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The Return of Prayers
The return of prayers A treatise wherein this case how to discern Gods answers to our prayers is briefly resolved, with other observations upon Psal. 85.8. concerning Gods speaking peace, &c. By Tho: Goodwin. B.D.The returne of prayers A treatise wherein this case how to discerne Gods answers to our prayers is briefly resolved, with other observations vpon Psal. 85.8. concerning Gods speaking peace, &c. By Tho: Goodvvin. B.D.
London: printed by M. Flesher for R. Dawlman, 1636
THE RETURN OF PRAYERS. › Chapter 7THE RETVRNE OF PRAYERS. › Chapter 7
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1For the first of these: As, suppose thou diddest pray long for assurance of salvation, and joy in the Holy Ghost, and when thou hadst most need of it, either when thy spirit would have failed without it, as Isaiah 57. 16. Or against some great affliction approaching, or some great encounter with the world for the Name of Christ, then God filled thy ⟨p. 155⟩heart with it, &c. that was the fittest time: now hath God heard thy prayer. As S. Peter he was in Prison, and had been so for many days, as appears by the fourth and fifth verses, Acts 12. God could have delivered him at any time, while the Church prayed for him, ver. 5. But God kept him in on purpose, till that very night, when in the next morning Herod meant to bring him forth to execution, and then God delivered him at the prayers of the Church; then was the most fit time; As the Psalmist says, The full time to have mercy on him was come. 2And then ⟨p. 154⟩to receive an answer, is a sign God did it out of special love, which love he would have exalted by thee, as Isaiah 30. 18.
1For the first of these: As, suppose thou diddest pray long for assurance of salvation, and joy in the Holy Ghost, and when thou hadst most need of it, either when thy spirit would have failed without it, as Esay 57. 16. Or against some great affliction approaching, or some great encounter with the world for the Name of Christ, then God filled thy ⟨p. 155⟩heart with it, &c. that was the fittest time: now hath God heard thy prayer. As S. Peter hee was in Prison, and had beene so for many dayes, as appeares by the fourth and fifth verses, Acts 12. God could haue delivered him at any time, while the Church prayed for him, ver. 5. But God kept him in on purpose, till that very night, when in the next morning Herod meant to bring him forth to execution, and then God delivered him at the prayers of the Church; then was the most fit time; As the Psalmist sayes, The full time to have mercy on him was come.