f • ,. . 264 " 1he Trial and SER, 2 t thy Ways, And hardened our Heart from thy fear? Retun.zfor tky Servants _(ake; the Tribes of thine Inhe"ritanr:e. Hence is there an holy chiding with God, P[aJ. xxii. 2. 0 my God, I cry in the '.ZJay- time, and thou hearejl not, and in the Nii;ht Sea{ot~, am~ am not fllent, Pfal. :hiii: '. llow ton~ wilt thou forget me, ( 0 Lord )for. e'ver? Ho~v loug wilt tbou hide thy Face from me? 3· It putteth God to great Straights and Suffering, even to the moving ofhis Soul, .7er. xxxi. :V hen God. heareth Ephrat'm bemoaning himidf m Prayer, It putteth God to a fo~t qf pinch and condulency, v. zo. IsEphraim my dear Son? Is he my pteafant Child .2 For (ince I jpake againft him, I do earnejlty remember himjlill therefore my Ylowets are n:oubled for him. Is Jfaac an earthly Father moved, and his Heart rent and t?rn with the weepi,ng and Tears of Efau ~is Son, 1o as he muft conf-e.r iome Bleffing upon h1m; far more muft . the Bo\(rels of 01.1r Father infinit in Mercy be turned within him, at the Weeping and Tears ofa praying and crying Church. / 4· When God feemeth to Qeep, in regard that his Work and t'he Wheels ofhis Providence are at a ftand, Prayer a'wakeneth God, and putrethhim on Atl:ion, Pfal. vii. 6. Arife 0 Lord in tbine Anger, lift up thy felj becaufe of the rage of _mine Enemies; a'lJ•ake for the Judf!,ment thou haft C€mmanded, Pfal. xliv: ~ 3· .. Awake why j!eepeft thou 0 Lord? Arife, cafl us not off jo1A ever. Both the Words [ Gnurah and Hakitfa J fignifieth to awake out of:f1eep: So Prayer putteth God on nobJe Atl:s ofOmnipotency,_ as to bow tbc Heavens and come dcrwn) If~. lx1v. r. To
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