IV. Prayer is to be made for Things lawful ", and for all Sorts of Men living, or that fhall live hereafter • ; but not for the Dead P, nor for those of whom it may be known that they have finned the Sin unto Death 4.

V. The Reading of the Scriptures with godly Fear; the found Preaching, and confcionable Hearunknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but he fhall not return to me. [With but my understanding is unfruitful. IV. = [1 John 5. 14. See letter k.] 1 Tim. 2. 1. I exhort therefore, that first of all, fupplications, prayers, interceffions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men: v. 2. Forkings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinefs and honefty. John 17. 20. Neither pray I for thefe alone, but for them alfo which fhall believe on me through their word. 2 Sam. 7. 29. Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou. O Lord God, haft spoken it; and with thy bleffing let the house of thy fervant be bleffed for ever. Ruth 4. 12. And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, (whom Tamar bare unto Judah) of the feed which the Lord fhail give thee of this young

woman.

P 2 Sam. 12. 21. Then faid his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou haft done? thou didst faft and weep for the child while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst arife and eat bread. v. 22. And he faid, While the child was yet alive, Ifafted and wept: for I faid, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? v. 23. But now he is dead, wherefore should I faft? Can I bring him back again? I fhall go to him,

Luke 16. 25.] But Abraham faid,
Son, remember that thou in thy life-
time receivedft thy good things, and
likewise Lazarus evil things: but
now he is comforted, and thou art
tormented. v. 26. And befides all
this, between us and you there is a
great gulf fixed: fo that they which
would pafs from hence to you, can-
not; neither can they pafs to us,that
would come from thence.
13. And I heard a voice from hea-
ven, faying unto me, Write, Blessed
are the dead, which die in the Lord,
from henceforth: Yea, faith the
Spirit, that they may reft from their
labours: and their works do follow
them.

Rev. 14.

91 John 5. 16. If any man fee his brother fin a fin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that fin not unto death. There is a fin unto death: I do not fay, that he fhall pray for it.

V. Acts 15. 21. For Mofes of old time hath in every city, them that preach him, being read in the fynagogues every fabbath-day. Rev. 1. 3. Bleffed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

f 2 Tim. 4. 2. Preach the word, be inftant in feafon, out of feafon; reprove, rebuke,exhort with all long fuffering and doctrine.

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Hearing of the Word in Obedience unto God, with Understanding, Faith, and Reverence ; Singing of Pfalms with Grace in the Heart ; as also, the due Administration, and worthy Receiving of the Sacraments inftituted by Chrift; are all Parts of the ordinary Religious Worship of God w: Befides religious Oaths and Vows, folemn Fastings and Thankf

Thanksgivings upon feveral Occafions, which are in their feveral Times and Seasons, to be used in an holy and religious Manner ".

VI. John 4. 21. Jefus faith un-. to her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerufalem, worship the Father.

VI. Neither Prayer, nor any other Part of religious Worship,is now under the Gospel, either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any Place in which it is performed, or towards which it is dire&ted: but God is to be worshipped every where 4 in Spirit and Truth: as in private Families daylys, mourning. Esth. 4. 16. Go, gather by we may ferve God acceptably, together all the Jews that are prefent with reverence and godly fear. in Shufhan, and faft ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I alfo, and my maidens will faft likewife, and fo will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish. Mat. 9. 15. And Jefus faid unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they faft. 1 Cor. 7. 5. Defraud you not one the other, except it be with confent for atime, that ye may give your felves to fafting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

[Pfalm 107. throughout.] Esther 9. 22. As the days wherein the Jews refted from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from forrow to joy, and from mourning unto a good day, that they fhould make them days of feafting and joy, and of fending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

b Heb. 12. 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, where

d Mal. 1. 11. For from the rifing of the fun even unto the going down of the fame, my name fhall be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incenfe shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name fhall be great among the heathen, faith the Lord of hofts. 1 Tim. 2. 8. I will therefore, that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

John 4. 23. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers fhall worship the Father in fpirit and in truth: for the Father feeketh fuch to worship him. v. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in fpirit and in truth.

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Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and confumed him, and have made his habitation defolate. Deut. 6. 6.

