Downame - BV209_D69_G6_1640_v1

122 of the gef ores of the body in prayer: 6. Lying in 6. Lying in bed: So David, Pfal.6.6. and Heze bed. kiah,Ifai.38.2. and is ufually practiced by the faith- full not onely in their fickneífe but at other times. '.Walking, 7 Walking, riding, journeying, Gen.24.I2,36. riding, C. Jehofhaphat in his chariot, 2. Chron.18.3 i. The gef}ure of the parts. Of the gem Firfl, the uncovering of the head in men, which inure of the feverall among us is an ufuall Pigne of reverence. In the fe- parts: male fex it is otherwife ; in which the covering of I' The of their head and face is noted in the Scriptures to have the held in been a token of fubjeciion, i . Cor. i I. 4, 7. But in men. men it is a fit geflure to betoken their reverence, be- ing the uncovering and fo abafing of the highefl and chiefeill part; and by fome is called depofitio magni fi- centix,the laying afide of magnificence: as we fee in the foure and twenty elders, Apoc.4. To. which fell down and call their crowns before the throne. t. Of the 2. Of the eyes; as the lifting tip or calling down eyes. of them. The former is moll ufuall, betokening the lifting up of our hearts unto God, and our faith in expeding help from him; and is fometime put for prayer it felf, Pfal.1 2 3. I, 2 . unto thee lift i up mine eyes,o thouthat divellefl in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of f ruants, &c. P Pal. 141.8. But mine eyes are unto thee, o God theLord,in thee is my trufl,P fal. 2 5.15 . 2. Chron. 20. 12. To omit other examples, ChrifF himfelf is ofen noted in the Gofpel to have lift up his eyes to heaven when he called upon God : as Matth. i 4.19. John 11.41. and 17.1. The cafting down of the eyes is a note of great dejection and humiliation, whereby we being con- founded in our (elves , as knowing our (elves un- worthy