A01981:1462
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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§. 101. Of Saints earnestness in pressing their interest in God.
§. 101. Of Saints earnestnesse in pressing their interest in God.
III. *Confidence in the interest which Saints have in God, maketh them earnest in pressing it. It maketh them again and again to press the same thing, which is an undoubted evidence of great ardency. Did not the fire of a zealous spirit even flame out of the mouth of him that doth thus redouble a like relation before God, aDoubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer. The like is manifested by the multiplication of several words to the same sense, thus, bBehold and visit this vine: and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted: and the branch which thou madest strong for thy self. Vine, vineyard, branch, import one and the same thing.
III. *COnfidence in the interest which Saints have in God, maketh them earnest in pressing it. It maketh them againe and againe to presse the same thing, which is an undoubted evidence of great ardency. Did not the fire of a zealous spirit even flame out of the mouth of him that doth thus redouble a like relation before God, aDoubtlesse thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer. The like is manifested by the multiplication of severall words to the same sense, thus, b