Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

Q. Whether a man finding his body drowsy, and his spirits dead and heavy, had better fall upon the duty of Prayer, or forbear it for that time?

Q. Whether a man finding his body drowsie, and his spirits dead and heavie, had better fall upon the duty of Prayer, or forbear it for that time?

Ans. Drowsiness of body, and deadness of heart, is no sufficient warrant for the omission of thine evening sacrifice of Prayer, but thou oughtest to perform it notwithstanding, as well as thou canst, and that for these Reasons.

Ans. Drowsiness of body, and deadness of heart, is no sufficient warrant for the omission of thine evening sacrifice of Prayer, but thou oughtest to •erform it notwithstanding, as well as thou canst, and that for these Reasons.

1 Because the Scripture giveth us no warrant for the omission of a bounden duty, because of some present drowsiness and indisposition thereunto, but doth rather expressly hold forth the contrary, enjoining Christians to pray always, ¹and to pray continually, ²with sundry the like expressions: Which imply, as a frequent lifting up our hearts to God in ejaculatory Prayers, so a constant observance of our set times of solemn prayer.

1 Because the Scripture giveth us no warrant for the omission of a bounden duty, because of some present drowsiness and indisposition thereunto, but doth rather expresly hold forth the contrary, enjoyning Christians to pray always,