Noman can receiveanithing, except that 'it be given him from above. Therefore Da– vid prayed, Pfal. I rg. 18. Open thowmineeyes, that I may fee thewonderfuUthings contained in thyword~ !fay 48. I7• GOd fayth, I am the Lord;thy God, · which teacheth thee to profit :· Therefore no profi. · ting by dieW ord,without feeking.unto the Lord for it. · Now the prophaneneffe of people in this cafe, is the generalrcaufe that our Minillerie doth no more good : Few pray at all before t~heycome to ·. Chmch,either for the Minifi:erpr for tbemfelves; · nay, few,even when theyare in the Church) have . any heart to joynewhh the Pteaclier in the prayer · that he makes before the Sermon: But the corn- ·. plaint ofthe·Prophet may be taken up in this cafe, lfa;64• 7• There unone that ca!lcthon thyName, that flirreth up him.felfe to takehold·of thee. . 4 _Youmull:befuretogoewirhanopenbeart, rh: fourth ' .. read1e to receive every truth that God fhall teach ~~~:':rh~~;t.. ·. ;· ' you ·----
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