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A55332 Of ejaculatory prayer the necessity there is of it, the advantages there are for it, and the advantages there are by it : demonstrated with several directions for the practice of it / by Theophilus Polwheile ... Polwheile, Theophilus, d. 1689. 1674 (1674) Wing P2784; ESTC R40646 52,386 162

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that I might but find now that God accepteth my Work See Psal 19. 14. 3. If any good hath been done Beg that God would enable you to do so still and to do so more See 1 Thes 4. 10. 4. If any good hath been gotten Beg that it may not be lost Say Lord keep these thoughts these affections c. in the heart of thy Servants for ever 1 Chron. 29. 18. Thus of this fourth Particular V. When you come unto any of the Ordinances As I. When you come to the Hearing of the Word Preached Oh then is a special Season for Ejaculatory Prayer And that 1. For your Ministers that a door of Utterance may be given that a sutable word may be spoken Say Lord now be with thy Servant that he may speak as he ought to speak Let his tongue be touch'd with a coal from the Altar Let him have a double portion of the spirit a fresh anointing that he may speak a word in due season a sutable and seasonable word c. 2. For your selves that a door of Enterance may be given Say Lord not only open his mouth but mine ear Let mine ear now be boared Let my ear be opened that I may not only hear but hearken not only understand but obey And for this end seek unto God by Ejaculatory Prayer both against that that may let and hinder you and for that that may help and further you in the sanctifying of God's Name in Hearing 1. Against that that may let and hinder you As 1. Vain thoughts thinking upon impertinent things Say Lord let not vain thoughts now lodg within me Deliver me from those sinful outgoings and wanderings of heart which I am wont to be subject to in hearing thy word 2 High and lofty thoughts Let the Word be mighty through thee O God to the casting down of imaginations and of every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 3. The Suggestions of Sathan Let Sathan now be chained up Lord rebuke Sathan Let him not steal away my heart from the word or the word from my heart 2. For that that may help and further you As 1. Real Apprehensions of the presence and Majesty of God whose word it is Say Lord Reason tells me that thou art every where present but thy word tells me that thou art in an especial manner present in the Preaching of thy Word oh help me to believe this Strengthen my Faith now that I may not only set my self to hear the voice of Man but of God that I may hear what the Spirit hath to say to the Churches Rev. 2. 7. 2. Composedness of spirit that your hearts may be composed into an awful frame and temper sutable to the holyness and awfulness of the Presence of God before whom you stand You will find you have vain and distracted minds they ought to be composed therefore lift up your hearts to God by Ejaculatory Prayer pray that he would fix them that so you may attend unto him and upon him without distraction 3. Quickness of Apprehension You are dull of hearing Heb. 5. 11. Beg of God that he would make you of quick understanding Isa 11. 3. that he would destroy the face of the covering cast over you and the vail that is spread upon you Isa 25. 7. 4. Livelyness of Affection that you may not sit like stocks and stones before your Ministers but that you may be easie to be moved and stirred up by the Reproofs and Counsels they dispense unto you And then for all these be earnest with God for the workings and influences of the Spirit 3. As you are hearing all along be lifting up your hearts by Ejaculatory Prayer unto God sutable to the nature of the Matter Preached that as the Minister is Preaching you may be Praying Therefore 1. When any thing is difficult then pray Lord give me to Understand this 2. When any thing is reproved Lord affect my heart to loath this and to leave it 3. When any thing is enjoyned and pressed as a Duty Lord incline my heart that I may practice it Thus when you come to the Preaching of the Word II. When you come to the Administration of the Ordinance of Baptisme See Ford's two Treatises of the Practical use of Infant-Baptism Then likewise is a special season for Ejaculatory Prayer Then Pray that your faith may be strengthned to believe the warrantableness of Administring the Ordinance not only to Believers but to their Seed also their Infant-Seed Say Lord hast thou not taken them into Covenant with thy self Thou hast declared that thou hast And wilt thou then deny them the Seal of it I believe that thou wilt not Hast thou not said That to Believers and to their Children the Promise is Act. 2. 39. And is not the Seal of it to them also Lord may not Saints be Baptized And hast thou not said 1 Cor. 7. 14. that the Children of a Believer are Saints Lord hast thou not made known 1 Cor. 10. 2. they were Baptized under the Old Testament And why should any think then that it should be otherwise under the New Testament Were not the Children of Unbelieving Jews broken off by the unbelief of their Parents and may I not thence infer that the Children of Believing Gentiles are by the faith of their Parents graffed in in their stead to partake of the fatness of the Olive in this Ordinance of Baptism Lord I believe help my unbelief Thus pray that your Faith may be strengthned to believe the warrantableness of Administring Baptism to the Children of Believers Then for the Child that is to be Baptized Pray that the Ordinance may be made effectual to him Say Lord this Child Ezek. 16. 20. that was born unto thee is now brought unto thee Oh take away all iniquity and receive him graciously Lay thy hand upon him and bless him Joyn the inward Baptism of the Spirit to this outward Baptism of Water that it may be indeed a Baptism of Regeneration to him Let his Soul be washed in the bloud of Christ as his flesh shall be washed with this water the sign of it Let him be buryed by Baptism in the likeness of his death that he may be also raised with him in the likeness of his Resurrection Lastly for your selves Pray that you may be humbled for that you have no more improved your Baptism for time past And that you may be quickned and stirred up to make Rom. 11. 19 20. a better improvement of it for time to come And beg earnestly that it may be more and more effectual to you Say Lord have I all the Grace that was sealed to me by Baptism is there no more forth-coming to me Lord is the efficacy of the Ordinance tyed only to the present Administration Thou hast declared that it is not Therefore let it be more and more effectual to me Thus