Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…

and albeit we cannot pray a right without the Spirit, yet we will essay it on this account; Even so should we do, as to this Duty, how difficult soever it may be. 2dly. And yet somewhat more particularly, we would endeavour to have a sober, serious and sanctified frame, in the undertaking and prosecuting of this Duty; when our Spirits are Carnal, and Discomposed, and when there is a noise and clamour of worldly lusts swarming within us, it is no great wonder though we essay it, that it go not with us, but miscarry in our hand: We would therefore abstract, and compose our selves, as in Gods presence, and study to have our hearts in a sanctified frame; as the Church doth▪ Lament. 3. 28▪ 29. Sitting alone, and keeping silence with a stopped mouth; We would table and state our selves before God, pursuing our selves, as if we were pleading for God against our selves; and hereby endeavouring a composed and fixed divine frame of Spirit, as being in a special way before him, whose deputy the ⟨p. 208⟩Conscience •s; and in such a frame reviewing our heart and way; it will not be every Frame, nor any common frame of Spirit that will fit and dispose to go rightly about this business. 3dly. We would be frequent in this Duty, and would not suffer reckonings to run long on; for if they do, it maketh the work the more difficult: and thus alas! it is with many, They have been so long a essaying of it, and so little in it, that they think it a desperate business to set about it now; Whereas, if men were weekly, daily, and on the back of every Duty▪ or Action, stating and putting by their accounts, it would be a great deal more easy: It is with many as to this, as it is with these who have a multitude of businesses on their hand r•velled, confused and through other; Or, as it is with these who have suffered their accounts to lie long over unfitted; Whereas he that is daily in this work, is like a man that every day fitting, and jousting his accounts, doth it easily, and with little pains: And therefore the Direction in short, is, that these who would have their spiritual Accounts easy▪ would not suffer them to run long on. 4ly. We would be much in Prayer, begin it with Prayer, and carry Prayer along with it; and a the heart starts our from it, by a look, by a darted up-bink, or ejaculation to God, bring it back again, and arrest it, as it were, and fix it before the Lord;