5. And this Hannah in the first book of Kings, who was a type of the Church, maintains and observes, in that she prayed to God not with clamorous petition, but silently and modestly, within the very recesses of her heart. She spoke with hidden prayer, but with manifest faith. She spoke not with her voice, but with her heart, because she knew that thus God hears; and she effectually obtained what she sought, because she asked it with belief. Divine Scripture asserts this, when it says, “She spake in her heart, and her lips moved, and her voice was not heard; and God did hear her.”11 1 Sam. i. 13. We read also in the Psalms, “Speak in your hearts, and in your beds, and be ye pierced.”12 Ps. iv. 4, “transpungimini.” The Holy Spirit, moreover, suggests these same things by Jeremiah, and teaches, saying, “But in the heart ought God to be adored by thee.”13 Or, “In the heart, O God, ought we to worship Thee.” (Baruch vi. 6.)
V. Quod Anna, in primo Regnorum libro, Ecclesiae typum portans, custodit et servat; quae Dominum non clamosa petitione , sed tacite et modeste intra ipsas pectoris latebras precabatur. Loquebatur prece occulta, sed manifesta fide; loquebatur, non voce, sed corde, quia sic Deum sciebat audire: et impetravit efficaciter quod petiit, quia fideliter postulavit. Declarat Scriptura divina quae dicit: Loquebatur in corde suo, et labia ejus movebantur, et vox ejus non audiebatur; et exaudivit eam Deus (I Reg. I, 13). Item legimus in Psalmis: Dicite in cordibus et in stratis vestris, et transpungimini (Psal. IV, 5). Per Hieremiam quoque haec eadem Spiritus sanctus suggerit et docet dicens: In sensu autem tibi debet adorari Deus (Baruch, 0522C VI, 5).