A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

To this purpose,

1. Pray for quickening grace. How often do we find David upon his knees for it? God only gives this grace, and God only stirs this grace.

2. Meditate on the Promises you intend to plead. Unbelief is the great root of all dumpishness. It was by the belief of the Word we had life at first, and by an exercise of that belief we gain liveliness. What maintains our love, will maintain our delight; the amiableness of God, and the excellency of the Promises, are the incentives and fuel both of the one and of the other. Think that they are eternal things you are to pray for, and that you have as much invitation to beg them, and as good a promise to attain them as David, Paul, or any other ever had. How would this awaken our drowsy Souls, and elevate our heavy hearts, and open the lazy eye-lids to look up! And whatever meditation we find begin to kindle our Souls, let us follow it on, that the spark may not go out.

2. Meditate on the Promises you intend to plead. Unbelief is the great root of all dumpishness. It was by the belief of the Word we had life at first, and by an exercise of that belief we gain liveliness. What maintains our love, will maintain our delight; the amiableness of God, and the excellency of the Promises, are the incentives and fuel both of the one and of the other. Think that they are eternal things you are to pray for, and that you have as much invitation to beg them, and as good a promise to attain them as David, Paul, or any other ever had. How would this awaken our drowzy Souls, and elevate our heavy hearts, and open the lazy eye-lids to look up! And whatever meditation we find begin to kindle our Souls, let us follow it on, that the spark may not go out.