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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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That in stinted prayer the spirit is straitened, 1when a man is tied to a form, then he shall have his spirit, as it were, bounden, and limited, that he cannot go beyond that, which is prescribed; and therefore, say they, it is reason a man should be left to more liberty, (as he is in conceived prayers) and not tied to a strict form?
That in stinted prayer the spirit is streightned, 1when a man is tyed to a forme, then he shall haue his spirit, as it were, bounden, and limited, that he cannot goe beyond that, which is prescribed; and therefore, say they, it is reason a man should be left to more libertie, (as he is in conceived prayers) and not tyed to a strict forme?
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To this I answer, even those men, that are against 1this, and that use this reason, they do the same thing daily in the congregation: for when another prays, that is a set form to him, that hears it, I say, it is a form to him: for put that case, that he that is a hearer, that hears another pray, suppose that his spirit be more enlarged, it is a straitening to him, he hath no liberty to go out: he is bound to keep his mind intent upon it; and therefore, if that were a sufficient reason, that a man might not use a set form, because the spirit is straitened, a man should not hear another pray, (though it be a conceived prayer) because, in that case, his spirit is limited, it may be, the hearer hath a larger heart, a great deal, then he that speaks and prays; so that there is a bounding, and straitening, and a limiting of the spirit. And therefore that reason cannot be good.
To this I answere, even those men, that are against