CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

And 1. It must be the prayer of a righteous man, such who washeth himself from his sins, for sins they have a tongue, and they cry for vengeance,¹ and will quickly cry louder then our prayers; Hence a wicked mans prayer is said to be an abomination to the Lord, Pro. 28.9. and the blind man could see and say this, God heareth not the prayers of a sinner; There is a twofold sinner, a sinner wilfully going on in his wickedness, and such God will not hear, but then there is a sinner praying, mourning and repenting, as the Publican, who said, Lord be merciful to me a sinner, and such sins God doth hear; Nay, all men are sinners in this respect, and thus God should hear no prayer at all, if he did not hear such; But for other kind of sins, of which all places are full, those God doth loath and their duties; David hath expressed it fully, If I regard iniquity in my heart God will not hear me, Psa. 66.18. Oh then look to thy self and thy life when thou goest to pray; If the tongue that prayeth be a cursing, swearing tongue, If the eyes lifted up to heaven be full of wantonness and adultery, If the hands held out towards heaven be full of violence, fraud, and injustice, God is of purer eyes then to behold such,

And 1. It must be the praier of a righteous man, such who washeth himself from his sinnes, for sinnes they have a tongue, and they cry for vengeance,¹ and will quickly cry louder then our praiers; Hence a wicked mans praier is said to be an abomination to the Lord, Pro. 28.9. and the blinde man could see and say this, God heareth not the praiers of a sinner; There is a twofold sinner, a sinner wilfully going on in his wickednesse, and such God will not hear, but then there is a sinner praying, mourning and repenting, as the Publican, who said, Lord be mercifull to me a sinner, and such sins God doth hear; Nay, all men are sinners in this respect, and thus God should hear no praier at all, if he did not hear such; But for other kinde of sins, of which all places are full, those God doth loath and their duties; David hath expressed it fully, If I regard iniquity in my heart God will not hear me,