A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

3. How are our hearts affected in prayer? Are we more ready to pray our selves asleep, than into a vigorous frame? Do we enter into it with some life, and find our hearts quickly tire and jade us? Are we more awake when we are up, than we were all the time upon our knees? are our hearts in prayer like withered, sapless things, and very quick afterwards, if any worldly business invite us? Are we like logs and blocks in prayer, and like a ⟨p. 62⟩Roe upon the mountains in earthly concerns? Surely what our pulse beats quickest to, is the object most delighted in.

4. What time is it we choose for Prayer? Is it not our drowsiest, lazyest time, when our nods are as many, or more than our petitions; as though the dullest time and the deadest frame were most suitable to a living God? Do we come with our hearts full of the world to pray for heaven? Or do we pick out the most lively seasons? Luther chose those hours for prayer and meditation, wherein he found himself most lively for study.

4. What time is it we choose for Prayer? Is it not our drowziest, lazyest time, when our nods are as many, or more than our petitions; as though the dullest time and the deadest frame were most sutable to a living God? Do we come with our hearts full of the world to pray for heaven? Or do we pick out the most lively seasons? Luther chose those hours for prayer and meditation, wherein he found himself most lively for study.

5. Do we not often wish a duty over? As those in the Prophet that were glad when the Sabbath was over, that they might run to their buying and selling? Or, are we of Peter's temper, and express Peter's Language, 'Tis good to be here with Christ on the Mount?