5z <n:lofet~~~a~er~ . cafes;·· a found Chrifiian's due difcretion regul~ted b1 the general rules laid down in Scripture, . will help in '· fuch performances, that he may 'not dafh on either rock, ofSuperftition or Negtigence ; but maintain doie and conftant commu·nion with God, both in the · duties of his general and 'particular calling in puolic~ Ordinances, and in privat~ and fecret duties. Thus much for the firft Ufe. · C ·H A·P IV. . \ The Second Vfe, ,viz. Of RepreherJJi.an. - SECT. I• 'Wick!d men reprovedo t ·H· Ere is ju(t ground of lbarp rebuke to all grace.. lefs, prayerl~fs perfons, who underfl:and no· thing of this duty ; they know not what ·it is to tug and fl:rug·gle with the Lord in Clofet·Prayer: '])avid faith, Thewick§dthrough the pride ofhis countenance'will not feek... after God, God is not in all his thoughts, PfaL I o. 4· He cannot pray aJight any where, much Iefs in fectet : the farne Pfalm tells us :whathe doth h~ fecret; ver.8.,9,1.0. In the fecrct places doth he murder ~he innp· cent, his eyes are privilyJet ~tgainft the poor: TheApofile faith, It is. if Jhame even_ tofp1a~of thofe things that t.~re done of them in .fecret, Eph~ 5· 12. Oh the abominable pratlices of prophane fpirits in a corrieL' ! Their con– fciences tan tell them fad 'ftories of fecret fiQs, which ~one· but · the-Goo ofHeaven and themfelves knowof, yea becaufe they fee not God, they think God fees nac the~ ; like the filly bird, ·becau1e fbe thrufts her head into a built, tbinks file ~shid from the F~wler, tho~gb ·- · · - · · het
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