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What
(hall
I
render unto the
Lord,for
all his
benefits maketh us
rea-
dy to part
with them for Gods glory.
Thirdly,
from
our
unworthineffe.
God
heareth
not
finners,
Iohn
9,
3
r.
object. 3.
And alfo
if
I
regard wickedneffe,
the Lord
will nor
heart
mc.
An
fro.
There
are repenting and unrcpenting finners:
the latter
kinde
vin
f
v.
of
(inners,
nay, their
very prayers are an
abomination,
when
they
love to
live in
Come
finne, and hate
to
be reformed.
The
other God
heareth.
Fourthly,
God
heareth
not (itch as doubt
of
his
mercy.
lam.
T.
5.
objecl
4
Anfw.
There
is a
raigning
unbeleefe;
and
there
is a
doubting, and
Anfw.
unbeleefe,
which
is
a
weakenetfe left
in
the Saints,
for their
exercife.
The
firft
is
in
heathens
and anbeleevers
:
the latter, which
is a
doubt-
ing
which
is
in
a
foule
that
would
be rid
of
it,
and prayer
by
faith fights
againft it, Both not hinder
us
from being heard.
cyvtark
9.
22. But
if
thou
canft doe any
thing
help us, Mat. 74.
3
r.
ob
thou
of little
faith,
wherefore
dilfl
thou
doubt
!
Fitn
y, Frew
our long
asking and
not
receiving.
It
is
in vaine
fir
him objec7.5.
to pray
that
aeketh and
receiveth
not.
Arsfa
Firft, we mutt examine whether our
continuing in force loft,
ilnjw.
doenot hinder
the
effe&
of our
prayer.
lame.
4.3.
Ye
aske
and have
not, becaufeyeasl.eamifíe.
We
muff
know that God
Both
deferre
us,
to
try how we
will perfevere
in
prayer;
as a
friend when he mea-
neth to doe this or that, doth
detra&
it
at
the
firft,
to
fee
if
the other
3
will
importune him.
Thirdly, that
we may know
the worth
of
things,
and haveour joy doubled
in receiving
them. Fourthly,
it
is
a
token
4.
God
will give
us
more aboundantly, the longer he
Both
hold
us
in re-
queft
:
the
wider one openeth
any
thing,
it is a
token
he
meanes
to
put
the more
in.
Iris
not
in vaine
therefore to
aske,
though we be not
prefently anfwered; feting God
cloth
on
fo
good
occafions delay
us
in
our fuites.
And let
us
be
fore
of
this,
that
he
that
botleth
up our
teares,
files up
our prayers, putting
them
on record before him. Mal.
3. r
6.
Then
fpake
they that feared the
Lord,
every one
to
his neigh
bour,and theLord hearkened
and heard
it.
and
book
of
remembrance
waswritten before him, for them
that
feared
the
Lord,
and
that
thought
upon
his
name.
Sixtly,
The Devill.by tempting
us
toforme,
and
diffempering
of
sat
in objecl.6.
the
courfe
of
prayer,
r
Pet.
3.7.
Likewife, ye husbands dwell with
your
wives,
as
men
of
knowledge,
giving
honour unto the woman,
as
unto the weaker veffell,
even
as
they which
are heires
together
of
the
grace
of
life,
that your
prayers be
not
interrupted.
For,
when the
confcience
is
defiled, we are
fo
pricked
in
the foote, that
we
cannot
goe
to God
in
prayer
;
and are
not
able
comfortably
to
difcharge
it
:
we either aegle&
them,or prophane Gods
name,in rufhing upon
them:
we
muff
therefore take heede
of
finne,
as
we
would with comfort
re-
turne
to prayers
But here
is a
queftion,
I
have
beene
overtaken with
infrmitie,
the time
of
prayer draweth
on,
,,tit
what /hall
l
doe
?
Anfw.