A
DISCOURSE
OF
The
nature
of
Prevalent
Prayer
:
Together
with
some
helps
against
discouragements
in
Prayer
.
LAMENT.
3.
57.
Thou
drewest
neare
in
the
day
that
I
called
upon
thee
,
thou
saidst
fear
not
.
THis
Book
of
the
Lamentations
doth
plainely
shew
what
miseries
and
distresses
sin
is
the
cause
of
.
As
in
this
people
of
the
Jews
,
who
because
of
their
Idolatries
,
their
contempt
of
Gods
Ordinances
,
their
slighting
and
misusing
the
Prophets
,
&c.
▪
Had
their
Cities
taken
,
their
Temple
burned
,
their
liberties
confiscated
,
themselves
carried
captive
out
of
their
own
countrey
,
and
deprived
of
the
ordinances
of
their
God
,
and
the
signs
of
his
presence
;
before
they
were
rebellious
:
but
now
they
sought
God
a
long
time
;
they
prayed
,
but
God
would
not
hear
.
Insomuch
that
many
poor
soules
amongst
them
were
discouraged
,
and
almost
ready
to
despaire
;
That
had
not
the
Lord
put
in
some
inklings
of
hope
,
they
had
utterly
fainted
.
Now
whilst
these
poore
soules
were
praying
,
and
crying
,
and
groaning
,
and
now
ready
to
give
over
for
discouragement
that
God
will
not
heare
them
,
presently
the
Lord
flings
in
comfort
,
and
beckens
to
their
hearts
not
to
be
discouraged
,
but
to
pray
on
,
and
feare
not
.
Thou
drewest
near
in
the
day
that
I
called
upon
thee
,
thou
saidst
fear
not
;
the
words
containe
in
them
three
properties
of
effectuall
prayer
:
First
,
the
unsatiablenesse
of
it
;
All
the
prayers
of
this
people
though
they
had
been
of
many
yeares
,
yet
they
counted
them
as
the
prayers
of
one
day
;
in
the
day
that
I
called
upon
thee
.
They
account
all
their
thousands
of
supplications
and
praiers
as
one
suite
;
never
had
they
done
their
praiers
till
God
did
heare
them
.
Secondly
,
the
sensiblenesse
of
it
,
whereby
it
is
able
to
know
whether
God
doe
heare
it
or
no
:
Thou
drewest
neare
in
the
day
that
I
called
upon
thee
.
Thirdly
,
the
supplyes
it
hath
against
dangers
and
discouragements
;
God
flings
in
comfort
into
their
hearts
,
giving
them
inklings
of
hope
to
support
them
against
their
discouragements
,
thou
saidst
fear
not
.
From
the
first
of
these
,
observe
That
an
effectual
prayer
is
an
unsatiable
prayer
;
A
man
that
praies
effectually
,
This
is
the
first
and
prime
thing
that
the
soule
looks
after
,
it
being
the
very
end
of
prayer
to
be
heard
;
it
is
not
with
prayer
as
with
Oratory
;
for
in
Oratory
;
a
man
may
use
all
the
perswasive
arguments
that
the
wit
of
man
〈…〉
,
and
speak
as
cuttingly
,
and
as
perswasively
as
may
be
,
and
yet
th●
heart
may
be
so
intractable
as
not
to
be
perswaded
;
it
is
not
so
with
prayer
.
The
end
of
prayer
is
to
prevaile
with
God
.
Beloved
,
there
is
difference
between
the
end
and
office
of
prayer
;
the
office
of
prayer
is
to
pray
,
the
end
of
prayer
is
to
prevaile
.
There
is
many
a
man
that
doth
the
office
of
prayer
,
and
yet
never
gets
the
end
of
prayer
.
A
man
hath
never
gotten
the
end
of
his
prayers
,
till
he
hath
gotten
that
he
prayed
for
.
It
is
not
with
praier
as
with
a
Physician
,
that
may
give
the
best
physick
under
heaven
,
and
yet
the
Patient
may
die
under
his
hands
;
and
therefore
one
gives
counsel
that
a
Physician
never
meddle
with
a
desperate
man
.
But
if
the
soul
be
an
effectuall
suitor
with
God
,
it
can
never
faile
of
its
suite
,
because
it
is
an
unsatiable
Suitor
,
that
never
leaves
his
prayer
till
it
terminates
the
end
of
it
.
I
cryed
unto
the
Lord
with
my
voyce
,
and
he
heard
me
out
of
his
holy
hill
.
Selah
.
Jerom
translates
it
for
ever
.
Psal.
3.
4.
never
doth
a
child
of
God
pray
,
but
he
prayeth
so
as
that
his
praier
and
Gods
eare
may
be
joyned
together
;
I
cried
unto
the
Lord
,
and
the
Lord
heard
me
:
This
also
sheweth
how
the
Prophet
cried
and
prayed
,
namely
so
as
his
crying
and
Gods
hearing
were
coupled
together
.
Use
1.
Try
therefore
and
examine
whether
thy
praiers
be
unsatiable
But
a
godly
man
he
will
be
alwayes
calling
upon
God
.
Beloved
,
there
is
a
beginning
to
an
action
,
and
a
beginning
of
an
action
;
thou
never
beginnest
to
lift
up
a
weight
till
thou
stirrest
it
from
the
ground
;
indeed
thou
maist
begin
towards
the
action
by
pulling
at
it
,
by
reaching
at
it
;
but
thou
never
beginnest
the
lifting
up
of
the
weight
till
thou
stirre
it
from
its
place
:
thou
mayst
give
a
pull
at
prayer
,
and
tugge
at
a
grace
,
but
thou
hast
not
so
much
as
begun
that
duty
,
till
thou
seest
God
begin
to
hear
thee
,
till
thou
seest
the
grace
a
coming
;
therefore
the
Prophet
David
when
he
prayed
and
had
not
that
he
prayed
for
,
his
praiers
returned
into
his
own
bosome
,
Psal.
35.
13.
there
to
lie
to
be
a
continuall
suit
unto
God
.
A
wicked
man
praies
,
and
he
leaves
his
praier
behind
him
in
his
pew
,
or
in
his
hall
,
or
chamber
;
but
a
godly
man
praies
and
his
prayer
is
in
his
heart
,
his
prayer
is
not
out
till
the
grace
be
in
.
Secondly
an
unsatiable
prayer
it
is
evermore
a
proceeding
praier
;
you
would
think
that
these
are
two
contraries
and
one
opposite
to
the
other
,
but
they
are
not
,
only
they
are
two
severall
things
as
it
is
ever
a
beginning
praier
,
because
in
his
own
thoughts
he
reckons
or
thinks
that
he
hath
nothing
till
he
speeds
:
so
the
soule
that
is
unsatiable
in
prayer
,
he
proceeds
,
he
gets
neer
to
God
,
he
gains
something
,
he
windes
up
his
,
heart
higher
:
As
a
child
that
seeth
the
mother
have
an
apple
in
her
hand
,
and
it
would
fain
have
it
,
it
will
come
and
pull
at
the
mothers
hand
for
it
:
now
she
lets
go
one
finger
,
and
yet
she
holds
it
,
and
then
he
pulls
again
,
and
then
she
lets
go
another
finger
,
and
yet
she
keepes
it
,
and
then
the
child
pulls
again
,
and
will
never
leave
pulling
and
crying
till
it
hath
got
it
from
his
mother
:
So
a
child
of
God
seeing
all
graces
to
be
in
God
,
he
draws
neer
to
the
throne
of
grace
begging
for
it
,
and
by
his
earnest
and
faithfull
praiers
,
he
opens
the
hands
of
God
to
him
:
God
dealing
as
parents
to
their
children
,
holds
them
off
for
a
while
,
not
that
he
is
unwilling
to
give
,
but
to
make
them
more
earnest
with
God
,
to
draw
them
the
neerer
to
himselfe
.
A
wicked
man
praies
and
his
praiers
tumble
down
upon
him
again
;
and
his
heart
is
as
dead
as
ever
it
was
before
,
as
sensual
as
ever
,
as
carnal
and
earthly
as
ever
,
as
hard
,
as
impenitent
and
secure
as
ever
.
A
godly
man
when
he
praies
,
though
he
have
not
gotten
the
thing
totall
that
he
desired
,
yet
he
is
neerer
God
then
he
was
before
;
his
heart
grows
every
day
better
than
other
by
his
praiers
;
he
obtains
still
something
as
the
Prophet
Hosea
speaks
of
knowledge
,
Hos.
6.
3.
Then
shall
we
know
,
if
we
follow
on
to
know
the
Lord
:
so
I
may
say
of
prayer
,
and
of
all
other
good
duties
,
then
we
pray
if
we
proceed
on
wards
in
prayer
.
A
man
may
know
and
know
,
and
yet
never
know
the
Lord
,
till
he
go
on
in
knowledge
;
so
a
man
may
pray
and
pray
,
yet
if
he
goe
not
onwards
in
his
prayers
,
his
prayers
are
nothing
.
A
godly
man
prayes
as
a
builder
builds
;
now
a
builder
he
first
layeth
a
foundation
,
and
because
he
cannot
finish
in
one
day
,
he
comes
the
second
day
,
and
finds
the
frame
standing
that
he
made
the
first
day
,
and
then
he
adds
a
second
dayes
work
,
and
then
he
comes
a
third
day
and
finds
his
two
former
dayes
work
standing
;
then
he
proceeds
to
a
third
dayes
work
,
and
makes
walls
to
it
,
and
so
he
goes
on
till
his
building
be
finished
.
So
prayer
is
the
building
of
the
soule
,
till
it
reach
up
to
heaven
;
therefore
a
godly
heart
prayes
and
reacheth
higher
and
higher
in
prayer
,
til
at
last
his
prayers
reach
up
to
God
.
It
is
a
signe
of
a
wicked
man
to
pray
and
to
let
his
prayers
fall
down
again
upon
him
.
And
here
I
appeale
to
the
consciences
of
wicked
men
,
if
it
be
not
so
with
them
;
they
pray
and
pray
,
but
their
hearts
are
as
dead
and
deceitfull
,
as
proud
and
vaine
,
as
ignorant
,
blockish
and
rebellious
,
as
if
they
had
never
prayed
.
Thirdly
,
it
is
more
and
more
a
fervent
prayer
;
if
a
little
prayer
will
not
serve
the
turn
,
if
he
speeds
not
to
day
,
then
he
will
pray
more
earnestly
to
morrow
;
and
if
that
will
not
serve
the
turne
,
he
will
adde
more
.
As
a
man
in
winding
up
of
a
bucket
,
if
two
or
three
windings
will
not
fetch
it
up
,
he
will
winde
it
up
higher
and
higher
,
till
it
comes
up
;
for
if
he
should
onely
winde
up
once
or
twice
and
no
more
,
but
hold
it
just
at
the
same
pin
,
the
bucket
would
never
come
up
;
So
if
a
man
prayes
and
prayes
,
and
windes
not
up
his
heart
higher
,
but
holds
it
just
at
the
same
pegge
it
was
,
prayes
in
the
same
fashion
he
did
,
grace
will
never
come
up
.
Mark
then
how
thou
prayest
,
examine
thy
heart
;
dost
thou
pray
to
day
as
yesterday
,
with
no
more
zeal
,
nor
feeling
affection
,
nor
sensible
desire
?
thou
prayest
not
unsatiably
.
No
,
thou
restrainest
thy
praying
from
growing
;
an
excellent
description
of
an
hypocrite
,
Job
1●
.
4.
though
falsly
applied
to
Job
,
Thou
restrainest
prayer
before
God
;
in
some
translations
it
is
,
Thou
keepest
thy
prayers
from
growing
,
thou
restrainest
thy
prayers
as
a
dwarffe
is
restrained
from
growing
,
so
thou
restrainest
thy
prayers
from
being
more
and
more
earnest
and
effectuall
and
fervent
,
unsatiable
prayer
is
growing
in
zeale
and
affection
.
Fourthly
,
it
is
a
more
and
more
frequent
prayer
,
so
that
if
twice
a
day
will
not
serve
the
turne
,
he
will
pray
three
times
a
day
,
Psal.
55.
17
,
and
if
that
will
not
prevaile
,
he
will
pray
seven
times
a
day
,
Psal.
119.
164.
and
when
that
is
not
enough
,
he
will
be
even
ever
a
praying
,
hardly
broken
off
day
or
night
,
Psal.
