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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.
1Put the case you have, yet Christ adds this for your comfort; If (saith he) the Father will not do it for your sake, yet doubt you not, if you ask in my name, he will do it; do we not see it usual among men, That one that is a mere stranger to another, if he get a letter from a friend, he thinks to prevail; and he doth so, because though it be not done for his sake (it may be he is a stranger, one that deserved nothing at his hands) yet such a friend may deserve much: And when we go to God in the name of Christ, this answers all the objections whatsoever you can say against your selves, it is all satisfied in this: I go in his name, I am sure he hath ⟨p. 335⟩supply, I am sure he is no stranger, I know he hath deserved it, &c. Last of all, as he loves us, and because we ask in the name of Christ, is ready to hear us: we will add this, that he is ready to hear us for his own sake, he is a God hearing prayer, saith the Psalmist, 2that all flesh might come to him, even for this cause he hears, that men may be encouraged to come and seek to him; for if the Lord should not hear, then no flesh would come unto him; that is, men would have no encouragement, no help; therefore he saith, he is a God hearing prayer, doubt ye not, he will do it for this purpose, that he might have men to worship him, that men might come and seek unto him. Besides that, he shall be glorified, Thou shalt call upon me in the day of trouble, I will hear thee, and thou shalt glorify me;3 now the Lord is desirous of glory; it was the end for which he made the world. But in not hearing our prayer, he loseth this glory; by hearing our requests, the more we are heard, the more glory and praise we render unto him. Like wise he doth it for the Spectators sake; Moses often presenteth that Reason, Lord do it, What will the Heathen say? 4and lest thy name be polluted among them, they will say thou hast brought out a people, and wast not able to deliver them. So David often, there are many instances in that; I say, for the lookers on sake he is ready to do it. All this is enough to persuade our hearts, that he is ready to hear us, that when prayers are made