The Godly Man's Picture

1. Prayer is a seed sown in Gods ears; other seed sown in the ground may be picked up by the Birds, but this seed (especially if watered with tears) is too precious to be lost.

1. Prayer is a seed sown in Gods ears; other seed sown in the ground may be picked up by the Birds, but this seed (especially if watred with tears) is too precious to be lost.

2. Consider the power of prayer: The Apostle having set down the whole Armour of a Christian, brings in prayer as the chief part, Eph. 6. 18. Without this (saith Zanchy) all the rest are little^† worth: By prayer Moses divided the Red Sea; Joshua stopped the course of the Sun, and made it stand still, Josh. 10. 13. Nay, prayer made the Sun of Righteousness stand still, Luke 18. 40. ⟨p. 129⟩And Jesus stood still. Prayer is the in-let to all blessings, spiritual and temporal. When Aurelius Antonius went against the Germans, he had in his Army a Regiment of Christians, who upon their earnest prayer, obtained Rain for the refreshment of his Army; and because of the power of their prayers, he called them the Thundering Regiment. Prayer hath a power in it to destroy the insolent Enemies of the Church. We read, the two Witnesses have a flame at their lips; fire proceeds out of their mouths which devours their Enemies, Rev. 11. 5. This fire is certainly to be interpreted of their^* prayers: David prayed, Lord turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness,