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Reaf ns moving tic to the dutie of prayer. 13 But profit is that refpeft which molt men look Z. Foam the There be man which ¡y, Who will profit of it. after : Píal. 4.6. y fbew as any good ? And in this particular ; What will it profit W. if we (ball call upon God? Job 2 I. I 5. Firft , for prayfe : If we glori fie God he will gloreus ; i. Sam. z. 3o. Secondly, for prayer: The profit is fo great, that it is the ordinary means of obteining all good things which we do defire, and of avoyding all evil which we fear. It bath the promifes both of this life and of a better : nei- ther is there any good thing which the Lord hath ordeined for us, whether temporali for our good, or fpirituall for our falvation, but he bath appoint- ed that we fhould obtein it by prayer. Prayer is the key of Gods treafury,yea it is clavis c 'li; that is,the .4ug' T . key of heaven : It is armour of proof againft all chyvf, tentations, ferving for all parts, and therefore not affigned to any one, Ephef. 6. 18. flagellum diaboli, ftthanafDe the fcourge of the devill ; yxpKov ¢áftCarAV, 4 [bye-T/41°68. reigne remedy againfl all evil. In the fpirituall life it is as the hand in the temporali, óoyavov ;pyzvcvv, the infirument of inflruments. But the profit is belt manifeíted by the promifes of God which are in- fallible, efpecially if ye will compare Matth.7.7,8. with John i6. 23. and z. John 5. 14. Whof©- ever (rsketh any thing whatjoever in the name of Chri ft according to Gods will, it f hall be granted. What promìfe can be more large then whofoever and what foever ? In a word, God is rich unto all that call upon him ; for whofoenver_ hall call upon the name of the Lord _hall be f ved, Rom. i c. i 2 I 3. CHAP. IIIIa