A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

1. Because a sincere heart busies it self about heart-work, to mortify sin, to quicken grace, to observe and resist temptations, to secure and advance his evidences; and therefore is so much conversant in secret prayer. The glory of the King's daughter shines within,¹ arrayed with clothes of gold: but they are the spangled and glittering hangings of the closet of her heart, when she entertains communion with her Lord. The more a Saint converses with his own heart, the more he searches his spiritual wants and feels his spiritual joys.

1. Because a sincere heart busies it self about heart-work, to mortifie sin, to quicken grace, to observe and resist temptations, to secure and advance his evidences; and therefore is so much conversant in secret prayer. The glory of the King's daughter shines within,¹ arrayed with clothes of gold: but they are the spangled and glittering hangings of the closet of her heart, when she entertains communion with her Lord. The more a Saint converses with his own heart, the more he searches his spiritual wants and feels his spiritual joys.

1. 1Psal. 45.13.

2. Because a sincere heart aims at the eye of God, he knows that God being a spirit loves to converse with our spirits, and to speak to the heart more than the outward ear.¹ He labours to walk before God, as being always in his sight, but especially when he presents himself at the footstool of mercy: Because God is invisible [Greek or Hebrew]. An invisible God is delighted with invisible prayers,²