Finally, Venture to speak for t•e People of God Let us make Esthers Venture in our Prayer•; and resolve, as in Isa 62 1 For Zions sake, I will not hold my peace. Indeed we run something of a Venture in it, if our p•ayers become so Frequent▪ and so Fervent, as t•at the Omnipotent God should be put upon saying, Let me Alone! For then, if God have determined the Consuming of this place, He will first kill them that He shall find so standing in the Gap. But O tha• I may Die standing there! perhaps, it may Cost some o• us our Lives, tha• God may, Ma•• a way for his Anger; but it will co•t us our S•uls, i• b• o•r Negligence, we Leav• a wa• for that Anger. Come th•n, […] •elves to ze• love […] tha• ne•er yet […] Hearty Prayer, for […] sa•e; now Begin. […] •ad a Dumb Son, who tho' he never s•oke […] ▪ yet […] a man go to kill his Father, •is […] an• sh•••k, O don't kill my ⟨p. 46⟩Father ▪ poor people, if it could never hitherto be said of you. Behold they pray! yet I beseech you, Be Now found upon your knees, and beg, Lord, Let not all be •ost. Eve• the Pagan Mohawks upon the late Calamities at Albany, have that Sentence in their Propositions, We must now look up to the Heavens! O then, let us Christians be Looking there. May the Wheel of P•ayer be set a going in all parts of the land; may our public Lectures, and our private Meetings, in all places be turned into Days of Prayer. A successful Battle once Commenced with that Watch-word, Now for the Fruit of prayer! Now for the Fruit of prayer! Why let us be ploughing and planting every Day for such Fruit. Even those who can do little or nothing else but pray, may do much by their prayers. We find Esther and her Ma•dens at it. The Devout Women may this way obtain the Favour of the Almighty for us. Melanchthon hoped the Reformation would be carried on, Because godly Women would meet and pray for that Mercy. Our preservation may in like manner be promoted Y•a, and Serious Children too, may make us all beholden to them. God spared Nineveh, because of the Children in i•; You Children that shall pray, and cry, and call, as well as you can unto the Lord, •ay have a great Influence upon the sparing of New-England.
Finally, Venture to speak for t•e People of God Let us make Esthers Ventur• in our Prayer•; and resolve, as in Isa 62 1 For Zions sake, I will not hold my peace. Indeed we run somethin• of a Venture in it, if our p•ayers become so Frequent▪ and so F•rvent, as t•at the Om•ipotent God should be put upon saying, Let me Alone! For then, if God have determined the Con•uming of this place, He will first kill them that He shall find so standing in the Gap. But O tha• I may Dy standing there! perhaps, it may Cost some o• us our Lives, tha• God may, Ma•• a way for his Anger; but it will co•t us our S•uls, i• b• o•r Negl•gence, we Leav• a wa• for that Ang•r. Come th•n, 〈…〉 •elves to ze• lous 〈…〉 tha• ne•er yet 〈…〉 He•rty Prayer, for 〈…〉 sa•e; now Begin. 〈…〉 •ad a Dumb Son, who tho' he n•ver soke yet a man go to kill his Father, is an shk, O don't kill my
