Chap.i G, ,e4st Expo,itiótt upon the Book of .1 o B. Ver,77, t39 hut in that dayjefhall havefoclear a Revelation about the things ofHeaven, that he (hall not need to propofeyour doubts,and defire refolution for you (hall loe able to refolveyourfelves by the light withinyou, This the Apof}le John (i EpiJf,2.2o.) tells the Saints, But ye have an untlion from the holy one, andye know all things: And again, Verf.27, But the annointing which ye have receivedof hem, abideth in you : and ye need not that any man fhould teachyouibut as thefame anointing teachethyouall things, and is truth,andis no lie; andeven as it bath taught,ye fhallabide in him. Thefe Scripturesare both a clear expofìtion, and an illutirious verification ofthat promife ofChriß, In that dayye float' askme nothing : that is, after my Refurredion. But when he faith, Whatfoever ye askthe Father in my Name, he willgive it : the meaning is, Your prayers (hall be heard, while you keep elofe to this effential form, Asking in my Name, Betides this effential form of prayer, there is allô another form, which we may call in a qualified fence, eßenti- all : As when the matter we pray about is fpiritual, and abfolutely neceffary to falvation, then to pray in an abfolute form. If it be temporal, and outward, or ifit be ofa fpiri- tual nature, yet fuch as is onely neceifary to the well. being of a Believer, as fpiritual gifts, yea, and the degrees of glace are, then to pray in a conditional form, as fubmitting it to the will of God, not onely for the time, and manner, and means, and meafure wherein, or by which we (hall, receive thole things, but alto fubmitting the very things themfelves to his good pleafure, whether we (hall receive them a all, or no, Nor doth conditional prayer hinder Faith, but looks to the rule. We may pray without doubting, though we pray wit h a condition; and when weare fulleft of fubmiflion, wemay be fuïlefi ofconfidence, yea, without fubmiflion in thole cafes, there can beno true confidence. Fourthly, Prayer is pure, when the end which we aimat is pure: The end denominates every action, as to the quality orgoodne(fe of it. The great end of prayer, as ofall other actions, and without which, neither thofe;,-,nor this can be called pure, is, the glory ofGod. Hallowed be thy name, is the firti prayer, and that hath influence into all our prayers: we muff pray for all, that God may be glorified, and pray for no- thing that our lulls may be fatisfied. Though we may pray X x 2 that
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