The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion Author:John Williams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE RETURNING TO Z I O N . THE history I am goingto write, proves, that dayspffasting and prayer, without reformation, will not avai... more »l to turn away the anger of God from a professing people; and yet witnesseth, how very advantageous, gracious supplications are, to prepare particular Christians, patiently to suffer the will of God, in very trying publick calamities. For some of us, moved with fear, set apart a day of prayer, to ask of God, either to spare, and save us from the hands of our enemies, or to prepare us to sanctify and honour him in what wayway soever he should come forth towards us. The places of Scripture from whence we were entertained, were Gen. xxxii. 10, n. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: For I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. [In the forenoon.] And Gen. xxxii. 26. And he said, let me go, for the day breaketh: And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. [In the afternoon.] From which we were called upon to spread the causes of fear, relating to our own selves, or families, before God; as also, how it becomes us, with an undeniable importunity, to be following God, with earnest prayers for his blessing, in every condition. And it is very observable, how God ordered our prayers, in a peculiar manner, to be going up to him; to prepare us, with a right Christian spirit, to undergo, and endure suffering trials. chapter{Section 4Not long after, the holy and righteous God brought us under great trials, as to our persons and families, which put us under a necessity of spreading before him, in a wilderness, the distressing danger...« less