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Pfal. vi. 2. Have Mercy upon me,O LORD, for I am weak.

2 Cor. xii. 9. My Grace is fufficient for thee: for my Strength is made perfect in Weakness.

By ABRA. MACKBETH, E. A. P.

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Printed and Sold by 7. Downing in Bartholomew-Clafe near Weft-Smithfield, 1713.

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DISCOURSE

OF

Wandring Thoughts

IN

PRAYER.

The Introduction.

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HE Prophet Ifaiah, who,
for his clear Predictions
concerning the Gospel, is
properly and worthily
called the Evangelical Prophet, fpeak
eth thus in his XLth Chapter, and
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the First and Second Verfes, Comfort ye, comfort ye my People, faith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerufalem, &c. Where he foretelleth the Coming of the true Messi ab, our Lord and Saviour Fefus Ghrift, in whofe Perfon he faith in the LXIft Chapter, and the First, Second, and Third Verfes; The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good Tidings unto the Meek ; h: bath fent me to bind up the broken-hearted; to proclaim Liberty to the Captives, and the opening of the Prifon to them that are bound: To proclaim the acceptable Year of the LORD, and the Day of Vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them Beauty for Ashes, the Oil of Foy for Mourning, the Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness; that they might be called Trees of Righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

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This Prophecy was exprefly applied by our Saviour to himself in St. Luke IV. 2г. So that we may be affured he came not only to provide for our everlasting Happiness in the other World, but alfo to comfort us in this. And every true and faithful Minifter of his Word, can very truly fay with St. Paul and Timothy, in 2 Cor. I. 3, 4, 5. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Fefus Chrift, the Father of Mercies, and the God of all Comfort; who comforteth us in all our Tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any Trouble, by the Comfort wherewith we our felves are comforted of God. For if the Sufferings of Chri abound in us, so our Confolation alj. aboundeth by Chrift.

But fince there is no heavier Bur den, nor greater Caufe of Complaint, to fincere Chriftians, who truly love God, and defire faithfully and acceptably to ferve and worship him, than wandring Thoughts in Prayer;. for that is a fpiritual Load (more grievous and more difficult to bear than any temporal Affliction), maA. 3

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