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

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 when no eye sees but his, he takes most pleasure in the secret glances of a holy heart. Therefore a gracious soul prays in secret with the same diligence and care, nay sometimes more, when in a holy frame, that he may reap the comfort of his sincerity before the eyes of God.³

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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. An invisible God is delighted with invisible prayers,² when no eye sees but his, he takes most pleasure in the secret glances of a holy heart. Therefore a gracious soul prays in secret with the same diligence and care, nay sometimes more, when in a holy frame, that he may reap the comfort of his sincerity before the eyes of God.³

1. 1Hos. 2.14.
2. 2Chrysost.
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