then God speaketh to us through the spiritual reading.
A man must pray even as he may and can,
because Almighty God can understand all speech;
and in every place must he magnify his Lord,
and continue in prayer wherever he be.
Nevertheless a man ought to seek church frequently,
and a man may not talk nor hold conversations
within God's church, because it is the house of prayer,
hallowed to God for ghostly discourses.
Neither ought a man to drink or foolishly eat
within God's House, which is hallowed to this [purpose],
that a man may there taste of God's body with faith.
Now men, nevertheless, act foolishly very often,
in that they will watch and madly drink
within God's house, and play shamefully,
and with foolish talking defile God's house;
but it were better for them that they lay in their beds,
than that they should anger God in the spiritual house.
He who will watch, and worship God's Saints,
let him watch in stillness, and make no disturbance,
but sing his prayers as he best knoweth how;
and he who will drink, and make a foolish noise,
let him drink at home, not in the Lord's house,
that he dishonour not God, to his own punishment.
We have need to cry often to Christ,
but without carelessness and hypocrisy.
Even as the body liveth by bread and drink,
so shall the soul live by doctrine and prayers.