88.
1.
he
cares
not
how
often
he
prayes
,
it
may
be
that
thou
hast
been
a
suitor
for
strength
and
grace
against
corruptions
,
and
hast
put
up
many
prayers
to
the
same
purpose
:
It
now
thou
stickest
at
any
prayers
,
thy
prayers
are
not
unsatiable
;
an
unsatiable
soul
never
resteth
,
though
it
have
made
ten
thousand
prayers
,
till
it
have
gotten
the
grace
;
it
is
so
with
other
things
,
and
therefore
we
need
not
wonder
at
it
,
when
a
man
doth
not
finish
his
work
one
day
,
he
will
do
it
another
,
and
so
on
as
long
as
he
lives
,
till
his
worke
be
done
;
so
must
we
do
for
heaven
and
for
grace
.
Fifthly
,
it
is
ever
more
and
more
a
back'd
praier
:
if
ordinary
praiers
will
not
serve
the
turne
:
a
godly
heart
will
cut
off
time
from
his
recreations
and
pleasures
,
though
in
themselves
lawfull
.
Beloved
,
it
may
be
with
thy
soul
in
its
wrastlings
and
strivings
for
grace
and
power
against
corruptions
,
that
ordinary
praiers
will
not
satisfie
it
,
but
it
will
be
necessry
to
give
over
even
lawfull
delights
,
and
give
that
time
to
praier
;
so
a
man
will
do
for
the
world
,
if
he
have
a
businesse
of
importance
,
that
will
bring
him
in
gaine
,
he
will
be
content
to
part
with
his
delights
,
and
recreations
,
and
pleasures
,
to
follow
after
it
;
so
a
man
must
do
for
his
soul
,
and
if
that
be
not
enough
,
then
lay
aside
the
duties
of
thy
calling
,
to
take
time
from
that
.
If
a
man
have
two
houses
on
fire
both
together
,
the
one
his
mansion
dwelling
house
,
the
other
some
back
room
or
stable
,
if
he
can
,
he
will
save
both
;
but
if
he
see
that
by
spending
his
time
on
quenching
the
fire
on
the
stable
,
that
his
great
mansion
house
will
burne
downe
,
he
will
then
neglect
the
other
and
let
it
burne
if
it
will
,
and
imploy
himselfe
about
his
house
;
So
when
the
soul
is
in
misery
under
the
want
of
grace
,
that
it
cannot
live
under
,
but
must
perish
eternally
if
it
have
it
not
,
then
the
soule
being
better
than
the
body
,
rather
than
that
the
soul
miscarry
,
we
will
neglect
the
body
sometime
.
And
if
this
will
not
serve
,
abstain
from
meat
and
drink
,
fast
it
out
;
thus
the
people
of
God
are
faine
to
do
many
times
;
their
lust
and
corruptions
being
even
as
the
devill
himselfe
,
which
cannot
be
cast
out
but
by
prayer
and
fasting
;
there
is
an
excellent
place
,
Joel
2.
12.
Therefore
now
turn
unto
the
Lord
with
fasting
,
weeping
and
mourning
,
rent
your
hearts
,
&c.
Therefore
now
,
now
your
sinnes
are
so
divelish
,
now
your
sins
are
so
deepely
rooted
in
your
soules
,
now
your
corruptions
are
come
to
be
such
plague
sores
within
you
,
do
you
not
think
that
your
ordinary
repentance
,
and
ordinary
praiers
and
humiliations
will
serve
the
turne
,
but
now
backe
them
with
fasting
and
mourning
.
Here
now
thou
maist
examine
thy
soul
whether
it
have
praied
effectually
,
unsatiably
yea
or
no
;
hath
it
ever
a
begging
praier
,
that
thou
praiest
as
if
thou
hadst
never
praied
before
?
is
it
evermore
a
proceeding
prayer
,
that
thou
dost
every
day
draw
neerer
to
God
than
other
?
is
it
more
and
more
a
back'd
praier
,
a
fervent
and
frequent
praier
?
hast
thou
taken
from
thy
recreations
,
from
thy
calling
to
give
to
it
,
yea
from
thy
belly
and
back
,
and
used
all
meanes
for
a
prevailing
with
God
?
then
are
thy
praiers
effectuall
and
unsatiable
.
This
then
condemnes
the
praiers
of
most
men
in
the
world
,
they
pray
and
pray
for
grace
,
and
their
praiers
come
to
an
end
,
and
cease
before
they
have
it
,
the
angry
fretful
man
praies
for
patience
and
meekness
,
and
yet
sits
down
without
it
;
the
covetous
worldling
praies
to
be
weaned
from
the
world
,
and
his
praiers
are
done
before
he
is
so
;
so
the
luke-warmling
,
deadhearted
and
vain
thoughted
professor
praye
;
for
better
thoughts
,
for
more
zeale
,
and
yet
comes
to
his
so
be
it
,
before
he
have
it
;
and
so
every
wicked
man
prayes
,
and
he
is
come
to
his
Amen
before
the
grace
is
given
;
let
all
suchmen
know
that
such
prayers
,
first
they
are
endlesse
,
secondly
they
are
fruitlesse
.
First
,
they
are
endlesse
:
The
Philosopher
said
that
for
which
a
thing
is
,
that
is
the
end
of
the
thing
:
now
prayer
is
for
the
speeding
with
God
:
and
therefore
he
whose
prayers
speed
not
with
God
,
his
prayers
are
endlesse
:
thou
hast
prayed
against
thy
pride
,
but
a●t
as
proud
still
:
thou
hast
prayed
against
thy
choler
and
art
as
teachy
still
:
thou
hast
prayed
against
earthlinesse
and
worldlinesse
,
and
art
earthly
and
worldly
still
:
thou
hast
prayed
against
security
and
deadnesse
of
heart
,
and
lukewarmnesse
in
Gods
service
,
and
art
luke
warm
,
deadhearted
and
secure
still
:
to
what
end
are
all
thy
prayers
,
when
thou
enjoyest
not
the
end
of
thy
prayers
?
to
what
end
is
the
worke
of
thy
servant
,
if
thy
businesse
be
not
done
,
and
dispatched
when
all
is
done
?
As
good
never
pray
,
as
pray
to
no
end
,
a
good
that
thou
never
hadst
begun
to
pray
,
as
to
cease
,
and
to
giue
over
thy
prayers
before
thou
hast
obtained
the
grace
thou
prayest
for
:
The
prayers
of
the
wicked
are
an
abomination
unto
the
Lord
,
but
the
prayer
of
the
upright
is
his
delight
:
Prov.
15.
8.
that
is
,
the
prayers
of
a
wicked
man
that
continues
in
his
wickednesse
,
when
his
prayers
are
done
,
hi
prayers
are
an
abomination
to
the
Lord
:
but
the
prayers
of
the
upright
though
he
were
before
he
prayed
never
so
wicked
,
yet
if
it
be
the
prayer
of
an
upright
and
godly
man
,
when
his
prayers
are
done
,
that
his
prayers
rid
him
of
his
sin
,
and
make
him
an
upright
man
,
his
prayers
are
Gods
delight
.
Beloved
,
many
pray
against
distrust
in
Gods
providence
,
Infidelity
in
Gods
promises
,
Impatiency
under
Gods
corrections
,
&c.
and
yet
have
never
the
more
trust
and
affiance
in
God
,
never
the
more
patience
under
the
hand
of
God
,
all
these
praiers
are
endlesse
.
Secondly
,
thy
praiers
are
fruitlesse
:
to
what
purpose
is
a
beggers
begging
of
an
alms
?
if
he
be
gone
before
the
alms
be
bestowed
,
his
begging
is
fruitlesse
;
so
all
thy
praiers
are
lost
,
if
thou
art
gone
from
the
Throne
of
grace
,
before
grace
is
given
thee
;
for
if
such
a
praier
be
endlesse
,
then
is
it
also
fruitlesse
:
it
will
never
do
thee
any
good
;
what
is
a
fruitlesse
tree
good
for
,
but
to
be
cut
down
?
what
is
a
fruitlesse
Vine
good
for
,
but
to
be
burned
?
So
all
thy
praiers
are
lost
,
all
thy
beginnings
of
grace
are
lost
,
we
know
,
saith
the
man
that
was
borne
blind
,
John
9.
that
God
heareth
not
sinners
,
we
know
it
:
Why
may
some
say
,
how
do
you
know
that
God
heares
not
sinners
?
why
,
we
know
it
by
experience
,
by
examples
.
A
drunkard
prayeth
to
God
to
cure
him
of
his
drunkennesse
,
and
yet
he
doth
not
leave
his
ill
company
;
all
the
world
may
see
that
God
hears
not
the
drunkards
praier
,
because
he
cures
him
not
,
but
lets
him
go
on
in
his
sinne
;
and
so
for
all
other
sinnes
:
seest
thou
a
man
go
on
in
his
sins
?
thou
mayest
see
that
God
heareth
not
his
praiers
.
If
a
man
should
be
sick
on
his
death
bed
,
and
send
for
the
Physirians
;
and
Apothecaries
in
the
Country
,
and
send
for
his
father
,
Mother
,
and
for
all
his
friends
to
come
to
him
to
minister
unto
him
:
yet
I
know
he
is
not
cured
by
them
so
long
as
I
see
his
deadly
disease
remaines
upon
him
;
so
if
I
see
a
mans
pride
,
hypocrisie
,
security
,
deadnesse
of
heart
,
his
lust
,
anger
,
&c.
lie
upon
him
:
notwithstanding
all
his
prayers
,
I
know
God
heares
not
his
prayers
;
he
prayes
to
be
cleansed
from
his
sins
,
and
to
be
purged
from
his
lusts
,
and
to
be
redeemed
from
his
vaine
conversation
:
if
now
God
let
his
sins
continue
in
him
,
and
lets
him
go
on
in
them
,
we
see
plainly
God
hears
not
him
.
O
what
a
pittiful
and
miserable
case
are
such
men
in
,
that
pray
and
pray
,
and
yet
all
their
prayers
are
endlesse
and
fruitless
!
is
not
that
man
in
a
pittiful
case
,
and
all
physick
,
all
cost
and
charges
is
lost
upon
him
;
when
his
eating
and
drinking
,
his
sleeping
,
and
winding
and
turning
from
this
side
to
that
side
do
him
no
good
?
do
we
not
say
of
him
that
he
is
a
dead
man
?
so
if
a
mans
prayers
and
supplications
to
God
be
endlesse
and
fruitlesse
:
that
man
must
needs
be
a
dead
and
a
damned
man
,
so
long
as
he
goeth
on
in
that
case
.
Now
we
come
to
the
second
part
of
the
text
,
the
sensiblenesse
of
the
The
first
is
,
the
having
of
a
Spirit
of
further
and
further
praying
.
When
God
gives
the
soul
a
further
and
further
ability
to
pray
,
when
God
opens
a
way
for
the
soule
to
the
Throne
of
grace
,
and
gives
him
a
free
accesse
to
the
gate
of
mercy
,
and
a
spirit
to
hold
out
in
prayer
:
It
is
a
signe
that
God
meanes
to
hear
it
.
When
a
Petitioner
hath
accesse
to
the
King
,
and
presents
his
Petition
,
If
the
King
imbolden
him
in
his
speech
,
and
let
him
speak
all
that
he
would
speak
,
it
is
a
signe
that
the
King
means
to
grant
that
man
his
petition
,
because
otherwise
the
King
would
never
have
endured
to
have
heard
him
so
long
,
but
would
have
commanded
him
to
be
gone
.
So
it
is
with
the
soule
at
the
Throne
of
grace
;
if
it
come
with
a
petition
and
prayer
to
God
;
if
God
dispatch
the
soul
out
of
his
presence
,
so
that
the
soul
hath
no
heart
to
pray
,
nor
to
continue
its
suit
;
but
prayes
deadly
and
dully
,
and
is
glad
when
he
hath
said
his
prayers
,
and
hath
done
:
it
is
a
fearful
sign
that
God
never
means
to
heare
that
mans
prayers
:
but
if
thou
prayest
and
prayest
,
and
ha●t
not
done
in
thy
prayers
,
but
God
by
casting
in
a
spirit
of
praier
and
zeal
,
and
fervency
in
prayer
,
imboldens
thy
heart
in
its
petition
,
it
is
a
sign
that
God
will
hear
thee
,
and
grant
thee
thy
prayers
.
