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of the wort hip of the body in prayer: prayers , and caufeth them to afcend before Gods This is called lifting up our prayer Ifai. 37, q.. Jer. 7. 16. Here therefore two things are to be avoided: The firft is coldnefle ; when men call upon God with- out fenfe either of their wants in prayer, or of Gods blefïings in thankfgiving ; calling upon God for fafhion or cuflome fake, ufu magis yuám feenfè oran- tes, praying rather out of ufe then fenfe. Such a prayer wanting lively affections is dead, and there- fore counterfeit and hypocritical!, and a mere bodi- ly worfhip. For this is to call upon God with our mouthes but not with our hearts ; this is to pray without delire, and to give thanks without grace in our hearts. The other is tedium in orando, weari- neffe in praying; That is, when mens hearts being fet on other matters, all time that is bellowed in prayer is thought too long : and therefore the prayer as it is unwillingly begun fo is it wearifomely per- formed, the end of the prayer many times being more defired then the end for which prayer was or- dained. But our invocation muff be as a free -will- offering, and our fervice of God muff be perform- ed with a willing mind:neither is that to be account- ed a fervice of the foul which is without either the underffanding ( as I faid before ) or the will. CHAP. XXI. of the Geffure to be of din prayer. LTItherto we have fpoken of thofe things which L lin the adion of Invocation are required in the foul.