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OfPrryer.
6'7
prayers
muflr
needs proceede
from an
heart
full
of
incredu-
litie,
feeing
they
haue
no
promife
in
the
word whereupon
they
may.ground
their faith
:
nay, contrariwife
it
is
faid,that
Iohn
9.3x.
God
heareth not
f
nx'ersJoh.9.3
I,thatis
fuch
as
go
on in
their
finnes
without
repentance, hauing no
purpofe
of heart
to
kaue
and
forfake
them.
And
thus
you
fee
what
it
is
to pray
in
the fpirit,which
wee
cannot
performe,
vnleffe
we pray
through
and
by the fpirit
.ofGod,
which helpeth
our infirmities; and
teacheth
vs
to
pray
as
wee
ought
yea
it
felfe
maketh
requelifor
vs
with
:fighes
which cannot
be
exprefhed,as
it
is
Rom.8.26.
Rom.8.2.6.
The fourth
thing
required
is
watchfulnes
;
which dutie
is
.se3.4,
required
ioyntlie
with
prayer
in
many
places.
Or
Sauiour
òr
arthf
z,
ct
three
times
ioyneth
them
together,
flying,
Watch
and
pray
Matth.z
&.
that
lee
enter not
into
temptation,
Matth.26.
And the Apoflle
Peter
t
.Epifl.4.y. faith,
Now
the
end
o
f
O
things
is
at
hand:
Be
1.P
et.4.7.
yee
therefore
rober
andtbxtchrng
vntoprayer.
As
though
hee
Mould fay,Your
enemie
the diuell
as a
roring lion walketh
about,feeking
whom
he
may
deuoure, and therefore
it
be-
hooueth
you at
all
times
like valiant
and
careful' fouldiers,
who
are
fill
in danger
to
bee
afhaulted
by
theirenemies,
to
be
fober and
watch,
as
it
is
i .Pet.5.8.but
nowmore
efpecial-
I.Pet.q.
=.
ly feeing
the end ofall things
is
at
hand,
for Satan
knowing
that
his
time
is
but
fhort,will
redouble
all
his forces
to work
our
dcflruaion,
euen
as
fouldiers
will
moil
fiercely afluult
a
town,when
as
they
cannot long
lie
at the fiege,either by rea-
fon
of
winter drawing on,or the approching
ofnew
forces
to
releeue
the
towne
or raife
the liege. Seeing therefore
Satan
redoubleth
his
force
and
care in
working
our
deflruaion,let
vs
redouble our
care
and
watchfulnes in fecking
to prcuent
his
force
and
malice. For
ifSatan
watch continually
thathe
may
murther vs,fhall
not
wee
be watchful' in
withflanding
his
affaults
?
He
iscontinuallie
in armes
to ouerthrow
vs,and
Mall
not
wee
watch
night
and
day in our
Chriflian armour,
that
we
may
defeate
his forces
and
obtaine
viaorie
?
Now
this
our watchfulnes
is
partly
of
the bodie,
and
part-
ly
of
the
foule.
The bodily
watching
is
the abilaining from
natural! ileepe, to
the
end
that
wee may giue our
(clues
vnto
F
2
prayer;