The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…

Again, God is a great God that we call unto, and it is fit for us to wait, & and to wait long. He is great, and we call for great things, and we are poor, mean, vile wretches. God hath his prerogative sometimes to answer presently, sometimes not so. Elijah was a great praying man, he is set for an example of prayer; he prays at one time for fire to come on the sacrifice, and fire came down presently; another time he prayed for rain, and then he prayed seven times, and bowed his head between his knees, and sent his servant, and sent him again and again. At one time God comes in at the first, at another time not till the seventh hour; it is Gods prerogative.

Again, God is a great God that we call unto, and it is fit for us to wait, & and to wait long. He is great, and we call for great things, and we are poor, mean, vile wretches. God hath his prerogative sometimes to answer presently, sometimes not so. Elias was a great praying man, he is set for an example of prayer; he prayes at one time for fire to come on the sacrifice, and fire came down presently; another time he prayed for rain, and then he prayed seven times, and bowed his head between his knees, and sent his servant, and sent him again and again. At one time God comes in at the first, at another time not till the seventh hour; it is Gods prerogative.

And take this note; it is a true sign of a gracious spirit, though God defer, ⟨p. 234⟩yet still for the soul to cling to God, to think well of God, and of the ways of God, and of the duty of prayer; it is an excellent sign, and the ready way to find favour with God. You have sometimes two beggars follow you for alms; one perhaps hath true need, pure need, and is of a soft tender spirit, the other is a sturdy rugged beggar, you deny them both; he that hath pure need, and hath a soft tender spirit, he thinks he is unworthy that the other man should be bountiful to him and he falls a weeping: yet he thinks well of the man, and will be ready to beg of him upon another occasion, he hath good thoughts of him. But the sturdy beggar rails, & breaks into an angry passionate mood, and he will ask no more; who of them is like to prevail, the soft spirit that hath an ingenious disposition, or the sturdy spirit that soon breaks off? Thus there are many passionate hearts, that are not froward with men, but with God, they come, and ask mercy of God, but their hearts are stiff, and froward