Vstts.6. _ An Expojition, 'WithNtJfes fider that Job. 16. 2 3. Verif.J, verilJ, I fay unto you, .whatfoever 1 ou Mfzthe Father in my name, hefha/lgive it )OH: Mark, Chrifl:• fpeakedil, univerfally, W'hatfoev~r, ~o raife our hopes; .earnefily, T'erily, verily, ~o' en~nrageour Farth: We areaptto d1f-beleeve_ fuch protnlfci/ ·· ' f U •· · .~ c f ' _ -. o/Jforv. 14o Laftly, 'Fr6m tllat {·~ ]/7al{ ifffe given.] He bcinge.th an e~couragement not oneLy from the Nature of God, but the Prorrufe of God : 'Tis·an. encouragement in prayer, when wecDnjidrr there i.r not onely bounty 'inGod, but bounty eng~tged hy promife: What good will thegeneral report do without-a particular invi~P~tirm ? There is a rich King giveth freely·; I, but he giveth at pleafure ;· No, he hath promifed to give to thee. The Pfalmiil: argued:t from Gods Nature, Thou art gopd, and doft good, Pfal. I 19. 68. Bur from the Promife we may reafon thus, Thou att good, and (halt do good. God at large, and difcovered to you in loofc attribute!,' ' doth not yeeld a fufficient (ounda-tion for truil: ; But God in Cove– naut, God as ours. Well then, Let the world think what it will of Prayer, 'cis not a fruidefs labour : Youhave promifesfor prayer., 1 and promifes to prayer ; And therefore when you pray for ableff– ing promifed, Cjod doth, as it were; come under another engagement, Ask.., and it /hall be given. · Jerfe (i~ But let him.uk.in fR,ith, nothing 'Wave~ing; for he that - ~PZvereth u lik! aWave oftheSea, driven 'With the wiNd and 'to!fed. Here hepropofethacaution to prevent: mifiakes about what he had delivered ; every asking will not ferve the turn it mufr bean .ukjng in faith. · But let him .uke in f"ith] Faith may be taken . 1. For confidence . in God, or an AC\' ofparticular truil: ~as Eph-3- rz.We have boldnejs andac~efs with confidence through th: faith 'ofhim.,2.It maY.import perfwafion of the lawfulnefs ofthe thmgs that we ask for; that's one acception of Faith in Scripmre, Rom. 14. wb.atever is not of Faith, i! Sin: ~hat is, ifwe pratlifc it, before we are perfwaded of the lawfulnefs of it. Or, 3· In Faith, that is, in a fbte of be~ leeving; for God will hear none but his own, thofe that ·have in. tereil: in Jefus Chrift, in whom the promifes ~tre Yea an,d Amen,' 2 Cor. I. zo, All thefe fenfd.are confiderable; but I think the fidl: is 'E~~ ~~e.~ ~nd f~~~~l ~ for!a_ith is here oppofe~ ~2 ~~HbtitJ~ . ~""
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