A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God

6. That we make no place a pretext to keep us from Prayer. ¹For as the heaven, and the Sun therein is every where over us, so as we cannot withdraw our selves out of the compass thereof: so much more is God in every place over us, and with us: neither ⟨p. 27⟩can we withdraw our selves out of the compass of his presence. We may therefore, yea we ought, (as just occasion and fit opportunity is offered) pray in any place. We read of the Saints prayers made in^b the Temple, in^c their own houses, on the^d house top, in^e the open field, in^f a mountain, in ^ga ship, in^h the midst of the sea, inⁱ a fishes belly, in^k a journey, in^l a battle▪ and in sundry other places. This being so, what need is there of going on pilgrimage to this or that shrine? Is our Father which is in heaven, tied to one country, or to one place in a country more then to another? An heathenish conceit! For the heathen imagined their Apollo, from whom they received their Oracles to be at Delphi, Cuma, Dodona, and such other particular places.¹²