77 thee: Send thy fpirit to fetch in my \Vanton wand ring heart: Oh for fome fire from Heaven to burn upmy f1 .... crifice, or el!e it will lye like a lump offlelb,and be no true Holocauft of pure Incenfe before thee : Let thy Spirit fcatter thefe mifts of ignorance, and drive away thefe flies ofdiftracting thoughts, that my heart may be wi th thee, and my performance may be a fweet fa. vour in the noftrils ofGod. SECT. IV~ More Ef{entials in fecret Prayer. A }hird ingr~die?t in_ Prayer is,that it be accord– Ing to God s will.; 1t mufi: have a warrant from the word ; a word of Precept, or Promife, or Exam– ple,muft be the ground of our petitions: a command is our warrant, a promife our incouragen1ent ;anexatn– ple is our tract, and the footfl:eps of the flock wherein we muft walk : He that asks amifs lhalJ not fpeed, but if \Ve ask any thing according to his will he heareth us; and rhen we know we have the petitions thatwedefired of him, 1 Joh.). 14., 15. Now, we ask according ro his wilJ,when both the matter of our petition.is aright 1 ' and our end in asking is Gods glory., and our own or others fpiritual good : otherwife, if we ask of God what we conceit to be a mercy., and have noc asked counfel atGod's mouth; or ask !o as to confume it up ~ on our lulls, we rnay v;ell meet with a denial: My friends, you may not fay what you pleafe in the pre– fence ofGod. Confider, God u in Heaven, you are on Earth, therefore be not rajhwithyour mouth, and let not yoHr heart be hafty to utter any thingbefore God,let yowr words be few, and well weighed, Ecclef.).2. Thewor~ youare about is a folemn bufinefs, donot ramble in ex– travagant defires of un!awfu! !hings ; think not that .
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