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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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It is all one, whether the Lord keep an enemy from doing us hurt, […] •at he gives us a strong helmet, a buckler, to keep off the injury from wounding of us• I might give you more ⟨p. 56⟩instances, though the Lord give thee not the thing in the very manner that thou wouldest have it, yet he vvill do it in another manner.
It is all one, whether the Lord keepe an enemie from doing vs hurt, 〈…〉 •at hee giues vs a strong helmet, a buckler, to keepe off the iniury from wounding of vs• I might giue you more ⟨p. 56⟩instances, though the Lord give thee not the thing in the verie manner that thou vvouldest haue it, yet hee vvill doe it in another manner.
Secondly, as we are deceived in the manner, 1so we are deceived in the means oft-times, in seeking to God. When a man prays, he pitcheth upon such a particular means, and thinks verily that this is the, way, or none; it may be, the Lord will find out another way, that thou diddest never dream of; Paul prayed to have a prosperous journey to Rome, he little thought, that when he was bound at Jerusalem, and posted up and down from one prison to another, God was now sending him to Rome, yet he sent him, and sent him very safe with a great company attending upon him, he sent him it may be in a better manner then he himself would have gone, and yet it was by such a means, as he could never dream of; also you know, […] the A• rian, he had pitched upon a particular means, he thought the Prophet would have surely, come forth and have laid his hands upon him, but to go and wash in […], he thought his labour all lost, and the request which he made to the Prophet to no purpose; for it was a thing that he never thought of, it was a weak and poor means that he made no account of, yet that was the means that God ded: so I say, we ot deceive our selves, itch upon such particular ways, and when these fail us, and when we have prayed, that these means might be used,