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Title:  The returne of prayers A treatise wherein this case how to discerne Gods answers to our prayers is briefly resolved, with other observations vpon Psal. 85.8. concerning Gods speaking peace, &c. By Tho: Goodvvin. B.D.
Author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.
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having a sick servant, to whom he prescribeth, and commandeth to take some physicke to cure him, and his man should take it in∣deed because it is com∣manded and prescribed by his master, looking at it as an act of duty as hee obeyes him in other busi∣nesses, but not as looking at it as a medicine, or meanes, that will have a∣ny worke upon him to cure him, and therefore orders himselfe as if hee had taken no such thing. Thus doe most in the world pray to God, take prayer as a prescription on∣ly, but not as a meanes: they come to God daily, but as to a Master onely in 0