276 The rt,ght manner ofSantlifying there fhould be an attual feparation of your hearts from all thingi in the world ; dedicatingyour felves to God for this time, as one that bathnothing to do with the world, nothing to do with any thing but this Ducie that now you are about : this is. the preparation of your hearts to prayer in the courfe of your lives. . Now then for thePrayer its felf. Firft, Wemuff confider of the Matter of Prayer. 'And Secondly, Of the 'Manner of it. Firft for the Matter of is : We muff look to it that it be actor= ding to GodsWill, it John S. i4. This is the confidence that we have in him, that ifwe aikany thingaccording tohis Will, he &arab us ; therefore for the Matter we muff be lure it muff be good that wepray for; it mutt be for the Glorie of God, for the good of our felves, and the good of our Brethren. Firft for the Glorie of God, that fhould be the chief rnat., ter that we are to pray for ; fo Chtift when he teacheth us to pray, he begins the very. fiat Petition, 'Matthew 6. 9. 19. 'Hal- lowed be by name,thyliingdomcome, thy Will be done : Firft begin with the Glorie of God, mind that in the chief place, ove all other things. God gives you leave to pray for out- ward things ; but firft for the Glorieof God,minding that before your own benefit , before the pardon of fin and your Bailie bread ; how few do fanetifie Gods Name in ;his ? people have lictle*Mind to pray ; but when they are in outward affhttions when they are upon their lick beds, then they will pray ; or at Sea in florms, then theywill pray ; then it teems that the main matter of your prayer is on lie for your felves : but how hack the matters of the Glory of the great God, and the good of the Churches, taken your hearts all this while ? how have your hearts been a fretted with this, that the Name of God bath been fo little lanetified in the world, and that the Kingdom of God bath not come, and that the Will of God bath not been done, have thee things taken upyour heart inprayer, the mat- ters of the Glory of God, and the good of Churches, though your felves have not any particular intereft in them ? If thefe things did but take up your hearts in Prayer, then, when you axe al Sea, you would remember the cause of the Churches, as meatt
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