, ·An Expojition, With Notes ~tims are mt right in prayer. The md is a main circumfiance in every action, the purefi off-fpring of the Soul: Practi(es and a(· fenions may be over-rulfd'; this is the genuine immediate birth and iffue of the humane fpirit. We may inflance in all forts of actions; we know th~ quality of lhem not by the matter, but the end. In inllifferent things the property of the aClion is altered by awrong end: To eat ouc of neceffity is a ducy we owe to nature; to eac .out of wantonnefs is an effect of luU:. So in all .things infiicuted and CQmmanded, the en.d determineth the acbon : Jchu·-. Oayinf! of A hab.r children was not obedience, but murther, becaufe doneutor his own ends; God required ir, 2 King. t o.3o. and yec God faith, Hof 1-4.1will avenge the blood ofJe:<:.reel upon th~ houfe ofJehu: God required it as a righteous fatisfaCl:ion to Jufiice, lehu fpilt it out of ambition, therefore foll'!any perfons O:~in, fo ni:lny murchc:rs~ So in thefe adions ofW-ortbip,they are good or bad as cheir .end Is: Speaking to God may be prapr, if it come f-rom :<:.ea/; it may be howling, ~fit come from lull, Hoj: 7· 14. then 'cis btn a bmitiili cry ; as beafrs out of the rage of appetite howl f9r thq)rey,orthiAgs they Rand in need of. For Worfhip mull: £?ever haye an ~nd be– ~ath it fdf: We aCl pr.epofierouOy, and not according to Reafon, when the means are more noble then the end: When we make Self the end of prayer, •cis not Worfhip of God, butfellfeek.f:ng. All our aelions are to have a reference and ordination to .God, much more the aCts that are proper to the fpiritual life; ~tis called alivin,~ to'God, Ga/.2.19· That's the m:1in difference betw·een the camallife and the fpiritual, the one is a living to our fe!ve.r, the other is a living to God Now efpecially acts of Wor01ip are to be unto God, and for God, for therr the Soul fettcth it felF to glorifi~ him:; and the addreffcs·being direelly to him, _mull not be proftituted to a common u[e. Vvtll rhen, conGder your en~~ in prayer, not _the manner only, not the objeil only, bur the end: •ris·not' enoug'h eo look to 'he vehemency of the affefbons; many nul<e chat all rheit work; w ntife tbemCdve-s imo fame qmdmefs and frmrtnefs offpi– m, bur do not confider their atm: ·ris true, ·cis g(lod to come with full fails; fervent pral-er. ~ like an~rrowdrawn with fuU firength, but yet it rnufi be gadly prayer : A carnal fpring may f~nd forth high tyd~s of..affetlion ; the· morions of loll: are ufually very earneft and rapid. 'fis not enough eo look to the fluency and fervic~ablenefs ofinv~ntion; carnal affi:Ctions and imagination joj!ned togt– ther .
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