Blessed
be
God
saith
the
Prophet
,
that
hath
not
turned
away
my
prayer
,
nor
his
mercy
from
me
,
Psal.
66.
20.
How
could
the
Prophet
say
that
the
Lord
did
not
turne
away
his
mercy
from
him
?
How
!
because
he
turned
not
away
his
prayer
from
him
.
Many
Expositors
expound
it
of
not
turning
away
his
prayer
from
his
heart
;
as
if
he
should
say
,
Lord
,
thou
continuest
my
heart
to
pray
,
thou
hast
not
taken
away
my
prayer
from
my
heart
;
therefore
I
know
that
thou
continuest
thy
mercy
unto
me
.
Secondly
,
the
preparednesse
of
the
heart
to
pray
,
is
a
sign
that
God
means
to
hear
.
When
the
Merchant
stretcheth
his
bagge
wider
and
wider
,
it
is
a
signe
that
he
means
to
put
something
in
it
:
so
when
God
opens
the
heart
of
a
poor
soul
,
it
is
a
signe
that
he
means
to
fill
it
;
when
God
prepares
the
soule
with
more
hunger
and
thirst
after
grace
,
with
more
longings
and
breathings
;
it
is
a
sign
that
God
hath
already
prepared
his
eare
to
hear
that
prayer
:
it
is
a
signe
that
heart
shall
speed
with
God
in
prayer
:
Psal.
10.
17.
Lord
thou
hast
heard
the
desire
of
the
humble
,
thou
wilt
prepare
their
heart
,
thou
wilt
cause
thine
eare
to
heare
First
,
God
prepares
the
heart
to
pray
,
and
then
he
bows
his
eare
to
hear
.
Examine
thy
soul
then
;
art
thou
more
and
more
prepared
to
pray
?
hath
God
spoken
with
a
powerfull
voice
to
thy
soul
to
open
it selfe
wide
?
it
is
a
signe
that
God
meanes
to
fill
thy
soul
with
his
graces
.
But
if
thou
canst
rush
into
Gods
presence
,
and
leave
thy
preparednesse
behind
thee
;
leavest
thy
soul
and
thy
thoughts
,
and
thy
affections
behind
thee
;
and
comest
with
a
straightned
heart
in
thy
deadnesse
and
luke
warmnesse
;
this
is
a
fearefull
signe
that
God
will
not
heare
thee
.
Thirdly
,
Gods
gracious
looke
is
a
signe
that
he
will
hear
thee
:
for
sometimes
(
beloved
)
God
answers
his
people
by
a
cast
of
his
countenance
,
with
a
gratious
smile
of
his
face
.
Psal.
22.
24.
He
hath
not
despised
nor
abhorred
the
affliction
of
the
afflicted
,
neither
hath
he
hid
his
face
from
him
,
but
when
he
cryed
unto
him
he
heard
.
Hereby
was
the
Prophet
able
to
know
that
God
did
hear
his
prayer
,
because
he
did
not
hide
his
face
from
him
;
when
his
poor
soule
saw
God
smile
on
him
,
and
set
a
favourable
eye
upon
him
,
this
made
him
say
that
God
heard
his
cry
.
This
is
a
riddle
to
the
world
.
If
you
should
ask
the
men
of
the
world
what
the
meaning
of
Gods
gratious
countenance
is
,
or
what
they
see
of
it
?
alas
,
they
can
say
nothing
of
it
;
they
know
not
what
it
means
;
onely
the
godly
man
understandeth
,
Psal.
34.
15.
The
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
upon
the
righteous
,
and
his
eares
are
open
unto
their
cry
.
These
two
go
together
,
their
prayers
enter
in
Gods
eares
,
and
they
know
it
;
why
?
because
they
see
it
in
his
countenance
upon
them
,
as
a
Petitioner
may
read
his
speeding
with
the
King
by
his
countenance
towards
him
;
so
a
poor
soul
may
see
how
prayers
prevaile
by
Gods
countenance
and
look
upon
him
.
If
thou
then
art
a
stranger
to
Gods
countenance
,
if
God
never
admitted
thee
into
his
presence
to
see
his
face
and
countenance
;
it
is
a
signe
that
God
little
regards
thy
prayers
,
and
hath
no
mind
to
hear
thee
.
A
wicked
man
is
like
a
varlet
that
stands
without
dores
and
begges
an
almes
,
but
is
not
suffered
to
go
into
the
Gentlemans
presence
,
and
therefore
knowes
not
how
he
speeds
,
whether
the
Gentleman
will
give
him
an
almes
,
or
whether
he
be
providing
a
cudgell
to
beat
him
away
:
so
a
wicked
man
prayes
and
puts
up
his
petitions
to
God
,
but
he
is
not
able
to
come
before
God
:
he
cannot
see
whether
God
look
as
if
he
meant
to
hear
his
prayers
,
yea
or
no
;
he
knows
not
but
that
God
may
be
providing
a
curse
and
plague
for
him
in
stead
of
a
blessing
.
But
a
child
of
God
comes
within
the
list
of
Gods
countenance
;
he
can
tell
when
God
smiles
on
him
,
and
when
he
takes
another
looke
:
he
is
able
to
come
into
Gods
presence
,
Job
13.
16.
He
also
(
saith
Job
)
shall
be
my
salvation
:
for
an
hypocrite
shall
not
come
before
him
.
A
strange
verse
.
Job
saith
,
God
is
his
salvation
:
and
he
gives
this
reason
why
he
was
able
to
say
so
,
for
an
hypocrite
shall
not
come
before
him
.
One
would
think
that
this
were
no
reason
:
but
yet
it
is
an
undeniable
reason
,
as
if
Job
had
said
,
I
come
into
his
presence
,
and
he
lookes
like
a
Saviour
,
a
Redeemer
upon
me
,
but
an
hypocrite
shall
not
come
before
him
:
he
stands
like
a
rogue
and
begs
without
the
gate
.
Indeed
a
wicked
man
comes
into
Gods
presence
,
in
regard
of
Gods
Omnipresence
:
but
this
is
not
enough
,
thy
Oxe
,
and
thine
Asse
stands
in
Gods
presence
:
yea
so
,
the
very
Devils
themselves
are
in
Gods
presence
.
But
if
thou
come
not
into
Gods
presence
of
grace
,
if
God
do
not
admit
thy
soule
into
the
list
of
his
Throne
,
it
is
a
sign
that
God
hears
thee
not
.
Men
should
therefore
examine
their
consciences
,
what
face
or
presence
of
God
they
come
into
or
see
:
when
they
pray
in
their
prayers
,
whether
they
come
before
God
,
yea
or
no.
Beloved
,
no
wicked
man
under
heaven
can
come
before
God
:
this
is
made
the
marke
of
a
godly
man
onely
▪
Psal.
140.
13.
The
upright
shall
dwell
in
thy
presence
,
(
mark
here
)
dwelling
in
Gods
presence
is
onely
determined
to
the
righteous
:
the
upright
shall
dwell
in
thy
presence
.
And
here
I
appeale
againe
to
the
hearts
and
consciences
of
wicked
men
,
what
presence
of
God
doe
they
find
in
their
prayers
?
they
see
their
Pews
,
and
the
walls
or
hangings
,
&c.
before
them
:
they
see
the
heavens
and
the
clouds
above
them
:
they
know
nothing
within
dores
.
Do
they
see
Gods
presence
and
countenance
?
no
:
it
is
the
upright
man
onely
that
dwells
in
Gods
presence
:
He
sees
how
God
lookes
on
him
,
how
his
face
smiles
on
him
:
and
therefore
,
it
is
not
a
wicked
mans
coming
to
Church
,
and
falling
on
his
knees
,
and
uttering
the
words
of
prayer
that
is
a
coming
into
Gods
presence
:
then
,
this
would
be
a
false
saying
of
the
Prophet
.
For
a
wicked
man
may
go
to
Church
and
fall
upon
his
knees
,
&c.
but
never
come
before
God
.
This
presence
,
is
,
to
see
the
face
of
God
.
Fourthly
,
the
conscience
of
a
man
doth
answer
him
whether
God
hear
him
yea
or
no.
As
it
was
with
the
high
Priest
,
whensoever
the
high
Priest
came
into
Gods
presence
to
inquire
of
him
,
though
God
did
not
appear
visibly
unto
him
,
yet
he
might
read
Gods
answer
in
his
Urim
and
Thummim
;
he
might
there
know
Gods
mind
:
so
a
mans
conscience
is
his
Urim
and
Thummim
.
When
he
comes
before
God
his
own
conscience
gives
him
an
inckling
whether
he
speed
or
no
:
1
John
3.
20
,
21.
If
our
hearts
condemne
us
,
God
is
greater
than
our
hearts
,
and
knoweth
all
things
.
Beloved
,
if
our
hearts
condemne
us
not
,
then
have
we
confidence
towards
God
.
If
a
mans
conscience
tell
a
man
his
prayers
are
rotten
,
that
his
humiliation
is
rotten
,
that
his
heart
is
●o
upright
,
that
yet
he
is
not
purged
from
his
sins
,
that
his
seeking
of
God
is
fained
and
hypocriticall
;
it
is
the
very
voice
of
God
in
his
soule
:
and
if
our
consciences
condem
us
,
God
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
is
greater
than
our
consciences
.
There
is
no
condemnation
to
them
which
are
in
Christ
Jesus
.
Rom.
8.
1.
as
if
he
should
say
,
those
that
are
in
Christ
,
God
doth
not
condeme
them
;
they
have
not
▪
that
condemnation
:
nay
their
own
conscience
doth
not
condemn
them
:
so
that
,
that
man
whom
any
condemnation
either
from
God
,
or
from
his
own
conscience
condemns
,
that
man
is
not
in
Christ
;
being
not
in
Christ
,
he
can
never
be
heard
.
Indeed
,
a
mans
conscience
may
be
mis-informed
by
Satan
under
a
temptation
;
as
you
may
see
in
the
verse
before
my
text
:
Thou
hast
heard
my
voyce
:
s●op
not
thine
eare
from
my
cry
.
Here
the
Church
being
examined
,
their
consciences
told
them
they
were
heard
in
their
prayers
:
but
being
under
a
temptation
,
their
consciences
were
afraid
that
God
heard
not
.
So
many
a
poor
soule
,
examine
it
,
and
it
cannot
deny
but
that
these
and
these
tokens
of
grace
and
fruits
of
Gods
Spirit
are
in
it
;
yet
their
consciences
are
afraid
that
the
Lord
will
not
give
them
these
and
these
other
graces
that
they
want
:
that
the
Lord
will
not
hear
them
for
such
and
such
blessings
.
I
meane
not
neither
a
truce
of
conscience
:
for
there
may
be
a
truce
of
conscience
in
wicked
men
.
A
truce
may
be
between
mortall
enemies
:
but
no
peace
but
amongst
friends
.
Wicked
mens
consciences
are
like
the
Lion
,
1
Kings
13.
who
when
he
had
killed
the
Prophet
▪
stood
by
the
Corps
,
and
by
the
Asse
,
and
did
not
eate
the
body
,
nor
tear
the
Asse
;
so
a
wicked
mans
conscience
,
it
is
as
the
devils
ban-dogge
or
roaring
Lion
,
till
it
hath
slaine
the
sinner
,
it
stands
stone
still
,
and
seemes
neither
to
meddle
nor
make
with
him
,
but
lies
as
seared
or
dead
in
him
I
mean
not
this
conscience
.
But
when
God
hath
sprinkled
the
conscience
with
the
bloud
of
Christ
,
and
made
the
conscience
pure
:
this
is
a
signe
that
God
heares
his
prayer
.
I
mean
not
the
stammering
of
conscience
,
when
it
is
dazelled
,
or
overwhelmed
:
but
when
it
speaks
down
right
as
it
means
.
A
go●y
mans
conscience
sometimes
may
judge
otherwise
then
the
thing
▪
is
▪
But
,
examine
what
thy
conscience
tells
thee
in
sober
sadnesse
,
deliberately
,
convincingly
,
and
then
,
know
that
the
Lord
tells
thee
.
If
thy
conscience
Fifthly
,
the
getting
of
that
grace
that
a
man
prayes
for
,
is
a
signe
that
God
heares
his
prayers
.
