zco A Commentary upon the Chap.6, confirmed in thens,I Cori. 5,6. God will take that at ñrff,that af. terwards will not be accepted. I f words be wanting, pray that God, that commands thee to take words and coine before him, I,oi m 8 Z, to vouchfafe thee r.,ofe words :wherewith thou mayetf come before him.Speak,as the poor man doth.fipplicariars:fo did the prodigafl: Forccalf a11ò (with him) what thou wilt fay : Pixneditateorthe matter, difpoung it in due order (as one would doe that is to fpeak toa Prince : God is agreat King, Mal. t . 141-) Some thinke we muff never pray but upon the hidden, and extraordinary in- f.-tit-la and motion of the fpirit. This is a fancy, and thofe that pra- P:rres Ala ttfeit, cannot but fall into idlerepetitions, and be confuted; go.. Porker. ' ing forward and backward, like hounds at a lotie ( faith agood Divine) and having unadvifedly begun to fpeak, they know not how wifely to make an end. This to prevent, premeditate and z propound to thy felf fit heads ofprayer : gather catalogues ofthy y. and7 I. times and duties by the decalogue; obterve the daily ffraits,of 28 And mortallcondition, confider Gods mercies, your own infirmities, Efifimus, troubles from'Satan, mil-tires from the world,croffes on all hands, and b Sardeus,'c And as you cannot wann matter, fo neither words of prayer. 29 Of the Pone Spirit will afliff, andGod will accept, if there be but an ho- nias, anal Jozai heart and lawfull petitions. And albeit we cannot vary them iJ3o Of the four iaus, n Jedeupme can ; our Saviour inhis agony, tiled the felt-fame words ".. , ..,ce together in prayer; and fomay we, when there is the fame matter and occafion. He alto had a fet-form of giving thanks at meat; which the two Dticiples at Ensatuhearing, knewhim by. Lu6.ag.; o,3 i it. A form then may ufed,we fee, when it is gathered out ache holy Scriptures,andagreeable thereunto. Neither is the fpirit limi- ted hereby a for the largenefl'e of the heart Bands not fomuch in the multitude and variety of expreflions, as in theextent of the'af- fedion. Befides, if forms were unlawful!, then neither might we fing Pfalms, nor joui in prayer with others, norufe the formspre- fcribedby God. ErcviariJrr to Evangel ß'eas ii, Our Father Which art in Heaven 3 ?"ertuflian calls this pray- èY taruaaria d,. er,a breviaryof theGofp :1, and compendofCavingdoarin: It is Eir,'Qa comp,,,- framed, in form of the decalogue the three former Petitions re. fs>v n . fpeftingGod, the three later, our (elves and others. Every word therein hach its weight. Our, there's our charity : Father, there's our faith a In heaven, there's our hope. Father is taken fome- times perfonally, as in thatof our Saviour, My father isgreater then .1; fometisrmeseflentially, for the whole'Deity,fo here. Now, that
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