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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 14: Quest. How to manage secret Prayer, that it may be prevalent with God to the comfort an…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. For thy Father sees thee in secret, his eye is upon thee with a gracious aspect, when thou art withdrawn from all the world.
2. He will reward thee, [Greek or Hebrew], retribuet, reponet, or as Ambrose reads it, redder; so the word is sometimes translated by rendering, 1Math. 22.21. Rom. 2.6. & 13.7. by delivering, Math. 27.58. Luke 9.42. by yielding or affording, Heb. 12.11. Rev. 22.2. All which comes to this, he will return thy prayers or thy requests amply and abundantly into thy bosom.
2. He will reward thee, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, retribuet, reponet, or as Ambrose reads it, redder; so the word is sometimes translated by rendring, 1Math. 22.21. Rom. 2.6. & 13.7. by delivering, Math. 27.58.