A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief…

The inward sanctification of all our faculties, is what we want and pray for. Supplies of Grace from God unto this purpose, with a sense of the Power, Guilt, violence and deceit of Sin in its inward actings in the ⟨p. 57⟩mind and affections, with other things innumerable thereunto belonging, make up the principal matter of Prayer as formally Supplication.

Add hereunto, that unto the matter of Prayer taken largely for the whole Duty so called, every thing wherein we have intercourse with God in Faith and Love, doth belong. The Acknowledgement of the whole mystery of his Wisdom, Grace and Love in Christ Jesus, with all the Fruits, Effects and Benefits which thence we do receive, all the Workings and actings of our Souls towards him, with their Faculties and Affections; in brief, every thing and every conception of our minds, wherein our spiritual Access unto the Throne of Grace doth consist, or which doth belong thereunto, with all occasions and emergencies of Spiritual Life, are in like manner comprised herein. And that we can have such an Acquaintance with these things as to manage them acceptably in our Supplications, without the Grace of spiritual illumination from the Holy Ghost, few are so ignorant or profane as to assert. Some I confess seem to be strangers unto these things, which yet renders them not of the less weight or moment.

Add hereunto, that unto the matter of Prayer taken largely for the whole Duty so called, every thing wherein we have entercourse with God in Faith and Love, doth belong. The Acknowledgement of the whole mystery of his Wisdom, Grace and Love in Christ Jesus, with all the Fruits, Effects and Benefits which thence we do receive, all the Workings and actings of our Souls towards him, with their Faculties and Affections; in brief, every thing and every conception of our minds, wherein our spiritual Access unto the Throne of Grace doth consist, or which doth belong thereunto, with all occasions and emergencies of Spiritual Life, are in like manner comprised herein. And that we can have such an Acquaintance with these things as to manage them acceptably in our Supplications, without the Grace of spiritual illumination from the Holy Ghost, few are so ignorant or profane as to assert. Some I confess seem to be strangers unto these things, which yet renders them not of the less weight or moment.