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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01139	The groanes of the spirit, or the triall of the truth of prayer	Foxle, George.	1639 (1639)	STC 11250.3; ESTC S114872	54,217	260

desire of the heart which in the unregenerate longeth and lamenteth after good though it have many shrewd rubs in the way through the remainders of sin but in the unregenerate it is carried with full sway toward sinne without any resistance though it may stumble now and then upon the sting of conscience neither would I haue any by presuming to abuse this cause of Paul to sinne for none can benefit by this but such as have Pauls feelings desires and endeavours in some measure but let al such as are fervent in spirit serving the Lord though with much opposition litle or no feeling of the evidence of the spirit lay home this case to their comfort The latter particular wherein the guidance of the spirit consisteth is the quickning and increasing of grace for as by the spirit the deeds of the body are mortified so by the same spirit the graces of the soul are quickned therefore is the spirit called the spirit of grace Now the spirit of grace is joyned with the spirit of supplication as the Cause and the convertible Effect the state the demonstrative evidence of the state I will poure out saith the Lord by Zachary in the place quoted the spirit of grace and supplication or deprecation Where by the spirit of grace is meant the gracious spirit of regeneration proceeding from the grace of God guiding and quickning his own in all the waies of grace by the spirit of deprecation that spirituall immediatly infused ability as I have shewed whereby his penitents doe beg and obtain pardon of sin and all other things conducing to Gods glory and their own good Between this spirit of grace and deprecation there is a mutuall strengthning or corroboration As health is the cause of walking and by walking is strength assured and increased so grace is the internall immediate conjunct cause of prayer and is also quickned and strengthned by prayer Or as the heat of the sun reflecting upon some solid or impenetrable body is made more forcible So the radiant beames of grace exercising themselves upon that firmly framed object of prayer by a gracious reflection they become out of measure gracious If thou wouldst then excell in grace labour to excell in that eminent ability of prayer which doth not consist as I have shewed in the excellēcy of words but in the heigtht depth of the grones of the spirit which no words are able to expresse Try also by the gage or land-mark of prayer the ebbing or floing of the tide of grace for so much as thy soule is taken up with the true strain of prayer so much dost thou gain in the rich traffique of grace and so much as thou loosest in the faculty of this heavenly Oratory so much thou loosest in the stocke of grace Therefore for the keeping of both stock and interest on foot it shall be good in my judgement to put these two particular observations in practice First look what particular sin either of person or calling thou art most addicted unto in what patticular grace thou art most deficient labour to countermand and subdue the particular sin by the opposite grace and to quicken strengthen the weak and decaied grace by the speciall or proper remedies This is the wisest policy the highest point of war the richest trade and the proper imployment of our precious talent Another remarkable observation to be practised is this Let no day passe thee wherein thou dost not call thy selfe to a strict accompt of the well imployment ill imployment or misimployment of the day record as neer as thou canst thy commissions and omissions in thy calling or out of thy calling in thought word or deed against piety equity or sobriety recall thy company and conference thine or others profiting thereby or unprofitablenesse recompt the favours the frownings the cherishments or chastisements mercies or judgements towards thee and others as nigh as thou canst observe what corruption hath prevailed against thee or in what particular grace thou gettest any better footing This course deserveth neither obloquie from the wicked nor should it seem unnecessary strict or impossible to professours For the very Heathens by the guide nature have given order for it in their morals namely that wee should not suffer our eyes to sleep nor our eye-lids to slumber till wee had recompted all the passages of the former day But alas they had but a leaden rule to walke by turning all their strictest most glorious actions into glistring sinnes but we have a golden rule of trial which by a true touch will indeed turn us and our actions into the purest gold It is a double shame therefore that they in this should shame us this same point was a particular of Moses his Petition So teach us to number our daies that we may apply our hearts to wisdome There is no better waies to thriue than for a man to be a good accomptant to observe well his losses and his gaines his receits and his layings out what is owing to him what he oweth to others This gaines a wise heart or a heart of wisdome saith Moses which is more worth then all the wealth in the world This is the only meanes whereby to redeem the time in which phrase the Apostle implieth the calling a mans self to accompt and his actions as thrifty Merchants doe the Apostles words looke both backe to the time past advising us to make good one time what wee lose at another which cannot be done without reckoning with our selves and also forward to the time to come injoyning us to take all occasion and opportunity of serving the Lord with more strictnesse sincerity and alacrity then heretofore we have done suppose it be with temporall losse or incommodityt he very word Redeeme includeth this evidently that for our profits ease and pleasing of others we put off or altogether neglect the casting up of our accompts now if wee will redeeme that losse wee must be content to part with all these to become good accomptants not that men hereby should neglect their callings for this wil make them more strict sincere and diligent in their callings but as to this strict course and the attending it many incommodities are incident For you must know the Divell World Flesh and it may be some of the houshold are no friends to it So we must accompt all are for Cyphers for the furthering our accompts These strict accomptants must make this a part of their reckoning that the Crosse will follow them for the bearing whereof they must resolve upon selfe-denyall with the hatred of father and mother wife and children and life it selfe which shall be no disadvantage to them for Christs sake and life and death is to such advantage Of the necessity of our summoning up of ourselves and our wayes the Apostle gives good reasons First wee must walke strictly not declining a haires