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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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And lastly, he defers that he might set a higher 1price upon his blessings, that he might enhance the price of them; as the fisher draws 2away the bait, that the fish might follow it the more; so God withholds blessings, that we might have a greater edge set upon our desires, that we might pray harder for them, that we might prize them more, when we have obtained them.
And lastly, he deferrs that he might set a higher 1price vpon his blessings, that hee might inhaunce the price of them; as the fisher drawes 2away the bait, that the fish might follow it the more; so God withholds blessings, that we might haue a greater edge set vpon our desires, that we might pray harder for them, that we might prize them more, when wee haue obtained them.
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Now, as he doth thus for the time, and as we are often deceived in the time, in taking delays for denials; so likewise we are often deceived 1in the measure; many times God grants the things that we would have, but, because we ⟨p. 66⟩have not so large a measure as we expect; therefore we think we have not it at all, and that the Lord hath denied us our prayers, when indeed he hath not: for a lesser measure, many times, may serve as well as a greater; as God saith to Paul, my grace is sufficient for thee; though the temptation do abide upon us, if there be sufficient grace to keep us in a continual conflict, and war against it, if there be sufficient grace to obtain pardon, to uphold, and to comfort us in it, it is sufficient, it may bring us to heaven, we have a deliverance from it, even when we seem not to be delivered; though we have not so full a victory, as we would have, yet that grace may be sufficient.