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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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To this I answer, you shall find, that i• Scriptures, 1the prayers of Saints have been sometimes larger, and sometimes shorter. Our Saviour Christ, you know, sometimes spent a whole ⟨p. 89⟩night in prayer; Surely he did not take so much time always, and, no doubt, we have liberty sometimes to be larger, sometimes shorter, according as our occasions will permit. But yet this you must remember, that though the business 2be great, yet that business, that concerns the salvation of ou• souls, and the worship of God, is greater: And therefore, except it be a true strait, this is still to be preferred; for it is a business of greater moment; and therefore you must give a just weight to your business, and not to suffer every small business that▪ comes in to thrust out this duty: for here you keep not the due proportion, but neglect the greater, and take the less.
To this I answer, you shall find, that i• Scriptures, 1the prayers of Saints haue beene sometimes larger, and sometimes shorter. Our Saviour Christ, you know, sometimes spent a whole ⟨p. 89⟩night in prayer; Surely he did not take so much time alwayes, and, no doubt, wee haue libertie sometimes to be larger, sometimes shorter, according as our occasions will permit. But yet this you must remember, that though the businesse 2be great, yet that businesse, that concernes the salvation of ou• soules, and the worship of God, is greater: And therefore, except it bee a true strait, this is still to be preferred; for it is a businesse of greater moment; and therefore you must giue a iust weight to your businesse, and not to suffer every small businesse that comes in to thrust out this dutie: for here you keepe not the due proportion, but neglect the greater, and take the lesse.