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24 of the efficacioufnefié of prayer. peoples and commonwealths, fuch is the efpicacie of prayer, that thofe who are indued with the fpirit of fupplication may not unworthily with Elias and Elifha be called the horfemen and chariots of 'Traci. By prayer Afa,2.Chron.14. Jehofh:aphat,2.Chron. 20. 25. Hezekiah, 2. Kings 19. overcame moll mighty armies of their enemies , which by their own flrength they were in no fort able to refill. But mofi remarkable is that example of Mofes at the battei of Rephidim: whereby it appeareth to be ct,; yfo(.. De true which Chryfoflome upon that occafion no- atb.z. teth, Preces juflorum plus valere quoin; arma, the a prayers of the righteous more prevail then arms. For whileft Mofes being on the hill with Aaron and Hur holdeth up his hands and is fervent in prayer, Ifrael hath the better ; but when his hands fall down and he ceafeth to pray, Ifrael bath the worfe; as if the welfare of Gods people did depend upon his prayer. 4. of lick- But what fpeak I of men, That which fubdueth nefre, death, all men giveth place unto prayer, as fickneffe and vils. and de death. For the former; Jam. 5. 15. The prayer of faith _/hall f ve, or make whole, the _lick. Examples, Num. i 2.13. in Miriam; Ads 28.8. in the father of Publius; but efpecially in Hezekiah, who, though he had received the fentence of death, obteined by prayer the prolonging of his life, 2. Kings 20.2. For the latter ; we reade of many who by prayer have been refiored from death unto life : as namely, the widows child of Sarepta, 1. Kings 17. 21. the forme of the Shunarnite by Elifha, 2. Kings 4.35. Dorcas by Peter, and all by prayer. Yea, the devils them-