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Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight
Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight : or The excellent on earth. / By the late reverend preacher of the Gospel Jeremiah Borough.Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight : or The excellent on earth. / By the late reverend preacher of the Gospel Jeremiah Burrough.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the University of Cambridge, 1648Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1648
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and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. These followed upon the prayers of the Saints. It signified the time wherein all should come in remembrance before the Lord▪ as if an Angel were offering, yea, Christ the Angel ⟨p. 21⟩of the Covenant, hath a time to take the prayers presented long ago, and to offer them to God with his own incense. They are all recorded in heaven, therefore they are not in vain. When a petition is taken and put upon record, the petitioner petitioneth not in vain, his petition is not thrown out. If a petition be presented to the Parliament, and they take it, and tell you it shall be kept on record, and charge the Clerk to keep it there, and say they will take due time to consider of it, you will not say such a petition is in vain. God doth so to all his people; he takes their petitions and recordeth them; they are all filed in heaven.
and there were voyces, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. These followed upon the prayers of the Saints. It signified the time wherein all should come in remembrance before the Lord▪ as if an Angel were offering, yea, Christ the Angel ⟨p. 21⟩of the Covenant, hath a time to take the prayers presented long ago, and to offer them to God with his own incense. They are all recorded in heaven, therefore they are not in vain. When a petition is taken and put upon record, the petitioner petitioneth not in vain, his petitionis not thrown out. If a petition be presented to the Parliament, and they take it, and tell you it shall be kept on record, and charge the Clerk to keep it there, and say they will take due time to consider of it, you will not say such a petition is in vain. God doth so to all his people; he takes their petitions and recordeth them; they are all filed in heaven.
Yet further, there is no faithful petition but God puts his fiat to the bottom of it, at the instant that it is put up to him. There is a decree in heaven issued out for mercy, at the very instant that the petition is put up, God dealeth not with us in this kind, as men do who are counted very gracious, if they please to tell us they will consider of our petition: no; but your petition is presently granted. A petitioner