Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

Then is a Mercy a fore-runner of further Mercy, when it is obtained by Faith and prayer in the Covenant of Grace; That Mercy that prayer and the exercise of Faith doth obtain, is certainly and infallibly, a fore-runner of further Mercy. God hath not done with that people, and that Soul in a way of Mercy, where he bestows a Mercy as a fruit of prayer, an exercise of Faith in the Covenant; If prayer be the Key to open Heaven when it is shut to us, much more then will it keep Heaven ⟨p. 392⟩open when it is once open, but that we know to be the excellency of prayer, it is the great Key of Heaven that golden Key of Heaven that opens it when it is shut, then surely prayer can keep Heaven open; If ever a Mercy were obtained by prayer, certainly that Mercy that we have now for the present here in England, is a Mercy obtained by prayer, if ever there were a Parliament obtained by prayer since England was a Nation, certainly this Parliament was; we may call the name of this Parliament Samuel, asked of God, and what have been the earnest cries of Gods people, of many that are dead and gone, but for these times: Now that that is a fruit not only of prayer of Gods people for the present, but is the Harvest of so many prayers of the Saints of God, and Worthies of God in former ages that are now gone, and their Souls are triumphing in Heaven, (I say) that that is the Harvest of all their prayers, surely cannot be one single Mercy, but is a Mercy to let in others, it is a Mercy that is a door of hope to further Mercies; and that is the Third Note. Again Fourthly, a Fourth Note of a Mercy that is a making way to further Mercies, is this,