1. But men of more refined belief and practice are yet concerned in this unlawful self about religion.--2. It is the rise of the performance of worship God regards.--3. True worship is only from a heart prepared by God's Spirit.--4. The soul of man is dead without the divine breath of life, and so not capable of worshipping the living God.--5. We are not to study what to pray for. How Christians should pray. The aid they have from God.--6. The way of obtaining this preparation: it is by waiting, as David and others did of old, in holy silence, that their wants and supplies are best seen.--7. The whole and the full think they need not this waiting, and so use it not; but the poor in spirit are of another mind, wherefore the Lord hears, and fills them with his good things.--8. If there were not this preparation, the Jewish times would have been more holy and spiritual than the gospel; for even then it was required; much more now.--9. As sin, so formality, cannot worship God: thus David, Isaiah, &c.--10. God's own forms and institutions hateful to Him, unless his own Spirit use them; much more those of man's contriving.--11. God's children ever met God in his way, not their own; and in his way they always found help and comfort. In Jeremiah's time it was the same; his goodness was manifested to his children that waited truly upon him: it was an inward sense and enjoyment of him they thirsted after. Christ charged his disciples also to wait for the Spirit.--12. This doctrine of waiting further opened, and ended with an allusion to the pool of Bethesda; a lively figure of inward waiting and its blessed effects.--13. Four things necessary to worship; the sanctification of the worshipper, and the consecration of the offering, and the thing to be prayed for, and lastly, faith to pray in: and all must be right, that is, of God's giving.--14. The great power of faith in prayer; witness the importunate woman. The wicked and formal ask, and receive not; the reason why. But Jacob and his true offspring, the followers of his faith, prevail.--15. This shows why Christ upbraided his disciples with their little faith. The necessity of faith. Christ works no good on men without it.--16. This faith is not only possible now but necessary.--17. What it is, further unfolded.--18. Who the heirs of this faith are; and what were the noble works of it in the former ages of the just.