P etfouo Raft the Gofpel, crying out with tears, Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief; Catching at Mercy with an hand trembling at his own Infirmity. Such meltings and fpiritual mourn- ings over Sin, plainly thew, That the Spirit of Grace and Supplication is poured out upon the Prayer ; making it, like the bruited In- cenfe, full of fragrancy, breathing out from a broken heart, diffolved into tears by the beams of Gods Love. And in this Evange- lical thaw, What Divine enlargements are there ! The heart is no longer in the Straits of Sin and Earth, but opened and expanded towards Heaven. E're the praying Believer is aware, his Soul lets him on the wheels, and his lips drop as the honey -comb; if not in the very entrance of the Duty, yet in the pro - grefs of it. The PfalmiJt in the beginning of the 38th Pfalm, feems cold and frozen in Unbelief; Gods arrows (tick fait in him, his hand preffeth him fire, the iniquities are too heavy, the wounds ftink and are corrupt ; There are nothing but bowings, breaches, and mï.fera- ble roarings : But before he bath done pray- ing, his heart recovers again, In thee, O Lord, do I hope ; thou wilt hear,0 Lord my God,v er.15 . Sometimes at firft there is a Cloud and dark Eclipfe upon the Prayer ; and yet a little after, Grace breaks forth with its Sunny beams, and draws out the heart towards God, They loo; ed unto bim and were lightned, as David (peaks, Pfal. 3 4. 5 or as the words may be read, they looked unto him and flowed ; their hearts were C c as
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