METHOD FOR PRAYER, WITH Scripture Expreffions Proper to be Us'd under each HEAD. By MATTHEW HENRY, Printed for NATH. CLIFF at the Golden Candlefish, a TO THE READER. R Eligion is fo much the Business of our Lives, and the Worship of God fo much the Business of our Religion, that what hath a fincere Intention, and probable Tendency, to promote and affift the Acts of Religious Worship (I think) cannot be unacceptable to any that heartily with well to the Interefts of God's Kingdom among Men: For if we have fpiritual Senfes exercis'd, true Devotion, that afpiring Flame of pious Affections to God, as far as in a Judgment of Charity we difcern it in others (tho' in different Shapes and Dreffes, which may feem uncouth to one another) cannot but appear beautiful and amiable, and as far as we feel it in our own Breasts, cannot but be found very pleasant and comfortable. Prayer is a principal Branch of Religious Worship, which we are mov'd to by the very Light of Nature, and oblig'd to by fome of its fundamental A 2 Laws. |