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1 2 4. of thegeflures of the body in prayer. alfo are more expreffed by kneeling:Faith and hope is reprefented in the lifting up of the eyes & hands; . in which alfo, as in kneeling, the ardour of affection is expreffed. But here our greaten care muff be ( becaufe it is eafie to obferve thefe outward geftures) to give God in truth the inward worfhip of the foul as well as the outward of the body, which without the other is hypocriticall: And therefore as we unco- ver our heads, fo to lay afide all opinion and conceit of our own worthineffe, and with all reverence to fet our (elves in the pretence of God; and as we kneel outwardly, fo to bow the knees of our hearts and to humble our fouls before the Lord; and with our eyes and hands, to lift up our fouls unto God who is in the heavens. And withal! we mull be care- full to lift up pure and innocent hands to God, z.Tim.2,.8. For if our hands be trained with finne or polluted with bloud, the Lord will not heare, ehiyfoft.Hoti Ifai. i. i 5. quid manuurn in oratione vult extenfio? Sd 4poPp,;1 3 Aæ multis fceleribus miniiterium exhibent, propierea t c F. jubemur eas extollere, ut orationts mirifterium fit eis 'vinculum nequitìæ & ì malitiafeparatio; ut ciim raptu- res vel oppreffurnc velalterurr fis percu urus, recorde- ris quod has ad Deum pro patronis emi itrus es, &N per h44- illudf irituale f crifrcium oferre debeas, nec ilia confundere,nec aciionis prave miniflerio fiduciji priva- re. Eas igitur emunda per eleemofynam ,per mißricor- diam,per indigentium tutelam, 6. itá eas offer ai ora- tionem : that is, What meaneth the flretching out of the hands in prayer r Thefe offer their fervice to much wickedneffe;and therefore we are command- ed