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of Publick prayer and the excellency of it. the frequenting of the publick affemblies is efpeci- ally to be underftood on the Sabbath, on which is mercatura anim e, the merchandife of the foul; and the market-place is the Church. Now as we are to frequent the publick affemblies, Private pre fo wemutt be careful! before we come thither to parired bat;o i ere- qu prepare our felves, according to the counfel of the fore public Wife man Eccles 4. 77. to look to our feet, that is, to prayer, our affeáions, left we offer the f crifrce of fools; and to lift up holy hands Qls ópfiis 4 , without wrath or doubting, i .Tim, 2.8. And alfo whenwe are there, to behave our felves both in foul and body as I have fhewed before; labouring alfo inwardly for unani- mity, that we may call upon God óyuasvpcxud3v, with one mind and heart, (To unanimity is the promife made, Matth. i 8.19. If two of youfliall confent, &c.) as the Primitive Church did , As I. 14. and 4.24. and outwardly for uniformity fo farre forth as it is joyn- ed with decency and order,and fevered from fuper- flition. Concerning the voice, which I faid was alwayes Of the voice to be ufed in publick prayer, we are to know; If it to be uced;a: be uttered in one voice,as in praier,the mouth of the P ayerk people ought to be the minifter: becaufe it is part of prophecie ; and the Apofiles As 6. 4. make it part of their function. If by the voice of many, as in finging(For finging alfo is warranted in the word of God both by the example of Chriff,Mark 74.26. & by the commandment of the Apof}le, Co1.3. 16. Ephef.5.19.& of James ch.5. i 3.)then fuch finging is to be ufed as we may fing with grace in our hearts and fpirits,with undcrítanding to inflruet and edifie both 153 l