VER.IO. ephefiaru,Chap. 6. SI' Secondly, this doth convince many , who thinke that time loft Yfe 2. that is devoted to prayer, who thinke it is enough to pray at Church; as if Gods publique fervice did juftle forth the private. Many , who by fitsfometimewill pray , leavingoff another while. Many , who though they pray in evening with their boules, yet in the morning every manmuff be for himfelfe , and God forthem all:- but we mtift pray alwaies, evening and morning , day by day ; it is moft requifite thatweChriftians may offer up a continual' fpirituall facrifice to our God, though every one cannot in the like meafure performe thefe duties for the circumftances of callings, and conditions oflives, do make themdiffer. 3. In the fpirit. Whichdoth teach us , That the inward manof DaFl. our hearts muff chiefly beoccupied in prayer. In all our fervice wee fliould fay , as Rom. I.9. That we ferveGod in our fpirits, but efpe- cially inprayer; it being not the warbling ofwords, but the yearning, and panting ofthe heart after God, and the things ofourpeace. Such was Chrifts prayer, Heh. 5. 7. which in the dayes of his flefh did offerup prayers, and firong cries unto him, &c. From his foule they came : for they wereoffered up with loud cries, and many mares. Andtheardent defire is the thing which God heareth , though there be no'voyce annexed ; as appeareth in cAtefeo, Exod. 14.15. Why cryeft.thou untome a 2. The prayer outward of the lips , without the requeft of the heart, is abominable in his fight. (Aral. 15.8. Curfed is he that draweth neere withhis lips, but his heart is farre frommee. The Spirit is the rife oftrueprayer . ifit proceednot thence,. it rs an empty ring which God regardethnot. And this maketh prayer laborious, becaufethe fpirit is to travaile in it : and the Saints in this ,tegard can endure better to heare an houre, then pray a quarter; whereas the world , they think the outward repeating of words with a generall intention, to fuffice. This Popery is naturali, they cry for praying, ratherthen preaching. It Both ferve toconvince f uch prayers as are nothing but vaine bab- Yfe I. bring, andwords without fpirit : as with many , the minde is run- Reprebenf,g4 ning on twenty things, while the body bowethto prayer. Yea, it cloth check the indevorron, -;,and wantof fpirit, that Both creepe up- on us that are the Lords. And let us take heed : for a powerleffe prayer, if it come not from íneere feebleneffe , which is accompanied with an abjeétneffe of heart, but as it cloth the moft times from a fpirit offloath joyned with prefumption ; Ifwee from thefe grounds "baffle upour prayers without power and life, God will Certainly pu- i nulls our prophaning his name, withletting us fall into fome fin, which (hall awaken uswith (mart enough. Secondly , this Both teach us that wee muff litre upour fpirits in Tie 2, the aElionofprayer, ufe contention, and (hakeoff fuchchilneffe, as rnrunion; will run through us , crying tohim that is thequickning fpirit , not being quiet till wee get fomewarmth into our fpirits : and thefe bee thewinged prayers, that !lye beyond all thevifible heavens; thefe be X x x 2 the
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