choice Bid Df Spices. that is not formally and eventually good, and this was:Cain's curie. How frequently did God command the fe..,s-to pray and yet he plainly tells them, iiii5en yonfpread forih For hands, -.1 I will hide mine eyes rran you ; yea, gide"; yom niake many prajers, I gill not hear. He commanded them to facrifice, and yet he Vac faith, To ghat prpoire is the miltitade of your facrifices? and all becaufe they did not manage their prayers, nor facrifices, in a-right manner ; 'their hands,:were -fall of blond, and their hearts were full of fins, and their lives were full of lewd - '.fiefs ; and therefore all their Cervices were vain oblations; yea, an abomination to God. An unfound heart looks no fur-1 ther than to the fuhliance of the command; if he has heard, and prayed, and fafled,* and read, and repeated, and given alms, and received the Lord's Supper, he Itrokes himfelf,and braes himnfelf, and hugs hirnfelf, and thinks all is well, and fo h.f: looks no farther But now a found fince re Chriflian, he looks to the circumfiance as well as the fubitance, to the Lmanner as well as to the matter of the command ; .-wheahe 1 prayes, he labours to pray fervently, earneilly, he labours to Ijam, T7 tyjc bet his heart into his prayers; when he hears, he rill Bear with 'attention and intention of fpirit ; when he,walks,.-. he rpic,211r.t8-1 s';. 84, endeavours to walk wifely, humbly, faithfully, fruitfully, 1,2,3, Circumfpeetly, exemplarily, winningly,cony,incingly,blarne- The. 2. belly; when he obeys, he delires and encinvoars to obey freely, willingly, cheerfully. 0 Sirs l if we pray, and pray not fervently ;..' if we hear, and hear not fruitfully ; if we obey, and obey not-willingly; if we fliew mercy, and do it if3.52-3' not cheerfully ; if we fanetifie the Sabbath and not with de- all is-worth-nothing, all will come to nothing. Mark, the:e are forte circumflances acceffary, fOrne neceffary, fome wherein the being, and fonie wherein the well being of a duty Both confift ; and if you abaraa, thefe from them, the duty is worth nothing ; take away fervency and humility from prayer,. take away faithrulnefsandfruitfulnefs frora-hearing, and take away willingnefs and delight from obedience, and I all will be worth nothing. God regards -not only the matter,i but the manner. Criton the Papift could fay, That God loved':. petter Adverbs than Nouns, not to pray only, out to pray,- well 1. 141
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