384. PICO'0u$3 fattù pray, who have before their eyes a Gofpel, : Mercy -Seat, and an open way into the Holy of Holies through the Veil of Chrifls flefh ! Unre- generate perfons are bound to this Duty, as we fee in the Command to Simon Magus, being in the gall of bitternef: and bond of iniquity, AIL 8.22 ; Much more Believers. Prayer is the breath of the new - creature, and badg of Chriflians s who are thus deciphered by the Apoftle, All that call upon the name of the Lord lefts:, i Cor. r. 2. Such and fo great is this Ordinance, that the Jews ( who prayed fland-. ing, and therefore called Prayer Gnammuda, or Standing ) ufed to fay , Sine flationi- bus non flaret munches , The world would not ftand without Standing or Prayer. That this is an Ordinance of God, the Believer expe- riments many ways : Firif, He experiments it in the Affiances of the Holy Spirit ; which is as Gales to the Sails of Prayer in its Voyage to Heaven ; and as holy Fire to the Incenfe of it, caufing it to afcend to the Throne of Grace. The Spirit helpeth our in5rmities, Rom. 8. 26. ouvav1i tt¡'- advpr u, It lifts over againfl us, or helps us to lift up a Prayer which elle would be too heavy for us. w hilft the Believer is a -pray- ing, O what heavenly meltings are there ! The Believer is like Ephraim, bemoaning him - felf; or as the Children of Ifrael at Mizpeb, lamenting after the Lord, and pouring out wa- ter, as if their eyes were turned into Foun- tains of penitential tears ; or as the man in. the
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