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A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount
A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his executors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one, of special points here handled; the other, of choice places of Scripture here quotedA godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his exequutors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one, of speciall points here handled; the other, of choise places of Scripture here quoted
Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1608Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1608
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Duties in prayer are especially five. 11. We must labour to have a2 true sense and feeling of our wants, of our sins and corruptions, and be inwardly touched in conscience for the same; for as the beggar sits still at home, and never goes to beg relief, till he feel himself pinched with hunger and want, so it is with us, till we feel our own wants and miseries by reason of our sins, we can never put up an earnest and hearty prayer to God. 32. We must have an inward fervent and unfeigned desire toward God, for the supply of all our wants and miseries; this is a special thing in prayer, which maketh it not only to be a petition of the lips, but a true request of the heart. This the Prophet David expressed, when he said to God, eMy soul desireth after thee, as the thirsty land doth after rain: and Hanna also, when she told Ely fthat she poured out her soul as water before the Lord. 63. Every petition must be made in obedience, that is, we must have a commandment enjoining us to ask the thing we pray for, and a promise to assure us that it shall be granted unto us: and yet here this special caveat must be remembered, that we leave both the time, and the manner of accomplishing our requests, to the good pleasure and wisdom of God. 74. Every petition must be presented to God in the gname and mediation of Christ: for in our selves we are sinners, & hour iniquities make a separation between God and us; so that we cannot have access unto the father, save only by the mediation of Jesus Christ. If we would come with boldness into the holy place, it must be by the new and living way, which Christ hath prepared for us, through the veil, that is, his flesh.