81:o I F'phefianr,Ghap.6. V ER,IO, 3. Again, how worthy are we to mi(fe good things, that will not open our mouthes for them Spare to fpeake (we fay) and fare to fpeed. When God biddeth us aske and have, howunthankefull and un- worthy wretches are we, that negleil fuch kindnetfe, and will not prove him that is fo graciousf Again, there is no duty fo acceptable toGod : for that prayer is to grace, as powning is to f=ete fpices; it maketh grace, as faith, reve, rence, poverty of fpirit, thank efulneffe, &c. caft a fragrant finell, aswhich (indeede) is nothing but chafing of them. Doti`, Secondly, we fee, that dayby day, when it /hall be moll fitting our con- dition andoccafion, we mufé retur»e to this duty, Pray alwaies. That we are faid to doe continually, which we are (aid to doe at fit times daily, as Numb. a8. that was a continuall facrifice which was daily offered, morningand evening onely. Andthat we are dayly to take up this exer- cifi,it appeareth by David, Pfal. 55. ry. Evening and morning and noone, will I pray and make a noife, and he (hall heare my voyce, Dan. 6.1o. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, .and praid and praifedhis God, as he had done aforetimes. Secondly, by Chrifls inftruEtion, whowould haveus begge every day the things that belong to this temporali life : much more to the fpirituall. And by many reatons: as Hilt, ourdecay ofgrace when it is not re- newed, or fundry wants andiew appearances of evill which daily thewthemfelves, before not difcovered, which mutt be fupplied by prayer; as the decay daily of bodily tirength by futtentation. Second- 3. ly, tha daily malice of Satan againft us. Thirdly, the benefit of dai- ly prayer, it is as ahedge to us. Whenwe have brought our felves to this cutlornc (it bein with the foule as with the body) it will not goe quietly without that to which iris accuflomed. Vfe. Firft therefore from the right underftanding this phrafe, we fee it dothnot enjoyne usthofe canonicall houres: for betidesthattheir in- flitution was not knowne in the Apoftleigtime, this precept tieth all Chriftians; whereas their houres of praier bind their Clergie onely, who of office ate topray, and there difcourfe that way, would have thefe things marked; that we doe not denie that the Church bath Ii-, bertie toappoint houres, with caution ofedification. t, But the firft erre in this, that they make lawes for all times,of fume example, which particular mendid freely upon fome occafion extra - ordinarie. a. That they multiplytheirferias, and houres abundantly, above that the Churchof God can attend unto, yea contrarie to Gods infli. tution; whopath, that we might keepe his worfhip on the Sabbath, givenus fix daies. 3 3. That they make them publike prayers of the Church, which are performed by the Clergie; whereas the Clergie are not the Church, but the Miniflers with the people to whom it is mini- ftred. Secondly, AMR
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