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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAPTER I. The main observations: that God&apos;s people are diligently to observe the answers of their prayers" ORDERLABEL="1">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="The sinfulness of the neglect hereof demonstrated by seven reasons which is God&apos;s name" ORDERLABEL="2">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Reason 1. Hereby an ordinance of God taken in vain which is God&apos;s name" ORDERLABEL="3">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Reason 2. we take the attributes of god in vain" ORDERLABEL="4">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Reason 3. If God give in answer we made him speak in vain" ORDERLABEL="5">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Reason 4. God may be provoked not to answer at all" ORDERLABEL="6">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Reason 5. We shall not return thanks to God to God for hearing us" ORDERLABEL="7">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Reason 6. We lose mush experience" ORDERLABEL="8">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. of god&apos;s faithfulness to us" ORDERLABEL="9">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="2. Of our own hearts and ways towards him" ORDERLABEL="10">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Reason 7. We shall lose much comfort" ORDERLABEL="11">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAPTER II. Three cases: the first concerning prayers for such promises as may be accomplished in ages to come" ORDERLABEL="12">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. the full answer to Such prayers is to come" ORDERLABEL="13">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 2. Yet they may have as answer at present in assurance both that they shall come to pass, and of the acceptation of our prayers for them" ORDERLABEL="14">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 3. and in beaven we shall rejoice at the accomplishment of them: and at the day of judgment" ORDERLABEL="15">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAPTER III. Second case: Concerning prayers made for others of our friends, and c. How they are answered" ORDERLABEL="16">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. Such prayers for others god often granteth" ORDERLABEL="17">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 2. Yet always they do not prevail for the parties prayed for" ORDERLABEL="18">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Such promises to hear us for others, being but indefinite, not universal" ORDERLABEL="19">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Illustrated by the like tenor of all promises of things temporal" ORDERLABEL="20">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="The faith towards them required to be but an indefinite act of recumbency not of assurance" ORDERLABEL="21">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Yet when Godsometimes give a special faith, then we are to be assured the thing shall be done" ORDERLABEL="22">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 3. Such prayers for others are often returned into our own bosom" ORDERLABEL="23">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect, 4. God often in the end casts such out of our prayers he intends not to hear us for" ORDERLABEL="24">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="God some-times answers those prayers in some others whom we prayed not for. The reason" ORDERLABEL="25">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAP. IV. The third case, about such prayers wherein others join with us: How therein to discern the influence of our own prayers" ORDERLABEL="26">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. If our hearts were affected in praying with the same holy affections where-with others that prayed with us were" ORDERLABEL="27">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Especially when this sympathy is unbeknown each to other" ORDERLABEL="28">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 2. By some special evidence as first, some-times by some notalbe circumstance" ORDERLABEL="29">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Secondly, by the heart&apos;s being fill-ed with much joy in the accomplishment" ORDERLABEL="30">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="3. By thankful-ness for it when accomplished" ORDERLABEL="31">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 3. Especially when the thing obtained concerns own particular" ORDERLABEL="32">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAP. V. Common directions helpful in all cases and prayers. First, from such observations as may be taken, from before, and in praying" ORDERLABEL="33">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. Before: when God prepares the heart to pray" ORDERLABEL="34">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="The difference between Sa-tan&apos;s un-season-able urging us to pray and God&apos;s moving us" ORDERLABEL="35">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect, 2. 2. In praver: God&apos;s speaking to the heart in prayer, an evidence of hearing which may be discerned" ORDERLABEL="36">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. By giving a quiet rest of spirit about the thing prayed for in and by prayer" ORDERLABEL="37">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sec. 3. 2. When God draws nigh and reveals his love in and upon such a petition" ORDERLABEL="38">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="A caution: that yet this is not always an infallible sign the thing is granted, though that the prayer is accepted" ORDERLABEL="39">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Answ. The reasons why God some-times draws nigh when he grants not the thing" ORDERLABEL="40">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 4. Godsometimes stirs lip a particular faith of assurance in some businesses" ORDERLABEL="41">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="A caution, that here-in a conditional evidence be not taken for absolute" ORDERLABEL="42">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 5. When God puts a restless importunity into the heart, to pray for a particular mercy" ORDERLABEL="43">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAP. VI. Further observations to be made on the dispositions and carriage of our hearts after prayer, until the issue of the thing prayed for" ORDERLABEL="44">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. When God gives an obedient de-pendant heart, in walking before him" ORDERLABEL="45">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="2. When God gives a heart to wait for and expect the mercy" ORDERLABEL="46">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAP. VII. Observations to be made after prayer, upon the issue of what was prayed for: and first, if accomplished, whether as the fruit of prayers, or