An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Secondly, In time of affliction God especially calls us to prayer; he commands us at all times, but chiefly then. Is any among you afflicted? (is that any mans case?) let him pray (Jam. 5.14.) What should an afflicted man do else? What is he so much engaged to do by his own necessity, what so much by the will of God, as to p•ay? Affliction, which takes us off from many other wo•ks, sets us upon and about this.

Secondly, In time of affliction God especially calls us to prayer; he commands us at all times, but chiefly then. Is any among you afflicted? (is that any mans case?) let him pray (Jam. 5.14.) What should an afflicted man do else? What is he so much engag'd to do by his own necessity, what so much by the will of God, as to p•ay? Affliction, which takes us off from many other wo•ks, sets us upon and about this.

Thirdly, Prayer in time of affliction is under most promises to be heard: Now not to pray, not to cry to God, when we have so many promises to assure us of hearing, increaseth our sin in the neglect of prayer. Though I do not say, the hypocrites prayer is under these promises of hearing, yet it shall be reckoned as a ⟨p. 268⟩sin that he ha•h not prayed in affliction, because there are so many promises of hearing prayer in affliction. The Lord is very gracious to those tha• cry in affliction, and the hypocrite hath often heard that he will be so; how wretchedly sinful is he then against God, as well as regardless of his own good, it God hear not of him, or from him, in his affliction! (