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The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Section 88: §. 88. Of praying after God hath heard our prayer.
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§. 88. Of praying after God hath heard our prayer.
IIII. *Prayer to God is to be continued after the thing prayed for is granted. After that the Psalmist in testimony of Gods hearing him had said, aI will praise thee, for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation, he addeth, Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. Many such passages there be, as in the Psalms, so in other books of Scripture. Indefinite exhortations to pray bin every season, calways, dwithout ceasing, give good evidence to the truth of the doctrine. For, if after God hath heard us, we cease to pray, how can we pray without ceasing, always, in every season? None can doubt but that God heard the prayers of his faithful servants in all ages: yet never did any faithful servant of God thereupon cease calling upon God so long as he lived. It is ethe stile of a true Saint to call upon God. If they should cease to call upon God, they would show themselves most 7unworthy of that dignity.
IIII. *PRayer to God is to be continued after the thing prayed for is granted. After that the Psalmist in testimony of Gods hearing him had said, a