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Fifthly, Frequent and earnest Prayer to God is a powerful Means to render our Ministry successful. Paul plants, and Apollos waters, but God gives the Increase. Let a Minister be completely furnished with Learning, Judgment, Eloquence, yet all his Labour will be fruitless without Divine Grace. A Key that is exactly fit to all the Wards of a Lock, cannot open it without a Hand to turn it. Let the most proper and powerful Motives to work upon the reasonable Nature be represented, yet they cannot open the Heart, unless they are managed by the holy Spirit.

Fifthly, Frequent and earnest Prayer to God is a powerful Means to render our Ministry successful. Paul plants, and Apollos waters, but God gives the Increase. Let a Minister be compleatly furnish'd with Learning, Judgment, Eloquence, yet all his Labour will be fruitless without Divine Grace. A Key that is exactly fit to all the Wards of a Lock, cannot open it without a Hand to turn it. Let the most proper and powerful Motives to work upon the reasonable Nature be represented, yet they cannot open the Heart, unless they are manag'd by the holy Spirit.

'Tis very observable, that in the Narrative of the Miracles by the Prophets, some Circumstances are ⟨p. 365⟩related, that declare they were done by the Divine Power. Sometime the Command of God was before the Performance: thus in all the astonishing Works done by Moses, the Command of God was the beginning. Take thy Rod, stretch out thy ¹Hand, and others Orders that demonstrate the miraculous Actions not to proceed from an inherent Virtue in his Person, but from a superior and borrowed Power. Sometimes Prayer was adderest to God before the Miracles were done: Thus Joshua first speaks to the Lord, ²before he commands the Sun to stand still upon Gibeon, and the Moon in the Valley of Ajalon. Thus Elijah and ³