4. He added one kind of prayer to another: to his daily, ordinary prayers, he added extraordinary. The phrase of praying day and night, 1implies his constant morning and evening prayer, wherein he was ever mindful of the children of Israel. His fasting was an evidence of extraordinary prayer.2 This particle, now, or this day, prefixed before day and night, showeth that in this day of extraordinary prayer helped by fasting, he omitted not his ordinary morning and evening devotion. Thus much was prefigured in the Law.3 For every day one Lamb was to be offered in the morning, and another at even: on their feast days they had other solemn sacrifices enjoined, yet so as with those extraordinary sacrifices they joined their daily morning and evening burnt offering. In the 28. and 29. Chapters of Numbers, 4where those extraordinary sacrifices on their several days are expressly set down, this proviso (beside the continual burnt offering) is fifteen times repeated. Ordinary and extraordinary prayer joined together, will add life and power each to other. Ordinary morning prayer may prove to be a good preparation to the extraordinary ordinance: and the evening ordinary prayer a means of calling our failings in the extraordinary to mind, of craving and obtaining pardon for the same, and procuring a blessing in all. As for extraordinary prayer quickened with fasting, it was never performed (if at least it were rightly performed) without some more then ordinary blessing. That Duel, which cannot otherwise be cast our, may be cast out by prayer and fasting. 5What therefore ⟨p. 17⟩God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
4. He added one kind of prayer to another: to his daily, ordinary prayers, he added extraordinary. The phrase of praying day and night, 1implies his constant morning and evening prayer, wherein he was ever mindfull of the children of Israel. His susting was an evidence of extraordinary prayer.2 This particle, now, or this day, prefixed before day and night, sheweth that in this day of extraordinary prayer helped by fasting, he omitted not his ordinary morning and evening devotion. Thus much was prefigured in the Law.3 For every day one Lamb was to be offered in the morning, and another at even: on their feast dayes they had other solemn sacrifices enjoyned, yet so as with those extraordinary sacrifices they joyned their daily morning and evening burnt offering. In the 28. and 29. Chapters of Numbers, 4where those extraordinary sacrifices on their severall dayes are expresly set down, this proviso (beside the continuall burnt offering) is fifteen times repeated. Ordinary and extraordinary prayer joyned together, will adde life and power each to other. Ordinary morning prayer may prove to be a good preparation to the extraordinary ordinance: and the evening ordinary prayer a means of calling our failings in the extraordinary to mind, of craving and obtaining pardon for the same, and procuring a blessing in all. As for extraordinary prayer quickned with fasting, it was never performed (if at least it were rightly performed) without some more then ordinary blessing. That Dvell, which cannot otherwise be cast our, may be cast out by prayer and fasting. 5What therefore ⟨p. 17⟩God hath joyned together, let no man put asunder.
- 1Neh. 1 6.
- 2—4. [Greek or Hebrew]—4. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉
- 3Ex. 29 38, 39. Num. 28 3. &c.
- 4Numb. 28. 10, 15, 23, 24, 31. & 29, 6, 11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 38.
- 5Mat. 17. 21.
