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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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Again, consider this, that a particular offence doth not offend so much, as if we grow strangers 1to God: as if we grow to a general rebellion against him. As, put the case, a child commits a great offence against his father, yet, if he run 2away from his fathers house, and grow a stranger to him, that is more then the particular offence: for a general rebellion must needs be more then the particular, and to give over calling upon God, to break off that course, to grow a stranger to him, to run away from his house, and (as it were) to be ready to give over all his ordinances, & a constant course of obedience to him, this is a general rebellion, & is worse then the particular; yea such carriage, after sin committed, moves God to anger more then the sin it self; as, many times, the contemptuous, negligent, rebellious carriage, after an offence, moves a master, a husband, or a parent more, then the particular failing though it were exceeding great.
Againe, consider this, that a particular offence doth not offend so much, as if we grow strangers 1to God: as if we grow to a generall rebellion against him. As, put the case, a childe commits a great offence against his father, yet, if hee runne 2away from his fathers house, and grow a stranger to him, that is more then the particular offence: for a generall rebellion must needs be more then the particular, and to giue over calling vpon God, to breake off that course, to grow a stranger to him, to runne away from his house, and (as it were) to be ready to giue over all his ordinances, & a constant course of obedience to him, this is a generall rebellion, & is worse then the particular; yea such carriage, after sin committed, moues God to anger more then the sin it selfe; as, many times, the contemptuous, negligent, rebellious carriage, after an offence, moues a mast•r, a husband, or a parent more, then the particular failing though it were exceeding great.
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