cred Volumes He has given us, Day and Night. Let us for ever thank Him for His most gracious Declarations of His Will; and let our Bibles, as they ought, be dearer to us than our Lives! Let us read, mark, learn, and inwardly digeft them; that fo by Patience and Comfort of His Holy Word, we may embrace and ever bold faft that blef Jed Hope of everlasting Life, which He has given us in our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift! Which, &c. The Nature, Extent, and Reasons of the Duty of Prayer. SERMON V. T I THESS. v. 17. Pray without ceafing. HE Duty of Prayer, in general, is the Dictate of unaffifted Reafon, as well as the pofitive Command of revealed Religion. The Attributes and the Works of God entitle Him to it; and the dependent State of Man requires it. The Power of the One, and the Weakness of the other, imply an abfolute Dependence; and that Dependence implies it to be the true Interest, and confequently the Duty of Man to pay it. His Beneficence, and our Obligations, demand from us the Tribute of Praife and Thanksgiving; and what fo reasonable, as to apply to Him for Redress in a calaH 4 mitous |