The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of…

The next clause, my God, doth yet further set out that his special affiance on God.¹ My, is an appropriating particle: yet such an one as admits others that are of like quality. Nor this, nor the former particle of speciality, nor Me, nor My is to be taken exclusively, as if he exempted all but himself from these privileges, for before this, he desireth God to think on others like himself,² thus, O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine care be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name. And though ^asometimes he express the relation betwixt God and himself in the singular number, my God, yet ^bother times in the plural number, thus, our God, ⟨p. 8⟩yea and in the second and third persons, thus,^c your God, ^dhis God, ^etheir God.

The next clause, my God, doth yet further set out that his speciall affiance on God.¹ My, is an appropriating particle: yet such an one as admits others that are of like quality. Nor this, nor the former particle of speciality, nor Me, nor My is to be taken exclusively, as if he exempted all but himselfe from these priviledges, for before this, he desireth God to think on others like himself,² thus, O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine care be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to feare thy name. And though ^a