But
this
is
not
a
true
signe
alwayes
but
with
distinction
.
When
the
grace
given
,
and
the
good
will
of
God
the
giver
,
cannot
be
severed
,
then
it
is
a
true
signe
.
But
when
the
gift
and
the
good
will
of
the
giver
may
be
severed
,
then
it
is
not
a
true
signe
.
Thou
mayest
pray
unto
God
,
and
God
may
give
thee
many
temporall
blessings
,
and
many
common
graces
of
his
Spirit
;
God
may
give
thee
good
parts
,
a
good
memory
:
he
may
give
thee
a
good
measure
of
knowledge
and
understanding
,
even
in
divers
things
;
he
may
give
thee
some
kinde
of
humility
,
chastity
;
civility
.
thou
mayest
be
of
a
loving
and
flexible
disposition
so
he
may
give
thee
a
good
estate
in
the
world
,
houses
,
lands
,
wife
and
children
,
&c.
God
may
give
thee
all
these
,
and
yet
hate
thee
,
and
never
heare
one
prayer
thou
makest
;
thou
maist
pray
for
a
thousand
blessings
,
and
have
them
:
and
yet
never
be
heard
,
so
long
as
the
good
will
of
the
giver
is
severed
from
them
;
all
outward
blessings
and
common
graces
may
be
severed
from
Gods
good
pleasure
to
a
man
.
Therefore
in
temporall
blessings
,
or
in
common
graces
,
if
thou
wouldst
know
whether
God
hear
thee
or
no
:
know
whether
God
hath
given
thee
a
sanctified
use
●f
them
or
no.
If
God
hath
given
thee
many
common
graces
,
or
temporal
blessings
,
and
a
heart
to
use
them
to
his
glory
;
then
every
blessing
thou
hast
(
there
is
not
a
drop
of
drink
,
nor
a
bit
of
bre●d
that
thou
hast
,
)
but
it
is
a
signe
of
Gods
everlasting
love
to
thee
.
Why
?
because
this
,
and
the
good
will
of
the
giver
can
never
be
severed
.
But
on
the
contrary
,
if
a
man
have
not
a
sanctified
use
of
that
he
hath
,
then
it
is
the
greatest
severity
of
God
,
and
the
most
eminent
plague
and
curse
of
God
upon
the
soule
to
give
it
;
for
a
mans
parts
may
be
his
bane
,
his
civility
may
be
his
curse
,
and
means
of
the
finall
hardnesse
and
impenitencie
of
his
heart
.
Sixthly
faith
▪
if
a
man
have
faith
given
him
to
believe
,
it
is
a
signe
that
God
heares
him
;
be
it
to
thee
(
saith
Christ
to
the
man
in
the
Gospel
)
according
to
thy
faith
;
so
goe
thou
to
God
,
and
be
it
to
thee
as
thou
beleevest
.
Dost
thou
pray
for
grace
?
according
as
thou
beleevest
,
so
shalt
thou
receive
.
Saul
made
a
promise
to
David
,
1
Sam.
18.
that
he
should
be
his
son
in
law
in
one
of
his
two
daughters
,
upon
condition
that
he
should
give
him
an
hundred
fore-skins
of
the
Philistins
.
Now
,
David
did
first
believe
the
promise
;
and
therby
he
was
allured
to
fight
valiantly
,
to
keep
the
condition
,
to
get
a
hundred
fore-skins
of
the
Philistins
.
So
Psal.
116.
I
believed
,
and
therefore
did
I
speak
.
He
beleeved
Gods
promise
,
and
then
he
spake
with
condition
.
So
we
believe
saith
the
Apostle
,
and
therefore
do
we
speak
.
First
,
the
soule
believes
;
and
then
every
action
of
a
Christian
wherein
it
moves
to
the
keeping
of
the
condition
,
springs
from
this
root
▪
nay
beloved
,
a
man
cannot
keep
any
condition
in
the
Bible
without
faith
;
he
must
believe
.
Secondly
,
faith
is
the
inabling
cause
to
keep
the
condition
.
Dost
thou
think
to
get
weeping
,
mourning
,
and
humiliation
for
thy
sins
,
and
then
thereby
to
get
the
promise
to
thy self
?
then
thou
goest
in
thy
own
strength
;
and
then
,
in
Gods
account
,
thou
dost
just
nothing
,
John
▪
15.
5.
Without
me
ye
can
do
nothing
,
saith
Christ
;
therefore
first
lay
hold
on
me
,
beleeve
in
me
,
abide
in
me
.
What
,
doe
you
first
think
to
pray
,
to
mourne
,
to
lament
and
bewaile
your
sinnes
,
to
do
this
and
that
in
turning
your selves
,
and
sanctifying
of
your selves
?
Indeed
you
may
fumble
about
these
things
:
but
you
can
never
do
any
of
them
in
deed
and
to
the
purpose
:
without
me
ye
can
doe
nothing
.
I
had
fainted
saith
the
Propher
,
unlesse
I
had
beleeved
to
see
the
goodnesse
of
the
Lord
in
the
land
of
the
living
,
Psal.
27.
13.
where
we
may
see
three
things
,
First
,
the
Promise
that
he
should
see
the
goodnesse
of
the
Lord
:
otherwise
he
could
not
have
beleeved
.
Secondly
,
the
Condition
:
if
he
do
not
faint
.
Thirdly
,
The
method
the
Prophet
went
by
,
he
beleeved
to
see
the
goodnesse
of
the
Lord
.
As
if
he
had
said
,
if
he
had
not
first
laid
hold
on
the
Promise
,
if
I
had
not
beleeved
to
have
seen
the
goodnesse
of
the
Lord
in
the
Land
of
the
living
,
I
had
fainted
.
Beloved
,
it
is
true
that
the
keeping
of
the
Condition
,
is
before
the
fruition
of
the
Promise
:
but
not
before
beleeving
the
Promise
:
because
the
doing
of
the
Condition
is
effected
by
beleeving
the
Promise
.
This
is
the
cause
that
many
fumble
about
grace
,
but
never
get
it
:
they
are
ever
repenting
,
but
never
repent
:
ever
learning
,
but
never
learne
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
everlasting
:
ever
striving
,
but
never
get
power
over
their
corruptions
,
&c.
because
they
fumble
about
it
in
their
own
strength
,
and
take
it
not
in
the
right
method
.
Let
the
soul
come
with
faith
in
Christ
,
and
believe
it
shall
speed
and
have
grace
,
and
power
from
Christ
his
grace
,
and
from
Christs
power
:
and
then
it
shall
speed
.
Christ
hath
promised
(
John
14.
)
that
whatsoever
we
aske
the
Father
in
his
name
,
he
will
give
it
us
.
Christ
(
beloved
)
is
an
excellent
Surety
.
Indeed
,
our
credit
is
crackt
in
Heaven
:
we
may
think
to
go
and
fetch
this
and
that
grace
in
our
own
names
,
and
misse
of
it
:
as
the
servant
may
go
to
the
Merchant
for
wares
in
his
own
name
,
but
the
Merchant
will
not
deliver
them
to
him
in
his
own
name
,
unlesse
he
come
in
his
Masters
name
and
bring
a
ticket
from
him
:
and
then
when
the
servant
sheweth
his
Masters
ticket
,
the
Merchant
will
deliver
him
what
wares
he
asketh
for
in
his
Masters
name
.
So
when
a
soul
goeth
to
the
Throne
of
grace
with
a
ticket
from
Christ
;
if
he
can
say
,
Lord
,
it
is
for
the
honour
of
Christ
:
I
come
for
grace
and
holinesse
,
and
strength
against
my
corruptions
;
Lord
,
here
is
a
ticket
from
Christ
:
most
certainly
he
shall
speed
.
But
,
men
must
take
heed
that
they
foyst
not
the
name
of
Christ
:
that
they
foyst
not
a
ticket
to
say
that
Christ
sent
them
,
when
it
is
their
own
selfe-love
,
and
their
own
lust
that
sends
them
;
it
is
not
enough
to
pray
and
at
the
end
to
say
through
Christ
our
Lord
,
Amen
.
No
:
for
this
may
be
a
●eer
foysting
of
the
Name
of
Christ
.
But
,
canst
thou
pray
and
shew
that
Christ
sent
thee
,
and
say
as
the
servant
,
I
come
from
my
Master
,
and
he
sent
me
?
Lord
,
it
is
for
Christ
that
I
come
;
it
is
not
to
satisfie
my
owne
lust
,
nor
to
ease
and
deliver
me
from
the
galls
of
my
conscience
,
nor
to
free
me
from
hell
;
but
for
Christ
;
Lord
,
I
begge
grace
an●
holinesse
,
that
I
may
have
power
to
glorifie
Christ
.
It
is
for
the
honour
of
my
Lord
Christ
that
I
come
.
When
the
soul
comes
thus
in
Christs
name
,
beleeving
it
shall
speed
,
then
his
prayer
shal
prevail
.
Whatsoever
(
saith
Christ
)
ye
shall
aske
the
Father
in
my
name
,
he
will
give
it
you
.
We
come
now
to
the
third
and
last
part
of
our
Text
:
to
wit
,
the
supplies
they
had
against
danger
and
discouragements
.
The
Lord
upheld
their
hearts
from
being
dismayed
in
prayer
;
thou
saidst
,
feare
not
.
There
be
two
things
that
do
much
hurt
in
prayer
.
First
,
groundlesse
incouragements
.
Secondly
needlesse
discouragements
.
First
,
I
say
,
groundlesse
incouragements
;
and
these
the
wicked
are
most
subject
to
especially
,
who
because
they
pray
,
hear
the
Word
,
and
perform
many
duties
of
religion
;
therefore
they
incourage
themselves
in
the
goodnesse
of
their
estates
,
judging
themselves
happy
,
though
notwithstanding
they
go
on
and
continue
in
the
hardnesse
of
their
hearts
and
rebellions
against
God
.
We
have
abundance
of
sayings
amongst
us
,
that
if
they
were
examined
would
prove
false
and
unsound
;
As
,
that
the
vipers
dye
when
they
bring
forth
their
young
;
for
(
say
they
)
the
young
eat
out
the
old
ones
bowels
;
that
beares
shape
all
their
young
by
licking
of
them
;
that
the
Swanne
singeth
sweetest
at
her
death
;
that
the
Adamant
stone
is
softned
by
Goats
blood
,
&c.
These
things
are
not
so
,
as
may
be
shewn
out
of
ancient
Writers
.
So
beloved
,
there
are
abundance
of
sayings
,
that
goe
up
and
down
amongst
men
concerning
Divinity
,
which
if
they
were
examined
,
will
prove
to
be
rotten
sayings
;
as
,
He
that
made
them
,
will
save
them
.
It
is
not
so
,
saith
the
Prophet
,
Isaiah
27.
11.
He
that
made
them
,
will
not
have
mercy
on
them
,
and
he
that
formed
them
,
will
not
pitty
them
.
It
is
commonly
beleeved
,
if
men
come
to
Church
,
heare
the
Word
,
and
call
upon
God
,
that
then
presently
they
are
good
Christians
.
Beloved
,
it
is
not
so
,
Mat.
7.
21.
Not
every
one
that
saith
,
Lord
,
Lord
,
shall
enter
into
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
.
Men
are
ready
when
they
can
but
call
,
Lord
have
mercy
on
me
;
O
sweet
Saviour
pitty
me
,
most
mercifull
Lord
Jesus
,
have
compassion
on
me
:
if
they
can
pray
in
their
families
,
and
pray
at
Church
,
&c.
to
think
,
now
,
all
is
well
with
them
,
and
Christ
cannot
but
save
them
,
and
give
them
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
:
but
our
Saviour
puts
a
not
upon
it
,
and
saith
,
not
every
one
that
saith
,
Lord
,
Lord
:
it
is
no●
a
Lord
,
a
Lording
of
Christ
with
the
tongue
onely
:
it
is
not
a
taking
up
of
an
outward
profession
of
Christ
only
,
that
is
sufficient
for
a
man
that
shall
inherit
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
:
no
saith
Christ
:
but
he
that
doth
the
will
of
my
Father
which
is
in
Heaven
.
But
,
of
this
by
the
by
.
Secondly
,
there
are
needlesse
discouragements
which
doe
much
hurt
in
prayer
.
