g ~ij~tfttat1 :Wttt~. - r thee in thy retired devotions. For, obferve it, in true CJofet-Prayer there fhould be an including of the voice as well as the body : fome pray fo loud in t_heir cham– bers that they may be heard into the fireets ; ~his is not · properly CLofet-,Pr~yer, fince it doth nor attain the enal of this retirement, which is an approving the hearr on– .Iy ~o God, and avoiding all £hews and occafions ofhy._ poc.ritie and vain-glory ; for it is all one (as to this end) whether the body be ieen or rh~ voice be heard: Only remember, this is fpoken of iecret Prayer; for it cloth nor exclude publick Prayer in acongregation, where the body is feen, and voice is heard : Yet it cloth by a kind of Synecdoche require felrdenial, {i'nglenefs, and fincer,ity in all kind of Prayer, pub.. ' . _ .. lick, private, fecret, for ,one part or 7.!na fPecte fim(~c£ta~ fign of uprightnefs in 'the duty is t&s pro toto gmer: putfo~ the whole,fhutting the door, · pofita. . · for integrity ofheart in the whole management of this great Affair. · , . 3 • . Here's·the objeCl of Prayer: Pray to thy Father: Thy bulinefs is not .with men, but with God; feek therefore to pleafe and in joy him: Nor yet art thou tG fete~ a compafs _and pray to Saints , ~nd Angels., but go firatght to God m the nameof Chnfl:, and be fur~ thou look upon hin1 as under the fweet I · f h ~od nomen, nemt~ re attono a tender Fat er; yea., 1hy noforum in oratioJJe · Fat·her. Oh, a fweet word, a bleffed auderet attingtre;ni– word, and fuch . a word as we purft fi ip(e nobis fie per– not have taken intoour mouths; had mifiJ[etorare:Cy_pri.,;, it !JOt been for Chrifl:'SJ glorious una~. "Bn:'JZ· de Orat. dertaking to purchafe fot us the adoDom. P· 4I4· . ption) and this gracious commiffios,and i~ the platform of Prayer.theprefcription ;and for God the Father's ~o~ luntary coadefcencion. Come then, and-fear not, poor Difciple of Chrift, ~ome wi~h filial afl"et\ion~; ~ ~d' th~ Spirit. of Adoption,- an&thou .artfute tO fpeed ~.for thas .. , . · · B · j)te
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