Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

He never taketh his leave of prayer, till he is entering into the place of praise. Prayer is his element, he cannot live without it, and communion with God in it. Prayer is the vessel, by which he is continually trading into the Holy Land; he sendeth it out fraught with precious graces, faith, hope, desire, love, godly sorrow, and the like; and it cometh home many times richly laden with peace, joy, and increase of grace. But now an hypocrite, Job saith, will not pray always, he will not always call upon God, Job 27.10. possibly he may sometimes cry out (as a Scholar under the rod, or a Malefactor upon the Rack) for deliverance out of some affliction; but when God openeth his hand, and bestoweth the mercy, his mouth is shut, and his heart too, that you shall hear but little more of this duty. If he pray on his sick bed, and God raise him up, he leaves his prayers sick a bed behind him. His prayer was but a messenger sent about some particular errand; when that is done, the messenger returneth: As that story of the Friar speaketh, how when he was a poor Friar, he went ever sadly, casting ⟨p. 168⟩his eyes upon the ground; but being Abbot, he went merrily, looking upward; one of his companions asked him the reason of that alteration; he answered, that when he was a common Friar, he went dejected by looking downward for the keys of the Abby, which now he had found, and therefore left that posture.

He never taketh his leave of prayer, till he is entering into the place of praise. Prayer is his element, he cannot live without it, and communion with God in it. Prayer is the vessel, by which he is continually trading into the Holy Land; he sendeth it out fraught with precious graces, faith, hope, desire, love, godly sorrow, and the like; and it commeth home many times richly laden with peace, joy, and increase of grace. But now an hypocrite, Job saith, will not pray alwayes, he will not alwayes call upon God, Job 27.10. possibly he may sometimes cry out (as a Scholar undet the rod, or a Malefactor upon the Rack) for deliverance out of some affliction; but when God openeth his hand, and bestoweth the mercy, his mouth is shut, and his heart too, that you shall hear but little more of this duty. If he pray on his sick bed, and God raise him up, he leaves his prayers sick a bed behind him. His prayer was but a messenger sent about some particular errand; when that is done, the messenger returneth: As that story of the Friar speaketh, how when he was a poor Friar, he went ever sadly, casting