A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

¹Or if we read the words as the French Translation (I think more properly) renders them. If I had regarded some wickedness in my heart, God would not have heard my prayer; the sense is the same to my present purpose.

¹Or if we read the words as the French Translation (I think more properly) renders them. If I had regarded some wickedness in my heart, God would not have heard my prayer; the sence is the same to my present purpose.

1. 1Si j'eusse pentè quelque malice, &c.

6. Evangelical Faith and Hope in God. All our confessions and humiliations and supplications ought to be joined with faith in Christ, and hope in God's mercies, or else they want the great Ingredients of their acceptableness with God. As in Ezra's fast, Shechaniah stands up and saith to him, we have trespassed against our God, and taken strange wives, &c. Yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing, Ezra 10.2. And to the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, said Daniel in his fasting, Dan. 9.9. God's mercy and Christ's merits should bear up our faith and hope, while our sin is casting us down with sorrow. As Samuel endeavoured to bring the people, first to a sense of their sin in their choosing a King, and then bears up their faith and hope, by telling them God will not forsake his people for his name sake, 1 Sam. 22.22. and David while he was confessing his sins of adultery and murder, Psal. 51. yet stileth God the God of his Salvation, ver. 14. and whiles he was crying to God out of the depths, as he speaks, and making his supplication,