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Concerning the Place of prayer. 2. Concerning vagie : We are to follow the ad-: vice of the Apoflle Col. 3.17. In every thing which we do, in word or deed,both to take it in hand by cal- ling upon the name of the Lord, and to end it with thankf iving. Not that we are alwayes to ufe the voice and gefture of the body ; for fometime it is fufficient to lift up the foul unto the Lord : Which kind of thort prayers among the ancient Fathers were called ejaculations. And thus if we (hall ufe fiate b vagie orationes, ftinted and unfrinted pray- ers, omitting no juif occafions, we fhall perform the commandment 1. Theff. s. 17. but otherwife we fhall break the fame,and in fo doing we (hall incurre the wrath of God. '16x CHAP. XXVIII. Concerning the ylace of praler. T- Hirdly, concerning the place : To no one cer tain place is that promife made that then was That there made to the temple ofJerufalem; viz. That what - is no limis= foever men in their extremitie should ask of God in tion of place it, God would grant kin his holy habitation in the forprayer' heavens. Jefus the Meffias then looked for, whofe prefence was fought in the mercy -feat and between the Cherubims, is now entred between the veil, that is, in the heaven, and there abideth onely Me- diatour for us:unto whom from all the coats of the earth we may lift up pure hands with affurance that we fhall be heard. Howfoever the Ifraelites under the Law were tyed to pray either in the temple and tabernacle, Deut.12. 5, i4. Pfal. 99.6. or elfe M towards