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2. Quer. Though Gods abhorring, and final rejecting prayer be an argument of his abhorring the person that prays; yet dare we conclude so from a mere suspension of the answer? God may bear long with his own elect, that cry unto him day and night, Luk. 18. 7.

2. Quer. Though Gods abhorring, and final rejecting prayer be an argument of his abhorring the person that prayes; yet dare we conclude so from a meere suspension of the answer? God may bear long with his own elect, that cry unto him day and night, Luk. 18. 7.

3. Quer. Can you deny but that there are some signs appearing in your Souls, even whilst God suspends his answer that argue your prayers are not rejected by him? as (1) Though no answer come, yet you are still resolved to wait: you dare not say as that profane wretch did, 2 Kings 6. 33. This evil is of the Lord, why should I wait for him any longer? (2) You can clear and justify God still, and lay the reason and cause of his silence upon your selves. So did David, Psal. 22. 2, 3. O ⟨p. 163⟩my God, I cry in the day time, and thou hearest not; and in the night, and am not silent, but thou art holy, &c. (3) The suspension of Gods answer makes you inquisitive into your own hearts, what evils are there that obstruct your prayers? So the Church, Lam. 3. 8. He shutteth out my prayer: and how doth this work? you may see, v. 40. Let us search and try our ways: well then, neither from hence may you conclude that God hath no love for your Souls.

3. Quer. Can you deny but that there are some signs appearing in your Souls, even whilest God suspends his answer that argue your prayers are not rejected by him? as (1) Though no answer come, yet you are still resolved to wait: you dare not say as that prophane wretch did,