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Prayer
mttft gee
before
Preaching.
9
of
3'ohn
on
for
z
or
3
Chapters,
they
have
the
moll of
Chrilf
in themthat the Scripture
Both
record
of
any
thing
that Chrilf
bath done
:
then
let
Minihers pray more,and they
will
preach
better
;
The
way
to
be
a
good
Preacher
it
is
to
be
a
fervent
Prayer, doe
as
Ch'rill
did, Minifers
lhould
come
reekeing
from
Prayer into
the
Pulpit,
and thofe will
be the
bell
Ser-
mons
that
are
warmed
in
their
own
hearts
by
Prayer. They
come
to
give
the
milke
of
the word,
and you know
Nurfes
when
they
give milke
to the Child,
will nor give
it
raw, nor
cold, butthey
will
warme the milke
before they cive
it
to the
Child.
O
the milke of
the
Word
that
is
warmed
by
the
Pray-
er
of
a
Miniffer in
his own
heart before
he
comes,
that's that
that
is
like
to
be moll nourithable unto
people.
And
hence
likewife we may
note,That the
way
to
be
filled
with
the
Holy
Ghoil, to
be
fi
lled
with heavenly
truths; with
a
mo(f
fpiritual frame
;
It
is
to
be much
in
prayer,the
fpending
time
in
prayer,
and
doing
of
it
to
purpofe
indeed
will
helpe
not
onely
Minihers but Chriflians,
to
rife up full of
the holy
Ghoff,
full of heavenly and Divine
truths
:
Confider
that
this
Sermon
was
preached the next
morning
after
Chrilf
had
f
*pent
a
whole
night in prayer,
and
it
will ad much
to
the
excellency of
the
Sermon, and will be
a
fpecial
Motive
to
your
attention,
and
for the receiving
of
what
(hall
be faid
out of
this
Sermon:Certainly
there
muff
be
fome
notable Mat-
ter
in this
Sermon
that
was
preached prefently after
filch
prayer,and that's
the
fecond Confideration
by
way
of
Preface,
The
time
when this Sermon was
preached.
The
3d
thing
by
way
of Preface to
this Sermon
is,
The
place where
it
was
preached
:
for
there
is
nothing in
Scripture without
ufe. My
Text
faith
that he went,
upto the
Mountain,
he had
been
in
the Mountaine
in
prayer,
and
Came
down
and
did
fome worke among
the
peo
-le,
and
then'
goes
up
thither
again
to
preach:
why
upon
the
Mountain
Some
thing
it
was
to
fulfill
thofe Prophefies
that
we have
in divers Scriptures about preaching
of
the
Gofpel
upon
the
Mountaine.
In
the
4o.
Ifa:
9.
ver.
& 3oel
3.
i
8.
but thefe
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