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That reason is a reason of great weight:¹ for by obtaining pardon of sin for another, a soul is saved from death. What a privilege, what an honour is this to a Christian, that he should be a means of saving his brothers soul? What a benefit doth he thereby bring to his brother? The Scripture giveth us many instances of the benefit of prayer in this kind: namely, that it hath been a means of obtaining pardon for many sinners: and of preventing or removing many judgements from them. Witness the^e many prayers which Moses made for the Israelites when they had sinned against God:³ and in particular for^f Miriam. Witness also^g the prayer which Hezekiah made for the people that came unprepared to the Pass-over: and^h the prayer which Job made for his friends that spake not of God the thing that was right. No doubt butⁱ the prayer which Christ made on the cross for them that so evilly entreated him, was a means that many thousand Jews anon after his ascension were converted, and had their sins pardoned. The like may be said of^k Stephens prayer.

That reason is a reason of great weight:¹ for by obtaining pardon of sinne for another, ae soule is saued from death. What a priuiledge, what an honour is this to a Christian, that he should be a meanes of sauing his brothers soule? What a benefit doth he thereby bring to his brother? The Scripture giueth vs many instances of the benefit of prayer in this kinde: namely, that it hath bene a meanes of obtaining pardon for many sinners: and of preuenting or remouing many iudgements from them. Witnesse the