104 The "Lift of GOD and repeating each of thefe aCts as long as it finds itfelf upheld by the for.ce and in1pulfe of the previous meditation. This mental prayer is of all other the n1ofl: effectual to purify the foul, and dii:. pofe it unto a holy and religious temper; and may be termed the great fecret of de– votion, and one of the moft powerful infhun1ents of the divine life. And it n1ay be the apoflle bath a peculiar refpeet unto it when .be faith, that the ~pirit hel– peth our infirmities, making· interc~(firm fir us with grormings that cannot be uttered; or as the original may bear, that cannot be worded. Yet I do not fo mn~h recon1mend this fort of prayer, as to fuperfede the ufe of the other: for we have fo many fcveral things to pray for, a.nd every peti- . tiqn of this nature requireth fo much tinie, and fo great an intention of f.pirit, that it were not eafy therein to overtake then1 all: to fay nothing that the deep fighs and heavings of the heart which are wont: to accompany · it, are fomething oppref– five to nature and n1a.ke it hard to con– tinue long in them. But certainly a fe\V. of thefe inward afpir-ations will do more than a great n1any fluent and melting expreffions,
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