The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in…The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in…

The ground of it is this, when the Apostle bids us pray continually, do it exceeding much, ¹do it very often, the least we can do it is twice a day, we may do it oftener, but that, I say, is the ²least. When we have such a command […] this, when we have such a precept as this, Pray continually, and this rule illustrated by such examples as we true in the scriptures, why is it recorded, if it ³be not true of every example in that kind that is said of the general example, 1 Cor. 10. They are written for our learning? when it is said that David prayed oft, and Daniel expressly in the 6. Dan. 3. He prayed three times a day, that was his constant ⁴course. I say, we may think we are bound to do it at the least twice a day. Consider a little, the reason of it why we are bound to do it. In the (Temple, you know, the Lord was worshipped twice ⁵a day, there was […], […] sacrifice. What was the ground of that commandement• there was no reason of it, but that the Lord might be worshipped, and that was the […] it done […] a day, morning and evening: but besides that, it was not only ⟨p. 17⟩that the Lord might be worshipped, (wherein we should follow that example of worshipping him morning and evening.) But likewise our occasions are such, that that is the least we can do to ⁶call upon him constantly morning and evening: for there is no day but we use many blessings, and we take many of his creatures. Now we may not take any of them without his leave; so that thou art bound to ask for them before thou take them, and pray for a blessing upon them; or else thou hast no right to them, thou hast no lawful use of them, that place is plain,