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nr of Bdttologie in prayer.. were full of vain repetitions: For fo Ovid alto fpeak- eth of him, Montibus ,in quit ,[fc.Battus] er ant ,& Brant in men- tibus illis : and therefore he faith it fignifieth voAUÀoy+o v,verbofity.: Which agreeth with the expofition of Chrift, who is the belt expounder of him felf : For in the words following he calleth it IroTUT0y10 for fo he faith, rfeyswv ! at , ( ßx -RoToyrloh7c wmep ( i vexoi dbx &or yc2p PT car 7ñ 7rOTtlToylx áv7ZÓ7 PÌ çcUttfr OQDY7a1 But when ye pray, ufe not vain repetitions d/s the heathen do : for they think that they /hall be heard for their much freaking. So that (2x7702o),4V, according to the meaning of our Saviour, is in prayer to ufe multitude of words and idle re- petitions with this conceit, That for the multitude of our words we (hall be heard. Secondly, For the reafon which our Saviour gi® veal; ChriFtians in their prayer muff not be like to the heathen. The heathen affected prolixitie and ufed fuperfluity of words and idle repetitions with this perfwafion, that for their much babling they (hould be heard. But why muft not Chriftians be like the heathens Becaufe the God on whom we call is molt unlike. The heathen might well imagine concern- ing their gods(the belt whereof were men deceafed) that by multitude of words they might be perfwa- ded ; and that alwayes they did not hearken unto them, as being other wife imployed, as Elias telleth Baals priefts, z .Kings 18.2 7.and therefore thought it needfull to repeat the fame things oft, that if they did not heare them at one time they might at ano- ther. As we fee thofe priefts of Baal to call upon K him 129