out of common providence; helps herein" ORDERLABEL="47">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. God some-times answers the prayer fully in the way and manner de-sired" ORDERLABEL="48">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 2. Directions to help to discern this" ORDERLABEL="49">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. From The manner of God&apos;s performance: God discovers a more than ordinary hand of providence in things accomplished by prayer: instanced and discoverd in five particulars" ORDERLABEL="50">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. By bringing it to pass through many difficulties" ORDERLABEL="51">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Or secondly, by facilitating all the means and causing them to con-spire to accomplish it" ORDERLABEL="52">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="3, By bringing it to pass suddenly and unexpectedly" ORDERLABEL="53">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="4. By doing above what was de-sired with addition of other mercies" ORDERLABEL="54">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="5. By ad-ding some special circum-stance as a token of God&apos;s special hand in it" ORDERLABEL="55">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 3. Observation from the time wherein the thing prayed for is accomplished,as" ORDERLABEL="56">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. Sometime the thing is accomplished a-bout the time wherein we are most instant in prayer" ORDERLABEL="57">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="2. When granted in the fittest time" ORDERLABEL="58">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. When we have most need" ORDERLABEL="59">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="2. When the heart was best prepared to receive it, and most weaned from it" ORDERLABEL="60">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 4. A third sortofob-serva-tions,from the answerable proportion between God&apos;s dealing in the accomplishment of it, and our prayers" ORDERLABEL="61">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAP. VIII. Seven observations more, from the effects which the accomplishment of the mercy hath upon the heart, and c" ORDERLABEL="62">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. If the thing obtained draws the heart nearer to God, and to rejoice in his favour in it, more than in the thing" ORDERLABEL="63">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 2. Prayer answered enlargeth the heart with thankfulness" ORDERLABEL="64">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 3. If this encourageth thee to go to God again" ORDERLABEL="65">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="5. If a man sees by faith, and acknowledgeth God&apos;s sole hand in the accomplishment" ORDERLABEL="66">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 6. With the mercy some-times a special evidence comes in that it is obtained by prayer" ORDERLABEL="67">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 7. By the event things obtained by prayer prove real and stable mercies" ORDERLABEL="68">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAP. IX. Considerations to quiet the hearty and to help it to discern an answer to, and acceptation of the prayer when the thing is not accomplished" ORDERLABEL="69">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 1. The thing prayed for is not always granted when yet the prayer is heard" ORDERLABEL="70">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="An objection answered: That though the Spirit knows God&apos;s mind, and teacheth us what to pray for, yet the thing prayed for may not be grant-ed" ORDERLABEL="71">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Section 2. A mistake to pray absolutely for such blessings as are not absolutely promised" ORDERLABEL="72">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="In which when we are denied we are to rest in God&apos;s judgment as best for us and so interpret the prayer answered" ORDERLABEL="73">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Section 3.There may be a reservation in the denial, for some greater mercy" ORDERLABEL="74">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Section 4. There may be a trail 5:mu-tation of the thing denied into some other blessing that is better of the same kind" ORDERLABEL="75">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Section 1. God answers to the ground of our prayers" ORDERLABEL="76">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Section 6. God when he denies yet some-times yields far in it, to give satisfaction to his child" ORDERLABEL="77">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Section 7. Observe the effects that denials have upon the heart. As first, if a man doth acknowledge God righteous in it, and c" ORDERLABEL="78">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Secondly, if God fill the heart with a holy contentment in the denial" ORDERLABEL="79">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Thirdly, if the heart be thankful out of faith, when denied" ORDERLABEL="80">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Section 4. If the heart be not discouraged, for continuing still to pray for other things" ORDERLABEL="81">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="CHAP. X. Application: a reproof of those that pray, but look not after the return of their prayers: the causes of this neglect" ORDERLABEL="82">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. Temptations, want of assurance; as 1. That because your per-sons are not accepted your prayers are not" ORDERLABEL="83">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="2. Of the weakness of our prayers: which is answered by three things" ORDERLABEL="84">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="3. So of-ten failings of answers: answered by four things" ORDERLABEL="85">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Sect. 2. A 2. cause are sinful, discouragements which are three" ORDERLABEL="86">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1. Slothful-ness in prayer" ORDERLABEL="87">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="2. Discouragement: looking at prayer as a duty rather than as a means to obtain blessings" ORDERLABEL="88">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="3. Discouragement: falling into sins again after praying" ORDERLABEL="89">
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        <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="TIDINGS OF PEACE" ORDERLABEL="90">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="God will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints, and c" ORDERLABEL="91">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="Examp, 1" ORDERLABEL="98">
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            <METS:div TYPE="Chapter" LABEL="1 Caution" ORDERLABEL="100">
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