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Ce
folations
fcr
fish
bivaile their
wants
in
prayer.
his rniferable
flaues
to commit
all
théfe workes ofdarkeneîfe
in which bee
«ill
imploy
vs.
And
therefore
as«ee
tender
the
fàluation
ofourowne
foules,
let
vs
not
bee
difcouraged
from
hearing the word
of
Gpd
by any fiiggeftions
whatfo-
euer,no
not though
we feeme
unto our
feines
euery time we
come into
the Church
to
goe
a
flep
towards
hell
;
for
whi-
left wee
vfe
Gods
ordinance which
is
appointed
as
the
meanes
for our conuerfion and faluation, there
is
fome
good
hope,
butwheu
wee
vtterlie neglect
it,our
(late
is
molt
def
per
ate..
CHAP.
XL.
(vnfolations
far
fuck
as bewaile
their
hardnef
'of
heart
and
wants
in
Prayer.
$.Se
f.i.
ç
Thers
complaine
that they
are
fo
ouerwhelmcd
C0x6olations
"SP
with
their
hardneífe
ofheart,
and
drowíie dul-
T
ra
r ^
l
b
as
neífé
of
fpirit,
that
either they cannot pray
at
all,
camplaine
they cannot
or
if
the
y
doe,
it
is
barrainelie
without
alI
forme
pray
at ail
or
fafhion;
or
if
they
haste
the eloquence
of
the tongue and
good
fetformes
ofprayer,
yet they performe
it
coldly
and
drowfilie,
without
all
earneftt}cffe
and
feruencie
of
fpirit,
hawing
their
minds
carried-
away with
wandring
thoughts,
fo
that their
prayers
are
butnieere lip-
labour,and therfore
it
were
better
not
to-pray-at-all,
becaufe
they cannot
performe
this
dutie
in any
good
manner or
riieafure
as
God
required-L.
And this
is
a
tentation
wherewith
even
the
deareft
chil-
dren
ofGod
are
much
-vexed
and
troubled,
and
therefore
it
lhall not bee
amiffe
to
anfwere the feuerall
branches
of
this
comnlaint.Firít therefore; where
as
they
complaine
that
they
cannot
pray
at all,
this
is
to
b.e
vnderffood
either generallie
ofall
ti
ies,cr
fpeciallie
at
fometicnes.Ifthey
fay
they
can
ne-
uer
pray,it
is
very likelie
that either they forget or
much, de-
ceiue
themfelues,
for
few
or
none, who
are
altogether
defti-
tuteofthe
fpirit
offiippliccation,
haue any
vnderftandingto
difcerne
theirwant,
or
any
grace
tobewaile it, but
content
th
xafch
es
with
their lip-labour,
as
though
they
had
pe
formed