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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, I answer, it is not a tie, and a restraint of the spirit, because there is a tie of 1words; for the largeness of the heart stands not so muc• in the multitude and variety of expressions, as in the extent of the affection: now then the heart may be very large, for all that; though he be tied in words, yet there is not a tie upon the affection, that may be extended more, in putting up the same petition, when another mans is more straitened; therefore there i• no tie, and limit upon that. And this is enough to satisfy that, that a set for me of prayer must be used.
Aga•ne, I answere, it is not a tye, and a restraint of the spirit, because there is a tye of 1words; for the largenesse of the heart stands not so muc• in the multitude and variety of expressions, as in the extent of the affection: now then the heart may be very large, for all that; though he be tyed in words, yet there is not a tye vpon the affection, that may be extended more, in putting vp the same petition, when another mans is more streightened; therefore there i• no tye, and limit vpon that. And this is enough to satisfie that, that a set for me of prayer must be vsed.
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But now, if you ask; whether that be sufficient? whether a man may think, if he have 1been present at public prayer, (which is a commendable thing to use it constantly) I say, whether that be sufficient?