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Q. 128. How doe you prove that we must more especially pray for the Towne and place, where we live?
A. The inhabitants of Ierusalem prayed for Jerusalem, Psal. 74. 2. First, because our selves doe live there, and therefore we must pray for it, as Lot did Zoar. Gen. 19. 21. and yet he was but about to live there, verse. 20. Secondly, because our peace and good, consists in the peace and good of the towne that we live in, I••r. 29. 7. and except the feare of God be among them, we cannot comfortably live by them, Levit. 25. 36. and if we pray for them God can lay a charge upon their consciences not to trouble our resting place, Prov. 24. 15. Thirdly, we may win some of their souls to go along with us to heaven, Gen. 35. 2. David dwelling at Gath; it should seem he converted Ittai to the faith, 2 Sam. 15. 19. Fourthly, because we are bound to doe such du∣ties, as doe require prayer for them, as for ex∣ample to exhort them; and therefore Phillip did so to Nathaniel his neighbour, Iohn. 1. 45. Levi being converted himselfe got his neighbours to be at his house to meet Christ, Luke. 5. 29. and so did Cornelius, Act. 10. 24. Fistly, we our selves may have a great deale of comfort, if we con∣vert any of their souls, Iam. 5. 20. Sixtly, hereby we may be helpers to Gods Ministers, Philemou a great Nobleman was Pauls fellow labourer in this kind, Philem. 1.