A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving…A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing…

But besides this, our Bradford had his daily exercises and practises of repentance. His manner was, to make to himself a Catalogue of all the grosest & most enorm sins, which in his life of ignorance he had committed, & to lay the same before his eyes when he went to private prayer, that by the sight & remembrance of them, the better to stir him up to offer to God the sacrifice of a contrite heart, and to pray for pardon and the increase of grace, to the detestation of sin, and love of obeying the good will of God.

But besides this, our Bradford had his daily exercises and practises of repentance. His maner was, to make to himselfe a Catalogue of all the grosest & most enorme sinnes, which in his life of ignorance he had committed, & to lay the same before his eyes when he went to priuate praier, that by the sight & remembrance of them, the better to stir him vp to offer to God the sacrifice of a contrite heart, and to pray for pardon and the increase of grace, to the detestation of sin, and loue of obeying the good will of God.

His manner was this: He used in the morning to go to the Common prayer in the College where he was, and after that, he used to make some prayer with his Pupils in his Chamber. But not content with this, he then repaired to his own secret prayer, by himself, as one that had not yet prayed to his own mind: for he was wont to say to his familiars, I have prayed with my self. Let secure men mark this, which pray without touch of breast, as the Pharisee did; and so that they have said an ordinary prayer, or hear a common course of prayer, without any thing else, they think they have prayed well, and as the term is, they have served ⟨image 7⟩God well. Let us learn by Bradfords example, to pray better, that is, with the heart, and not with the lips alone, Quia Deus non vocis, sed cordis auditor est, as Cyprian saith: that is, Because God is the hearer of the heart, and not of the voice: that is to say, not of the voice alone without the heart, for that is but lip-labour. This conscience of sin, and exercise in prayer had Bradford, clean contrary to that cursed custom of those graceless men, which do joy to make large accounts of their lewdness, and do glory therein; so feeding their delights with their lives passed, as the dog returneth to smell of his cast gorge, and the horse to his dung; such as the Prophet, Isaiah 39. saith: They declare their sins as Sodom, they hide them not, woe be to their souls.