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

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, Psal. 63. 8. My soul followeth hard after thee. A Man may better spend two hours in Hearing, than half an hour in Praying, if the Heart be employed in it as it ought to be, in the fight of God, and an earnest desire after him: The Prayers in scripture are all supplications or doxologies, there is no excursion into Doctrines and Instructions.

3. Else we are lamenting sin, and spend the time in confessing sin, which also hath its use in the seasons thereof, but are seldom in Praises or Adorations of the Excellencies of God, and the wonderful Mysteries of his Love in our Redemption by Jesus Christ, yet it is said Psal. 22. 3. Oh Lord that inhabitest ⟨p. 43⟩the praises of Israel. These are the things that do most ravish the heart, and raise it in the Contemplation of that glorious God to whom we speak; and fill us with the Ecstasies of Love, that we may be more like him, Holy, Wise, and Good, as he is Holy, Wise and Good.

3. Else we are lamenting sin, and spend the time in confessing sin, which also hath its use in the seasons thereof, but are seldom in Praises or Adorations of the Excellencies of God, and the wonderful Mysteries of his Love in our Redemption by Jesus Christ, yet it is said Psal. 22. 3. Oh Lord that inhabitest ⟨p. 43⟩the praises of Israel. These are the things that do most ravish the heart, and raise it in the Contemplation of that glorious God to whom we speak; and fill us with the Extasies of Love, that we may be more like him, Holy, Wise, and Good, as he is Holy, Wise and Good.