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And this oftentimes and usual, when the soul makes use of Gods Ordinances, and Privileges which himself hath granted, that surely God hath heard our requests, he never refuseth to grant that prayer which he stands to hear; for this purpose is that you read of the good woman Hannah, 1 Sam. 1.15. to 18. Ely suspected she was in some distemper, but saith she, I have poured out my soul before the Lord. She prayed feelingly, and fervently, and faithfully, not words, but her soul before the Lord; she had prayed with her whole heart, and her soul did raise up it self heavenward, the strength of her desire was set upon that; and he ⟨p. 232⟩then said, The Lord give thee favour in his eyes, and grant thy request; which was, as if this answer had come from heaven, for God doth reveal himself in his Ordinances: She looked at him as the high Priest, and so a Type of the Messiah and she took it as a voice from heaven, and the text saith, She went home, and looked no more sad. God hath set it on, and spoken comfort to her heart, so as that her faith was established, she saw the voice of God in it, and went home resolved upon it, and takes such encouragement to her self from thence as to fear no more in that kind. When Gods spirit gives us to pray affectionately, and to believe confidently, then we know we have our petitions, we are persuaded of it.

And this oftentimes and usuall, when the soule makes use of Gods Ordinances, and Priviledges which himselfe hath granted, that surely God hath heard our requests, he never refuseth to grant that prayer which he stands to heare; for this purpose is that you read of the good woman Hannah, 1 Sam. 1.15. to 18. Ely suspected she was in some distemper, but saith she, I have poured out my soule before the Lord. She prayed feelingly, and fervently, and faithfully, not words, but her soule before the Lord; she had prayed with her whole heart, and her soule did raise up it selfe heavenward, the strength of her desire was set upon that; and he ⟨p. 232⟩then said, The Lord give thee favour in his eyes, and grant thy request; which was, as if this answer had come from heaven, for God doth reveale himself in his Ordinances: She looked at him as the high Priest, and so a Type of the Messiah and she tooke it as a voyce from heaven, and the text saith, She went home, and looked no more sad. God hath set it on, and spoken comfort to her heart, so as that her faith was established, she saw the voyce of God in it, and went home resolved upon it, and takes such encouragement to her selfe from thence as to feare no more in that kinde. When Gods spirit gives us to pray affectionately, and to beleeve confidently, then we know we have our petitions, we are perswaded of it.