110 dition : had you mo.re liberty, it may be your hearts worild not be in io good a frame : But let roe befpeak Mafters indulgence to poor ·and pious.Servants; ohhin– der thern uot iaany good work, rather put them up:. on it., encourage them in ir., bfefs God that you have praying_ fervants, this is a hopeful pre{age of good fuc~ cefs : .Let not your iervants f~re the worfe, but the bet– ter, for being God's fervants .. 4· Obj. But I have no Clofet to p~ay in, no ,conve·– nient room for fecret Prayer; .I have a little houfe, a bufie full :family, an.d cannot retire my felf~ Anfw. Agood Heart will find room, either within doors; or without:. ~ gracious foul wilJ feek out pla– ces t6 pr~y in; any forry cote will be a Bethel, where it can enjoy its Goq: or, ifhe c~nnot' get t~ it under . · the roof, he wilJ (with good Ifa4~) wal~ ' out into the Fields to meditate, and to pray : Could Heathens an4 Idolatrous Jews plant Groves for thelr Superftition, in an Apiili itnitation of Abraham's praCtice? A.nd canno~ · a Bird of Paradife take its flight out of fome Wood Q~ Arbour into Heaven ? Bur, moft, need not make this filly flight ·excufe; they have good roofs to be in, and ne~d not wodhip God [fub Dio J in the open air: few of us but we have convenient rooms, but moll: of us want affectionate hearts to vifit God th~rein_: Bt:~t, · Chrifl:ians, make ' good ufe of your H,oufes . tQ (ervcr God therein, elfe they may juftly fpew you out, and leaye you harbourlefs; and then, what a dreadfultling ;tnd guilt will foUo'w you whither-foever you go ? Oh conftde.r I L~ndon's flames and ruines ; your houfes are ' no better built, nor more 'fecured from the like Cat3:– ~~pphe : do not weaken their fouddations by wilf~l .negletl:s, or fcandalous fins. · . 5. Obj. But I know fome good Chrilt:ians that nev~r ufe it, ye~, that maintain it in .their judgments that it , is not neceffary, in fome extraordinary cafes ;
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