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R.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
fits
fometime
will pray
,
leaving
off another while. Many
, who
though
they pray
in evening
with their
boules,
yet
in
the morning
every man
muff
be for
him
felfe
,
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
of
lives,
do
make
them
differ.
3.
In the
fpirit.
Which
doth
teach us , That
the
inward
man
of
DaFl.
our
hearts
muff chiefly
be
occupied
in prayer.
In all our
fervice wee
fliould
fay ,
as Rom.
I.9.
That
we ferve
God
in
our fpirits, but
efpe-
cially
in
prayer;
it being not the warbling
of
words, but the yearning,
and panting
of
the heart after
God,
and
the things ofourpeace.
Such
was
Chrifts
prayer,
Heh.
5.
7. which
in
the
dayes
of
his
flefh
did
offer
up
prayers,
and
firong
cries
unto him, &c. From
his foule
they
came
:
for they were
offered up with loud
cries,
and many mares.
And
the
ardent defire
is
the
thing which
God heareth
,
though
there
be no'voyce
annexed
; as
appeareth
in cAtefeo, Exod.
14.15. Why
cryeft.
thou unto
me
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
with
his
lips, but
his
heart
is
farre
from
mee.
The
Spirit
is
the rife
oftrue
prayer
.
if
it
proceed
not thence,.
it
rs
an empty
ring
which
God
regardeth
not.
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
to
convince
f
uch prayers
as
are nothing but
vaine
bab-
Yfe
I.
bring, and
words
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
want
of
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
of
floath joyned
with prefumption
;
If
wee
from
thefe
grounds
"baffle
up
our
prayers without
power
and
life,
God
will
Certainly
pu-
i
nulls
our prophaning
his
name,
with
letting
us
fall
into fome
fin,
which
(hall
awaken
us
with (mart
enough.
Secondly
,
this
Both
teach
us
that
wee muff
litre
up
our fpirits
in Tie
2,
the aElionofprayer,
ufe
contention,
and
(
hake
off fuchchilneffe,
as
rnrunion;
will run
through
us ,
crying to
him
that
is
the
quickning fpirit ,
not
being quiet till wee get fomewarmth into our
fpirits
:
and thefe bee
the
winged
prayers, that
!lye
beyond
all
the
vifible
heavens; thefe be
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