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s
R.
14,
Ephe
/udns,
Chapa.
flrong more
confident:
God
will deliver
us
if
fo
be you
ffrive
with
us
by
prayer,
for
the
prayer ofarighteoua man
cloth
much
prevaile
if
it
bee
fervent:
But
I
doe
pray for you:
the other
parts are left to be
gathered,
this
is
fet
down
by anarration
of
the
fait
to the
end
of
the chapter.
The
prayer bath three parts
:
I.
A
prefaceverle
r4,
55.
z..The
prayer
it
felfe,verfe
a6,r7,r8,19.
3.
The
conclufion, verle zo,
21.
The
preface containeth principally
two
things.
r.
The
gefturethe Apoftle
ufed.
a
.From that
refpea
he
was in
to
Chrift.
z. The
perfon:defcribed
2
wayes.
z.From
his
property to us,the
calling his
Name
on us.
The
fnmme is;
viz. "As
I have
called you to
this
duty,
fo I doe
in.
"flantly
leek to God to
make
you
able;
reverently
as
becommeth
cc
me, bowing
my
knees;
I
feek,t fay,to
him
who
is
both the Father
tr
of
Chrift, whole
caufc
is
in
hand,
and
your Father
, or one
who
Ce
bath called
his
Name
on you
with
all believers
,
which
are
his
"
houlhold,
all
I
fay
,
whether
:they be triumphant
in
heaven, or
Ge
militant
in
earth.
a. Then the
fait ofthe
Apoftle doth teach Minifters; that
they
mull
not
be
content
to
teach
c
admonifh
their
people
,but
they mufi
Peek
to God
for
them
by
prayer,It
is
the duty
of
faithful' Minifters
not only
to propound
tothe
people
wholefome doctrine
and
good exhortationsto holy
du-
ties,but
alto to pray to
God earnellly to
give his bleffrng
thereunto,
and
to
enable
them to underftand
, imbrace , and
pradife that they
teach them. A
preaching
and
a
praying Miniftery muft goe
together:
God
forbid
I
fhould
finne
againfl
God
and
ceáfi
to
pray
for
you
:
this
is
the
ftyle
of
Samuel,
Mofes,
vtaron,
lob,
and Daniel, that
they
are fuch
as
call
on Gods
Name,
they
muft
be
Beads -men
upon
all
occafions pre-
ferring their
fuites in
the
behalfe
of
their people.
Forwhatfoever we doe
,
yet
peoples untowardneffe
is
fuch,
that
they have no ability to entertaine it fruitfully.
Whatfoever
we
doe, yet
it
is
but planting
and
watering,
and
all
is
nothing
if
God
blare
not.
The
fpirituall
enmity
is
great
which
Paul having
only
in
his
eyes,
Both
bid
us
watch untoprayer
:
for we ordinary
Minifters had
further
need in this regard
to pray unto God
for
our
people,
that our owne
wants may by his gracious promife be fupplyed.
As they are
the
mouth of God to the people, fo
they
are
the mouth
of
the
people
to
God:as knowledge & ability
of
gifts
from Chrifl with
love and affeólion to
Chrift,
m uft
open
their mouthes
as'Chrifts.
Em-
baffadours
to
f
peake
for
Chrift
to
his people,
and
to
feed
his
lambes
:
So true
Paftorall love and
fatherly
affeEtions
to the
people mutt open
their
mouthes
in
prayer
to
fpeak for
them
to God.
Minifters
are
Co-
workers
with
God,and
it
is
chiefly
Gods
worke,
and
the
people are Gods
husbandry
6,
Gods
building
;the
Gofpell is thepowerof
M
m
God.
393
lames
í,
rd.
DotF.
Minifrcrs
mutt
pray
for
their
people
afwell
as
reach
them.
I
Sam.sz.z3.
eafon
r
.
eaf
n
2.
Réaf
n 3,
Regan
q.
zcor.q.t9.
Iohn za.
2eafin
S.
z
Cor
ó.t:
I
Cor.3.9,10.
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