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rnowledge requiredin prayer. 1. we muft knowledge required, fo alfo of his will revealed ira ci °ids his word:For we can have no affurance that we fhall will; ;cad pray accord_ be heard , unleffe we pray according to his will, zng unto it. i. John 5. 14. Neither can we pray according to his will, unleffe in force meafure we do know it, Co1.3. i 6. Secondly, there is required knowledge and un- derftanding of that which we do pray ; otherwife we are fubje& to our Saviours reproof, Matth. 2 o. 2 2. You uk you know not what. Prayer not under - hood is the lifting up of the voice, and not of the foul unto God, and a pouring forth of our breath and fpeaking into the aire, and not a pouring forth of our hearts and fouls unto the Lord : for as Aug u- fine faith; Seeing as it is Pfal. 89.16. Beaus populus qua intelligit jubilationem. Curramus erg?) (faith he ) ad hanc beatitudinem, intelligamus jubilationem, non earn fine intelleatt fUndamus. fluid opus ell j ubilare non intelligere ju6ilationew ut vox naflrafola jubilet, cor non ju6ilet? Sonus enim cordis intelle [lus e.Fi that is, Bleffed is the people which underflandeth the joyfull found. Let us therefore hafte ( faith he) after this happineffe, let us underftand this joyful! found, and not vent it out without underflanding. What life is there of a joyful! found and not to un- derhand it " that our voice onely Mould make this joyfull found, and not our heart: For the found of the heart is underftanding. Wherefore the Apoflle, Col. 3. z 6. exhorteth us that the word of Goddwell in us plenteoufly in all wifdome, teaching and admo_ nyhing our felves in pflmes and hymnes andfpirituall fangs , finging with grace in our hearts to the Lord. Where Pn Pfal.99.