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refeembleth that of the Angels. God that fendeth them, not affirming unto them - felves any part of the praife So muft we , i. Cor. 10.31. For if therein we (hall feek our own pralle or other finifler refpeíts, we have our reward. Thus muft we truly in our lives defire and ende- your to do the will of God on earth as the Angels do it in heaven; otherwife when we make this pray- er we do ask with our mouthes that which we de- fire not with our hearts. Here therefore is difcover- The hypocri ed the hypocrifie of many men, who pray that they á fo Amy may do the will of God, which they will not do. God would have thee to turn unto him; thou pray- eft that thou mayeft do the will of God : and yet wilt not turn to him, &c. What is this then, but to mock God, when thou askeft that of him which thou haft neither defire nor purpofe to do But here efpecially appeareth the hypocrifie of obfli- nate and ftiff necked inners, who will feem fo for- ward as to defire that they may do the will of God even as the Angels do it in heaven , and yet in very truth obey the will of God no otherwife on earth, then the devils in hell : who although they oppofe themfelves againfl the revealed will of God, yet willingly, though unwittingly, perform his fecret will, which no creature is able to difánnul l If there- fore we would be thought to pray in truth,let us de- lire and endeavour to do that in our lives which in prayer we ask and defire. So having imitated the obedience of the Angels on earth,we thall be made '0,!yytihoi, ovwro arai, like the Angels, and fellorw- eitizens with the Saints and Angels in heaven, &c. 32 Y z The