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Confolations
for
fuch
as
be:vaile
their
wants
in
`Prayer.
t
things
wee
want according
to
his
holie will,
though
wee
cannot
exprefle
our mindes
in any
good order,
or
in a
con-
tinued
forme
of
fpeech, yet
if
wee can from our
hearts
roare with Dauid,chatter with
Ezechias,and
utter
this
abrupt
fpeech
with the poore
Publican,
O
God
bee mercifull
veto
mee
a
firmer,
the
Lord
will heare
vs,
and
that
as
fpeedily,as
though
we
could
pray
vnto him with the eloquence
ofinen
and
Angels. For
to
what
end
principallie
ferue
words,
but
that
wee may
by them
expreffe
our mindes
to
men,who
o-
therwife could
not
vnderftand them
?
but
the
Lord who
fearcheth
the
hearts vnderitandeth our fighes,which cannot
bee
expreffed,
asitis
Rom.
8.26.27.
e
4nd
hee
knows our
Rom.B
z6.
thoughts
long before
we
thinkZe
them
:
as
the
Pfalmift fpeaketh
Pfalm.1
39.2. He
is
afpirit,yea
an
al-
feeing fpirit, and
there-
Pfa1.139.z.
fore
our
prayers
vnto
hirn,are
the
delires
ofthe
heart, neither
doe
our
words
ferue
to
perfwade
him,
but to
'tine
vp
our
owne
dull fpirits,and
to
keepe
vsfrom
diforderlie
wandring
thoughts.
So
that
if
wee can
with
Mofes
lift
vp
our hearts
Exod.t4.
vnto
God
with
earneft delires,
this
will
bee
a
firong
crie
in
the
cares
ofthe
Lord,
and
hee will
Purely
heare
it.If
we
can
vnfainedlie
fay
with
the
Prophet Dau
:d,
Pfalm.3
8.9.
Lord
I
rig
38'94
powre
my
whole defire
before thee,
and
my
f:ghing
is
not
bid
from
thee,
we
maybe
allured
he
will hcare
vs
and
grant
our re-
queft, for
he
heareth
thederre
of
the
poore, he
prepareth
their
heart,andbendeth
his
tare
vnto
them:
as
it
is
Pfal.io.i
.yea
he
Praha.
'AU*
doth
not
onlie
heare
them,
and in
Come
fort
incline
to
their
requeft, but
he
will
fulfill
the
defre
of
them
that
feare
him,
hee
will
heart
their crie,and
faue them;
as
the
fame
Prophet
fpea-
keth,Pfal.i45.19. We
know that
a
kind louing father,
if
he
Pfalm.e4S.I9.
fee
his
fonne exceeding
ficke
wilibe
venie
carefull
and
tender
ouer
him, to prouide
all
things
neceffarie
for him
which
may doe him
good,
and
though
with
a
faultering
tongue
and
vnperfe
t
fpecch hee aske any
thing
which
is
profitable
for
him to receiue,yet
how
readilie
will
he
hearken vino him
and
grant
his
delire? yea
ifhis
fickneffe fo
increafe
that
hee
becommeth
fpeechleffe,vttering
nothing but
deepe
grones,
euen
this language moues
him to
no
leffe
care
in
vfing
all
aneanes
which may
doe
him
good.
Shall
then
wee daily
ob-
K
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ferue