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A grain of mustard-seed or, the least measure of grace that is or can…A graine of musterd-seede or, the least measure of grace that is or can…
A grain of mustard-seed or, the least measure of grace that is or can be effectual to salvation. Corrected and amended by W. Perkins.A graine of musterd-seede or, the least measure of grace that is or can be effectuall to saluation. Corrected and amended by W. Perkins.
London: printed by John Legate, 1611London: printed by Iohn Legate, 1611
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IV. Conclusion.
To see and feel in our selves the want of any grace pertaining to salvation, and to be grieved therefore, is the grace it self.
To see and feele in our selues the want of any grace pertaining to saluation, and to be grieued therefore, is the grace it selfe.
The Exposition.
Understand this conclusion as the former, namely that grief of the hart for the want of any grace necessary to salvation, is as much with god as the grace it self. When being in distress, we cannot pray as we ought God accepts the very groans, sobs, and sighs of the perplexed ⟨p. 43⟩heart, as the prayer it self. Rom. 8. 26. When we are grieved, because we cannot be grieved for our sins, it is a degree & measure of godly sorrow before God.1 Augustine saith well: Sometimes our prayer is lukewarm, or rather cold and almost no prayer: nay sometime it is altogether no prayer at all, and yet we cannot with grief perceive this in our selves: for if we can but grieve because we cannot pray, we now pray indeed. Hierom saith,