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Two discourses showing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…
Two discourses showing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. II. The dignity & duty of aged servants of the Lord. : Also, a preface in which the Congregational discipline of the churches in New-England is vindicated, with the authors dying testimony there-unto. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. II. The dignity & duty of aged servants of the Lord. : Also, a preface in which the Congregational discipline of the churches in New-England is vindicated, with the authors dying testimony there-unto. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1716
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The Ears of the LORD are open to the Prayers of the Righteous.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Inf. 2. It is a dangerous thing for any Person or People to have the Prayers of the Righteous, whose Prayers God will hear, to be engaged against them. Concerning the two Witnesses it is said, If any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their Mouth & devoureth their Enemies, Rev. 11.5. Prayer will kill those Enemies, as it did those Captains and their Companies who came to apprehend the Prophet Elijah. Fervent Prayer is doubtless one thing in ⟨p. 28⟩that fire which proceeds out of the Mouth of the Witnesses. It is reported of a Queen in Scotland, that She said, She was more afraid of Mr. Knox his Prayers, than of an Army of ten thousand Men. And 'tis said of a Prince in Wales that being advised to engage in a War with another Prince, that was famous for his Religion, he declined it, saying he was afraid of his Prayers. Armies have fallen before the Power of Prayer. When an Army of Philistines came against the Children of Israel, Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him and thundered with a great thunder that day, and discomfited them, 1 Sam. 7.9, 10. Whatever the World may think of it, Prayer is more terrible than thunder. When in Jehoshaphat's time three Nations combined against an handful of the Lords People, that godly King was very sensible that he had not a might sufficient to go against so great a Multitude ⟨p. 29⟩of Enemies; but he set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a Fast throughout all Judah, to seek the Lord and ask help of him, and poured out fervent Prayer before him. Those Prayers routed all their Enemies, so that they needed not to strike a stroke, but to stand still, and see the Salvation of God: This hath Prayer done. Once more, in Hezekiahs time, when Sennacherib came against him with a formidable Army of Assyrians, Hezekiah betook himself to the old tried weapon of Prayer, and desired the Prophet Isaiah to join with him, those Prayers slew an hundred and fourscore & five thousand Assyrians in one Night. As for the Enemies of God and His Church in these latter days, Vials of wrath must be poured on them, until they are utterly destroyed. It is said of those Vials, that the Angels who are the Instruments of Providence in executing the wrathful