3~ · (foret::19~a:rer, hi~t what is tnat open reward that God gives to ! as ar~ conftant in Cloiet·Prayer: That's thefe fo wayes. , 1. By returning a vifisle anfwer to fecret Prayer None fawJ~tcfJb! wrefiling hand totfifl:(as it were)w· G · . h rhe Angel; but aU m·ight, obfer Ch:p ';~ ~4· ~lt the loving embraces betwixt th '· . . . good man and his hofl:ile bro Eflu~ .- There wa~no witneisof Mofes'~ interceffion Ifrael in theMount ;" but all the congregation and · whole world, may bear witnefs Exod. 32o-~o. IJ; •. 14· Gods hearing his Prayer, for f1 ring an off~nding people: ' WhenEli obfervedH. lips move,and heard lio voice,h~ misjudged her tobe drunken woman : but the truth is., fhe was bufie.wi her God in earnefi Prayer; and though he knew n thing of it then, .yet afterwards he iaw th-e effeCt, I Sam. I. I 3. withver. 2 7~ For this.chil4 I prayed; the .Lord bath.t.ivcnme mv petition which I asked ofhim ( Eccefignum) behold a fign of his favour; behold evident token that I prayed in truth ! Many a time, ~nany a time was I provoked by my{coffing ad Peninnah, andasoftendidlmakemy moan to my venlyBusband ; and fee here,rhe fruit ofmy fiHc~re votions in a corner: None faw my Tears,. all may my Child; none heard my cryes in Prayer, but voice of my Samuel may be heard by aU Ifrael: fhall carrt ·the memorial of anfwer to (ecret Prayer his name to the grave: And cannot many a foul fpeak the fame Ian=uage? Cann0t you feal to the fatne or li experitnent? Cannot f?rt;Je ofGods children fay, Th mercy I got from God to fuch a Room, Chamber, Clofet? Nocreature uponearthknewwhat I did But now all may fee the happy effects. of my ha,rd vel, I find that 'tis not in vain to feek God in private ~one knows ~he meaning ~f the mercy but my felf.
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