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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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If you take a skilful workman, and say no more to him but thus: Sir, I pray you, do me such a thing, if it were the bringing of water, or the setting up of a building, it may be, he will go away to work, that thou knowest not what it means, and yet thou wilt trust him: why then wilt thou not trust God, and suffer him to go his own way? and, when thou art crossed in that thing, wherein, it may be, of all others, thou wouldest not be crossed, it may be, it is the best way of all other to bring the thing to pass, that thou desirest.
If you take a skilfull workeman, and say no more to him but thus: Sir, I pray you, doe mee such a thing, if it were the bringing of water, or the setting vp of a building, it may bee, hee will goe away to worke, that thou knowest not what it meanes, and yet thou wilt trust him: why then wilt thou not trust God, and suffer him to goe his owne way? and, when thou art crossed in that thing, wherein, it may be, of all others, thou wouldest not bee crossed, it may bee, it is the best way of all other to bring the thing to passe, that thou desirest.
Again, as we are deceived in the manner, 1and the means, so likewise we mistake the time: it may be the Lord is willing to do the thing, but not in that time, that thou wouldest have him: when a man prays to be delivered from such a trouble, and such a distress, and affliction, he thinks the time very long, ⟨p. 60⟩and saith, he• is not heard, because he is not delivered presently; we would all have the smarting plaster presently took off: but the Lord is wiser then we, (as the physician knows 2what belongs to the patient better then himself,) though he do it not presently, yet he will do it: therefore say not, thou art not heard, thou must take heed of taking delays for denials; the Lord will defer to do the thing, yet he will do it, and do it in the best season: for this is a general rule, Gods time is the best time. When thou comest to pray for