19,6 A Commentary upon theGo(Jeí Chap.6. Juh.6 ::;, pbelfather inemy name,he taui/lvuve it you. WIfav e can ye nds a pray- ing heart, he will finde apitying ; if we open our mouthes, God will fill them : and he is worthily tniferable, that will not make himfelf happy by asking. Of tome Heathen Princes it is laid, that they never lent away their fuitors fad or difcontented :. this is mofl true of God ; let a man bring right petitions, a clear confcience, faith in thepromifes, and hope towait the accomphfhment, and he (hall not fail of the thing heasketh,or a better : As when God denied David the lifeof the childe, but affured himof his falva- S,rw. t t.a;. Lion, 1 Jhall go to hinv,&e. So he denied his Mother her parti- Joh,i.4 cular requal for that time : and when his Difciples asked him a Afts 1.7,8. curious queffion, Wilt ,those at thislime re.ftore the Kingdom. to 1frael,&c ? That's not for you to know, faith he but a better Fß1.ao4 thing I can tell : you (hall receive power after that the holy Ghofi- ss come uponlox. But many times God is gracioufly pleafed, not Maloaccipere á only to grant amans prayer, but alto to fill hie counfel ; that is, Deo Ieriae Pre- in that very way, andby that very means thathis thoughts pitch ces ga2m fine on. Butfay he doe neitherof thefe; yet the very ability CO prey ix prectbut uit the hot Ghost,, is atweet and fore fineoffalvation Rom.to.t. vet¡um burn y+ 3" mundumRol. And averygrave Divine wriceth thus : I cannot but prefer faith- Jx, in joh.6. full prayers for force temporali.mercy, far before that mercy for -3 which J pray. Yea I had rather God fhould give me the gift of cartes. inL k prayer, then ( withoutthat gift) the whole world befides. As for 6''L' (faith Divine bil ita f thoe that are can re a fai another , o ri- par?oho % á good note,)_ tovery good-fellows, thatthey cannot fpare fo much time ev 2roAVA0;4a out of company, as to feek God apart,. and to ferve him in fecret, aoAv04'6ai they fufficiently Phew themfelves thereby, to have little fellow- .th ecsttttoquio fhi or friendfhi with God whom they to feldom come at. &clef. rn. Verle Rut When ye pray, ufe not vain repetitions] Babble lúccleGio n4, 7. 7 p 1 P" - -.fun idlú. not : bubble not, faith the Syriaek, as water out of a narrow-mou- , .- M,nrebur thed vef el. Doe not iterate or inculcate the fame things odioufly inquìr erant, . adnaufeaná, as Soloman' fool,,who is full oft''ords (faith he :) a,Y.fvsnt tab rnontibur and this cuflome of his expreffed (44(-v4770)-s, in his vain tautologies. iilis. t; Mercuriat 4man cannot tell what jhall be, and what Jhall be after himwho par part reie. can tell? Such a. one alto, was that Battus .( towhom the Evan- rene, Me mint gelift. here bath relation,) an egregious babbler. In common dif. pe, fJe,proli' ? courte its a Ligne ofweaknefle, to lay on more words upona.mat- tell` I r''"c' O, it- ter then needs muf} : how much more in prayer ? Take we heed ,au s d r we offer not. the ¡crifàce of fools, Gode path no peed of filch, I.Saes_
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