ist.

10. We should quiet ourselves on him alone in all our approaches,
whatever liveliness we find or miss in duty. We are too much tickled and
fain when duties go well with us, and troubled on the other hand when it
is not so; and the ground of all this is, because we lean too much to
our own duties, and do not quiet ourselves on him alone. And hence it
is, that we are often quieted when we get the duty done and put by,
though we have not met with him there, nor gotten use made of him as was
necessary. All our comfort, peace, and quiet should be founded on him
alone.

11. We should look to him for the removal of all the discouragements
that Satan casts in our way while we are about this or that piece of
worship, to put us back, or cause us to advance slowly and faintingly;
and casting them all on him, go forward in our duty.

12. We should look for all our returns and answers only in and through
him, and lay all the weight of our hopes and expectations of a good
answer only on him, 1 John v. 13, 14, 15.

For caution I would add a word or two:

1. I do not think that the believer can explicitly and distinctly act
all these things whenever he is going to God, or can distinctly perceive
all these several acts; nor have I specified and particularly mentioned
them thus, for this end, but to shew at some length, how Christ is to be
employed in those acts of worship which we are called to perform; and
that because we oftentimes think the simple naming of him, and asking of
things for his sake, is sufficient, though our hearts lean more to some
other thing than to him; and the conscientious Christian will find his
soul, when he is rightly going about the duties of worship, looking
towards Christ thus, sometimes more distinctly and explicitly as to one
particular, and sometimes more as to another.

2. Though the believer cannot distinctly act faith on Christ all these
ways, when he is going about commanded duties of worship, yet he should
be sure to have his heart going out after Christ, as the only ground of
his approaching to and acceptance with and of being heard by the Father;
and to have his heart in such an habitual frame of resting on Christ,
that really there may be a relying upon him all these ways, though not
distinctly discerned.

3. Sometimes the believer will be called to be more distinct and
explicit in looking to and resting upon Christ, as to one particular,
and sometimes more as to another. When Satan