Lewis Bayly - Meditations to Stir Us Up to Morning Prayer (Part 4)
January 20th, 2007 by Nicholas Chorba
#4 - Call to mind the zealous devotions of the Christians in the primitive church, who spent many whole nights and vigils in watching and praying for the forgiveness of their sins, and that they might be found ready at the coming of Christ; and that David was not content to pray at morning, at evening, and at noon (Psalms 55:16-17), but he would also rise up at midnight to pray unto God (Psalms 119:62). And if Christ did chide his disciples, because they would not watch with him one hour in praying (Matthew 26:40), what chiding dost thou deserve, who thinkest it too long to continue in prayer but one quarter of an hour? If thou hast spent divers hours at a vain ball or play; yea whole days and nights in carding and dicing, to please thy flesh, be ashamed to think that praying for a quarter of an hour is too long an exercise for the service of God.
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