The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

These three are the essential properties of such prayer as is heard, or if you will, of that which is properly or spiritually prayer, fervency, and assurance, &c. are excellent ingredients; but yet the Lord may hear prayer without them: it is true, the Lord may sometimes not hear us presently, for our praying time is our sowing time, we must not look presently for the harvest. The Lord hears the prayer of the destitute, Psal. 102.17. the original word is, of the shrub, or naked place of the desert, which the Prophet ⟨p. 310⟩saith, Jer. 17.6. sees no good when good comes, yet such as feel themselves such, the Lord doth regard them; and will have a time to answer them: and though the Lord may not give us the thing we pray for, nor as good a thing of the same kind, yet he ever gives us the end of our prayers; he that is at sea and wants stiff winds to carry him to his port, yet hath no cause to complain, if the Lord secretly carries him in by a strong current of the sea it self; and it is certain at the end of all Gods dealing with you, you shall then see how the Lord hath not failed to answer you in any one particular, Jos. 23.14.

These three are the essentiall properties of such prayer as is heard, or if you will, of that which is properly or spiritually prayer, f•rvency, and assurance, &c. are excellent ingredients; but yet the Lord may heare prayer without them: it is true, the Lord may sometimes not heare us presently, for our praying time is our sowing time, we must not look presently for the harvest. The Lord heares the prayer of the destitute, Psal. 102.17. the originall word is, of the shrub, or naked place of the desert, which the Prophet ⟨p. 310⟩saith, Ier. 17.6. sees no good when good comes, yet such as feele themselves such, the Lord doth regard them; and will have a time to answer them: and though the Lord may not give us the thing we pray for, nor as good a thing of the same kind, yet he ever gives us the end of our prayers; hee that is at sea and wants stiffe winds to carry him to his port, yet hath no cause to complaine, if the Lord secretly carries him in by a strong current of the sea it selfe; and it is certain at the end of all Gods dealing with you, you shall then see how the Lord hath not failed to answer you in any one particular,