The Return of Prayers

And therefore the peace here spoken of and ⟨p. 247⟩promised for the present is to be extended largelier then to outward prosperity, or an happy issue out of that calamity, even to speaking peace to drooping and weather-beaten consciences: and accordingly we find this kind of peace to have been specially promised by the Prophet Isaiah to the people at their return out of the Captivity, both in Isaiah 48. from 20. to the end, and Isaiah the 57. from the 14. to the end, there being many broken hearts that had wanted the light of Gods countenance long, having been during the Captivity, banished from the Ordinances ⟨p. 248⟩of the Temple, hanging up their harps mourning, whose thoughts were as if God had meant to destroy them, as appears Jer. 29. 11. who afterwards were refreshed with in ward peace, at the restoration of those Ordinances, as well as with outward, as by those places doth appear. Therefore in relation to this kind of peace only I will at this time handle the words.

And therefore the peace here spoken of and ⟨p. 247⟩promised for the present is to be extended largelier then to outward prosperity, or an happy issue out of that calamity, even to speaking peace to drooping and weather-beaten consciences: and accordingly we finde this kinde of peace to have beene specially promised by the Prophet Isaiah to the people at their returne out of the Captivity, both in Isaiah 48. from 20. to the end, and Isaiah the 57. from the 14. to the end, there being many broken hearts that had wanted the light of Gods countenance long, having beene during the Captivity, banisht from the Ordinances ⟨p. 248⟩of the Temple, hanging up their harps mourning, whose thoughts were as if God had meant to destroy them, as appeares