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The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in…The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in…
The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in five sermons upon I Thess. 5.17. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, Master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in fiue sermons vpon I Thess. 5.17. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by W. Jones, 1629London: printed by W. Iones, 1629
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But again. Thirdly, it will be objected, I 1but, al•s, what can the endeavours or the pray e•s of a weak man do? can they change the purpose of Almighty God, if he do not intend •o do this thing for •oe, shall I hope to alter him?
But againe. Thirdlie, it will bee obiected, I 1but, al•s, what can the endeavours or the prai e•s of a weake man doe? can they change the purpose of Almightie God, if he doe not intend •o doe this thing for •oe, shall I hope to alter him?
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For answer to this, I say this, in being •e, 1that when you do call upon God, he is not changed by your prayers, but the change is wrought in you, as we have said to you heretofore, 2when a Physiti• is sought unto by his patient, the patient desires him earnestly to give him such a cordial, and such […] Physic, that is pleasing to him; the Physician denies him long, yet in the end, he yields unto it. Why? not because there is any change in the Physician, but because there is a change in the patient, he is now fitted for this, before he was not: so then the Physician yields now, whereas before he refused, and yet the change is in the patient, and not in the physician, and therefore, beloved, when […] about to strive with God in prayer, when you contend, and wrestle with him (for so we ought to do) when you use many reasons to persuade him, you alter not him, but your selves […] those arguments that you use, are not so much to persuade him to be e