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of thegeftures of the body in prayer. 123 worthy to look up unto heaven do caft down our eyes on the earth. Example , the Publicane, Luke 18. 3. Ofthe hands. 3.Of the As d.the Lifting up & ftretching forth ofthe hañds: hands. A gefiure fit to expreffe our humilitie, our earneft affe6ion, as being the geflure of fuppliants and ear - ne[l fuiters; as alfo to teflifie our faith and hope, and to liignifie the lifting up of our fouls. And it is a ge- fture of fuch moment that it alto is put for prayer, Exod. 9.33. Pfal. 28. 2. and 44. 20. and 63.4. and 88.9. Ifai. z. 15. Examples, in Mofes, Exod .9.29, 33. and 17. r I. David, PIA. 141. 2. and 143. 6. Solomon, 1. Kings 8, 2z, 54. It is commanded Pfal. 134. 2. Lam. 2. 19. and 3.4r. The other gefiure of the hands is the Knocking of the breafl : Which is mofl fit in deprecation; for thereby is fignified both our acknowledgement of guilt, and an earneft defire of pardon; as Luke I 8. 13. and 23.48. Thus have you heard the feveral gef}ures:Among which I would commend unto you as fit moft ufu- ally and ordinarily to be obferved, uncovering of the head in men, flanding, or rather (if we may con- veniently) kneeling, lifting up of the hands and of the eyes to heaven. For whereas in the foul are re- quired faith, humilitie, reverence, and ardour of af- fe6tion, which we are to expreffe in the bodily ge- flures, whereby we give God honorem fi'ni, the ho. nour of the figne; thefe geflures are molt fit to ex- preffe thefe inward graces. For the uncovering of the head fignifieth reverence and humility; which alfo