Nee
lesse
discouragements
do
much
hurt
to
many
a
poor
soule
,
that
hath
forcible
wouldings
,
and
wracked
desires
after
grace
and
holinesse
,
and
yet
is
held
by
discouragements
:
yea
,
many
a
Christian
heart
lieth
a
long
time
under
it
,
wrestling
and
striving
under
its
wants
,
and
yet
,
kept
out
from
grace
,
and
from
growing
in
grace
because
of
discouragements
:
yea
,
the
best
and
strongest
of
God
▪
Saints
,
have
been
kept
off
,
and
have
hung
much
on
discouragements
.
Fear
not
,
saith
God
to
Abraham
,
Gen.
15.
1.
So
,
fear
not
Joshua
,
saith
God
,
to
Joshua
,
Josh.
1.
9.
Intimating
that
both
Abraham
and
Joshua
were
afraid
of
discouragements
:
they
were
afraid
that
many
evils
would
befall
them
,
that
they
should
meet
with
many
rubs
and
difficulties
,
that
would
be
too
hard
for
them
:
therefore
the
Lord
calls
to
them
,
fear
not
,
be
not
djsmayed
nor
discouraged
.
I
●ou
saidst
,
fear
not
.
Hence
observe
.
That
God
would
not
have
any
Christian
soul
to
be
discouraged
in
For
our
clearer
prooceeding
herein
,
first
,
let
me
shew
you
what
discouragement
is
:
and
secondly
,
how
it
comes
to
be
dangerous
and
hurtfull
in
prayer
.
What
is
discouragement
?
It
is
a
base
dismayment
of
spirit
below
or
beneath
the
strength
that
is
There
be
foure
things
in
this
diffinition
.
First
,
I
say
,
it
is
a
base
dismayment
of
spirit
;
and
so
I
call
it
to
distinguish
it
:
for
there
is
an
humble
dismayment
which
a
Christian
is
commanded
.
A
man
is
bound
to
be
dismayed
for
his
sinnes
.
I
say
.
32.
11.
Tremble
ye
carelesse
women
that
are
at
ease
,
be
troubled
ye
carelesse
ones
:
these
carelesse
ones
went
on
in
their
sinnes
,
and
feared
not
.
God
calls
to
them
and
bids
them
to
be
dismayed
.
But
the
dismayment
and
the
discouragement
I
speak
of
,
it
is
a
base
dismayment
of
spirit
;
which
is
either
when
he
is
dismayed
that
ought
not
:
or
he
is
dismayed
at
that
whereat
he
ought
not
to
fear
:
where
no
cause
of
fear
is
.
As
he
that
riding
along
upon
the
high
way
,
spying
a
mans
shape
,
thought
it
was
some
Spirit
:
and
thereupon
he
sickened
and
died
.
So
many
a
poor
soul
looking
in
the
perfect
Law
of
God
,
and
seeing
his
own
uglinesse
and
filthinesse
,
he
is
discouraged
,
and
thinks
himself
undone
;
his
heart
waxeth
cold
within
him
,
and
he
begins
to
fear
that
he
is
but
a
dead
and
damned
man
.
Secondly
,
it
is
down
beneath
the
strength
that
is
in
a
man
:
that
man
is
properly
said
to
be
discouraged
,
not
that
he
hath
no
strength
at
all
in
him
nor
no
courage
at
all
(
for
such
a
one
is
an
infeebled
man
,
not
a
man
discouraged
)
but
a
discouraged
man
is
a
man
put
besides
the
courage
that
is
in
him
;
when
a
man
hath
strength
enough
to
grapple
with
the
evill
before
him
,
but
through
dismayment
,
of
spirit
he
cannot
put
it
forth
.
Have
not
I
commanded
thee
?
saith
God
to
Joshua
.
Be
strong
and
of
a
good
courage
,
be
not
afraid
,
neither
be
thou
dismaied
,
Iosh.
1
:
9.
God
had
given
Joshua
strength
enough
,
whereby
he
was
inabled
to
observe
and
do
according
to
all
that
Law
which
Moses
the
servant
of
the
Lord
commanded
him
;
God
had
now
doubled
his
Spirit
upon
him
:
yet
he
commands
him
,
be
not
afraid
▪
neither
dismayed
:
as
if
he
had
said
,
Joshua
,
if
thou
beest
dismayed
and
discouraged
,
though
thou
hast
strength
and
power
to
go
through
the
businesse
that
I
have
called
thee
unto
,
yet
thou
wilt
not
be
able
to
use
it
,
nor
to
put
it
forth
,
if
thou
beest
discouraged
.
Thirdly
▪
it
is
at
the
apprehension
of
some
evill
.
I
say
not
at
the
sight
of
some
evill
:
for
a
man
may
be
dismayed
at
the
apparition
of
good
,
as
Mary
when
she
saw
nothing
but
a
good
Angell
,
Luke
1.
29.
she
saw
nothing
but
a
glorious
Angel
:
neverthelesse
she
was
afraid
,
and
discouraged
.
Why
?
because
she
had
a
secret
apprehension
of
some
evill
,
either
of
some
evill
proceeded
in
the
salutation
,
or
some
unworthinesse
in
her selfe
to
receive
such
a
gracious
salutation
:
it
cannot
be
the
apprehension
of
any
good
that
discourageth
a
man
,
but
the
apprehension
of
some
evill
.
Fourthly
,
not
of
every
evill
neither
;
for
if
the
evill
be
but
small
,
courage
will
stand
it
out
;
but
it
is
of
such
an
evill
as
he
fears
he
is
not
able
to
grapple
withall
.
If
the
evill
before
him
be
inferiour
to
him
,
he
scornes
it
as
the
barking
of
a
toothlesse
Dog
.
If
it
be
but
an
evill
equall
to
his
strength
,
then
he
makes
a
tush
at
it
,
because
he
knowes
,
or
thinkes
himselfe
able
to
encounter
with
it
.
But
if
it
be
an
evill
above
his
strength
,
then
his
spirit
melts
and
droops
before
him
.
See
this
in
Saul
1
Sam.
17.
11.
and
his
people
.
When
they
saw
the
Champion
of
the
Philistims
coming
against
them
,
when
they
saw
him
so
hugely
and
marvelously
armed
,
and
heard
him
speake
such
bigge
words
,
they
thought
they
were
not
able
to
stand
and
to
encounter
with
him
;
and
therefore
saith
the
Text
,
when
Saul
and
all
Israel
heard
these
words
of
the
Philistim
,
they
were
dismayed
and
greatly
afraid
.
Thus
you
see
what
discouragement
is
;
Now
we
come
to
the
second
question
,
to
shew
how
discouragements
come
to
be
hurtfull
in
prayer
:
such
discouragements
the
Lord
would
not
have
our
hearts
to
be
in
,
when
we
pray
unto
him
.
For
first
,
God
cannot
give
ear
to
that
man
that
is
out
of
heart
in
his
prayers
.
Thou
canst
never
pray
if
thou
beest
dismaied
in
prayer
.
When
the
soul
begins
to
feare
and
reason
,
O
I
am
so
unworthy
that
God
will
not
looke
at
me
;
I
am
so
sinfull
,
so
blockish
,
so
dead
,
and
dull
to
all
good
,
that
God
will
never
regard
me
.
Thou
canst
never
pray
,
Rom.
10.
14.
How
shall
they
call
on
him
in
whom
they
have
not
beleeved
?
If
thou
dost
not
beleeve
that
God
will
hear
thee
,
if
thou
dost
not
believe
that
thou
shalt
prevaile
,
that
God
will
deliver
thee
out
of
these
corruptions
and
that
lust
that
thou
praiest
against
;
that
God
will
give
thee
this
grace
o●
that
grace
:
if
thou
dost
not
beleeve
that
God
will
own
thee
:
if
thou
hast
these
doubtfull
discouragements
,
O
,
he
will
not
grant
me
,
I
shall
never
get
this
or
that
:
how
canst
thou
call
on
him
?
thou
mayest
call
so
and
so
:
but
never
canst
thou
call
to
any
purpose
,
if
thou
dost
not
beleeve
in
him
.
A
begger
though
he
be
never
so
well
able
to
begge
,
yet
if
when
he
comes
to
the
House-keepers
dore
,
he
be
perswaded
that
he
shall
not
speed
,
that
let
him
beg
as
long
as
he
will
,
he
shall
get
nothing
:
this
blunts
his
begging
,
and
makes
him
give
over
his
suit
without
any
great
importunity
:
So
,
it
is
impossible
that
ever
a
soul
should
hold
out
and
pray
that
is
discouraged
in
prayer
.
Secondly
,
thou
canst
not
pray
unlesse
thou
use
all
thy
strength
in
prayer
;
If
thou
bee
discouraged
,
thou
canst
not
use
thy
strength
.
A
discouraged
man
,
his
strength
melts
into
feare
;
and
whatsoever
strength
he
hath
,
he
cannot
put
it
forth
.
How
came
Jacob
to
prevaile
and
to
have
power
with
God
?
Why
,
he
used
all
his
strength
with
God
,
and
so
prevailed
,
Hosea
12.
3.
Thou
canst
never
prevaile
with
God
by
thy
prayers
,
unlesse
thou
putrest
forth
all
thy
strength
in
prayer
.
If
Jacob
had
reasoned
I
am
but
dust
and
ashes
;
how
can
I
strive
with
God
?
I
am
sinfull
and
evill
,
how
,
can
I
contend
with
my
Maker
?
and
so
have
been
discouraged
in
his
wrastling
,
he
could
not
have
used
all
his
strength
with
God
,
and
so
had
never
prevailed
with
God
.
No
,
Jacob
he
gathers
all
the
arguments
that
he
could
make
;
he
gathers
together
all
the
promises
he
could
finde
in
Gods
Book
,
or
that
he
could
heare
of
;
he
displaies
all
the
wants
that
he
could
shew
;
he
petitions
all
the
graces
that
he
could
name
;
he
used
all
his
strength
,
and
by
his
strength
he
had
power
with
God
.
If
thy
confession
of
thy
sins
be
strengthlesse
;
if
thy
petitions
,
and
thankesgiving
for
grace
be
strengthlesse
;
if
thou
use
not
all
thy
strength
in
prayer
,
thou
canst
never
prevaile
,
nor
have
any
power
with
God
.
For
how
can
that
man
prevail
and
have
power
with
God
that
hath
no
power
with
himselfe
?
Thirdly
,
thou
canst
never
pray
,
and
have
a
fearfull
apprehension
of
evill
in
prayer
;
thou
canst
not
.
It
is
good
to
have
a
deep
apprehension
of
thy
sinnes
:
apprehend
them
to
be
as
many
hells
as
thou
eanst
,
thou
canst
never
apprehend
them
deeply
enough
:
but
if
thou
hast
a
fearfull
apprehension
of
them
,
thou
canst
never
pray
.
When
the
Apostle
would
exhort
the
Philippians
to
continue
in
one
Spirit
,
and
in
one
minde
,
fighting
together
through
the
faith
of
the
Gospell
,
he
exhorts
them
that
in
nothing
they
fear
,
Phil.
1.
27
,
28.
For
if
a
man
be
terrified
with
his
adversary
,
with
the
power
of
his
adversay
,
and
fears
he
shall
never
be
able
to
withstand
him
,
but
must
fall
before
him
through
his
subtilty
,
that
he
can
never
be
wary
enough
for
him
:
Alas
,
he
can
never
strive
with
hope
and
courage
against
him
.
So
,
beloved
,
if
we
have
a
fearfull
and
discouraged
kind
of
apprehension
of
evill
,
we
can
never
pray
so
as
to
prevail
.
Apprehend
thy
sinnes
to
be
as
hellish
,
and
as
damnable
as
thou
canst
:
Feele
even
the
fire
of
hell
in
every
one
of
them
:
but
take
heed
of
a
fearfull
apprehension
of
them
,
so
to
apprehend
the
evill
of
them
,
as
to
thinke
with
thy selfe
that
because
thou
art
guilty
of
these
and
these
sinnes
,
that
thou
shalt
never
get
in
with
God
again
,
God
will
never
be
reconciled
to
thee
:
these
will
eate
out
thine
heart
in
prayer
.
Fourthly
,
we
can
never
pray
if
we
have
any
secret
despair
,
that
there
is
any
difficulty
too
hard
for
us
to
grapple
withall
,
or
to
get
through
in
our
prayers
.
