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Roma6,r y.
lam.
t.
x.16.
Cor.z.
t,z.
Mac. z
t.13.
Doff,
In
prayer
we
mull
corn
pofe
our outward
man to duc
reverence.
Efay.a9.
Ephefans,C
hap.
;.,
V
E
R.
14..
Gad unto
falvation,
without
his
arme
and
power no
good
can be done;
and
all
faving
graces are glorious
and
pretteus
gifts of
God ,
and
all
Chri
flian duties are farre above all
power
and
verrue
of
mans
ruinated ,
cor-
rupt and dead
heart and nature, reprobate to
every
good work
:
there-
forethe
Miniflerof
the
Gofpellasa
wife
Phyfrtian,
confidering
hee
mutt
notoncly
be faithfull
in
point
ofdodrine
to
minifter
wholefome
inftrudions,
but
alfo
in
mercy
to
pity their naturall
infirmities,
like
to
Chrift the
chiefe fhepheard of
their
foules,
in
things
concerning God,
ro
offer
gifts and facrifices.
For
the Minifteras he
is
in
the
roome
of
Chrift to
performe
his
prophetical!
office
:
So alfo
to
perform
the
part
of
his
Prieftly
office
in
offeringup
the
facrifice
of
prayer.
It
is
therefore
a
great want
in fuch
Minifters
who
doe
fo difufethem,
felves
to this
bleffed exercife
in
private,
that it
may
be faid
of
them,
that
for
lack
offfe
the
Priefi hath forgot prayer.
They
cannot
fo
much
as
conceive fixe
lines in
the
behalfe
of
their
people.
Many,
if
they
make
confcience
of preaching to their
people
,
thinke
it
no
finne nor
neglect
ofduty,
not
to
pray for
them. So
they
bee provided
of
gifts
and
matter to
preach,
they
care
not how their
hearts
arc difpofed
with
Paftorall
care and
fatherly
affection
to
pray earneftly for
them:
So that
they can prefent
a
light
of
knowledge to the mind by
learned
,
metho-
dical! and
orderly
teaching
the
cleare points
of
dottrine
,
they
regard
not to
have
the Apoftle
his
agony
and
firifi
with
God
by
earnefi affeilien
and prayer,
that
their miniftery and doctrine may pierce to the heart,
to
worke
faving grace..
They
labour not
for
this fatherly
love and mercy
to be
exercifed
in
prayer fo much,
as
to
fhew tnemfelves learned teachers
in preaching,
minding more their owne credit and
Name to
bee
called
Rabbi
,
then
their
peoples
comfort and falvation,
as
their children,
and themfelves
as fpirituall
Fathers.
For
people
to
feek
and cleave to
as
well a faithfull, merciful!,
and
affectionate praying miniftery
as
needfull
to
falvation,
as a
learned,
painefull
preaching miniftery,
and
to
defire and
improve their
Mini
-
fters fpirit
for prayerfor them and
their infirmities, dulneffe, forget
-
lulnefe,
and to heale their defects,
as his
fpirit
in
preaching to
them.
Frequent the
houfe
of
God not
only for preaching, but for
prayer,
as
it
is a houfe
of
prayer, as well
as
a
houfe
of
preaching
;
and
as
we bring
faith
to
know
and believe
the doctrine preached,
and
the things
revea-
led
to
be
good
and neceffary
to
falvation: fo
alfo be
affured and hope-
fully
expel
to
have
the
fame
beftowed
upon
thee
and conferred
by
prayer.
E.
That
he prayeth
bowing his
knees
:it
dotti teach
us , That
in
our
prayers
to God we muff
compofe
not
only
the
inward
man,but the
outwards*
reverence;
though
God
careth
not
for the outward
man alone.
Woe
to them that
give
the
lip
without the heart
:
againft fuch the
Lord
complaines.
This
people
draw neare with
their
lips
;
but
their hearts
arefarre from
me.
And
when
Beals
Prieftsfet
up
the throate, andpitiful-
ly
latticed
themfelves,
he
would not
heare,yet it
is
his
will that the
our
-
ward