The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures

¹Thirdly, To pray without ceasing is to take all Occasions, at every turn, to be darting up of our Souls unto God in holy Meditations and Ejaculations. And this we may and ought to do when we hear or read the Word, or whatever Duty of Religion we are engaged about, yea, ⟨p. 411⟩this we may and ought to do in our worldly Employments. If your Hearts and Affections be heavenly, your Thoughts will force out a Passage, through the Crowd and Tumult of worldly Businesses, to Heaven; Ejaculations are swift Messengers that require not much time to perform their Errands in, for there is a holy Mystery in pointing our earthly Employments with these heavenly Ejaculations, as Men point their Writings sometimes with Stops, ever now and then shooting up a short mental Prayer unto Heaven; such Pauses as these are you will find to be no Impediments to your worldly Affairs. This is the way for a Christian to be retired and private in the midst of a Multitude, to turn his Shop or his Field into a Closet; to trade for Earth, and yet to get Heaven also into the Bargain. So we read of Nehemiah 2.4.² That whilst the King was discoursing to him of the State of Judea, it is said that Nehemiah prayed unto God; that is, he sent up secret Prayers to God, which tho' they escaped the King's notice and observation, yet were they so prevalent as to bow and incline his Heart.

¹Thirdly, To pray without ceasing is to take all Occasions, at every turn, to be darting up of our Souls unto God in holy Meditations and Ejaculations. And this we may and ought to do when we hear or read the Word, or whatever Duty of Religion we are engaged about, yea, ⟨p. 411⟩this we may and ought to do in our worldly Employments. If your Hearts and Affections be heavenly, your Thoughts will force out a Passage, through the Crowd and Tumult of worldly Businesses, to Heaven; Ejaculations are swift Messengers that require not much time to perform their Errands in, for there is a holy Mystery in pointing our earthly Employments with these heavenly Ejaculations, as Men point their Writings sometimes with Stops, ever now and then shooting up a short mental Prayer unto Heaven; such Pauses as these are you will find to be no Impediments to your worldly Affairs. This is the way for a Christian to be retired and private in the midst of a Multitude, to turn his Shop or his Field into a Closet; to trade for Earth, and yet to get Heaven also into the Bargain. So we read of