Howsoever
a
man
praies
,
yet
if
he
have
any
spice
of
these
fears
in
him
,
to
think
now
I
have
taken
a
great
deale
of
paines
,
but
am
never
the
better
;
I
have
prayed
and
prayed
,
but
have
got
no
good
:
I
may
goe
on
and
doe
thus
and
thus
,
but
shall
never
prevail
or
speed
;
all
my
labours
,
all
my
prayers
and
indeavours
will
be
lost
,
this
takes
away
the
very
spirit
and
life
of
a
mans
prayers
.
Judas
after
he
had
betrayed
the
Lord
Jesus
,
he
was
discouraged
from
ever
praying
for
mercy
.
Why
?
because
he
thought
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
get
it
;
I
have
betrayed
innocent
blood
,
saith
he
.
Matth.
27
3.
as
if
he
should
say
,
I
shal
never
outwrastle
this
sin
;
this
sin
is
my
death
:
I
have
brought
the
blood
of
the
Son
of
God
on
me
,
I
shall
never
claw
off
this
sin
:
now
Judas
thus
despayring
,
we
never
read
one
letter
of
any
prayer
that
he
made
to
God
to
get
out
of
it
;
no
,
he
thought
it
too
hard
for
him
to
get
mercy
.
Despaire
drives
a
man
from
that
he
did
hope
for
;
because
now
he
thinks
there
is
an
impossibility
in
getting
of
it
.
Beloved
,
mistake
me
not
;
there
is
a
double
desperation
:
First
,
there
is
a
desperation
of
infidelity
;
and
that
deads
and
drawes
the
soule
from
God
.
Secondly
,
there
is
a
desperation
of
extremity
;
And
if
ever
you
mean
to
come
to
God
and
to
get
any
grace
from
God
,
you
must
come
with
desperation
of
extremity
,
this
desperation
puts
life
into
a
mans
prayers
and
indeavours
,
As
a
Souldier
,
when
he
seeth
nothing
but
to
kill
or
be
killed
,
that
he
sees
his
state
desperate
;
why
,
this
will
compell
a
very
coward
to
fight
;
this
will
make
a
coward
fight
(
as
if
he
would
kill
the
Devil
,
saith
the
Proverb
)
it
will
make
him
fight
like
a
spirit
;
he
will
be
afraid
of
nothing
.
Take
a
Souldier
that
fights
desperately
for
his
life
,
with
a
kill
or
be
killed
;
he
feares
nothing
;
neither
Pike
nor
Sword
,
nor
Gun
;
why
?
he
fights
for
his
life
.
Therefore
one
notes
that
sometimes
it
is
the
nearest
way
to
victory
to
be
desperate
in
attempts
and
in
fight
.
Therefore
when
William
the
Conquerour
came
first
into
England
,
at
Hastings
,
he
sent
back
his
Ships
again
,
that
so
the
Souldiers
might
have
no
hope
of
saving
themselves
by
flying
back
.
And
so
at
Battle
,
at
one
encounter
,
a
little
Army
of
the
English
slew
a
great
Army
of
the
French
.
Why
?
they
grew
desperate
.
So
,
could
men
pray
desperately
,
could
they
pray
with
a
pray
or
be
damned
:
begge
with
a
begge
or
be
damned
;
seek
to
God
for
grace
that
you
want
with
a
speed
or
be
damned
;
then
would
their
prayers
be
more
earnest
and
powerfull
to
get
grace
.
O
,
did
men
pray
thus
,
they
would
pray
otherwise
then
they
doe
.
Men
pray
,
but
they
pray
deadly
,
coldly
,
and
lazily
,
as
if
they
had
no
need
of
prayer
,
or
as
if
they
had
no
need
of
the
grace
they
pray
for
;
they
pray
for
grace
but
get
it
not
;
they
pray
for
zeale
,
but
have
it
not
;
for
repentance
and
holinesse
,
but
obtaine
it
not
.
Beloved
,
either
get
zeale
and
holinesse
,
or
else
there
is
no
mercy
:
either
get
grace
and
repentance
,
or
else
there
is
no
mercy
for
thee
.
Pray
then
when
thou
prayest
for
grace
,
with
a
speed
or
be
damned
;
say
unto
thy
soul
,
either
we
must
speed
and
get
grace
Soule
,
or
else
we
must
goe
to
hell
.
If
men
would
pray
thus
,
with
a
speed
or
be
damned
we
should
never
see
,
nor
God
should
never
heare
so
many
cold
and
dead
prayers
as
now
we
pray
.
Despaire
makes
a
man
a
Munke
saith
the
Papist
:
but
this
despaire
makes
a
man
a
good
Christian
I
say
:
never
doth
a
man
pray
indeed
till
he
feels
himself
in
extremity
,
hopelesse
and
desperate
in
regard
of
himselfe
;
so
that
he
seeth
no
remedie
at
all
but
get
Christ
,
get
grace
or
be
damned
for
ever
.
Get
power
and
strength
over
these
corruptions
:
otherwise
they
will
destroy
and
damne
thee
;
this
would
make
a
man
pray
for
life
.
Men
pray
coldly
and
faintly
:
why
?
because
though
they
see
they
have
no
grace
,
no
zeale
,
no
holinesse
,
no
repentance
,
no
evidence
of
Christ
:
yet
they
hope
to
be
saved
notwithstanding
.
O
beloved
,
the
divell
hath
blinded
these
men
to
the
intent
they
may
be
damned
.
But
if
men
would
pray
desperate
prayers
with
a
pray
or
be
damned
;
seek
with
a
find
or
be
damned
:
men
would
then
pray
other
prayers
than
they
doe
.
Such
prayers
did
David
pray
,
Psal.
130.
1.
Out
of
the
deep
places
have
I
called
unto
thee
O
Lord
,
Lord
heare
my
prayer
:
as
if
he
should
say
,
Lord
,
I
am
even
in
the
depth
of
misery
,
plunged
over
head
and
eares
,
so
that
now
I
sinke
and
perish
if
thou
help
net
:
Lord
,
hear
my
prayer
.
This
desperation
a
Christian
must
have
,
this
quickens
up
his
Spirits
,
and
puts
life
into
him
:
but
take
heed
of
the
desperation
of
Infidelity
:
Saint
Austin
saith
it
is
the
murtherer
of
the
soule
:
the
spice
of
it
will
eate
out
the
heart
of
a
man
,
and
kill
the
strength
of
all
his
endeavours
.
I
should
now
come
to
apply
this
Doctrine
;
but
I
feare
me
there
be
many
amongst
us
,
that
never
come
so
farre
towards
Heaven
as
to
know
what
these
discouragements
meane
.
This
is
lamentable
.
It
is
true
,
discouragements
are
hideous
cases
in
prayer
,
and
a
man
may
perish
and
goe
to
hell
that
hath
them
:
but
yet
they
are
somewhat
profitable
signes
that
a
man
doth
at
the
least
look
a
little
towards
God
,
or
else
he
could
not
know
what
they
are
.
But
there
are
abundance
that
never
have
attained
so
farre
in
religion
,
as
to
understand
what
they
meane
:
but
goe
on
in
drinking
,
whoring
,
carding
and
dicing
,
hating
and
malicing
,
fretting
and
chafing
,
mocking
and
coveting
,
swearing
and
blaspheming
,
in
security
,
in
heardnesse
of
heart
and
impenitency
:
they
are
more
carefull
for
their
doggs
,
for
their
potts
,
and
for
their
tables
,
and
for
their
shops
,
than
they
are
of
their
souls
:
And
which
is
enough
to
astonish
any
that
is
godly
,
these
men
scarce
find
any
discouragements
in
prayer
:
O
,
they
have
a
good
courage
to
pray
at
all
tims
:
O
,
say
they
,
God
forbid
that
any
man
should
be
discouraged
in
praier
:
I
thank
God
I
have
a
good
hope
in
God
;
God
hath
given
me
a
good
heart
of
grace
to
call
upon
him
,
and
I
make
no
question
but
that
God
heares
me
:
God
would
never
bid
us
to
pray
if
he
did
not
mean
to
hear
us
.
Beloved
,
these
men
that
are
so
bold
in
the
goodness
of
their
hearts
to
call
upon
God
,
they
never
as
yet
prayed
in
all
their
lives
:
all
the
prayers
of
the
wicked
are
indeed
no
prayers
.
Daniel
confessing
the
sinnes
of
wicked
Judah
,
saith
,
Though
all
this
evill
be
come
upon
us
,
yet
made
we
not
our
prayer
to
turne
from
our
wicked
ways
,
Dan.
9.
13.
all
the
time
of
those
seventy
yeares
,
Daniel
saith
they
never
made
prayer
to
God
;
yet
they
fasted
every
year
,
and
prayed
every
day
,
twise
every
day
at
the
least
,
which
would
amount
in
that
time
to
50000
and
100
prayers
:
how
then
could
Daniel
say
they
never
made
one
prayer
?
I
answer
,
(
and
pray
mark
it
)
because
they
never
did
quite
turn
from
their
evill
wayes
.
Though
thou
makest
never
so
many
prayers
,
though
thou
boastest
of
the
goodnesse
of
thy
condition
,
and
snatchest
at
the
Promises
of
God
:
yet
if
thou
turnest
not
from
thine
iniquities
,
thou
never
as
yet
mad'st
any
prayer
by
the
Judgement
of
God
himself
.
Paul
made
many
thousand
prayers
before
his
conversion
,
he
could
not
have
been
a
Pharisee
else
;
but
they
were
never
accounted
prayers
to
him
:
therefore
as
soon
as
ever
he
was
converted
,
behold
saith
God
,
he
prayeth
,
Acts
9.
A
wicked
man
,
a
carnall
Christian
,
though
he
have
the
righteousness
of
Saint
Paul
before
his
conversion
,
of
living
blamelesse
,
unreproveable
in
respect
of
the
outward
righteousnesse
of
the
Law
:
yet
he
can
never
make
an
acceptable
prayer
,
till
he
be
truely
converted
;
his
prayers
are
no
better
than
howling
of
dogs
,
or
lowing
of
Oxen
,
yea
the
Lord
abhorrs
them
.
O
what
poor
incouragements
canst
thou
have
,
seeing
the
Lord
never
tallies
down
any
of
thy
prayers
?
wicked
men
are
like
Ulysses
,
who
wept
more
for
the
death
.
of
his
dogge
,
than
of
his
wife
;
so
wicked
men
weep
and
mourne
for
the
losse
of
their
corn
and
their
cattle
,
hawkes
and
hounds
,
cardes
and
dice
:
but
never
for
the
losse
of
their
praiers
.
So
long
as
thou
continuest
in
thy
prophanenesse
and
impenitency
,
thou
losest
all
thy
praiers
:
there
is
not
one
of
them
that
God
tallies
down
,
or
reckons
for
a
praier
.
Here
we
minht
have
a
great
deale
of
matter
,
if
time
would
suffer
me
.
But
it
will
not
,
onely
let
me
tell
you
,
I
speak
onely
to
those
whose
hearts
God
hath
awakened
out
of
their
sins
,
but
who
are
oft
discouraged
:
take
heed
of
these
discouragements
.
For
,
first
,
they
will
drive
thee
to
melancholy
.
Beloved
,
there
are
a
great
many
melancholy
men
in
the
world
,
and
this
is
the
cause
of
it
;
men
are
contented
to
be
converted
by
halves
:
because
they
are
discouraged
in
the
worke
.
If
thou
suffer
thy selfe
to
be
discouraged
,
it
will
ea●e
up
thy
spirit
and
thou
wilt
be
like
a
silly
dove
without
▪
a
heart
,
Hosea
7.
11.
A
dove
is
a
melancholy
creature
,
that
hath
no
heart
to
any
thing
;
so
Epharaim
hath
no
heart
to
call
upon
God
,
no
heart
to
returne
unto
God
:
and
this
is
the
cause
that
men
and
women
goe
whineing
and
mourning
under
the
burden
of
sin
,
and
are
not
able
to
come
out
,
because
of
discouragements
:
all
the
policy
of
hell
is
lesse
than
this
policy
of
the
divell
,
in
driving
men
to
despair
or
discouragements
:
this
doth
more
hurt
than
all
the
rest
of
hell
besides
.
Secondly
,
if
you
do
not
take
heed
of
them
,
they
will
bring
you
to
speake
against
God
,
I
have
prayed
,
but
the
Lord
will
not
heare
me
:
I
have
called
,
and
the
Lord
will
not
answer
,
but
hath
turned
away
his
eares
from
me
.
