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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 10THE RETVRNE OF PRAYERS. › Chapter 10
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12 Discouragement is the weakness of their prayers: though a man thinks his person is accepted, yet alas says he, my prayers are so poor and weak, as surely God will never regard them. To remove which, let me first ask thee this question: §1Doest thou pray with all thy might? then though that thy might be weak in it self, and in thine own apprehension such, yet because it is all the might which thou hast, and which grace hath in thee, it shall be accepted. For God accepts according to what a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 2 Cor. 8. 12.
12 Discouragement is the weaknesse of their prayers: though a man thinks his person is accepted, yet alas sayes he, my prayers are so poore and weake, as surely God will never regard them. To remove which, let mee first aske thee this question: §1Doest thou pray with all thy might? then though that thy might be weak in it selfe, and in thine owne apprehension such, yet because it is all the might which thou hast, and which grace hath in thee, it shall be accepted. For God accepts according to what a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 2 Cor. 8. 12.
- 12 Of the weakness of our prayers: which is answered by three things.2 Of the weaknesse of our prayers: which is answered by three things.
2. Thou art to consider that God doth not hear thee for thy prayers sake, though not without them, but for his Names sake, and his Sons sake, and because thou art his child, as the mother when her child cries (suppose it be a weak child) doth not neglect to hear and relieve it: but tenders it not because it doth cry more loud, but because it cries; and pities it the more the weaker it is.