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Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant…Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant…
Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant and lively description of spiritual death and life. III. The doctrine of self-denial. IV. Upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, John Preston, Doctor of Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty; master of Emanuel College, and sometime preacher of Lincolns Inn.Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant and lively description of spirituall death and life. III. The doctrine of selfe-deniall. IV. Vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Doctor of Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie; master of Emanuel Colledge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Thomas for Michael Sparke, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly,1 the other Condition you shall hear in the Text, it must be according to his will; you must not think, whatsoever you ask, if you ask it loosely at Gods hands, that it shall presently ⟨p. 326⟩be granted you: No (saith he) it must be according to his will, if you ask fire from heaven, 2that is not according to his will, and therefore you see, they that ask it, were denied it, with this reason, you know not what you ask. Likewise to •it at his right hand, and at his left in heaven, which was another request of the Disciples,3 he puts them by with this; You understand not what you ask of the Father, and therefore it must be according to his will. And that is the second.
Secondly,1 the other Condition you shal heare in the Text, it must be according to his will; you must not thinke, whatsoever you aske, if you aske it loosely at Gods hands, that it shall presently ⟨p. 326⟩be graunted you: No (saith he) it must be according to his will, if you aske fire from heaven, 2that is not according to his will, and therefore you see, they that aske it, were denyed it, with this reason, you know not what you aske. Likewise to •it at his right hand, and at his left in heaven, which was another request of the Disciples,3 he puts them by with this; You understand not what you aske of the Father, and therefore it must be according to his will. And that is the second.
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