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34 Who are to perform the dutie of prayer. ly, are the Saints of God. And thus are they to be qualified who will either pray unto God or praife him. For prayer, the holy Ghoft faith , that every one that is godly Jhallpray unto God, Pfal. 3 z.6.and the prayer of a righteous man availeth much , Jam. i . t 6. For praife and thanksgiving; unto Godbe glory in the Church, faith the Apoftle, Ephef. 3. 2 r . that is, in the company of the faithfull. And fo David , Sing unto the Lord, o ye Saints of his;give thanks at the re- membrance of his holinefjé, Pfal.3o.4. It is true that all the works of God do praife him, as the matter of his praife; but the Saints do bleffe him, as the inftruments of his praife, Pfal.145. I O. For both, fee Pfal.5o.14,15,16. where the Lord, as he corn- mandeth the faithfull (to whom his fpeech is di- re &ed v.5,7.) to offer unto him thankf;iving, and to call upon him in the day of trouble; fo he taketh exception againft the wicked : But unto the wicked God f ith, What haft thou to do to declare my ftatutes, or that thou fhouldff take my covenant in thy mouth, fee - ing thou hatefl inflruclion, andcaflefl my words behind thee? But here we are carefully to confider who are the godly and righteous, left we exclude from hope of being heard thole whom the holy Ghofi doth not There is a exclude. There is therefore a twofold righteouf- twofolti our_ mentioned in the Scri tures; the one .Legall igFrteof- P ne e:z,egall; the other Evangelicall. According to the legall righteoufneffe none can be faid to be righteous who doth not prrfe tly and perpetually perform what - foever the law ( which is the Divine rule of perfea righteoufneffe) Both prefcribe : For if a man do not abftein