Winter meditations directions how to employ the leisure of the winter for the glory…

and those Devils have always been Watching, Wishing, Snatching, to Devour us. But our God has muzzled those Hungry Lions; and has granted us a guard of Good Angels, whose Ministry has been useful to us, in many Thousands of Good Offices, whereof we shall never be exactly advised, until we are Translated into their Innumerable Company. And yet this is not all!

and those Divels have always been Watching, Wishing, Snatching, to Devour us. But our God has muzzled those Hungry Lions; and has granted us a guard of Good Angels, whose Ministry has been useful to us, in many Thousands of Good Offices, whereof we shall never be exactly advized, until we are Translated into their Innumerable Company. And yet this is not all!

The EIGHTH Article in our Commemoration may be the Benefits of God, relating to the Evident ANSWERS of our PRAYERS, by the Merciful Hearer of Prayer. May not you and I make this Relation, This poor man has cried unto the Lord, & the Lord has heard and saved! Cannot we lock upon one enjoyment, and say, This is a Naphtali, I wrestled with my God for this, and so I obtained it! Can we not look upon another enjoyment, and say, This is a Samuel, I asked it of my God, and so I had it! When Distresses have been upon our selves, we have gone to our God, and having Offered up our Prayers and Supplications, we have been Heard in what we feared. And when distresses have been upon others, perhaps we have like Abraham, like Moses, like Samuel, and like David, and like Isaiah, prevailed for the Removal of them. A Minister of the Gospel, 'tis probable may see the Faces of some Scores in his Congregation, of whom he may say, God gave that Soul from death ⟨p. 60⟩to my poor unworthy prayers! Yea, 'tis possible the very Devils have not been able to stand before our Prayers; our Prayers have perhaps more than thrice dispossessed the Devils, who had seized upon some of our Afflicted Neighbours. Let me tell you; Psalms to bring unto Remembrance, are to keep us from forgetting the Returns of our Prayers! But further yet;

The EIGHTH Article in our Commemoration may be the Benefits of God, relating to the Evident ANSWERS of our PRAYERS, by the Merciful Hearer of Prayer. May not you and I make this Relation, This poor man has cry'd unto the Lord, & the Lord has heard and sav'd! Cannot we lock upon one enjoyment, and say, This is a Naphtali, I wrestled with my God for this, and so I obtained it! Can we not look upon another enjoyment, and say, This is a Samuel, I asked it of my God, and so I had it! When Distresses have been upon our selves, we have gone to our God, and having Offered up our Prayers and Supplications, we have been Heard in what we feared. And when distresses have been upon others, perhaps we have like Abraham, like Moses, like Samuel, and like David, and like Isaiah, prevailed for the Remoual of them. A Minister of the Gospel, 'tis probable may see the Faces of some Scores in his Congregation, of whom he may say, God gave that Soul from death