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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 I answer again (which is the chief answer 1to this objection) that there is a great deal of difference between having blessings, through the providence of God, and between having 2them from the mercy of God, and by virtue of his promise, and out of his love to us in Christ Jesus. A natural man may have many blessings of God, (so God said that he made Jeroboam a King, he gave him a Kingdom, and many such passages we shall find, when men come unjustly to them, as he did to the Kingdom, yet God, saith he, did it, that is, it was by his providence) and yet he hath them not in mercy: for if thou hast these blessings, health, and sleep, and success in the enterprises, from day to day, and yet thy hart tells thee within, that thou hast not sought them at the Lords hands, as thou oughtest, I say to such a man (and mark it) it were better for him that he should want them: for certainly, when he hath them, in this manner, he hath them without a blessing; yea he hath them with a curse, and so were better be without them; as it had been better for Ab•b to have been without his vineyard, and as it had been better for […] to have gone without his reward, that he had of N•• man ⟨p. 48⟩the […] (for you know he had the leprosy with it) it had been better for the children of Israel to have gone without their […]: for you know the curse that followed, death wet along with them; so when a man shall have peace and prosperity, and abundance of all things, without seeking them at the Lords hand•, from day to day, I say, he were better to have wanted them: for there goes death together with them. It is said plainly, that case […] the […] (that is to say) this very prosperity, this •riving (notwithstanding a neglecting of prayer, and of holy duties) I say, it carries death along with it, as the obtaining of the vineyard, brought death to Ahab, the getting of the Kingdom was the destruction of Jeroboam; and therefore men have little cause to comfort themselves with this, that they enjoy many blessings, and never pray for them.