The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…

Let the word of God be judge whether a Holy experienced Heart should hide itself and not appear in Prayer and holy ⟨p. 179⟩conference by the tongue. 1 Thess. 5.17. Pray continually: Luk. 18.1. Christ spake a parable to this end, that men ought always to pray and not wax faint. Phil. 4.6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by Prayer, and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Let the word of God be judge whether a Holy experienced Heart should hide itself and not appeare in Prayer and holy ⟨p. 179⟩conference by the tongue. 1 Thess. 5.17. Pray continually: Luk. 18.1. Christ spake a parable to this end, that men ought allwayes to pray and not waxe faint. Phil. 4.6. Be carefull for nothing: but in every thing by Prayer, and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And How they must Pray, you may gather from 2 Chron. 6.29. In case of dearth, Pestilence, blasting, mildew, locusts, caterpillars, enemies, sicknesses or sores, [Then what prayer or supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all the people, when every one shall know his own sore, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house, then hear thou from Heaven, &c.] I am not speaking of the Prescribed Prayers of the Church, nor denying the lawfulness of such in private. But if you have no words but what you say by rote, and pray not from the knowledge of your own particular sore and grief, it is because you are too much unacquainted with yourselves, and strangers to those Hearts where the greatest of your sores and griefs are lodged.