Now
,
thou
speakest
against
God
.
Num.
21.
4.
5.
The
soule
of
the
people
was
much
discouraged
,
and
the
people
spake
against
God
and
against
Moses
,
saying
,
Wherefore
have
you
brought
us
out
of
Egypt
,
to
die
in
the
wildernesse
?
for
here
is
neither
bread
nor
water
,
and
our
soule
loatheth
this
light
bread
.
So
,
beloved
,
if
we
suffer
our
soules
to
be
discouraged
,
we
shall
soone
come
to
murmure
against
God
:
wherefore
hath
he
brought
me
up
to
this
strictnesse
,
and
precisenesse
?
when
I
was
a
drunkard
,
a
worldling
,
when
I
followed
the
lust
of
my
flesh
and
liberty
,
then
I
enjoyed
onions
,
garlick
,
and
the
flesh-pots
of
Egypt
:
pleasures
and
delights
for
my
soule
:
then
I
had
a
good
hope
in
God
,
and
a
good
perswasion
that
my
soul
should
goe
to
heaven
:
and
then
Preachers
told
me
that
if
I
would
give
over
such
and
such
sinnes
,
and
look
after
Heaven
a
little
more
and
doe
such
and
such
things
;
O
then
I
should
come
to
a
Land
flowing
with
milke
and
honey
;
then
I
should
not
misse
of
glory
and
salvation
.
But
alas
,
I
see
nothing
but
Gyants
and
Anakims
;
I
am
in
a
wildernesse
;
now
,
now
I
see
a
man
may
have
a
great
deal
of
repentance
,
and
yet
be
a
cast
away
;
A
man
may
have
a
great
deal
of
faith
and
yet
be
but
a
reprobate
;
A
man
may
give
over
a
great
many
sins
,
and
yet
perish
in
hell
;
now
I
see
a
man
may
live
civilly
and
well
,
and
have
and
do
a
great
many
good
things
,
and
yet
be
damned
when
he
hath
done
all
:
A
man
may
even
go
to
Heaven
Gates
,
and
yet
the
gates
be
shut
against
him
,
and
he
turned
into
hell
.
Alas
,
my
poor
soul
is
in
a
wildernesse
;
now
I
know
not
which
way
to
goe
;
I
am
ready
to
lose
my selfe
,
I
see
nothing
here
now
but
huge
Gyants
,
the
sons
of
Anack
,
strong
corruptions
,
inclining
and
forcing
me
to
evill
;
most
fearefull
and
violent
suggestions
and
temptations
of
the
Devill
,
ready
to
thrust
me
into
the
gulfe
of
wickednesse
and
despaire
.
And
now
,
the
soule
begins
to
thinke
that
it
is
good
for
it
to
returne
again
into
Egypt
,
to
fall
to
its
old
courses
again
:
for
certainly
God
looks
for
no
such
matter
,
he
requires
no
such
strictnesse
and
precisenesse
:
And
so
it
falls
a
whining
and
repining
at
the
Word
and
Ministers
of
God
that
have
call'd
men
to
it
,
and
laid
it
upon
them
:
and
hath
no
heart
now
to
do
thus
and
thus
any
longer
.
And
thus
it
falls
into
discouragements
because
of
the
way
,
and
into
a
thousand
quandaries
whether
it
may
not
go
back
again
or
no.
And
all
these
murmurings
and
repinings
are
because
men
suffer
themselves
to
be
discouraged
.
Thirdly
,
discouragements
will
cause
thee
to
think
that
God
hates
thee
.
When
the
soul
like
Baals
Priests
,
1.
Kings
18.
26.
hath
been
crying
from
morning
to
noon
;
ten
,
twenty
,
thirty
yeeres
,
it
may
be
,
and
yet
hath
no
answer
;
now
it
will
begin
to
think
,
if
God
did
love
me
,
then
he
would
grant
me
my
petitions
.
Then
hereupon
comes
into
a
mans
secret
thoughts
and
feare
:
that
God
hardly
loves
his
soule
.
So
was
it
with
Israel
;
when
they
were
discouraged
,
they
said
,
because
the
Lord
hated
us
,
therefore
he
brought
us
out
of
the
Land
of
Egypt
,
Deut.
1.
27.
Because
that
they
were
discouraged
,
and
because
that
their
Brethren
that
went
for
spies
,
had
disheartned
them
;
therefore
they
were
apt
to
say
the
Lord
hated
them
.
Beloved
,
it
is
a
miserable
thing
when
the
soule
calls
the
love
of
God
into
question
.
Consider
that
as
thou
canst
not
have
a
friend
if
thou
beest
suspitious
and
jealous
of
his
love
to
thee
:
So
,
thou
canst
never
have
the
love
of
God
settled
on
thy
heart
so
long
as
thou
art
jealous
of
his
love
to
thee
.
Fourthly
,
If
thou
root
them
not
out
,
it
is
to
be
feared
that
they
will
bring
thee
to
despair
.
Melancholy
thoughts
and
feares
,
and
discouragements
,
drive
the
soul
to
despaire
.
For
when
the
soul
sees
it selfe
still
disappointed
of
its
hopes
,
at
the
last
it
growes
hopelesse
:
If
it
have
waited
one
day
and
the
next
day
too
:
if
it
have
prayed
this
weeke
,
this
moneth
,
this
year
,
and
yet
still
it
seeth
it selfe
held
off
and
disappointed
:
it
will
at
last
grow
hopelesse
.
Take
heed
therefore
,
I
beseech
you
,
of
all
needlesse
discouragements
;
to
fear
because
that
thou
findest
not
that
that
thou
wishedst
or
prayedst
for
,
to
day
or
to
morrow
,
in
thine
own
time
,
that
therefore
thou
shalt
never
get
it
,
that
now
thou
shouldest
for
ever
despaire
of
the
grace
and
love
of
God
,
and
think
that
now
God
will
never
hear
thee
,
that
thou
shalt
never
get
grace
and
power
over
thy
corruptions
.
Men
think
that
the
preaching
of
the
Word
of
God
brings
men
to
despaire
,
the
preaching
of
such
strict
points
and
the
urging
such
precise
doctrines
makes
men
despaire
:
men
are
loth
to
be
at
the
paines
to
root
out
their
discouragements
:
It
is
rather
a
cold
or
dead
preaching
of
the
Word
that
is
the
cause
of
this
:
for
when
the
soule
is
instructed
by
holinesse
,
humbled
by
holinesse
,
converted
by
holinesse
,
at
the
last
when
it
comes
to
be
thorowly
awakened
,
when
it
sees
that
this
and
this
is
required
in
a
true
conversion
of
the
soule
to
God
,
that
herein
true
repentance
must
declare
and
demonstrate
it selfe
by
these
and
these
fruits
,
or
else
it
is
but
false
and
rotten
:
Why
now
,
the
soul
must
needs
be
brought
to
despaire
,
because
it
seeth
that
though
it
have
been
thus
and
thus
humbled
,
though
it
have
praied
,
fasted
and
mourned
in
this
and
this
manner
:
yet
it
sees
it
hath
not
a
soundesse
of
grace
.
There
is
such
a
grace
in
it
,
such
a
worke
and
such
a
fruit
of
Gods
Spirit
in
it
,
that
yet
he
could
never
finde
in
himselfe
:
this
makes
the
soule
to
despaire
.
Indeed
Preachers
may
be
to
blame
,
if
they
speake
and
preach
onely
the
terrours
and
condemnations
of
the
Law
without
the
promises
of
the
Gospel
:
for
these
should
be
so
tempered
that
every
poore
broken
soule
may
see
mercy
and
redemption
for
him
upon
his
sound
and
unfeigned
repentance
and
humiliation
.
But
if
men
doe
despaire
,
they
may
thanke
themselves
for
it
,
their
owne
sinnes
for
it
,
their
owne
discouragements
for
it
,
because
they
suffer
these
to
continue
in
them
.
Cain
his
heart
grew
sad
,
his
conntenance
fell
,
he
was
wroth
and
disquiered
in
his
minde
,
and
heavily
discouraged
;
why
?
Gen.
4.
Sin
lay
at
the
dore
,
(
what
dore
?
)
the
dore
of
his
conscience
,
rapping
and
beating
upon
his
heart
.
Beloved
,
when
the
soule
lets
sin
lie
at
the
dore
:
drunkennesse
,
pride
and
worldlinesse
,
security
,
hardnesse
and
deadnesse
of
heart
lie
at
the
dore
:
when
a
man
lets
his
negligent
and
fruitlesse
hearing
of
the
word
lie
at
the
dore
,
when
a
man
lets
his
vaine
and
dead
praying
,
his
temporizing
and
fashionary
serving
of
God
lie
at
the
dore
of
conscience
,
to
tell
him
that
all
his
hearing
of
the
word
of
God
profits
him
nothing
,
that
his
praiers
are
dead
and
vain
,
that
his
mourning
,
fasting
,
and
all
his
humiliation
is
counterfeit
and
rotten
,
and
that
he
hath
no
soundnesse
of
grace
in
him
,
but
that
for
all
this
he
may
fall
into
hell
:
when
sin
l●eth
thus
at
the
dore
,
thus
rapping
at
the
conscience
,
it
is
no
wonder
if
the
soule
fall
into
desperation
,
as
it
was
here
.
Cain
let
his
sinne
lie
at
the
dore
,
there
it
lay
rapping
and
beating
,
and
told
him
that
his
carelessenesse
and
negligent
sacrificing
to
God
was
not
accepted
:
and
therefore
no
marvell
if
Cain
be
so
cast
down
in
his
countenance
,
and
that
he
fall
to
despaire
.
O
beloved
,
when
sinne
lieth
bouncing
and
beating
at
the
doore
of
thy
heart
,
when
thy
sinne
(
whatsoever
it
is
,
search
thy
heart
and
finde
it
out
)
lies
knocking
and
rapping
at
the
dore
of
thy
conscience
day
by
day
,
and
moneth
by
moneth
,
and
thou
art
content
to
let
it
lie
,
and
art
unwilling
to
use
meanes
to
remove
it
,
and
art
loth
to
take
the
paines
to
get
the
bloud
of
Christ
to
wash
thy
soule
from
it
,
or
the
Spirit
of
Christ
to
cleanse
thee
from
it
;
then
thy
soule
wil
despaire
,
either
in
this
world
,
or
in
the
world
to
come
.
But
let
us
take
heede
then
,
that
our
conscience
condemne
us
not
in
any
thing
or
course
that
we
allow
in
our selves
:
for
if
that
doe
,
then
much
more
will
God
,
who
is
greater
than
our
consciences
,
and
knows
all
things
.
The
Apostle
hath
an
excellent
Phrase
:
Rom.
8.
1.
There
is
no
condemnation
to
them
that
are
in
Christ
Jesus
&c.
As
if
he
should
say
,
there
is
not
one
condemnation
;
there
is
none
in
Heaven
,
God
doth
not
condemne
them
;
there
is
none
in
earth
,
their
own
heart
and
conscience
doth
not
condemne
them
;
to
him
that
is
in
Christ
Jesus
,
that
walks
not
after
the
flesh
,
but
after
the
Spirit
,
there
is
none
,
no
not
one
condemnation
to
him
;
none
,
neither
in
Heaven
nor
in
earth
:
no
word
,
no
commandement
,
no
threatning
condemns
him
.
But
if
thy
conscience
condemn
thee
,
and
tell
thee
thou
lettest
sinne
lie
at
the
doore
,
rapping
at
thy
conscience
day
after
day
,
and
moneth
after
moneth
,
telling
thee
that
yet
thou
art
without
Christ
,
that
yet
thou
never
hadst
any
true
faith
in
the
Lord
Jesus
,
that
yet
thou
hast
not
truly
repented
,
and
turned
from
thy
sins
:
this
will
at
last
drive
thy
soul
into
heavy
discouragements
,
if
not
into
final
despaire
.
O
beloved
,
religion
and
piety
,
and
the
power
of
Godlinesse
,
goe
down
the
wind
every
where
.
What
is
the
reason
of
it
,
but
because
of
these
discouragements
that
men
live
and
go
on
in
?
