346 VireEionsforgetting andkeeping never a Prayer that ever a believerdid put up to God for things lawfull and ufeful, but it was put up by the help of the fpirit. For the weakeft Prayer bath fome degree of good Delire in it and addreffes to God with an endeavour to exprefs them : and thefe can come from none but onely from the fpirit : Meer words without delires are no more Prayer then a fuit of apparel hang'don a hake is a man. You may have the fpirit of Prayer, andyet have it in a very weak degree. Yet fil I would encourage you to bewail your de- fect herein as your fin, and leek earnefily the fupply of your wants ; But what's that to the queftioning or denying your fincerity, or right to falvation ? DOUBT X. Have no .gifts to make me urefull to my felf or others. when I fhould profit by the Word, I can- not Remember it : When I Jhotdld Reprove a Sinner, or In/lruEt the Ignorant, Ihave not Words : If I Were called togive are account of my Faith, I have not words to exprefs that which is in my mind : Andwhat Grace canbere be then ? ANSWER. His needs no long Anfiver. Lament and amend thole linsby which you have beendifabled. But know, that thefe Gifts depend more onNature, Art, Indufiry
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