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and so that they have said an ordinary prayer, or heard a ⟨image 6⟩common course of prayer, they think they have prayed well, and as the term is, they have served God well, though they never feel sting for sin, taste of groaning or broken hart, nor of the sweet saving health of Christ, thereby to be moved to offer the sacrifice of thanks giving: nor change or renewing of mind, but as they came secure in sin & senseless, so they do depart without any change or affecting of the hart: Which is even the cradle in which Satan rocketh the since of this age a sleep, who think they do serve God in these cursory prayers made only of custom, when their hart is as far from God as was the hart of the Pharisee. Let us learn by Bradford's example to pray better, that is, with the hart, and not with ihe lyps alove: Quia Deus uon vocis sed cardis auditor est, as Cyprin saith, that is, because God is the hearer of the hart, and not of the voice, that is to say, not of the voice alone without the hart, for that is but lib labour. This conscience of sin and exercise in prayer had Bradford, clean contrary to that cursed custom of those ⟨image 7⟩graceless men, which do joy to make large and long accounts of their lewdness and glory therein, so feeling their delights with their lives passed, as the Dog returneth to smell to his cast gorge, and the horse to his dung: such as the Prophet •say 39. saith: They declare their since as Sodom, they hide them not, woe be to their souls. It goeth with them as in the days of Jeremiah it went with those. Jere. 3. 3 Thou haddest a whores forehead: Thou wouldest not be ashamed. God give these men better grace, else let them be assured they shall find woe woe to their very souls.

and so that they haue sayd an ordinary praier, or heard a ⟨image 6⟩common course of praier, they think they haue prayed well, and as the terme is, they haue serued God well, though they neuer féele styng for synne, taste of groning or broken hart, nor of the swéete sauing health of Christ, thereby to be moued to offer the sacrifice of thankes geuing: nor chaunge or renuing of minde, but as they came secure in synne & senseles, so they do depart without any chaūge or affecting of the hart: Which is euen the cradle in which Satan rocketh the synnes of this age a sleepe, who thinke they do serue God in these cursory prayers made onely of custome, when theyr hart is as farre from God as was the hart of the Pharisey. Let vs learne by Bradfordes example to pray better, that is, with the hart, and not with ihe lyps aloue: Quia Deus uon vocis sed cardis auditor est, as Cyprin saith, that is, because God is the hearer of the hart, and not of the voyce, that is to say, not of the voyce alone without the hart, for that is but lyb labour. This conscience of syn and exercise in prayer had Bradford, cleane contrary to that cursed custome of those