Men
pray
and
pray
,
and
their
prayers
profit
them
not
:
men
run
up
and
down
and
come
to
the
Church
and
heare
the
Word
,
and
receive
the
Sacraments
,
and
use
the
meanes
of
grace
,
but
to
no
end
:
they
are
unprofitable
to
them
:
they
remaine
in
their
sinnes
still
:
the
ordinances
of
God
bring
them
not
out
of
their
lusts
and
corruptions
:
hereby
they
disgrace
and
discredit
the
ordinances
of
God
in
the
eyes
and
account
of
the
men
of
the
world
,
making
them
think
as
if
there
were
no
more
power
nor
force
in
the
Ordinances
of
God
than
these
men
manifest
.
There
is
no
life
in
many
Christians
,
mens
spirits
are
discouraged
;
these
secret
discouragements
in
their
hearts
take
away
their
spirits
in
the
use
of
the
meanes
,
that
though
they
use
the
meanes
,
yet
it
drives
them
to
despaire
of
reaping
good
;
or
profit
by
them
.
Beloved
,
I
could
here
tell
you
enough
to
make
your
hearts
ake
to
hear
it
.
First
,
All
your
complaints
,
they
are
but
winde
,
Job
.
6.
26.
Doe
you
imagine
to
reprove
words
,
and
the
speeches
of
one
that
is
desperate
,
which
are
as
winde
?
Jobs
friends
taking
Job
to
be
a
man
of
despaire
,
they
accounted
all
his
words
but
as
wind
.
Doe
thou
nestle
any
discouragement
in
thy
heart
?
thou
maist
complaine
of
sinne
as
much
as
thou
canst
:
yet
all
thy
complainings
are
but
as
winde
:
thou
mayest
cry
out
against
thy
corruptions
,
with
weeping
and
teares
,
and
pray
and
fight
against
them
:
and
yet
all
thy
weeping
,
mourning
and
praying
is
but
as
the
winde
:
thou
maiest
beg
grace
,
thou
maiest
seek
after
God
,
thou
maist
heare
the
Word
,
receive
the
Sacraments
,
and
yet
all
will
be
to
thee
as
wind
:
all
will
vanish
,
be
unprofitable
,
not
regarded
.
Secondly
,
discouragements
drive
us
from
the
use
of
the
meanes
.
If
ever
we
meane
to
come
out
of
our
sinnes
,
if
ever
we
meane
to
get
grace
and
faith
,
and
assurance
,
and
zeale
:
we
must
constantly
use
the
meanes
,
1
Sam.
27.
1.
David
saith
,
There
is
nothing
better
for
me
than
that
I
should
speedily
escape
into
the
Land
of
the
Philistins
,
and
Saul
shall
despaire
of
me
to
seek
me
any
more
.
David
thought
in
himself
,
if
I
can
make
him
out
of
hope
of
finding
me
,
certainly
he
will
give
over
seeking
of
me
.
So
when
the
soule
hath
any
secret
despaire
of
finding
the
Lord
,
that
soul
will
quickly
be
drawn
from
seeking
of
the
Lord
in
the
use
of
the
meanes
.
What
ever
you
doe
then
;
O
be
not
discouraged
,
lest
you
be
driven
from
the
use
of
the
meanes
:
if
you
be
driven
from
the
use
of
the
meanes
,
woe
is
to
you
,
you
will
never
finde
God
then
.
Be
not
driven
from
prayer
,
nor
driven
from
holy
conference
,
nor
driven
for
the
Word
,
nor
driven
from
the
Sacrament
,
nor
from
meditation
,
nor
from
the
diligent
and
strict
examination
of
thy selfe
,
of
thy
heart
and
of
all
thy
wayes
:
for
these
are
the
wayes
of
finding
the
Lord
.
If
you
nourish
any
thoughts
and
fears
of
despaire
in
you
,
if
you
be
discouraged
,
you
will
be
driven
from
the
use
of
the
meanes
,
which
is
a
lamentable
thing
;
therefore
be
not
discouraged
.
Thirdly
,
discouragements
will
make
you
stand
poaring
on
your
former
courses
,
This
I
should
have
done
,
and
that
I
should
have
done
,
woe
is
me
that
I
did
it
not
:
it
will
make
a
man
stand
poaring
on
his
sinnes
,
but
never
able
to
get
out
of
them
.
So
it
was
like
to
be
with
them
in
the
Ship
with
Paul
,
Acts
27.
20.
In
the
tempest
at
Sea
,
they
were
utterly
discouraged
from
any
hope
of
safety
:
now
indeed
Paul
told
them
what
they
should
have
done
if
they
had
been
wise
:
Sirs
,
you
should
have
hearkned
to
me
,
and
not
have
loosed
,
verse
21.
as
if
he
had
said
,
you
should
have
done
thus
and
thus
:
but
now
doe
not
stand
poaring
too
much
on
that
,
you
should
have
hearkned
to
me
,
and
not
have
launched
forth
,
&c
but
that
cannot
be
holpen
,
now
:
therefore
I
exhort
you
to
be
of
good
chear
,
&c.
So
beloved
,
when
the
soul
is
discouraged
upon
these
thoughts
,
I
should
have
prayed
better
,
I
should
have
heard
the
Word
of
God
better
,
and
with
more
profit
;
I
should
have
repented
better
,
I
should
have
performed
this
and
that
religious
and
good
dutie
better
;
but
ah
wretch
that
I
am
,
I
have
sinned
thus
and
thus
;
it
is
alwayes
looking
on
this
sinne
and
that
sinne
,
this
imperfection
and
that
failing
,
when
now
I
say
the
soule
is
discouraged
,
it
will
be
alwayes
poaring
upon
sinne
,
but
it
will
never
come
out
of
its
sinne
;
alwayes
poaring
upon
its
deadnesse
,
and
unprofitablenesse
,
but
never
able
to
come
out
of
it
.
O
beloved
,
be
of
good
cheare
,
and
be
not
discouraged
;
it
is
true
you
should
have
prayed
better
;
you
should
have
heard
the
word
of
God
better
heretofore
,
you
should
have
been
more
carefull
and
circumspect
of
your
wayes
than
you
were
;
but
now
you
cannot
help
it
;
these
things
and
times
are
gone
,
and
cannot
be
recalled
:
such
a
one
hath
been
a
drunkard
,
a
swearer
,
a
worldling
,
&c.
but
he
cannot
help
it
now
.
True
,
he
might
have
helped
it
,
and
because
he
did
not
,
his
heart
shall
bleed
for
it
,
if
he
belong
to
God
:
but
doe
not
stand
poaring
too
much
upon
it
,
but
consider
now
what
you
have
to
doe
,
now
you
are
to
humble
your selves
,
now
you
are
to
strive
with
God
in
all
manner
of
prayer
for
more
grace
,
and
more
power
of
obedience
and
assurance
,
and
be
not
discouraged
.
Fourthly
,
If
the
soule
be
discouraged
,
it
will
breed
nothing
but
sorrow
.
What
is
the
reason
that
many
Christians
are
alwayes
weeping
,
and
mourning
,
and
sighing
,
and
sobbing
,
from
day
to
day
,
all
their
life
time
,
and
will
not
be
comforted
?
because
of
these
discouragements
,
1
Thes.
4.
13.
Sorrow
not
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
as
those
that
have
no
hope
,
as
if
he
had
said
,
sorrow
if
you
will
;
but
do
not
sorrow
as
they
that
have
●o
hope
.
How
is
that
?
it
is
a
sorrow
with
nothing
but
sorrow
,
from
which
they
have
no
hope
of
inlargement
or
freedome
.
O
then
my
brethren
,
suppose
you
have
dead
hearts
,
suppose
you
want
zeale
,
you
want
assurance
;
suppose
it
be
so
,
yet
labour
to
attain
these
grace
;
sorrow
and
spare
not
;
weepe
and
mourne
▪
and
powre
out
whole
buckets
of
teares
for
your
sinnes
,
if
you
can
:
but
,
sorrow
not
with
nothing
but
sorrow
:
be
not
discouraged
:
suppose
that
thou
hast
a
dead
heart
,
that
thou
art
an
hypocrite
,
that
thou
hast
a
rotten
heart
;
it
is
a
heavy
thing
,
and
a
fearful
case
indeed
,
for
which
thou
hast
great
cause
of
humiliation
and
sorrow
;
but
yet
sorrow
not
desperately
as
men
without
hope
:
be
not
wholly
discouraged
,
but
as
you
sorrow
for
your
sinnes
,
so
also
labour
with
incouragement
to
get
cut
and
be
rid
of
your
sinnes
.
Fifthly
,
Discouragements
breed
and
procure
a
totall
perplexity
.
They
leave
the
soul
in
a
maze
,
that
it
knows
not
whither
to
turne
it self
When
men
come
to
be
discouraged
,
O
what
shall
I
do
saith
one
?
I
am
utterly
undone
saith
another
:
I
know
not
what
will
become
of
me
,
saith
a
third
:
Oh
I
am
utterly
lost
,
I
shall
perish
one
day
,
one
day
God
will
discover
me
,
and
be
avenged
on
me
for
this
and
that
sin
:
I
were
as
good
go
to
he
lat
the
first
as
at
the
last
▪
for
that
will
be
the
end
of
me
.
I
have
gone
to
prayer
,
but
that
doth
not
helpe
me
:
I
have
gone
to
Sacraments
,
but
I
find
no
help
:
still
my
soule
lies
under
the
power
of
sinne
still
my
sinnes
are
as
strong
in
me
as
ever
:
Thus
the
soule
is
discouraged
and
cries
out
,
Oh
,
what
shall
I
doe
?
I
know
not
what
to
doe
.
What
shall
I
doe
,
sayest
thou
?
Alas
,
thou
hast
things
enough
to
doe
,
if
thou
wert
not
discouraged
.
Utterly
undone
!
No
,
man
,
thou
mightest
see
that
thou
art
not
utterly
undone
but
that
thou
art
discouraged
.
Dost
thou
not
know
what
will
be
come
of
thee
?
yea
,
poore
soule
,
there
is
mercy
,
grace
and
peace
for
thee
,
if
thou
wilt
not
be
discouraged
.
Sixthly
,
Discouragements
whisper
within
a
man
a
sentence
of
death
,
and
an
impossibility
of
escaping
.
As
far
as
the
discouragement
of
life
goeth
,
so
far
goeth
the
sentence
of
death
.
We
despaired
of
life
▪
and
had
the
sentence
of
death
in
our selves
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
2
Cor.
1.
8.
9.
he
despaired
of
life
in
himselfe
,
and
therfore
had
the
sentence
of
death
in
himself
▪
this
was
good
,
but
he
did
not
despaire
of
life
in
God
;
for
then
he
should
have
had
likewise
the
sentence
of
death
from
God
in
his
conscience
.
If
you
despaire
in
the
Lord
▪
you
have
the
sentence
of
death
and
damnation
from
God
in
your
conscience
▪
take
heed
of
this
my
beloved
▪
be
not
discouraged
in
God
:
do
not
despaire
in
the
Lord
:
that
will
work
a
miserable
effect
in
your
souls
:
it
will
secretly
whisper
a
sentence
of
damnation
in
your
soules
.
It
is
strange
to
consider
how
many
poore
soules
rub
on
with
these
whispering
sentences
in
their
bosomes
,
suffering
their
consciences
day
by
day
,
to
tell
them
that
they
are
rotten
,
to
tell
them
that
they
were
never
yet
converted
,
to
tell
them
that
they
are
yet
in
the
state
of
damnation
,
and
yet
they
will
not
root
out
these
discouragements
.
O
goe
to
the
Throne
of
grace
,
begge
for
grace
and
for
mercie
and
for
power
against
sinne
,
and
bee
not
discouraged
.
What
?
wilt
thou
carry
thine
owne
sentence
of
death
in
thy
breast
?
if
thou
wilt
not
rouze
up
thy
soule
,
and
pray
with
more
affection
and
confidence
,
and
shake
off
discouragements
,
take
heed
least
thou
carry
the
sentence
of
thine
owne
death
and
damnation
in
thy
bowels
.
Oh
therefore
once
more
let
mee
beseech
you
to
take
heede
of
these
discouragements
,
and
now
hearken
unto
the
voice
of
God
,
which
calleth
upon
you
,
Feare
not
.
Thou
drewest
nigh
in
the
day
that
I
called
upon
thee
;
Thou
saidest
,
Feare
not
.