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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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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.
1. Are we not guilty of secret sins in the light of God's countenance, that cannot, ought not to be confessed with or before others, insomuch that near relations are exhorted to secret and solitary duties, Zechariah 12.12. 1 Cor. 7.4.