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7hat the impenitent cannot prey acceptably: venge:& fo in flead ofobteiningmercy and forgive neffe at Gods hands , they call for the fierce wrath and vengeance of God to be executed upon them. They delire that God will not leadthem into ten - tations, and yet themfelves run into tentations, and feek occafions of evil. They defire that they may be delivered from evil , and yet wilfully go on in evil, and will not be reclaimed,as though they had made a covenant with hell.' They afcribe kingdom to the Lord, and yet will not obey him as his fubjec`Is; power, and yet neither fear nor trufl in him;glory,& yet do not glorifie him They fubfcribe to their prayers and fay Amen, as though they unfeignedly defired and aifuredly be-. lieved that their requefts fhould be granted, when as they neither delire that which in hypocrifie they ask, nor believe the granting of that which with-. out faith they have begged. And finally,in all thefe requefts they draw neare to the Lord with their mouth, andwith their lips do honour him, but they re-, move their hearts faire from him, Ifa. 29.13. It is evident therefore, that as the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to God as the evening facri_ fice, Pfal. i 4.1.2. fo the prayer of the wicked is de- tellable unto him. Which may further be proved by exprefle teflimonies of the holy Scriptures. The f crifice of the wicked, faith Solomon, is anabominati- on to the Lord; but the prayer of the righteous is acce- ptable unto him,Prov.13.9.and again,v. 29. The Lord is farre from the wicked, but he heareth the prayers of the righteous. The fame doth David teftifie Pfal. 34 I 5,16. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and