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I know of no Place in the Bible, where so strong an Expression is made use of to signify Importunity in Prayer, as is used in Isai. lxii.6, 7. where the People of God are called upon to be importunate for this Mercy: Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not Silence, and give him no Rest, 'till he establish, and 'till he make Jerusalem a Praise in the Earth. How strong is the Phrase! And how loud is this Call to the Church of God, to be fervent and incessant in their Cries to him for this great Mercy! How wonderful are the Words to be used, concerning the Manner in which such Worms of the Dust should address the high and lofty One that inhabits Eternity! And what Encouragement is here, to approach the Mercy-Seat with the greatest Freedom, Boldness, Earnestness, Constancy and full Assurance of Faith, to seek of God this greatest Thing that can be sought in christian Prayer!

'Tis a just Observation of a certain eminent Minister of the Church of Scotland, in a Discourse of his lately published on Social Prayer, in which, speaking of Pleading for the Success of the Gospel, as required by the ⟨p. 57⟩Lord's Prayer, he says, That notwithstanding of its being so compendious, yet the one Half of it, that is, three Petitions in six, and these the first prescribed, do all relate to this great Case:—So that to put up any one of these Petitions apart, or all of them together, is upon the Matter, to pray that the Dispensation of the Gospel may be blessed with divine Power. That glorious Day we are speaking of is the proper and appointed Time, above all others, for the bringing to pass the Things requested in each of these Petitions: As the Prophecies every where represent that as the Time, which God has especially appointed for the hallowing or glorifying his own great Name in this World, causing his Glory to be revealed, that all Flesh may see it together, causing it openly to be manifested in the Sight of the Heathen, filling the whole World with the Light of his Glory to such a Degree that the Moon shall be confounded and Sun ashamed before that brighter Glory: The appointed Time for the glorifying and magnifying the Name of Jesus Christ, causing every Knee to bow, and every Tongue to confess to him. This is the proper Time of God's Kingdom's coming, or of Christ's coming in his Kingdom: That is the very Time foretold in the iid of Daniel, when the Lord God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom, in the latter Times of the last Monarchy, when it is divided into ten Kingdoms: And that is the very Time foretold in the viith of Daniel, when there should be given to One like to the Son of Man, Dominion, Glory and a Kingdom, that all People, Nations and Languages should serve him; and the Kingdom and Dominion, and the Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most high God, after the Destruction of the little Horn, that should continue