(d) Because wee haue no promise of obtaining any good thing at IEHOVAHS hand, without cal∣ling vpon his Name, by true, liuely, and effectuall Prayer, therefore I haue afterwards set apart a di∣rectorie vnto Prayer: by whose Introduction and Forme, all Novices in faith may be the easier allu∣red to so holy an exercise: an exercise neglected of this brutish Idolatrous age, wherein either People vse it not at all; or else (by the suggestion of a false Spirite) they in the roome thereof doe substitute a false kinde of Invocation, consisting in Vaine Repe∣titions and ignorant Babling, thinking (like Idola∣trers) that their corporeall speaches shall merite. Leaving that small Tractate to his peculiar place, I here (through the assistance of my good God) do put an end to the Synopsis of holy Hystory. What is (in an•• competent sort) beseeming the worthi∣nes of the Subiect, for that giue thou praise vnto him, that giveth knowledge from aboue liberallie, without dashing the Receiver in the teeth. What any way is vnbeseming the Argument, that shal be mine own, and yet, by Gods grace, no sooner of me seene then disclaimed as an alyane and bastardly fruite. And so beseeching my good God to pardon all my wants, and to giue to the Reader holy Iudg∣ment, I here end.
PSAL. 119. 130. The Entrance into thy wordes (oh Lord) sheweth Light, giving vnderstanding to the simple.