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And that you may see, this is not a new Invention, or piece of modern Preciseness; hear what holy Augustin says, De Opere Monachorum; As vain Men have their Fables and filthy Songs at work; quid ergo impedit▪ Servum Dei manibus operantem in Lege Domini meditari, & psallere nomini▪ Dei altissimi—Cantica divina cantare, etiam manibus operantes facile, possunt, & ipsum laborem tanquam divino celeumate consolari: that is, God's Servants should, while they are at work, sing the Praises of God. When the Heart is inditing a good matter, the Tongue will quickly be, as the Pen of a ready Writer. By these you will keep in the fire of Grace between your set-times of Prayer; by these you may meet with and quench a Temptation on the sudden. When Satan is at his Injections and Injaculations, have you recourse ⟨p. 213⟩to your Ejaculations. When you feel the Guilt of Sin to pinch you, or the Sense of any Mercy to affect you, or of any Danger or Difficulty to affright you, this will be a present Relief, till you have opportunity of more solemn Prayer. And as no Ship is so laden, but one may thrust in two or three small Jewels into it; so no Man's Business is so throng, but he may interline an holy Ejaculation. And of the like nature are Soliloquies, wherein we speak to our own Souls; either to rouse up our dull Spirits, or to revive our drooping Souls, as we find holy David frequently, Psal. 42. & 62, &c. Hereby you may make Company of your selves, when (as in some Callings) you are working alone all the day; and it is a sad thing, that a Man shall know how to confer with Men, yea how to converse with God, and yet cannot tell how to commune with his own Heart.

And that you may see, this is not a new Invention, or piece of modern Preciseness; hear what holy Augustin says, De Opere Monachorum; As vain Men have their Fables and filthy Songs at work; quid ergo impedit▪ Servum Dei manibus operantem in Lege Domini meditari, & psallere nomini▪ Dei altissimi—Cantica divina cantare, etiam manibus operantes facile, possunt, & ipsum laborem tanquam divino celeumate consolari: that is, God's Servants should, while they are at work, sing the Praises of God. When the Heart is inditing a good matter, the Tongue will quickly be, as the Pen of a ready Writer. By these you will keep in the fire of Grace between your set-times of Prayer; by these you may meet with and quench a Temptation on the sudden. When Satan is at his Injections and Injaculations, have you recourse