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4. They have an interest in God. Though he is angry with them, and witnesseth it in their Consciences, yet he is their Father; he loveth them; they are under the glorious promises of the Gospel, of which this is one, that if his people sin against him, yet if they repent and pray to him, he will forgive; and though the evidence of their interest in him may now be clouded, yet there are usually some resentments of former experiences, which persuade them to hope he will remember a Fathers pity for them, and receive them praying to him.

4. They have an interest in God. Though he is angry with them, and witnesseth it in their Consciences, yet he is their Father; he loveth them; they are under the glorious promises of the Gospel, of which this is one, that if his people sin against him, yet if they repent and pray to him, he will forgive; and though the evidence of their interest in him may now be clouded, yet there are usually some resentments of former experiences, which perswade them to hope he will remember a Fathers pity for them, and receive them praying to him.

5. The spirit of supplication dwells in them. It is he that helpeth his to pray; now he dwelleth in every Godly man; and though he be grieved by their sins, yet he doth not forsake his dwelling: and this is one thing he doth for them, viz. He helps them to call upon God as a father, Rom. 8. 15. He excites them, and brings them before him on their knees, and this he will do sooner or later in all these.

USE I. Learn hence how vain a this it is for those to presume of a pardon, who neglect ⟨p. 297⟩