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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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A little wealth may serve, as well as great revenues: as in Psal. 38. 16. A little that the righteous hath is as much as great revenues to the wicked; because a little, when God shall fill it with his blessings, it shall serve the turn as well; but, if a man hath great revenues, and God blows upon them, and leaves an emptiness in them; if a man have great revenues, if he have great outward comforts, yet, if there be an emptiness, if there be a vanity in them, if they be as the husk, without the grain, as the shell, without the kernel, as they are often; though there be a great bulk, and they seem very fit to comfort us, yet ⟨p. 67⟩they will do us little good; whereas a little, on the other side, will do much good: for in this case it is as it was with Manna, those that had little, yet they had sufficient, and those that gathered over, yet they had never a whit •he more, that is, for their use and comfort; you know, the little, that Daniel had, it nourished, and strengthened him, as much as the great portion of the Kings meat, that others had; and therefore a little, in this kind, may serve as well as much.
A little wealth may serue, as well as great revenues: as in Psal. 38. 16. A little that the righteous hath is as much as great revenues to the wicked; because a little, when God shall fill it with his blessings, it shall serue the turne as well; but, if a man hath great revenues, and God blowes vpon them, and leaues an emptinesse in them; if a man haue great revenues, if he haue great outward comforts, yet, if there be an emptinesse, if there be a vanity in them, if they be as the husk, without the graine, as the shell, without the kernell, as they are often; though there be a great bulke, and they seeme very fit to comfort vs, yet ⟨p. 67⟩they will doe vs little good; whereas a little, on the other side, will doe much good: for in this case it is as it was with Manna, those that had little, yet they had sufficient, and those that gathered over, yet they had never a whit •he more, that is, for their vse and comfort; you know, the little, that Daniel had, it nourished, and strengthened him, as much as the great portion of the Kings meat, that others had; and therefore a little, in this kinde, may serue as well as much.