Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

A Deceived Heart has turned them aside! How Pathetically would he Bewail the Fate of these Poor Self Deceivers! Oh, Remember these things; and let us Beware that we be not found the Sinners in Zion and the Hypocrites thereof! What, what, will be our Portion, if it should be so! IV. Remember how you have Received and heard, That to Pray with all manner of Prayer, is the Best way to all manner of Good. Your Pastor, not only Preached what you have on your Shelves, oh! may it be also in your Minds!—on Psal. XXXII. 6. Every one that is Godly will Pray: But in his Preaching you heard it more than a Thousand Times over from him; That, Behold he Prays! is the first Note of a Soul Returning to GOD, and capable of Good: That without Prayer there is nothing to be done, and no Good can be looked for; That Prayer is the Main Engine with which all Good Purposes are to be carried on. Prayer, Prayer was that which he used with an unceasing Assiduity; And he Preached it as he used it. He saw amazing Answers of Prayer; The Prevalency ⟨p. 228⟩of Prayer was Demonstrated and Exemplified unto Admiration in what he had himself met withal; And this, also added flame to the Fervent Heat, with which he would have Melted you to run into the like Devotions, and have Prevailed with you to Go and do likewise. How Potently have you heard Secret Prayer Commended to you, Demanded from you, as a Thing which it is Impossible any Child of GOD should be a Stranger to? How forcibly, and with what an Arrest upon the Conscience, have you heard Household Prayer called for; And with what Flashes of Lightning have you heard that Voice of the Lord uttered among you; The Fury of GOD Poured out on the Families that call not on His Name! Oh, Remember these Things; and let none of you be the inexcusable Workers of Iniquity, which call not upon GOD! V. Remember how you have Received and heard. That the Table of the Lord, is to be Seriously and Thoughtfully Prepared for, and not Unworthily Approached unto. It was a Grief unto your Pastor, to see so many turn their backs upon the Table of the Lord; so many which openly Proclaimed, that after all the Means used upon them, they have left the Case of their Souls yet in a Wretched Uncertainty.

A Deceived Heart has turned them aside! How Pathetically would he Bewayl the Fate of these Poor Self Deceivers! Oh, Remember these things; and let us Beware that we be not found the Sinners in Zion and the Hypocrites thereof! What, what, will be our Portion, if it should be so! IV. Remember how you have Received and heard, That to Pray with all manner of Prayer, is the Best way to all manner of Good. Your Pastor, not only Preached what you have on your Shelves, oh! may it be also in your Minds!—on