§. 124.
Repetitions.
38. Often using Repetition (especially in set forms of Prayer) by which if we passed over any thing slightly the first time, we may better remind it the second: or, if at first any thing said do much move us, we may the longer continue the same passion. A great help to devotion, where∣in a rest, and vacancy (as it were) of the understanding, the will, and affections, add a new fervour to our former conceptions; and never vain, but when done without a renewed devotion; which devotion being any way en∣larged by some other considerations, the former words still become a new Prayer. The power whereof consists not in much speaking, but in much beseeching; and in the importunity of our desires, and sighs, not our loquacity. See Daniel's Prayer. Dan. 9.4.