Extracts from The Spirit of Prayer

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CHAPTER I.

TREATING OF SOME MATTERS PREPARATORT TO THE

SPIRIT OF PRAYER.

The greatest part of mankind — nay, of cluristians, may
be said to be asleep; and that particular way of life which
takes up each man's mind, thoughts, and actions, may
very well be called his particular dream. This degree
of vanity is equally visible in every form and order of
life. The learned and the ignorant, the rich and the
poor, are all in the same state of slumber ; only passing
away a short life in a different kind of dream. But why
so P It is because man has an eternity within him, is
bom' into this worlds not for the sake of living here, not
for any thing this world can give him, but only to have
time and place to become either an eternal partaker of a
divine life with God, or to have an hellish eternity amongst
fallen angels: and therefore, every man who has not his
eye, his heart, and his hands continually governed by this
two-fold eternity, may be justly said to be fast asleep, to
have no awakened sensibility of himself. And a life de-
voted to the interests and enjoyments of this world, spent
and wasted in the slavery of earthly desires, may be truly
called a dream, as having all the shortness^ vanity, and
delusion of a dream; only with this great difference, that
when a dream is over, nothing is lost hut fictions and
fancies; hut when the dream of life is ended only by
death, all that eternity is lost, for which we were brought
into being. Now there is no misery in this world, nothing
that makes either the life or death of man to be full of
calamity, but this blindness and insensibility of his state,
into which he so willingly — nay, obstinately plunges him-
self. Every thing that has the nature of evil and distress
in it, takes its rise from hence. Do but suppose a man
to know himself, that he comes into this world on no
other en*and, but to rise out of the vanity of time into the
riches of eternity ; do but suppose him to govern his in-
ward thoughts and outward actions by this view of himself,
and then to him every day has lost all its evil; prosperity
and adversity have no difference, because h« receives and

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