Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

Use 1. For Conviction and Awakening unto prayerless Sin•ers. O that there were no many such. But alas! that which was […] injuriously charged upon Joh, when E•phiz said to him, thou restrainest prayer before God, may be truly and sadly charged upon many poor creatures. Are there not some, that are grown unto men and women's estates, that hardly ever prayed in their lives? how lamentable is their condition! Now that such may be convinced of their sin and misery, lay to heart a few Considerations.

Use 1. For Conviction and Awakening unto prayerless Sin•ers. O that there were no many such. But alas! that which was 〈…〉 injuriously charged upon Joh, when E•phiz said to him, thou restr•inest prayer before God, may be truly and sadly charged upon many poor creatures. Are there not some, that are grown unto men and womens estates, that hardly ever prayed in their lives? how lamentable is their condition! Now that such may be convinced of their sin and misery, lay to heart a few Considerations.

1. Thou that art prayerless, art amongst the Ungodly. For my Text saith, That every one that is godly will pray; they then that live without Prayer, are ungodly ones. There is not a spark of Grace in thy soul. Nay, thou art not so much as in the way thou hast not taken the first step towards Conversion. For, when the Lord cometh to convert a Soul, one of the first things, is, He sets him a Praying; as we see […] Paul, whilst he was in the pang of the new-birth, it was said concerning him, Behold he prayeth, Act. •0. 11. As for thee a sinful wretch, behold thou prayest not. The Lord looketh down from heaven upon thee, from day to day, behold he seeth thee sinning, ⟨p. 19⟩