:54 SRRMONSupon Se[m..XXXV. hash heard tfe voice of my ramping. Tears have a tongue, and a language which God well enough underltandeth ; look as babes have no other voice, but crying for the too= thers brealt, that's intelligible enou to the tender parent; fo when there are earbtff and serious delires after grace, Godinoweth our meaning. 2. It informeth us, that the motion' of the spirit are an help in prayer, not the tali and realm of prayer ; many will fay they will pray only when the (pink moveth them.NoW he helpeth in the performance,not in the neglei of the duty; we.are to make confcietice of it. God giveth out influences of grace according to his will, or good pleafure but we mutt Pray according to his will of precept ; the influence of grace isnot the War= rant of duty, but the help ; we are to do all alts in obedience to Gods command; whatever cometh of it, Luke S. g. God is foveraign ; difpofed, or indifpofed, yon ate bound ; out impotency is our fin; now our fin connot excufe us from our duty; for then the creature were not culpable for his finful defelts and omillions; the outward aft of a duty is commanded as well as the inward ; tho We cannot come up to the natter@ of a perfelt duty, yet we should do as we can ; totaallio, and totem aAioñìs, falleth u,'.der the command of God, Holes 14. 2, Take with you words 5 I, and all take With you aff Qions. Tho I cannot do all, I mull do as much as I can, bring fuel' defied 33 I have. Gods spirit is more likely to help you in duty, than in the neglell of it: Tot} quènchthe Spirit that mull affil ycu,by negltáing the means; when the door isboiteda knocking is the only way to get it open; present your felves before God, and fee wha he will do for you. By tacking about, men get the wind, not by lying Rill; there h many times a fupply cometh ere we are aware, Cant. 6. t r, 12. Or ever I was aii4rf my foul made me like the chariots of Amninadib. We begin with much deadnefs at1J flrairnefss ; by firiving againR it, rather than yeilding to it, we get inlargement atlas wards. God a(iìfls thole that will be doing what he commandeth; when we ftir up Out felves, he is the more ready to help us. 2. U S F, is Caution. see that year prayers come from the Spirit; there atefome prayer; is a reproach to the Holy Spirit, to father them upon him. i. Alt idle And foolith loquacity, when men take a liberty to prattle arty thing id Gods hearing, and pour out raw, tumultuous, and indigefted thoughts before hiédr EccleC g. z. Be not h111ÿ to utter any thing befire God. 'Tis a great itrevereühP and contempt of his Majesty. Surely the Spirit is not the Author of ignotaht5 feallees, and dull praying ; nothing disorderly cometh from him. The Heathen afd charged with vain babling, and heartless repetitions, Maul). 6. 7. They think td Ire heard fr theirmachfpeaking. Shortnefs or length, are both culpable, according to thtl causes from whence they come; 'loaners out of barrenness, and Rraitnefs ; or length out of' affectation, or ingeminating the fame thing, without favour or wifdom ;or ä weer filling up the time with words. 2. Afrotiyy eloquence, and wiled language ; as if the Prayer were the more gratta ful to God, and he did accept men for tnèir words, rather than their graces; and were to be worthipped With Gee phrafes, and quaint fpeeches. No, 'cis the huthblt exercife of faith, hope, and love, which he regardeth 5 and fuch art and curioflty ì3 againR Gods foverignty, and doth not fuit with the gravity and ferioufnefs big worship. If we would (peak to God, we mull (peak with our hearts to hint, Lather than our words ; and the more plain and bare they are, the better they fuit with the nature of duty. Age/ Was bid to put off his thols- in holy ground, to teêt1I us to lay alide our ornaments when we humble our felves before God 5 his not Wotd3r but fpirir, and life; not a work of oratory, but filial affeQion. Too much care of vet= bal eloquence, fheweth our hearts are more couverfant with figas, than things ;wotdl than matter; and it bath a finack of the man, and finelleth of the man ; but favoureth not of the Spirit, 'Pfal. 119. 26. I declared my ways, and thou heardefl me. 3. Outward vehemency and feedfpeech. The heat which arifeth from the agitatind of bodily fpirits, and vehemency of fpeech, differeth from an inward affeQion, wadi is accompanied with reverence, and child-like dependance upon God ; his tint the loud noise of words, which is bell heard in heaven; the fervent affeliònaft crys of the Saints, are thole of the heart, not of the tongue, Pfal. ro. 17. Lord, tJitil half heard the delire of the humble, and Pfal. 38. 9. o Lord, all my lulls if before thee, and my groaning' is not kid from thee. The vehemency of thea;lcltion, may fain& times caulé the ex:entiou of the voice; but without it, we are but as tinkling cytnbais'; 4. 1Vafarab
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