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…

2 As man that hath little or no appetite to his meat, yet by forcing himself to eat a bit or two, he begins to have a better stomach thereunto; so when a Christian hath no mind or disposition unto Prayer, but finds his body drowsy, his spirit heavy, and his heart dead; yet by forcing himself thereunto, though against his mind, doth many times find his affections ••ickned, and his spirits raised up in Prayer; yea it is wonderful what quicknings and ⟨p. 83⟩enlargements do many times come upon an adventurous soul, upon a soul that will adventure upon duty, against deadness, drown ness, and such like discouragements; and therefore let not the drowsiness of thy body, nor the heaviness of thy spirit, so far prevail with thee, as to forbear and omit thy course of praying; But fall upon it, and for ought thou knowest, thou mayest feel and find the lively quicknings and enlargements of Gods Spirit upon thy spirit in the performance thereof.

2 As man that hath little or no appetite to his meat, yet by forcing himself to eat a bit or two, he begins to have a better stomack thereunto; so when a Christian hath no mind or disposition unto Prayer, but findes his body drowsie, his spirit heavie, and his heart dead; yet by forcing himself thereunto, though against his mind, doth many times find his affections ••ickned, and his spirits raised up in Prayer; yea it is wonderfu• what quicknings and ⟨p. 83⟩enlargements do many times come upon an adventurous soul, upon a soul that will adventure upon duty, against deadness, drow• ness, and such like discouragements; and therefore let not the drowsiness of thy body, nor the heaviness of thy spirit, so far prevail with thee, as to forbear and omit thy course of praying; But fall upon it, and for ought thou knowest, thou mayest feel and finde the lively quicknings and inlargements of Gods Spirit upon thy spirit in the performance thereof.