The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

V. Though we are not absolutely to believe we shall receive Temporal blessings or those of consolation or edification, yet that we do not more confidently expect the performance of such Prayers in kind, proceeds generally from our not believing and improving the Power and goodness of God, and the great Interest Christ hath in God, and the rest that I have spoken of, for generally we are more confident that the thing we pray for is good for us, then we are that we shall have it.

V. Though we are not absolutely to believe we shall receive Temporal blessings or those of consolation or edification, yet that we do not more confidently expect the performance of such Prayers in kind, proceeds generally from our not believing and improving the Power and goodnesse of God, and the great Interest Christ hath in God, and the rest that I have spoken of, for generally we are more confident that the thing we pray for is good for us, then we are that we shall have it.

VI. We may be as confident that the restoring of our selves or our relations to health, or deliverance of them out of danger is for our good, as they in our Saviours time, who prayed to him for these mercies, were.

VII. As the case stands between Justifying Faith and assurance, so the case stands as to our receiving and our expecting the answer of our Prayers in kind.