'The .Saint.r Crowne of lifeafi:er thepleafures of this life; but not for love and longing afcer thofe fpirituall graces and holineffe ef life, which lead' thereunto. For ~anywifhheartily for the goale of immorta– lity, but they will not take paines, and toyle them1 felves in the race of ChrifHanity. They defire to be happy in the world to come) but not ro be holy and righteous in .this world. They would gladly partakeof the jeyesof Heaven) but not with condition of forfaking their earthly pleafure~. · 1· Othersthereare, a kindeof out-fideChri- - fiians, who lefr of the befi fort they fhould bee thought !larke Atheilh)and prayerleffemifcreanrs, they are content for themott part to fuffer prayers · to be read Evening and Morning in their houfes, efpecially upon good dayes,andwhen they are not too full ofworldlybufineffe.But this holy bufineffe · is performed with fuch irreverence, coldnetfe, and indevotion, perhaps by fome inferiour, not of the Mafierofthefamily (who is.everthePrielHnhis · owne houfe) that knowes nor how to fpeake to the prefent and particular wants, neceffities, and oc– cafionsof thefamily. I fay, iris done inthatfor– mall and fruitlelfe fafhion, that it may plainly ap· peare that the fpiritofprayer is not in their houfes, nor the power of grace in their hearts, but that good anti holy prayers are fouly prophaned a– mongll: them) and,turned into curfes and judge– ments,fervingonely to confirme them in outward– neffe and formality, not with any fervencie, to drawdowne bleffings from heaven, or to fupply their povertyandwants in fpirituall things. _ · 6. Lafily .
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