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

One is in Exodus 13. In the thing wherein they dealt proudly, God was above them. Never since the world began was that more fulfilled. A second is that in the 10. Psalm, The wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. If ever there were a fulfilling of that Scripture since the beginning of the world, it is as this day. A third is this in the Text. I said not to the seed of Jacob; seek ye my face in vain. God (as I said) hath raised a spirit of prayer among the seed of Jacob more then ever any in the world knew; there was never the like spirit of prayer ⟨p. 280⟩raised, nor never the like things done for prayer.

One is in Exodus 13. In the thing wherein they dealt proudly, God was above them. Never since the world began was that more fulfilled. A second is that in the 10. Psalme, The wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. If ever there were a fulfilling of that Scripture since the beginning of the world, it is as this day. A third is this in the Text. I said not to the seed of Iacob; seek ye my face in vain. God (as I said) hath raised a spirit of prayer among the seed of Iacob more then ever any in the world knew; there was never the like spirit of prayer ⟨p. 280⟩raised, nor never the like things done for prayer.

And the Lord the rather honoured the ordinance of prayer now, because men so dishonoured it before and persecuted it, that the people of God could not meet and assemble to fast and pray, but presently it was a conventicle, and they were persecuted as factious people. Because God saw this way despised, he hath honoured it, and the former, and the latter mercies that we have received, we are to attribute to the goodness of God by prayer, they were obtained by prayer. Let us still be encouraged to call unto God for what we would have: for God hath said, call upon me and I will answer thee.