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lime when Chrifl' preached. this Serino t. And then the fecond thing.that i> to be inquired into, is the time when Chrii preached i ; and that help you muft halve. from Lie, (For fo T i_ :end, that. what light one Evangelilt rill 4ive, I will make, ufe of ihit, though it be not menriòne -t here in Matthew, and you will fnad it of very great ufe to in- C;ui:e after this :._You (fall find, that the very night b.;- fore he '_reached this Sermon, that h was at prayer all night, La c the 6 & z 2 west,,; And it carne to palfe in thole dayes,, Oat he went Out into a Ivlountaine to pray, and cowtinued all night in prayer to God, It was the night before this Senn n pas preached. And this Scripture will juftiiie long prayers upon extraor- dinary occafion Though .I confeiie in an ordinary way in fa- mily prayer; ordinarily its more convenient to have them fhort theü long : But this Scripture ufIi es long prayers fpeaking many hours in prayer upon extraordinary occafions : Jefits Chrilt fpeaks a whole night in prayer unto God, and you fee how the things of theGlory of God, and the good of his Church did take up his heart, fo that he fpeakes a whole night in prayer about them : O confider this you that fpend fo many nights in chambering and wantonncff, you that can ft up nights in drinking and playing, remember Jefits Ch if fit up a whole night together in praying : He prayer all night, hereby giving an example to his Minifters upon occafions to be praying for people, when they are Beeping, to be feeking to God in prayer , and when they are about other things : Chrift he was a whole night here in prayer. But you will fay, what was the occafion why was he a whole night in prayer before he preached this Sermon Why the occafion feemes to be the work that he had. to doe the next morning, which was to fend forth his Difciples, for fo the Text faith in the i 3 verf. when it was day, he called onto him his Difciplcs, and of them he chofe twelve, whom á %fo he named Apoftles : He had a great work to doe, to choofe twelve Apoftles to got-, up and downe in the world to preach rbe Gofpel ofGod, the greateit work that ever men were to doe

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