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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sometimes, for the trial of our faith; as, we see, he deferred to grant to the woman of Canaan, 1although he did mean to grant her request, yet he deferred long, that he might put her to the trial; and, you see, she was no looser by it, but when she held out in her prayers, she had her request granted to the full.
Sometimes, for the tryall of our faith; as, wee see, he deferred to grant to the woman of Canaan, 1although he did meane to grant her request, yet he deferred long, that hee might put her to the triall; and, you see, shee was no looser by it, but when she held out in her prayers, she had her request granted to the full.
- 1Four Reasons of Gods deserring to grant our requests.Foure Reasons of Gods deserring to grant our requests.
Sometimes, he defers to grant it, that we 1may be more humbled: as you know, Paul prayed ⟨p. 65⟩earnestly, but God told him, that he would defer him, because he needed more humility: so he deferred to grant the request, that the men of Benjamin put up to him, when the cause was just, and God intended to help them, yet they fell before their enemies twice, though they fa•ed, and prayed, his end was, as we see in the text, that they might be more humbled, that their hearts might be more broken, that they might be more fitted to receive it.
Sometimes, he deferres to grant it, that wee 1