2ly, _Gods children_ (doubtless) may look aside, and mark who _sees_ and _hears_, and _rewards_ their _performances_ of _service_ unto _God_: But this is either in _sins_ of _ignorance_; as for _instance_, many of _Gods_ dear _children_ perform _service_ to _God_ in _preaching_ as _hirelings_, and conceive themselves not bound although to glorifie _Christ Jesus_ in saving _souls_) to preach without an _hire_, and so in other _cases_. Or 3ly, this may be knowingly and discerningly, as _Paul_ saith, _Rom. 7_. When I would do good, _evil_ is present with me: such _temptations_ come in as water into a ship, or as _dust_ and _diseases_ into a sound eye, and then _Gods children_ be never quiet untill such _distempers_ be cleansed, and got out again. [Sidenote: A frequent & constant spirit of prayer an argument of much of Gods Spirit.] Fourthly, it is an _Argument_ of _spirituall strength_ when the _Spirit_ of _prayer_ breatheth forth _frequently_, and _constantly, and fervently_ to _God_ in us: Hence _David_ prays and cries in the _morning_, at _noon_, and in the _evening_, he riseth at _midnight_ to pray, and prevents the _dawning_ of the _day_ to pray: Thus _Daniel_ is thrice each day on his knees to _God_, and would not be beaten off, with the _powers_ and _terrors_ of cruel _enemies_ and _lyons_. Thus the Lord _Jesus_ _frequently_ retired alone to private _prayer_, and sometimes spent the whole _night_ in _prayer_ to _God_ with strong _cries_, _tears_ and _supplications_: And therefore is it that all true _Christians_ are the _spirituall Israelites_, that is, _wrastlers_ and _strivers_ with _God_ in prayer; like unto their _Father Jacob_, who wrastled all night in prayer with _God_, with _weeping_ and _supplications_, and would not let the _Angel_ go until he blessed him; and therefore his name was called _Israel_, a _wrastler_ or _prevailer_ with _God_, as well as _Jacob_ a supplanter and prevailer with men. _Ob._ But may not _Hypocrites_ be frequent and fervent in prayer to _God_? Did not the _Pharisees_ and _Jews_ pray and fast often? Do not the very _Turks_ solemnly pray five times each 24. houres? And the _Papists_ not onely keep their solemn morning and evening times of _prayer_, but many other solemn prayers unto which the severall orders of _Friars_, _Monks_ and _Nuns_ bind themselves? And how easie is it by worldly engines to wheel about the _Indians_ of _America_ to become frequent prayers unto God, &c. I answer: Many are the differences between the true prayers of Gods children, and the false of dissemblers and hypocrites: I will name a few for instance. [Sidenote: True prayer is the souls breathing unto God.]