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V
E
R.I7.
Epbe
/an.r,Chap.
t.
159
The
latter queflion
is
anfwered thus. Looke
as a
brunt
of
unbeliefe
doth
not
evacuate our faith formerly grounded on
Gods promife
;
for
David
his
Paying,
that
Seul
would
at length catch him, and flying
out
of
unbeliefe
to
GO,'
did
not
make
his
former
faith
in vaine
, fo intermif-
fion
for
a
brunt,
while the
fit
of
unbeliefe, dejection
of
miede, or impa-
tiency lafteth, doth not hinder, but
that
we
fhall
receive
the things we
have
unfainedly
defired.
The
Vfe
is
to (litre
us
up
that
we faint
not
in
following
God
:
Wee
love not to be troubled,
and even molefled
with
inflancy, but
nothing
is
more acceptableto God
then this violence,which will notlet him goe
till
he bath
bleffed
us.I,but
I feekandfee nothing
of
my prayers:
the har-
vefl commeth not
fo
foone
as
the
feed
is
fowen;though
thou feelefl
not
the
things thou
askeff,
nor removall
ofthofe
evils
whereof
thou com-
plaineft,yet
thou doeft not knowwhat
evill this
courfe
offollowingGod
doth
keepe
from
thee,nor what good
in
other
kindes he
doth theefor
it.
Againe,thou
fhalt reape in
time
if
thou utterly
faint
not, for that which
is
denied
us in
life,
is
often
by Gods molt
wife difpofttion
granted
in
the
end
ofir.But
to
come
to the
prayer it
felfe.
Now
followeth
his
Prayer,
in
which
we marke
the
Perfonto whom
he
prayeth,with
his
defcription:Firft from
his
relation,to Chrifl;Second-
ly,
from the attribute
ofhis
glory,God
of
Chrifl, the
Father ofglery.zThe
benefits for
which he prayeth
;
touching which, three things
are
to be
obferved.
Firft,
the
benefits
to
bellowed,
which
are
propounded
in
this verfe, and
further
declared
in
the beginning
of
the
verfe
follow-
ing. Secondly, the
way by
Which
they Mould
be
given
them,
in
the
end
of
this verfe
;
Wifdome
and revelation
through
the knowledge,
orac-
knowledging
ofChrift.
Thirdly, the
end,
that
thus
they might know
both the
things kept for
them
in
the heavens,
and
that which
had beene
bellowed
upon
them.
To
open
the words
of
this
verfe
;
the
Father
of
glory,
doth
note out
God,as
glorious
by
nature
in
himfelfe,
and
the
fountaine
of
that glori.
ous
life
which
is
communicated with
any
of
his
creatures. The fbirit of
wifdome, is
put
for the gift
of
wifdome, which
is
bellowed
on
us
;
and
it
is
called
the
fpirit
of wifdome,
both
becaufe
the
fpirit
doth beget it
in
us, as:dfo becaufe
the
fame fpirit
is
with
it
to
fuftaine
it,
and perfect it.
Thirdly,
becaufe
the wifdome
it
felfe
is
ofa
fpirituall nature,
moving
them
in
whom
it is,
to
worke after the direction
of
ir.
The
ffirit
ofnevelation.]Revelation
is
extraordinary,orordinary,and
it
is
nothing but the gift
of
illumination,
or that light which the fpirit
caufeth
to
fhine
about our mindes,by which
as a
mean, things fpirituall
are made
manifeft to
the
eye
ofour
underftanding,
as
by the light
of
the
Senne things
bodily
are
made manifeft
to the
eye
of
our
body;
and
the
fpirit
caufeth
this,
and continueth it, even
as
the Sunne
doth
caufe
and continue
this naturali light which we havewith us
all
the day long.
Knowledg
afchrif,is
putfor that
affè6tionate
knowing and acknowledg-
ing
of him.The
fumure
is.
Since
I heard
of
your
faith in
the Lord Jefus,I
goe to him,who
is
the God
of
this
Chrifl,on
whom
you have beleeved;
P
a
who
a,
ire
a
s
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