74 Plectouo SAD. Prayer, lie not dead here below, but are fent back again in Praife. Sometimes the Prayer returns another way, though it be not heard ad voluntatem, it is ad utilitatem : The an- fwer is in force thing that profits us, though not to the exprefs delire of our Hearts ; it may be it is in the fweet compofure of the Heart. Upon Prayer God comes in, and rebukes the Winds and Seas of Paillon, and there is a calm and Divine ferenity in the Soul. Hannah be- fore Prayer was a Woman of a frrowful fpirit ; but herSoul being poured out untoGod,retur_ ned with a Divine fweetnefs ; Her countenance was no more fad, i Sam. F. 18. It may be there is an inward fupport which is tantamount the Blelling defired. Our Saviours Prayer againft the Cup of Wrath was heard, in that he was enabled to drink and overcome it. And St. Paul's againft the Thorn in the Flefh, in that he had fufficient Grace to withftand it. Preclaré nobifcum agitur, dum adefi Dei Gratia gut nobii fubveniat, faith Reverend Calvin. In the Supports of Grace there is a fignal anfwer of Prayer; it may be, over and, above the Support, the Beams of Gods Love break in upon the heart : This is a little Heaven here below, and richly tranfcends all this world. 73.11armin tells us a Story of an old Man, who ufed to rife from Duty with thefe words ; Claudimini, Oculì mei, claudimini ; nihil enim pulchrius jam videbitis : Be flout, O my Eyes, be flout ; for I floall never behold a fairer Obje,`l than Gods .Face, which have now beheld. The Love
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