i84 Chap. 3o. An Expofttion upon the Book! of Jo E. Yerf,zo, grave, (/heal is.indiff°rent to both) for there fonah lay not only buryed as the dead are in a grave, but tormented and troubled in fpirit, as the damned arc in hell. And certainly could we Ìup- pole a godly man throwne really into hell, he would pray there; let his condition he what it will, he will pray ; prayer is the lan- guage and breach of the new creature, and therefore let him be what and where he can be, he will be praying ; the new creature muff worke out its felfe in the manifeflation of holy deliires and prayers. Secondly Confidering lob in thishis low condition praying, Note ; Iris our doetie to pray mofi, and ufually we pray b, fl, when 't is worfi with us ; when we are nigh the mire and daft, prayer is not onlymefl feafonable, but mrff pare. Yea God expo&s prayer molt when we are molt ali&ed,and therefore faith the Scripture, Isany man afflilted, let him pray; are you in the mire,then pray, are you in cult and a(hes , that's nut only a time, but The time of prayer. Thirdly lob in that condition did not only pray, but cry. Hence obferve ; 4:114lion provokes a foule to pray to the utm s`l, topray not only infincerity, but withfervc=cy, not only to pray with faith, bat with a'holy pufion, or paf:Mately. Whenwe cry our pallions come forth, at our eyes , at our hands, at our mouths ; wecry in weeping. and cry out in [peak- ing. It is faid of that afflicted woman ( Math. IS. zz ) Behold a woman of Canaancame out of thefamecoafls,ana cried unto biro, Paying, bave mercy on me, OLord, tboufonof `D xvid,rny daughter isgrievoufly vexed with a devil!. Slice came cr, ing with a full mouth, is if (hoe would aft ole Chrift by prayer ; it is a cuftome at the onfet of a baerel, for Armyès to fall an and charge with a (bout, with a ; and 'us noted that fome Armies have pre- vailed morewith their cryes then with their fiuords, more with their rooguts and voyi.es, then with their hands and blower. Thus the cry, the itr ?ut, which the foule makes in prayer, doth more fometirncs with God , then the matter of prayer ; And tticrfore thiswas a great temptation to 7ob,and he fpeaks of it, of
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