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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…
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1. How to manage secret prayer that it may prevail with God?
2. How to discern and discover answers to secret prayer, that the soul may acquiesce and be satisfied that it hath prevailed with God?
Before I handle these, I would briefly prove the duty and its usefulness, leaving some cases about its attendants and circumstances towards the close.
As to the duty it self, the text is plain and distinct in the point: yet further observe in Solomon's prayer, that if any man besides the community of the people of Israel shall present his supplication to God,1 he there prays for a gracious and particular answer, and we know Solomon's prayer was answered by fire, and therefore hence we may learn a promise given forth to personal prayer. Besides the many special and particular injunctions unto individual persons in the case, as