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51. Using in Prayer frequent Prosopopeia's; Colloquies; Solliloquies: whereof there are five more usual. 1. God speaking i. e. the Promises, and Threats, (mentioned in Scripture) unto you. 2. Our Saviour Christ speaking unto you (according to what he hath said in the Gospel.)
3. You, speaking to your own Soul, (Ps. 44.) 4. Speaking to God the Father. 5. Speaking to your Saviour (by your imagination) set before you in some such familiar po∣sture in the Gospel, as much animates your addresses. These will serve much to strengthen your faith, and your endeavors, by thus assuming another person, and being abstracted from your self. We thus speaking things not so easily thought on when we act only our own persons: counselling more impartially; comforting more powerfully &c. (See Kemp. 3. l.) To these Colloquies may be added sometimes those with the Creatures, to praise God with us, Psal. 103.20. Psal. 148. To submit to his Kingdome, &c. with us (Psal. 4.2. &c.) and those expostulations with the vain, or wicked, world, with our flesh, with our spiri∣tual enemies, with our former sins &c. (Wisd 5.8. —1. Cor. 15.55. Psal. 119.115. —9.6. —139.19. Mic. 7.8. Psal. 118.13. —4.2.)