A01981:1237
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
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Section 87: §. 87. Of joining prayer with praise.Section 87: §. 87. Of joyning prayer with praise.
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§. 87. Of joining prayer with praise.
§. 87. Of joyning prayer with praise.
III. *With gratulation, invocation must be joined. As with our petitions we must join praises: so, with these, those. Prayer and praise are like two twins, which though they have each of them their several and distinct members, yet by the navel are from their birth knit together, and so grow together, as if you force them asunder, you kill them both: one without the other cannot live. They are therefore in sacred Scripture ⟨p. 178⟩oft joined together: sometimes one, sometimes another set in the former place, thus, aIn every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God. bPray without ceasing: in every thing give thanks. cGive thanks unto the Lord: call upon his name. dPraise the Lord: call upon his name. Observe the forms of praises, and of prayers noted in Scripture, and you shall find, where the principal occasion hath been gratulation, supplication to be added: and also where the principal occasion hath been supplication, gratulation to be added.