37G netíouo gait: as a River running out with fpiritual fluency and enlargments ; Cuch as are a real proof that the free Spirit is in the Prayer; and withal, What an heavenly ardor is there ? While I was muting the fire burned, faith David, Pfal. 39.3. While the Believer is a- praying, the Holy Spirit is as fire upon the heart, inflaming it into religious afccnts towards God. The . Believer firs up himfelf, and takes hold on God by fome Promife or other ; and Jacob- like wreffles with him for Mercy, and will not let him go till there be a dawn or day -break of Grace. He prays in his Prayer, and urges the Attributes cf God upon him, and prefffes hard upon him with an holy immodelly or im- pudence, as the expreifion is, Lui¿, i i. 8 ; and will not be faid Nay. Much like Gorgonio, the pious Shier of Nazianzen, who lay at the Altar with Tears and Prayers, and Paid That flie would not depart, till the had her requef ; and accordingly obtain- ed it cf God. This is the ,Sims ivspylst irlf, Jam. 5. i 6, the iítwrought Prayer, or Prayer wrought by Gods Spirit in ours, and from thence poured out in an agony, or vehemence of holy Affections, panting and breaking with longings after God and his Grace. Luther ha- ving prayed with great fervency, faid, Wi- nam eodem ardore orare poffem, Would to God I could always pray with the like ardor; then fhould 1 always have this anfwer, Fiat, quod velis, Be it 'unto thee as thou wilt. After this manner doth the Holy Spirit come down on the Be- lievers
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