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Set others to pray for thee: Yet not every one, ¹who (it may be) can pray: Assurance is not an errand to send every common Christian to the Throne of Grace about: Special Favourites are employed to Princes for special Favours: thou canst not pray thy self, nor set any of the household of Faith at work for an higher Boon than for Assurance: Oh get some special Favourite (under the great Mediator) some Noah, some Job, some Daniel, &c. Men or Women of great acquaintance and much communion with God, Christians of large experience and eminent holiness, to such God usually denieth nothing: And (Heb.) The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, ²his Covenant to make them know it. Speaks to others, as men and women ordinarily bespeak prayers, Pray pray for me, and the like, and (truly for the most part) it passeth for a common, if not a vain Complement, and there's an end of it; speak to some (not Heathen) and they will laugh at thee, they know not what thou sayest; speak to others, and they'll forget thee: He that makes not assurance his own concernment, how can he make it thine? Speak to serious, solid, broken-hearted Christians, who know what assurance is, and what it is worth, earnestly beg of them, If there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies? That they would plead hard for that (in the interest of our Lord Jesus) if God would remember your poor thirsty soul for one draught of this wine of this consolation, Assurance, and they cannot, yea, they dare not forget thee: They know whose prayers have prevailed for themselves in the like petitions, and they dare not but pay their debts.

Set others to pray for thee: Yet not every one, ¹who (it may be) can pray: Assurance is not an errand to send every common Christian to the Throne of Grace about: Special Favourites are imployed to Princes for special Favours: thou canst not pray thy self, nor set any of the houshold of Faith at work for an higher Boon than for Assurance: Oh get some special Favourite (under the great Mediator) some Noah, some Job, some Daniel, &c. Men or Women of great acquaintance and much communion with God, Christians of large experience and eminent holiness, to such God usually denyeth nothing: And (Heb.) The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him,