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Thirdly, Pray over your Ungodly Children; Pray without ceasing over them. Were the Spirit of God, poured out, upon your Ungodly Children, they would no longer be Ungodly. Now there is a Promise of God, in Luke 11. 13. Your Heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit, unto them that ask him. And there is a further Promise of God, in Isa. 44. 3. I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed, and my Blessing upon thy Offspring. Well then; Dearly Beloved, Having these Promises plead them in Importunate Prayers before the Lord; Plead, and Beg, and Mourn and Weep, and Fast before the Lord, for this thing, Lord, I ask that the Outpourings of thy Spirit upon the Heart of this poor Child, may, Cure all the Ungodliness that is bound up in that Sinful Heart. It may be, the Lord will at last Answer, Concerning Ishmael, I have heard thee! If whole Churches would oftener keep Days of Prayer with Pasting, That the Spirit of God, and of Grace, may take a Saving Hold of their Posterity, 'tis probable, there would not be so […], as there is in the Rising ⟨p. 31⟩Generation. It is Reported, that a Number of Praying Saints, did spend a whole Night in Prayer, for the success of a Sermon to be Preached the Day after, in a dark part of Scotland; and the Spirit of God so accompanied that one Sermon, that no less than Five Hundred Souls thereon, Believed and Turned unto the Lord.

Thirdly, Pray over your Ungodly Children; Pray without ceasing over them. Were the Spirit of God, poured out, upon your Ungodly Children, they would no longer be Ungodly. Now there is a Promise of God, in Luke 11. 13. Your Heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit, unto them that ask him. And there is a further Promise of God, in Isa. 44. 3. I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed, and my Blessing upon thy Offspring. Well then; Dearly Beloved, Having these Promises plead them in Importunate Prayers before the Lord; Plead, and Beg, and Mourn and Weep, and Fast before the Lord, for this thing, Lord, I ask that the Outpourings of thy Spirit upon the Heart of this poor Child, may, Cure all the Ungodliness that is bound up in that Sinful Heart. It may be, the Lord will at last Answer, Concerning Ishmael, I have heard thee! If whole Churches would oftener keep Dayes of Prayer with Pasting, That the Spirit of God, and of Grace, may take a Saving Hold of their Posteritie, 'tis probable, there would not be so , as there is in the Rising