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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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Or secondly, when we our selves be the cause 1of it by admitting of loose thoughts, by suffering our selves to be worldly minded, by suffering an indisposition to grow upon us, and not labouring to resist it, and cast it off again. You know, when an instrument is out of tune, if the lesson 2be never so good, that is played upon it, yet it is unpleasant because the instrument is out of tune; and whose fault is that? so, when thou comest to God, and sufferest thy heart to be distempered before and doest not look to keep it in order; that i• thy sinno, as well as thy profanes, ⟨p. 74⟩and neglect in the very time of the performance: and, by this you may […], how to judge of wandering thoughts in the performance of this duty, and likewise you may see how to prevent 3them: the way to prevent them, is to keep our hearts in tune before, to have them ready, as, the wise man hath his heart at his right hand, that is, he hath it ready when he hath it to use. When a 4man is to use his horse, he doth not suffer him to run up and down in the pastures wildly, but will have him under bridle; so we should keep our hearts in frame, that they may be ready to do us service in such a holy duty, when we have need of them.
Or secondly, when we our selues be the cause 1of it by admitting of loose thoughts, by suffering our selues to be worldly minded, by suffering an indisposition to grow vpon vs, and not labouring to resist it, and cast it off againe. You know, when an instrument is out of tune, if the lesson 2be never so good, that is played vpon it, yet it is vnpleasant because the instrument is out of tune; and whose fault is that? so, when thou commest to God, and sufferest thy heart to be distempered before and doest not looke to keepe it in order; that i thy sinno, as well as thy profanes,