a ~U~tiltau· l0ut~~ · 31 may call it Napthali, for wit~ great . , .~ wrelllings have I wreft~ed ·wtth my G .. n. 58. S. Godand prevailed. This merc 1 ybears a double price to all the reft, for 'tis won by Prayer, ,and nowmay ,be \Vorn with praifes and triumphing; fo' that a foul may fay, This is my God, I have \Vaired · . · for him, he will fave me, this is [my . ~fa. 2 5· 9· GodJ 'jehov~h, I have waited for him,, I wiU be glad and rejoyce in hi~ falvation : .Lo here he is_, ~ can'no\V makemybo~ftofmyGod.Wickedmenarewont tofay 1 Where is thy God ? Now I can anfwe,r thetn, Lo th~s .is he that returns fuch anfwers to my Prayer 1 that ap– /pears fo glorioufiy for me., This is my God in ~horn ~ have trull:ed, on whom I have called., and he hath an– fwered, I a1n not difappointed: .Bleffed be God, theie appear~nces are the vifible returns of my fe,ret pray .. ers. · 2. ·God rewards fecret prayer openly, bydifcrimi- · · "hatingProvidences in a common calan1ity : God ufual– ly takes them int~ :thechatnbers of his prote8:ion that: retired themfelves into·chambers of Ifi 6 . ' d~~otion : They that enjoy moft of a. 2 ' 20 • G9<i, Lhall be beetfecuredbyGod : P[~tt.9 1. I. He tha·t dwel!e~h in: the fecret pl~tce of the mo/f F.Jigh, flue// abid~ under the jhadow ofthe Almighty: i.e. · He that by faith and· prayer bath got moft intimate ~ommunion with God, is lodged ih the faf~it fuelter in th~ day of dan– ger : . And who is fo likely to enjoy -God as that C~ri£Han that waits much upon God in fecret; he gets into . 'Gods fecret place, who is much with God in feccet pla– ces: Davldput up many a hearty prayer in folitary caves.; and how ;remarkably cloth God fecure bim in the day of apparent hazard, to the convifiion of Saul and his Courtiers? W,e find the mourners in .Sion la.. ~nting feeretly the abominations~omrnitted openly, - · ·· · · and ;
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