I :....---------------------- - ,_ __ - -- - Chap., .Se6t.4 Looking unto :fef :41 , Booic !V,P,m. V S 99 ;; kfep out ftrangm, but not.Jom. .A~d no W?nder, for the Spirt~t - makp intercefsion form wtth grwrnmgs whtch cannot be ttttered; Rom. g ;6, the Spirit teacheth us what to pray,.&_ how to pray as we ought; theSDirit puts a courage and bold.nels mto the hearts of hisSaints, even-to admiration;tbi~ appears tn that fomet1mes they have befet God with his prom1fes,that he could no way get off.l2.!;ick_en n:,r.II9.! ) . me accordi;lg to thy word.--- And ftrengthen me accordi;.~g to thy 1 ~- word.-And be merciful 11nto me acccrding to thy word. ·-And 11pho!d me according to thy rrord..- And give me underjlawd~ng 1 11~: according to thy word: .An.dJom~ttmes they ha~e bcfet 9odwtth 169 , their challe~ges of h1s JUil:!~e, f:Hthfulnefs, & ngh~eoulnefs : fo p:al. 31 • 1 • Dt~vid, Deliver mtm thy r!ghteoufnefs.-And ;udgeme accor• 3 5 • 14 • di1w to th~ riiThteou[nefs. -And quick.fn me ttccording to thy righ· 6 J b d . ' ,. . J.!: l .r. ,(, d . 119· 4 0 • teoufnefs.- A;t 111 tny ralt 'J u nrj s anj l'PCr me ' an ~n thy ,-ightcoufnefs. Why,this .is_ th~ Spir.its work, he helps our infirmi- • 43 ' 1 ' ties, be imboldens our_fpmt~ ~~ thc1r approaches to God : furcly Gll. 4 6• it is one end ofthe Spmts md1ton ; becau{eye arejjnnes, God hath · fcnt f orth the Spirit of his Sonne into our hearts, crying, Abba Father. I wil I not deny but that bail:ar.ds , {!:rangers without the Covenant, having no right to God as ~heir Father, may yet_pe1 ti rion God, as a fubdued people'do thetr Conquerour, or as Ravens cry to God for food, or as f?m: howl upon their·b~ds for corn Hof 7.t.f. and wine; but they cannot,pray; 10 1'1ght prayer there 1s not onely required gracious ingredients in the aetion , but alfo a new Hate of adoption and filiation: many fpeak words to God, who do not pray; many tell over their fins,who confeffe not their flns to God,manyfpeak goodofGod,who do not praife God; thoufands claym Fatherfhip in God, where there is no Sonfhip, nor ground in the thing it felf. A new nature is onely that beft bottome of pra\· er that takes it off from being a taking of Gods name in vain. Now this is the fruit ofthe Spirit,and one ofthofe ends of the Spirits tniffion. ' 2. That he might guide us into ~til truth; I mean into all neceflary,fundamental,faving truths; in this refpect we h~ve need of the Spirit in thefe dayes. He it is that DiCl:ates tom which is the. true Religion ; he it is th~t tra.nfcribes upon our hearts, that whtch was b~fore onely wncten m ouc books; he it is that not onely reveals truth from without,but imprints it al1o on the foul, as a man doth ·a fcal by impreffing it on the wax, to this purYyy yy 2 pofe
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