Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

1. We pray Cursorily, and go about Prayer as a Customary Task for Fashions sake; we come with a few cold Devotions Morning and Evening, and so God is near in our Mouths, and far from our Reins, Jer. 12. 2. Oh take heed of this; nothing breeds slightness and hardness of Heart so much as Perfunctory Praying. The Rule ⟨p. 42⟩is continue instant in Prayer, Rom. 12. 12. and it is said of the Saints that they served God instantly day and night, [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 26. 7. that they might come to the Blessed Hope, with the united Service of all their Powers and Faculties.

1. We pray Cursorily, and go about Prayer as a Customary Task for Fashions sake; we come with a few cold Devotions Morning and Evening, and so God is near in our Mouthes, and far from our Reins, Ier. 12. 2. Oh take heed of this; nothing breeds slightness and hardness of Heart so much as Perfunctory Praying. The Rule ⟨p. 42⟩is continue instant in Prayer, Rom. 12. 12. and it is said of the Saints that they served God instantly day and night, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Acts 26. 7. that they might come to the Blessed Hope, with the united Service of all their Powers and Faculties.

2. Our Prayers are Doctrinal and Instructive, rather than Affectionate and Warming. We get Light by other Duties, but we should get Life by Prayer, this Duty is not to inform the Judgment, but to raise the Affections, that they may be all Flame; other duties are feeding duties, but this is a spending duty; an egression of the Soul after God,