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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 again, a man may have but a little grace, and yet that little grace may be so ordered, and husbanded, and improved, that that little grace may keep him from sin, more then the other: this must be warily understood, not but that 1great grace enables a man to do greater works, then the other; it enables a man, in the ordinary course, to resist greater temptations, more then less grace, but yet, (I say for our comfort, that) though a man have but a little strength, yet, a• it is said there in the same place, Rev. 3. in that 2little strength, I have set a door open to thee, it opened the door of heaven wide enough, so that no man could shut it.
And againe, a man may haue but a little grace, and yet that little grace may bee so ordered, and husbanded, and improved, that that little grace may keepe him from sinne, more then the other: this must bee warily vnderstood, not but that 1great grace enables a man to doe greater workes, then the other; it enables a man, in the ordinary course, to resist greater temptations, more then lesse grace, but yet, (I say for our comfort, that) though a man haue but a little strength, yet, a• it is said there in the same place, Rev. 3. in that 2little strength, I haue set a doore open to thee, it opened the doore of heaven wide enough, so that no man could shut it.
- 1Note in what sense this is to be taken.
- 2Rev: 3.