456 A Commentary upon the Goffreó Cha . Fiat mea voluntas, -Let my will be done, Paid one t prayer: s and then sweetly falls cfr; My will, Lord, becaufe thy will, and he had his rqueft. But let not the lrnbelcever thank that he fhall receive any thingof the Lord, /am. r.7. fitr. he (huts heaven gates againft his own prayers; and by the evil operation ofa.mifgi.- ving heart,denies them before he presents them. Aexs&-/uí2411, Verfe 17. O faithleff"e and per verre generation] He reproves the-nine Difciples, :but rejefts them not. Chrift in Inc very dung_: hill of unbeliefand finfullnefle, can findeout his own part of faith and holinefle, as we fee in Sarah, Gen. r 8.1a. That whole Ipeech of, hers was vile and profane (befdes that for want of faith fhe laughed at the unlikelihood, and was therefore checked by the Angel.) One thing only was praifeworthy in that finfull fenrence, that thecalled her husband Lord : This,God bath taken notice of, and recorded to her eternall commendation, and others imitation, Pet.3.6, And perverfe generation] Depraved, diflorred, difocated. Homo oft inverfru decalogue. Man now (lands acroffe to all good- nelle, is horn wich his back towards heaven, a perverfe and croo- ked creature,Deur.3a,5. having his upper- lip thnding where his nether-lip fhould, Pro 19 t. and all parts else out of frame and joint,Rom.3. vt çui vo'eOtes How longfl, i11 IfHfferyou f] As the (Awl WELLqt, y doe, that willingly bear (a .e9 rer. a burden;and are content to continue under ir. Chrift bears with duro,: r t3EZ e, our evil manners, Aas 1 3.18. as á loving husband- bears with a ¢ o7tc 65t,rv. froward wife : but yet he is fufflciencly fenfible, and therefore complains of-the pro. ffure, Amos 2.13. and once cried out ut:der the importable weight of ir, city God,my God,kthy haFithou for- Ftken me. The earth could not bear Korah and his company, but clave under and fwaliowed them u_): as it loon after l uh.d out the Canaanites, whohad filled it-with fifth.inefl'e from corner to cor- ner,_ E.r - 9 11.. Confider, how oft: thrauf-h'aft41rac>l :d over the mouthof thebottomkffe pit, and art ndr.g'ecfallen' into the boy. ling caldron, that fiery furnace. Oh (land and 'wonder at Gods patience, and beabrupt in thy r pentance, left abuted mercy turn Into fury. Verle 18. Andhedepartedout of him] Though with a very ill wil,for hecore the childe, and ulell-nigh killed hstn. So when we doe,by the prayer ofiaith, conjure and'charrn the devil out of our hearts ( prayer is called a charm, Ifa, a 6 16.) he will make all the burly-
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