í Il profitable Expofitron force muff fall vpon vs, when beingmen yet we abhorre from the very nature of man. All which three grieuous conditions the want of `Prayer forcibly prooueth Declination vponxs,as now we fee. .4gaine e Apoille Saint Paulo in his Epi file to theRe- fromnatmre. mai tar, teaching how the Gentile. 'doing by nature the thinges contayned in the Zgm.2.14. law, (hew the di-eel ofthe law written in their hearts, is a wltnelfe in dead of lna- 15. ny moe, fuflicient and ftrong, that to pray to God, being a thing conlprlied in the Law, was then, is now, and euer Ilialbe whiM man hach mans nature , athing ingrafted and planted of God in the fame nature. And many other reaforu might bee brought, but thefefuftìce. Prayer ism- Secondly , let vs confiderthe' necefliticolthis (Italian exercifeof Prayer; ce,(fary. which wee dial! euidentlyfee, if either we refpec't the Lord, our or our este.. In reQiea of thren. For vntothe Lord wee know is due, euer, and eternally, heere, and in the the Lord world to cone, praife and thankfgiuing,and that is Ps a k E R. Praiféthe Lord.tll here. yeepeople, for it it a goodthingto fingpr4èsvnto our God. Ositu. thanksvruotheLord, Pfal. toy. fbrheugratsout. O thanks' the Lord of all Lords, & c. Yea, Let exery thing that&oh 148. d c. breath praife the Lord. And di/or/gars I haste any Gering, I wil/ fng praifer vntomy God. Pfal.136.1. tWtlle world to COWC, fe the Scriptures. Holy, Hoy, Lord Godeíllmighy,which 2.3. roar, and whick is, and whichts to come. Thou art worthte O Lord to receitee glory, mood Pf. Igo. 6. henotvr, and power : farthatehal creared things ,andfor thy wilifake degare,aadiz ree Pf.146. I. been created. Befides many otherplaces. Vim), the Lord is dpeworlhippe and Apoc. 4 8. feruice of all them thatlooke for apace in his idogdome: of Which wor,Ihip and Yerfe. s z. feruice, Prayer isanotable part, and therefore neceifarie. In the world Ynto the Lord is due obedience to his Coinmaüdements,ifwebetheLords, to come. for they are holy and MIL But this isone,that wee firoald pray vntohim : and Luke. t. 74. therefore inrefpeelof God Prayer isnecelrary. 4"allvponme.in the dayoftrouble, 75. and l mill heare thee, and chow Aalt gloriftemee, faYth the Lord. And in another Ofe. 14. 3. place, Ihaxefworneby my felfe,thewordis gone out of my mouth in rigbteoxfnc e, and Pfal.50, r 5 /hall not reteernei that emery knee rall4aíw vmoeue,e2for, Proyerne- .1, n reipeci of our felues 'Prayer is necelfary, Weitherweconfiderthemanifold eefraryin refwoes and farrows, which at times luau nippeour hearts, lying there and Circa pelf ofonr grating andgrinding our inwards to powder by day and by nig ht, till we haue ea- Ruet, fed our feluesby'Prayer, and powred theminto teiappe of the Lord, with at for comfort and redretfe, or tkle infinite neceffrties of this wretched life : which aibeit the Lord is mercifull and readie to glue, even before we doe aske, yet good .reafon we fhould askethem, and euer bound to that gracious God , that vppon asking will vouchfafe to giue them, IA/hat hellifis gripes of wrisging woe do we Pfa1.45. , thinketheferuant fGohdaDt when over andouerhementioneth thefad- n í'hap. 6. him thevenomewhereofdiddri ksvphisfpiri,s thgty oSof keod did fight againil him when he flu iked out with mournfu ll voice, What my(hrin king hand dothfhaketopen : O that l might hone my and that God voted gaunt methe thing that Hong for. And what was that? Ofearefulll Itfolloweth, That God would deflroy me, that hee world labia hand go, and cot me of. What the r.Kin. t9. perfecuted Prophet, when he would fo gladly die? Whatlw,,uin the belly ofhell, Ioitaat, z, as he calleth it and what thoufands, and ten thoufands of Gods children, euer, and dayly,and whilefl the world indureth? And how haue they been eared? due we notice Eueii by throwing themfelues at the Lecce of the Lord, and powriisg otst by prayer their grieuouscomplaints into the bofome of their gracious God, whole care harkened, whole heart pitied, and whole hand euer in his goodtime eared their (boulders from the burthen, totheir comfort. Therefore Pra erinthisrefpefiwefeemoltnecefläry. For theotherveknow Cr7útt 7 the Scriptures alfo : Ake. (faith God) andyou /hall home, If hauingthen bens- celI'ary in refpe of wants,nece1l'ary is silo asking : that is, praying inrefpeet of háuing So lookeweat woes , orlookewee at wants, necellaryiu refpeftof our
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