[ 1571] Prayer for others in the same condition with our selves, prevalent with God.
BEggars when they crave an Alms constantly use one main Motive,* 1.1 that the person of whom they beg may be preserved from that misery, where∣of they themselves have had wofull experience: If they be blind, they cry; Master, God blesse your eye-sight; If lame, God blesse your limbs; If undone by casual burning, God blesse you and yours from Fire. Tu quoque fac simile, let every good Christian do the like, and reason good; For Christ, though his Person be now glorified in Heaven, yet he is still subject, by sympathy of his Saints on earth, to hunger, nakednesse, imprisonment, banishment, and a wounded Conscience, and so may stand in need of feeding, cloathing, visiting, comfort∣ing and curing. So that when we pray to Christ for any favour, it is a good plea to urge, edge and enforce our requests withall, Lord grant us such or such a grace, and never maist thou, Lord, in thy mystical members, be perplexed, vexed or tor∣mented with such or such an extremity, further then may make out for thy glory, and their everlasting good.