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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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We may argue this point from the constant practice of the holy Saints of God in all ages, but especially of our blessed Lord, and 'tis our wisdom to walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous,1 what should I speak of Abraham, Eliezar, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Hannah, Hezekiah, David and Daniel. The time would fail me to bring in the cloud of Witnesses, our Lord we find sometimes in a Desert, in a Mountain, in a Garden at prayer, Cornelius in his house, and Peter upon the house top in secret supplications to God.
The experience of God's gracious presence and answers sent in upon secret prayer, as in the stories of Eliezer, Jabez, Nehemiah, Zechariah, 1Cornelius and Paul, &c. For this cause, because David was heard, shall every one that is godly pray unto him.
I might urge the usefulness, nay in some cases the necessities of secret applications to God.