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The LORD therefore in-ereafe in us' this deljght and difl'0fition
!o pray~ that we may efieem it a",benefit anil
advantage to us to have the leafi: occafion to pray; for it was
ne.wr yet feen hut that a heart to pray, hath ever been ~an.
;u.~bted forcrunner of a {pecial bleffing of GOD.. to enfu~;
ifwe open our· Illouth wide the 'LORD wilJ fill it. 'Seeklhg
'mufi: go before find1ng, and we mufi: knock before it ~
()pened; if w~ have the firH we may !>e fure of, the fecond.
Our Saviour hath atTuredus, :that .our, ~eave!1ly Father will
gi~e his HOl.y·SPIRIT ,to ~hem- who def!re him. When
Abr"lham prayed- to the LoRD,- &e ,LoRD anfwered him in
{uch f6et, ~hat ~eFY petition he fent forth, returned back
~ith fame new ~.ain: at fix petitions he brough~ the LORD
from fifty to ten~ that the L,ORD 'Pl'Qmifed to-fpare ~ all Sodom
for ten righteous.: And that which is molt comfortable, the
LORD left not 'off anf~eo:;ing.., till firfi: Abraham ceafed from
praying. As that oil, miraculoully multiplied by Elijha,
c9fitinu~d 10 long as the poor widow had an empty vdfel
wh~ein'to receive it i fo may we be fure that t~e. grace of
()ur GoD lhall without ~eaftDg be multiplied upon us, fo long
as our hearts are enlarged to eall upon ·him. -" Bleffed are
" they who hunger amfthirft after rigbteoufnefs, for thcry fhall "
~, be latis4ied.H ," ' ' . /
CHAP. V. The ft~ond'cjr;umJl"tut;. the perfrnu~ httw;en who';' the.'
. wreJlling is: /. '
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HE fecond thing_that h~re comes to be confidered, i~
the perfons between whom the 'Y'rrfiling; is., He that
wrefiles here with ]l1cob, is not ~ mim, albeit MOfts -fo calleth
him becaufe fo, he appears: neither i~_ he ~cr{'ated'angel,
-albe.it/Jofea calls him an angel of GOD. But he who wrefi:le3
·is the Son/C?f GOD, the_ great Angel of· the ~oyenant: This
Man is,truly'Gon, not by denomination only, but by nature.;
~e it is, who i~ this com~at is the wre~J.erwith]tUQb. !
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