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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
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.
Object. 1 O! but, I fear that God doth not only delay his answer, but that he denies my prayer.
Object. 1 O! but, I fear that God doth not only delay his answer, but that he denyes my prayer.
Answ. 1 It may be so, for God doth sometimes deny his own people the thing they pray for: Ye ask and have not (saith James) because ye ask amiss: Yet they were the people of God. Abulensis observes, that God doth sometimes grant a wicked man his petition, and deny a Godly man his petition; that he may encourage wicked men to pray, and teach good men, not to rest on their prayers.
Answ. 1 It may be so, for God doth somtimes deny his own people the thing they pray for: Ye ask and have not (saith James) because ye ask amiss: Yet they were the people of God. Abulensis observes, that God doth somtimes grant a wicked man his petition, and deny a Godly man his petition; that he may encourage wicked men to pray, and teach good men, not to rest on their prayers.
Answ. 2 Yet Secondly,1 If the thing you ask of God be pleasing to him, & he doth still bear up your heart in praying, and depending on him it argues rather, that he delays than denies. For, Psal. 10.17. The preparing of your heart, and the inclining of his ear, go together. and 1. John, 3. vers. 22. The Apostle saith. And whatever we ask we receive of him, because (as a sign thereof) we keep his Commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.