.... ---------------------::-:--– ... _'[!_h_e_L_or_ds_l'(_4_m_e, __ ·s_'c4_ll_ed_u_rp___ o?Z_h_is_p_eo_~_le_ ·. _~ 1 57 ples, though they rowed all night, yet C u a. x s T · came at the lall, fothough thou toilefl: many daies, ~nd makeft no proficiency (as thou thinkeft) yet l{now,that Godat length will come and heJ pe thee, and that becaufe He bath cominanded thee todoe this, He will not ft1ffer you to be doing that alwaies ' in\,aine, whichHecommapdeth, and therefore He ·. will ·come: but that yoLWTiay havethe 'moreground for this, :remember that you have many promifes madeof Godshelpe5asin Luke u. 13. If yeethen, !Jeing evi/J, !mow !Jgw to give good gifts unt1 yourchiL Jrt,11, &c. You lhall never alone, of your felves, bee· able to foften yo~r hearts without the Holy Ghoft, but continue knocking, and the Lord will give you the Holy Ghofi: , though -y{)u bee but , :[~~ngers. So that every man may come to God · "~nd fay ; L'Ord, thou haft made fuch a promife, thou canft not goe from thy wQrd, and therefore denymee net ; and bee earnefi with God , and .hce cannot deny thee. Thewomanof canAA?J was not a'lew,yet thee having this ground, that hee was the -UUejfiM, fhee would not beeput off, therefore-doe thou fo,- and thou fhalt in the end finde that thy heart is foftned : . and the longerthm'l waiteft, the greater meafure thou fhalt h<;Ive of the fpirit .; and when thou haft him, hee flull humbJethy hearr' ) as in z,"h· 1:z.. _Io. · I willpoure nton-thehou[eof D4- 'l/iJ, 11nd t~pon the inhabitttnls of·leru{itlem, thejpirit of grAce t~ndfopplication-s , AnrJ:they JballlDolee upon him who"! tGey .havepier&ed, Andtheyfball mourne for-him 114 one -m~u~netb for AJJ onely .fonrJe. Thepeople of lft~tel were heere exhorted to mourne, and to fepa- .rate I if
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