2. He trusted in God for deliverance another way then to put hands on the Prince, as Psal. 112. 7. A good man is not afraid of evil tidings, his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. This is the fixedness of faith, opposite to fear and unbelief, when another man would tremble, being compassed with three thousand instruments of death, as many men, as many deaths; yet his heart is fixed on God, both to believe and to pray. David by prayer, Be merciful to me, O God, and by faith gets this confident disposition, and this confident disposition brings forth acts of believing in stead of trembling, and resolutions to praise and to sing, and give thanks. But if the question be moved how gets David grace to believe, and grace to pray? Certainly by influences of grace upon the occasion of the delivery: So that here acts of praying bring forth holy dispositions to pray and to praise, as is clear, Be merciful unto me, O God: and God both delivered him, and gives him fixedness of ⟨p. 287⟩heart to pray and praise, when a natural man would tremble at the sight and fear of so many deaths. And again, a disposition and fixedness of heart brings forth a resolution to praise and give thanks. And 2. a stirring up of himself and his music to praise, yea and actual praising, v. 11. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, let thy glory be above all the earth. 1As the herb brings forth the seed, and the seed again brings forth the herb, and so the herb brings forth the herb, and the seed the seed; and the apple brings forth the tree, and the grape the vine tree; and again the tree brings forth the apple, and the vine-tree the grape; the water is the maker of ice, and ice is dissolved into water; and again that water is turned into ice.
2. He trusted in God for deliverance another way then to put hands on the Prince, as Psal. 112. 7. A good man is not afraid of evil tidings, his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. This is the fixedness of faith, opposite to fear and unbelief, when another man would tremble, being compassed with three thousand instruments of death, as many men, as many deaths; yet his heart is fixed on God, both to believe and to pray. David by prayer, Be merciful to me, O God, and by faith gets this confident disposition, and this confident disposition brings forth acts of believing in stead of trembling, and resolutions to praise and to sing, and give thanks. But if the question be moved how gets David grace to believe, and grace to pray? Certainly by influences of grace upon the occasion of the delivery: So that here acts of praying bring forth holy dispositions to pray and to praise, as is clear, Be merciful unto me, O God: and God both delivered him, and gives him fixedness of ⟨p. 287⟩heart to pray and praise, when a natural man would tremble at the sight and fear of so many deaths. And again, a disposition and fixedness of heart brings forth a resolution to praise and give thanks. And 2. a stirring up of himself and his musick to praise, yea and actual praising, v. 11. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, let thy glory be above all the earth. 1As the herb brings forth the seed, and the seed again brings forth the herb, and so the herb brings forth the herb, and the seed the seed; and the apple brings forth the tree, and the grape the vine tree; and again the tree brings forth the apple, and the vine-tree the grape; the water is the maker of ice, and ice is dissolved into water; and again that water is turned into ice.
- 1Prayer begets heavenly dispositions to pray, and heavenly dispositions to pray beget prayer and faith, &c.Prayer begets heavenly dispositions to pray, and heaven•y dispositions to pray beget prayer and faith, &c.
