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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 5THE RETVRNE OF PRAYERS. › Chapter 5
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.
1Now secondly: as God thus speaks to the heart to pray, so also in praying; and his speaking to the heart in prayer may be discerned by these particulars.
1Now secondly: as God thus speakes to the heart to pray, so also in praying; and his speaking to the heart in prayer may bee discerned by these particulars.
- 1§. 2. 2 In prayer: Gods speaking to the heart in prayer, an evidence of hearing: which may be discerned.§. 2. 2 In praier: Gods speaking to the heart in prayer, an evidence of hearing: which may be discerned.
11. When God quiets, ⟨p. 94⟩and calms, and contents the heart in prayer, which is done by speaking something to the heart, though what is spoken, be not always discerned: If you should see one, who was an earnest and importunate suitor and exceeding anxious when he went in to a great man, but behold him after coming out from him contented, and quieted, and cheerful in his spirit, you would conceive that certainly something had been said to him, which gave him encouragement, satisfaction and contentment in his suit; Thus when thou goest to God, and hast been importunate in a business, ⟨p. 95⟩(as suppose for Christ, Oh give me Christ, or else I die!) and thy desires were exceedingly up for it; But thou risest up with thy mind calmed and satisfied, and feelest the anxiousness, the solicitude of thy heart about the thing taken off, and dispelled; This is a good sign that God hath heard thy Prayer, and hath spoken something to thy heart, which makes it thus composed. When Hannah out of much bitterness and with strong desires (which by a long delay had bin made more violent, so as her heart was much disquieted (for,