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you
:
therefore
keep
it
before
your
eyes,
Pfal,
g.
3.
There
!s
an
excellent expreflion
;
In
the
morning
will
I
direct
my
prayer
unto
thee ,
and
will lookup.
I
fuppoi:e
many
of
you
in
the morning
will not negle&
prayer
to
God
;
but
mark
the
expreflìon,
I
will
dirc&t my
Prayer
;
'Tis not
I
will
fay
my
prayers,
but
dire&
my
prayer,
there's
a
great
emphafis
in
it.
I
will
level
my
Prayer aright,
and
dart
up
my
foul
aright
to
Heaven,
and obferve the
way that
God
would have
me
;
and
fo
dire&
my
heart
in
prayer
to
him.
It
may
be
fame
of
you
go
thus
far,
not to content
your
felves
with
a
dead-
hearted
fluggifh
Prayer
:
But
what do you look to
all
the day after
?
what
Inall
wandring
and
difcouraging thoughts bring
you
to
look down
all
the
day
?.
Would
you look
up
to
your
morning
Prayers,
and
what
you prayed
for,
there would
come
a
great
deal
of
efficacy
upon
your
fouls.
Thirdly,
Be careful
to
seep
your
hearts
ftirring
and
aElive,
be
afraid
of
deadnefs
and dulnefs
;.
take heed
of
fuch
thoughts,
Why
fhould
I
pray
and
dread,
when as
1
have
no
heart
to.
perform
any duty
:
Up
and
be
doing,and
the
Lord
be
with
you
;
if
ever
your hearts
were
a&ive
at
any
thing
in
the
world,
it
ought
to
be
in
this,
if
once
you give your
(elves
liberty
to
lye
down,
and
the
a&ivity
of
your
Spirits
be
gone,
you
are in
a
fad
condition, 'twill
be
very
difficult to
get them
up again take
heed
of
a.
fullen
heart,
you may
be
very
ae`live,
and
yet
calm,
quiet,
and
patient,
there's
a great
con:
-
iun&ion
between
thefe
two,
when
I
am
a&ive and yet
calm,
Rifling
of
my
heart under God
.and
yet
ftirring
of
my
heart
unto God,thefe two
are joyned
together
in thofe whom
God
dire&s
unto himfelf.
Fourthly,
Renew thy
refolutions,
that
what
ever
becomes
of
thee,
whether God
will ever fpeak peace
or
no
to
thee,y;t
fo
long
as
thou liveft, thou
will
do what
thou_
canft,
to honour
his name, and keep
from.
fin
:
Keep
thy
heart
under the power
of
this
refolution.
Fifthly,
Keep
thy
heart in Awaiting
frame,ufe
the means,
lye
er
the Poole,as
the
man
that
lay many
ye
ataiting
for
the
fir-
ring
of
the
Waters,
met with help at
; fo
do
thou
keep
thy heart
in
a
waiting frame,
and
think
with thy felf
if
mercy,
come.