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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, to answer this point more fully, I say many blessings are bestowed upon men, not for 1their own sakes, but for the Churches sake. A man may have strength of body, he may have great gifts of mind, he may have great success i• using those gifts, he may bring great enterprises to pass, so that you may truly say, the hand of God is with him, all this may be done not for his sake, but for the sake of the Church, and glory of God some other way, that he might do some service; as you see, it is plain lie said of Cyrus, Isa. 45. 4. speaking there of Cyrus, saith the 2Lord there, For […] my servants sake, and for Israel ⟨p. 49⟩mine elect sake I have called thee by name, and have give […] thee this great power, and all this great success although then thy self have not known me. (Mark) Cyrus was a most prosperous man, Gods hand was mighty with him, and yet all this was not for his own sake, but for the Churches sake: so you may think it is, when men prosper, many times, it is not for their own sakes, but to fulfil some other end of Gods providence, and therefore, mark this and keep it for a rule, if thou 3prosper in thy enterprises, if thou enjoy wealth, and peace & abundance of all things, and know that thou doest not seek to God, from day to day, that thou keepest not thy heart right and strait, and perfect before him, thou doest not call upon him, in a holy, and spiritual manner, certainly it is for one of those causes, thou hast it without a blessing, and with a curse, thou hast it for other ends, and not for good to thy self; and therefore thou hast it very uncertainly, it may be took from thee, thou knowest not how soon; yea, and this thou shalt be sure of, that it shall be taken from thee then, when, of all other times, it will be unfittest for thee: as a thief comes at a time when men least look for him; so destruction comes suddenly upon these men; God cuts them as a man, when he would have trees to die, he 4lops them in that season, that of all others is the unfittest, when the sap is in the tree, when the lopping will cause them to wither, so the Lord vvill strike them in such a season. It is quite contrary with the Saints, he cuts them in due