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128 of the Yoyce inprayer; the fpirit of God, which teacheth us to pray with tighs that cannot be expreffed, Rom. 8.26. Andhe that féarcheth the heart knoiveth what is the mind of the JjPYZt,V.27. For as David faith Pfau. 38. 9. Lord, all my defire is before thee, andmy groning is not hid from thee. Thou telleft my wandrings : put my tears into thy "1 "gq.1 - bottle; are they not inthy book ? Pfal. 56.8. Plerunque hoc negotium plies gemitibus quam fermonibus agi- tur, plas fletu quicrn afatu. For the moll part this bufineífe is adted more with grones then with words, more with weeping then with fpeech. He- zekiah profeffeth that he did chatter like a crane or a (wallow, and did mourn like a dove, Ifai. 3 8. 14. The articulate voice is the externall fpeech it felf whereby the prayer is expreffed:Wherein we are to confider two things, the words which be uttered, and the language wherein they are uttered. What is to In the words we are to confider the quantitie,the be confider qualitie, and the form. ed in our For the quantity; We mutt not affect prolixity, Y p , Prolixity as though for the multitude of our words we did ffot ef eto d. be af- look to be heard. Neither may we ufe any fuperflu- Reafons. I. ity of words or idle repetitions : Firíl, becaufe our Saviour Chrifi forbiddeth all battology in our pray- ers, Matth. 6. 7. which Theophylaé interpreteth ©hvapíav, futilitie: Hefychius, áQyo>,oytav sÿ árycepoyíxv, idle and unfearonablefpeech. But the meaning may bell be gathered from the notation : for,as the Etymologift faith, the word is compounded ßáT1á 77v3s Elastv 1vaxp4 ' oNti rcfç4xtssoratñouv)os[ì'S AlAlha Td'UTVAyiavtiXovÎas, of Battus 4 certain Grecian who was accuftomed to rdorn images with long and tedious infcriptions which were