It is to be vnderstande that there be dyuers maner [Sidenote: Public prayer.] of prayinges, _Quedam publica, et quedam priuata_; That is to saye, some openlye, and some priuately. Prayer openly muste nedes be done in the churche by the 4 mynystratours of the same people. For it is done for all the comynaltye, and therfore the people in that oughte to conferme theym-selfe to the sayde mynystratours, and there to be presente to praye vnto god after a dewe 8 [Sidenote: Private prayer.] maner. _Oratio priuata._ The prayer pryuately done, [Sidenote: [Fol. 81_b_.]] oughte to be doone in secrete places, for two causes. For prayer eleuateth and lyfteth vp a mannes mynde to god. And the mynde of man is sooner and better 12 lyfte vppe whan he is in a pryuye place, and separate frome multytude of people. An other cause is to auoyde vaynglory that myghte lyghtely ensue or ryse thervppon, whan it is doone openly; and therof speketh our 16 [Sidenote: Matt. vi. 5.] sauyour, where he sayth, _Cum oratis, non eritis sicut hypocritæ, qui amant in sinagogis et in angulis platearum stantes orare_. That is to saye, whan ye praye, be not you as the hypocrytes, the whiche loue to stande in 20 theyr synagoges and corners of hyghe-wayes to praye. Also some folkes pray with the lyppes or mouthe, and not with the herte, of whome spekethe our lorde by his [Sidenote: Isa. xxix. 13.] prophete, _Hij labiis me honorant, cor autem eorum longe 24 est a me_; They honour me with theyr mouthe, and [Sidenote: Gregory.] theyr hertes be ferre from me. And sayncte Gregory saythe, _Quid prodest strepitus labiorum vbi mutum est cor?_ What profyteth the labour of the mouthe, where the 28 [Sidenote: Isidore.] herte is dombe? And Isodore saythe, _Longe quippe a deo est animus, qui in oratione cogitationibus sæculi fuerit occupatus_. His soule is far from god, that in his prayer his mynde is occupied in warkes of the worlde. There 32 [Sidenote: [Fol. 82.]] be other that pray both with the mouth and hart, of [Sidenote: John iv. 24.] whom speketh sayncte Iohan .x. _Veri adoratores, adorabunt patrem in spiritu et veritate_. The true prayers wylle worshyp the father of heauen in spirite and with trouthe. 36 [Sidenote: Isidore.] Isodorus saythe, _Tunc veraciter oramus, quando aliunde non cogitamus_. Than we praye truely, whan we thynke [Sidenote: Richard of Hampole.] on nothynge elles. _Richardus de Hampole. Ille deuote orat, qui non habet cor vacabundum in terrenis occupationibus, 40 sed sublatum ad deum in cælestibus._ He prayeth deuoutly, that hath not his harte wauerynge in worldelye occupations, but alwaye subleuate and lyfte vppe to god in heuen. There be other that praye with the harte. vnde 44