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

That is wrought in the Hearts of Believers in their Duty, which is pervious to none but him that searcheth the Heart. This frame in all our Supplications we ought to aim at, especially in time of Distress, Troubles and Temptations, such as was the season here especially intended, when commonly we are most sensible of our own infirmities. And wherein we come short hereof in some measure, it is from our Unbelief or carelessness and negligence, which God abhors. I do acknowledge that there may be, that there will be more earnestness and intention of mind and of our natural ⟨p. 95⟩Spirit, therein, in this Duty, at one time than another, according as outward occasions or other motives do excite them or stir them up. So our Saviour in his Agony prayed more earnestly than usual, not with an higher exercise of Grace, which always acted it self in him in perfection, but with a greater vehemency in the working of his natural faculties. So it may be with us at especial seasons; But yet we are always to endeavour after the same Aids of the Spirit, the same actings of Grace in every particular Duty of this kind.

That is wrought in the Hearts of Believers in their Duty, which is pervious to none but him that searcheth the Heart. This frame in all our Supplications we ought to aim at, especially in time of Distress, Troubles and Temptations, such as was the season here especially intended, when commonly we are most sensible of our own infirmities. And wherein we come short hereof in some measure, it is from our Unbelief or carelesness and negligence, which God abhors. I do acknowledge that there may be, that there will be more earnestness and intention of mind and of our natural ⟨p. 95⟩Spirit, therein, in this Duty, at one time than another, according as outward occasions or other motives do excite them or stir them up. So our Saviour in his Agony prayed more earnestly than usuall, not with an higher exercise of Grace, which always acted it self in him in perfection, but with a greater vehemency in the working of his natural faculties. So it may be with us at especial seasons; But yet we are always to endeavour after the same Aids of the Spirit, the same actings of Grace in every particular Duty of this kind.