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ly 8, and in fecret each one by himself; fo more folemnly in the publick Affemblies, which are not carelefly or wilfully to be neglected or forfaken, when God by his Word or Providence calleth thereunto. VII. As

And these words which I command-› Praying always, with all prayer and
ed thee this day, fhall be in thine fupplication in the Spirit,and watch-
heart. v. 7. And thou shalt teach ing thereunto with all perfeverance
them diligently unto thy children, and fupplication for all faints.
and fhalt talk of them when thou Ifai. 56. 6. Alfo the fons of the
fitteft in thine houfe, and when ftranger, that join themselves to
thou walkeft by the way, and when the Lord, to ferve him, and to
thou lyeft down, and when thou love the name of the Lord, to be
rifeft up. Job 1. s. And it was fo, his fervants, every one that keepeth
when the days of their feafting were the fabbath from polluting it, and
gone about, that Job fent and fan- taketh hold of my covenant; v.7.
tified them, and rofe up early in Even them will bring to my holy
the morning, and offered burnt-of- mountain, and make them joyful
ferings, according to the number of in my houfe of prayer: their barnt-
them all for Job faid, It may be offerings and their facrifices shall be
that my fons have finned, and accepted upon mine altar; for
curfed God in their hearts. Thus mine houfe fhall be called an houfe
did Job continually. z Sam, 6. 18. of prayer for all people. Heb. 10.
And affoon as David had made an 25. Not forfaking the affembling
end of offering burnt-offerings, and of our felves together, as the man-
peace-offerings, he bleffed the peo- ner of fome but exhorting one
ple in the name of the Lord of another and fo much the more,
hofts. v. 20. Then David return- as ye fee the day approaching. Prov.
ed to blefs his houshold. 1 Peter 1. 26. Wisdom crieth without, the
3. 7. Likewise ye husbands, dwell uttereth her voice in the streets:
with them according to knowledge, v.21. She crieth in the chief place
giving honour unto the wife as unto of concourfe, in the openings of
the weaker veffel, and as being the gates: in the city, the uttereth
heirs together of the grace of life, her words, faying, v. 24. Becaufe
that your prayers be not hindred. I have called, and ye refused, I
Acts 10. 2. A devout man, and one have ftretched out my hand, and
that feared God with all his houfe, no man regarded. Prov. 8. 34. Blef
which gave much alms to the peo- fed the man that heareth me,
ple, and prayed to God alway. watching daily at my gates, waiting
at the pofts of my doors. Acts 13.
42.And when the Jews were gone
out of the fynagogue, the Gentiles
befought that these words thight be
preached to them the next fabbath.
Luke 4. 16. And he came to Naza-
reth, where he had been brought

Mat, 6. 11. Give us this day our daily bread. med seg nog

Mar. 6.65 But thou, when thou prayeft, enter into thy clofet, and when thou haft fhut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in fecret, and thy Father which feeth in fecret, fhall reward thee openly. Eph. 6.18.

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VII. As it is of the Law of Nature, that in general, a due Proportion of Time be set apart for the Worfhip of God; fo in his Word, by a politive, moral,and perpetual Commandment binding all Men in all Ages, he hath particularly appointed one Day in feven for a Sabbath to be kept holy unto him* which from the Beginning of the World to the Refurrection of Chrift, was the laft Day of the Week and from the Refurrection of Chrift, was changed into the first Day of the Week', which in Scripture is called the Lord's Day ", and is to be continued to the End of the World as the Chriftian Sabbath ". VIII. This

up and, as his cuftom was, he went into the fynagogue on the fab bath day, and stood up for to read. Acts 2. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apoftles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers..

VII, Exod. 20. 8. Remember the fabbath day, to keep it holy. v. Io. But the seventh day is the fab. bath of the Lord thy God: in it thou fhalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy manfervant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattel, northy ftranger which is within thy gates. v. 11. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is,and refted the feventh day: wherefore the Lord bleffed the fabbath day, and hallowed it. Ifai. 56, 2. Bleffed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the fabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. v. 4. For thus faith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my fabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant. v. 6, 7. [ See in letter i.]

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1, Gen. 2. 2. And on the feventh day, God ended his work which he had made: and he refted on the fe venth day from all his work which he had made.

v. 3. And God bleffed the feventh day, and fanctified it: because that in it he had refted from all his work, which God crea ted and made., 1.Cor. 16. 1. Now concerning the collection for the faints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even fo do ye. v. 2. Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in ftore, as God hath profpered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Acts 20. 7. And upon the first day of the week, when the difciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his fpeech until midnight. 5

m Rev. 1, 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lords day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.

Exod. 20.8, 10. [See letter.] With Mat. 5.17. Think not that I am come to deftroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to deftroy,but to fulfil. v. 18. For verily I fay unto you, till

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