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Efiant,Chap.d.
130.
5. I
have waited
on the Lord,
my
Louie
bath waited,
and
,I
have
Miffed
in
his
word,
werfe
6,7.
Thicdearine
checketh many ; fuch
,
a
when
their
Watch
bath
beene
brunt,
raft,
t
pon
prayer,
even
from pots to prayer
:
when they
have
keP:ehex
¡err.
Cupped
and given
thanks, though they
have let
their
hearts
loofe, cate,
drunke without feare, fobricty
,
profaned
their
mouthes with light
unfruitful)
fpeech,yet
then before parting
of
friends,
call for
a
prayer.
But
though they may
after
a
feaft
goe to prayer,
who
cate
and drinke
before the Lord,
as
Hannah,
t
Sam.
t.
after
fie
had exceeded with
a double
portion, went
and prayed
devoutly
;
yet you
that
have
let fall
your
Watch
in
feafting ,
you prophane Gods
Name
when
you
call
for
a
prayer
:
and
many are
fo
farre
from remembring them
-
felves all day
,
that they cannot
keepe
their
eyes
open while
they
are
a
praying ; they
are
foaffc
&ed, as
if
it
would
cafe
them into an ague
to be
kept a while in prayer.
This want
of
watchfulnefl'e is
a
com-
mon evill,
and doch
us
great hurt.
This
maketh
us
fueh
poore O-
rators,
that
when we cometo God
,
.
wee are barren
of
praife and
te-
queft,
becaufe wee doe
not obferve
in
the
day matter for this pur-
pofe
:
this, though
we
know
it
not,
doch make
us
complaine
of
fuch
mitts,
roving
thoughts,
indifpofition,
becaufe wee walke all day
long forgetful).
If
one
fhould gate codlings , goofe- berries, peafe,
would you wonder
if
at night bee were
_wrung
in
his
belly
a
would
yóu not
bid him mend
his
diet
if
bee meant
to
fee it
otherwife
t
fo,
when we
let our hearts
bofe
all
day,
feed upon earthly vanity
,
how
should
they be
heavenly- minded
on
a
fudden, when bed
-time calleth
on
us
to
prayer
t
..
Let
us
{titre
up our felvesto
keepe
this watch,
that
we may
fee,
and
yf
2;
walke
in
the ftrength
of
our prayers.
If
one bee to
make
an oration
in
Exhortation;
the
fchooles,
he
will not venture
ex
tempere
:
how much
more fhould
we
medic
ur
on.rhe.osations wee are
to
make
before
the
Lord
a
So'
if
we
fbould
dews
fe
any
thing
by
may
of
petition,
would
we
not
wait how
it
is
received
e
what
is faid
to
it
e
would we
give up our petition, and
carelefly depart, never thinking on it
a
how much
more fhould wee
wait
to
fee
what
will become
ofour
requefts
to
God
e
With
per
f
verance.
W
hcnce!mìt e
,
that
wee
mull hold sut
in
our
D.
daily
caurfe
ofprayer.
What
if
God
delay,
wee muff norgive
in,
but
like
Jacob
,
not
let
God
goe till bee giveth us
the
blefling
;
and
like
thofe
remembrancers
of
Sion
in Efay,
give him
no reft till
he accom-
plith
our defire.
This,
our Saviour
by two
parables caileth
us un-
to
;
one,
of
a
friend importuning
his friend
in
the
night
Luke
I
I.
5, 6,
7,
8. another
,
of
a
widow
dealing with the unrighteous
)Judge,
Luke
18.
a,
3,
4,
5.
This
perfeveranee
is a
thing
fo
lovely,
that
therefore God doth
delay ;
to
fee
how
wee will
be inftant,
and
importunate with
him.
For
hee
doth not
feemeto
reje&
prayers,
.
that
he doth not
Beare
, and grant them
:
nay,
as feed
which
is
the
longeft covered
,
tifeth the
firft
with molt
increafe
:
fo doe thofe
prayers which
God
feemeth
to bury
in
forgetfulnelfe
a
long time
if