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That we mull not pray with wandring thoughts: 87 art not mindfull of thy felf And fo G. Baldwin; Inter arthez uomoclo fi audiri poflulat qui feeipfiim no audit & doxoor1399. quidloquatur ignorat ? Nunquam enim orare dicitur qui f rxis genibus orat, fi vagatione distrahatur. .Nihil igitur aliud cogitare debet animus orantis quám quod precatur : that is , How doth he defire to be heard who doth not heare himfelf, & is ignorant of what he fpeaketh? For he cannot be faid to pray who prayeth with bended knees, if he be diffracted with wandring thoughts : and therefore the mind of him that prayeth ought to think of nothing elfe then what is prayed. And likewife Chryfoftome, Sicar- rom.4. Fîo; 1, ore humipreflrato & ore incaffum nugante mens totam mite 641: dormtm b forum circumeat, quomodo talis dicere pote-B' " rit, quód in confeclu Deiprecatus fit? Nam oratin conf eclu Dei totanin colligens animarn foam & nil habens cum terra commune, fed in ipf m fe transferens cælum, omnem ex animo pellens humanam cogitation em : that is, If the bodie lying proftrate upon the ground and the mouth vainly trifling the mind wandreth throughout the whole houle and market, how can fuch a one fay that he prayeth in Gods fights For he prayeth in the fight of God who recollec`teth his whole foul , that he may have nothing to do with the earth,but may wholly raife himfelfinto heaven, and banifh all humane cogitations out of his mind. And to conclude, let the abfurditie of the fault it Pelf, and the groffe abufìng of the majeftie of God, breed in us a lothing of this fault and a care to Thun it. For when at any time our minds have wandred in prayer, let us endeavour to joyn into one fpeech the prayer of the mouth and the fpeech of the heart, 4 both