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Confolations
for
Etch
u
ballade
their
wants
in
Prayer.
Rom
II
t9
for the
g'ttes
of
God
Are
lvithosst
repentance
;
and
though
at
fortieth-tics
they are withdravvne from
our
fenfe and.
feeling,
yet
(hall
they neuer
be
taken from
vs
;
and
if
at
any
time
we,
haue
had aßûrance
that
the
fpirit
ofGod
hath
dwelled
in vs,
by
this
~Rorke
tbcreof,effe6tuall prayer,wee
may
affure
our
Rein
8.
26,
felues
that
it
bath
not
forfaken
vs,
but
will againe
helpe
our
infirmities:
and
whereas
we
cannot
tell
horn
to pray as
wee oßrght,.
the
fpiritit
cJfe
will
m
c
reque
fl
for
vs
with
fighes,which
cannot
be
ex
preJJèd.
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Sea
2
Secondly, whereas
they
c.oinplaine
that
they
cannot pray
con(ei.:tro,
s
in any
goodforme, but oftentimes
fill
Gods
eaves
with im-
s,(fuck
as
patient
cries,
and vncomfortablc
rorings
in
find
ofprayers,
omplai"e
that
they
are
to know
that
this
is
often
incident vnto
the
chil-
<
<'y
dren
of
God,cfpeciallie when
his
hand
is
heauie
upon
them,
pay
n
any
either infome
outward
affli
lion
ofbodie
or
foine
inward'
geed
forme.
aoguifh
ofìnind.
For example,
the Prophet
David
ccnfef
feth
that
when
Gods
hand
was heartie
vpon him day
and.,
P:alm.3 2.3.
night,his
prayers
were
but roarings,Pfalm.3
2.2
.So
Ezechias
faith,that
when
bee
fhould
haue
praied,hee
chattered likea
Eli
3g.t4.
Crane
or a
r3alloW,andmoured
azs
aDoue,Efa.38.r4..A_nd
the
pool
e
Publican
oppreffed
with the
heauy
burthen ofhis
fins
in
!lead
of
a
log
and
eloquent
fpeecla,
vttereth
thefe few
`words;©
God
bemerciful!
vnto mea[inner :and yet our Sauior
Chrif+
teflifieth
ofhim,that
hce
receiued the remiffion
of
his
Luk.iS.t3.14.
fns,
and
went home
iuflified
,Luk.i8.i3.'r4.Neitherintruth
doth
the
Lord regard the
eloquence
of
the tongue, but
the
carneftneffe
ofthc
heart,he
refpe
&teth
not
our
vve11
couched
words,
and
finooth vttered
file,
but
the feruencie
of
the
fpirit,
and our
humble
and
heartie defires,which are accep-
tablie heard
ofhim, though
our tongues bee filent. 'The
faa
crifìces
of
j
od
cre
not eloquent words,
but
a
contrite
fpirit
,
a
Pfaim
sr.17.
contrite
and
broken
heart
will
not
the Lorddefpife
:
as
itisPfalo
5'1.17.
The
prayers
indited by
Gods
fpirit, which
alto are
according to the
will
ofGod,
confift
not
in
the
words
of
the
mouth, but
in
the
fighes
of
the
heart which cannot
bee
>horn.8.a6.
expreífed,
as
the
Apoftle-
teacheth
vs, Rom.. 8.
z6.
And
therefore
if
wee offer
vnto
God
an
humble and contrite
fpirir,
if
wee
can fighe
and
grone
earneflie, defring
thole
things--