The truly blessed man

USE III. Let it advise us to beware what improvement we make of our Obedience in the exercise of faith in prayer. There is a great deal of danger of misapplication here, and Gods Children are too often guilty of it; for help then observe,

USE III. Let it advise us to beware what improvement we make of our Obedience in the exercise of faith in prayer. There is a great deal of danger of mis•pplication here, and Gods Children are too often guilty of it; for help then observe,

1. We may fetch much of our evidence and encouragement from our Obedience, if it be right. Faith works by love. True Obedience is a fruit of saving faith, and will be a witness of it, & so assure us that we are entitled to the Covenant, & the promises of it, which must needs fortify our faith, when we come to ask mercy of God. Besides, there are promises made to this uprightness, & careful Serving of God; so that by this we may know that we are in the way of receiving the reward, which may encourage us to ask believingly, Psal 18.20

1. We may fetch much of our evidence and encouragement from our Obedience, if it be right. Faith works by love. True Obedience is a fruit of saving faith, and will be a witness of it, & so assure us that we are entituled to the Covenant, & the promises of it, which must needs fortify our faith, when we come to ask mercy of God. Besides, there are promises made to this uprightness, & careful Serving of God; so that by this we may know that we are in the way of receiving the reward, which may encourage us to ask believingly, Psal 18.20

2. And we may make mention of it to God, and plead it when we come to him in prayer, and seek any mercy at his hand. There is a proud men […] of it which we are to avoid, but there is a humble telling him of it, which his Servants have been wont to; thus Hezekiah Isa 38.3. And thus that good man once and again begs of God a remembrance