Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	let_v	pray_v	sick_a	2,056	5	9.3427	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96180	The anchor of hope, for Gods tossed ones, or, Mercies thoughts for the vessels of mercy under misery, or, Gods bowels let out, opened, proclaimed to afflicted saints in a little treatise on the 29 of Jer. 11 vers. / by John Welles ...	Wells, John, 1623-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1290A; ESTC R42975	70,879	217

agonyes to travail with Zion be content to endure hardnesse much more to be oft with God to be earnest with him he hath bowels to pity he hath an eye to see he hath an hand to help and therefore will have an ear to heare hath our God given into our hands the blessed key of his owne treasury of love and will you hide it or pack it up rather then open the doore with it what shall God the same God who by his grace and Spirit makes the prayers and makes them so prevailing and perfectly knowes that hidden strength of the prayers of faith shall he come and tell us they prevaile and prevaile much and that in the lowest and saddest state of the Saints too and shall we lay them aside what do we looke that either a Gospel reformation or a mercifull peace should be so given to us as to be put into our mouthes whilst we are prayerlesse sleeping slothfull have we wrestled against God like froward ones and shall we not wrestle with God like believers have we given our hearts our hands our help to make a land naked and waste Col 3.12 and shall we looke after no covering no clothing no mercy for it oh put on bowels of mercy and as the Elect of God too naturall compassions or some piece of Spirituall mercyes let not them serve your turne but put on bowels in a way of love and tendernesse as you have put on Christ in a way of faith Phil. 2.1 if there be any consolation yea salvation which is the cause of it in Christ if there be any comfort in love if there be any fellowship of the spirit if there be any bowels and mercies fulfill the joy of Gods people answer their expectations set in to GOD for them yea for your selves in these needfull times On let not a Land sink becasue you will not pray because your hearts sink from God! Oh let not Amalek prevail because you will not hold up your hand Oh let not the Goliahs still boast dare and defie because there be no Davids to go forth against them Why may not the prayers of Faith save a sick Land a dying a bleeding Kingdome from the hurtfull sword Why may not God accept of teares in Christ the powrings out of the soul in him Job 22.30 Why may not the innocent so are beleevers lookt upon in Christ deliver the Island Who knowes what a spirit of grace and supplication can do may do He is faithfull that hath promised he will do what ever he hath said the Lord make his people earnest in pleading and faithfull in applying his promises faithfull in suing to his throne by instant and incessant prayers in working up and winding up their hearts to a strong a patient a joyfull dependance on him and then if we perish we perish we may then lose all lose-able things with comfort and finde all saving and eternall things in God oh thou beleeving soul do but thinke what solid consolation thou shalt reapt when thou canst call the salvation of God Naphtali my wrastling when the soul can call the downfall of Idolatry my wrastling a right Reformation my wrastling an happy execution my wrastling a putting up of the sword and the commings in of a sweet peace my wrastling and can say concerning Gods deliverances his salvations as Rachel said sometimes in another case with great wrastlings have I wrastled with my God and I have prevailed for this and for that and the other mercy I prayed 1 Sam. 1.20 and the Lord hath given me my petitions which I asked of him Oh it will exceedingly rejoyce the heart of a Believer to see all his mercies and all the faithfull ones mereies too to be as so many Samuels so many things asked of God as well as given of him Christians let me bespeak you with the words of the Prophet Isa 62.6 7. and lay it close with the Lords own charge upon you Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish for that our God will do and till he make Ierusalem a praise though now it is made a prey in the whole earth You are not to keep silence now you are not to sit still sullen cast down or disquieted you are not now to faint but to bestir your selves to work that God may work you cannot build Jerusalem or establish it when it is built or make it famous make a praise whilst it stands it is not in your power but you know a God that can you love a God that can up to him then wrastle strive to enter into his bowels of love get but him to work get but his right hand to save get but the arm of his strength of his salvation to be made bare for us and we shall be saved Zion shall be comforted and all her Enemies troden down as the mire of the street Vse 4 In the last place this truth shines bright and reaches farre in way of consolation and divine encouragement for and to the Saints it comes full of sweet joy and spirituall solace to the hearts of Believers in these trying and troublous times it answers many a sighing groaning burthened Saint as the Lord answered the Angel that is Christ that talked with Zechariah with good words and comfortable words Zech. 1.13 we now have our eares fild with sad complaints and how usually and freely do men take on for their losses Thus it is with me sayes one and thus it is with me sayes another call not me Naomi call not me pleasant but call me Mara for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me I was full Ruth 1.20 but now I am empty I was worth so much within these few dayes but now I have lost all oh the Lord hath testified against me oh the Almighty hath afflicted me well grant all this let there be even flouds of misery abroad say mans day of darknesse is begun what then is there no hope no Saviour Psal 39.7 may not the Saints turn themselves towards God and say Lord our hope is even in thee what do we wait for what is all our hope besides this hope states names friends an arm of flesh carnal contrivances worldly dependencies are they not all Spiders webs are they not suddenly and easily swept down Truly our hope is in thee in thy love in thy fulnesse in thy thoughts in thy blessed purposes here we can read peace in trouble good in evill both things and times light in darknesse comfort in sorrowes Oh let us rejoyce in these thoughts of our God rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and well they may is there not cause look not upon God through the false glasse of the times look not upon this Sun as in an Eclipse he is ri●ing he is shining he is warming those souls he looks and darts upon who can make void who can empty out Gods purposes of ●ove who