~o~ . ~ioret~~ar~t; ih your Clofets, uo more than in the .publick Affem– ~lies :, There:s equal commaqcb·for all, neceffity of aU ; ~egle(t any at your peril: Befiq~s, I told you, a Child of G~d bath a fecret errand tq pis Father, that it is not. fit his family .ihould I knowof; and upoq tpis account God hath appointed CJofet-Prayer, as tendering the ~redit of his people, ~hat they might not difcover their fpiritual nakednefs tp ·any but·to that God who knows their fecrets,<, and will keyp the!r counfel : And J rpu~ tell thee, S9ul, thou art very little fenfible of thy fpiri– tual ftate or wants, ifthou (have nothing to fay to Go4 . that thou wouldft not have others to. hear. 2. Obj . .But I am a poor man, and b~fie in my cal– ling, and cannot take fo much time in Clofet-Prayer,. I have other occafions. . 1 · Att(w. Fr~end, hafr thou·any gre.ater bufinefs. than ~he affairs of thy foul; . let thy calling fiand ftiU rather than thy foul fhoul~ be da,mned : Curfed be thofe pc– cafions that eat out Religion : But confider, you may follow both callings, if you be obfervant; our·gene... ral and particular callin~s muft not interfere. Clean creatures divided the hoof,' confiderate Chrifiians ar~ iuch as rightly proportion \Vorks to their partic~ular 1eafons. A chiefpart of David' s Arithmetick of num·- : , bring daies, was in that which we call Divifion, to caq: theaccount of this our tbort life, fo (as to divide the lit– tle total fum ther.~of into the feveral portions of time du.e-for performi!tg every duty in : The hand-maid mav nor ·thruft out the Mifrrefs .; nor the Shop have all and Chamber none ·of our time : You ·are flat A- • i ,; . 7 , • • . 1 . tbeifl~~ if you think Prav~ng wi.ll ~ovz.s putate pecu :a h. d k N J · • t blef. crefcunt. Nhnt. ._ . m er y~ur wo: *'- : o., no, t,_ - , _ . feth and expedtteth tempora~ af .. fairs. We ufeto fay, Meat and Martins hinder ~o work. Canft thou not get ~ime for eating, fleeping, ? Yea,d~fl ~ho·u not fpend . ~s 'much time in id~eneis, and vain ~~f; ~ .. · • · cour1e,
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