A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

CAP. X.

Of the last main duty of the daily exercise, which is Prayer.

Of the last maine duty of the daily exercise, which is Prayer.

§. Sect. 1 That we must pray daily and continually.

The last daily duty to be performed of us, is, effectual and fervent prayer, from which not any day, nor any part of the ¹day is to be exempted; for we must, as the Apostle speaketh, pray without ceasing, always watching thereunto with all perseverance. To which end tendeth the parable of the unrighteous Judge, propounded by our Saviour Christ. In which regard, that may be said of prayer, which the Apostle requireth in preaching, namely, that it must be done in season and out of season; if at least any time may be said unseasonable for this holy duty; whereby we are not to understand with those ancient Heretics, that we must spend our whole time in prayer and do nothing else; for the Apostle Paul himself spent much of his time in preaching, writing, disputing, and in other duties of his calling, and yet as he exhorted others, so he often professeth, that it was his own practice to pray continually and without ceasing. And our Saviour Christ also, who requireth this at our hands, and propounded