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Extraordinary Prayer further consisteth in long continuance, when prayer is held out longer then at usual •nd accustomed times.^c Jacob continued a whole night •n prayer:^d so did David, and^e Christ. ^fMoses spent a day •herein: so did^g Joshua and the Elders of Israel. ^hDavid •alled upon God night & day. No doubt but Jonah ⁱspent •he three days & three nights that he was in the Whales •elly in prayer.^{8 k}It may be gathered that Daniel continued⟨p. 444⟩ one and twenty days in prayer. (Not that without any intermission he so long prayed, but that every day in that time he returned to extraordinary prayer:) for so long he was in heaviness, and eat no pleasant bread. (Now fasting and sorrow in the Saints are companions of prayer,) besides the Angel of God came to him at the end of those three weeks (when his extraordinary prayers are to be supposed to end) and said to him; From the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to humble thy self before thy God, thy words were heard. Here he showeth that with Daniels humiliation prayer was joined, else how could his words be heard. Secondly, that there were divers days spent therein, else he would not say from the first day, &c. Now that first day being the beginning of the three weeks, and the Angel coming at the end of the three weeks, it is like he continued his extraordinary prayers so long.