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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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For answer to this we will give you this one rule, (and that is as far as we can go) that those prayers that are made by the assistance of 1Gods holy spirit, it is certain, they are always heard. If you find, that at any time, you need make no question, but that God hears it, and will do the thing, observing the Cautions, that we have gives you before, that is, for the ⟨p. 101⟩means, the manner, the time, and the measure: for it cannot be, but that, when the heart is enlarged by Gods own spirit, that the prayer is an expression of holy desires, the Lord always hears: that place is clear for it, Rom. 8. 27. that he 2knows the meaning of the spirit, that is, he so knows it, that he hearkeneth to it, that he always accepts of it; and therefore, when you come in such a case, at any time, that your hearts are enlarged in a special manner: Mark, I say, when your hearts are enlarged in a special manner, and that, with holy desires, certainly, then God means to grant our requests: he would not send his spirit to be an intercessor in your hearts, if he did not mean to do it: for, in that case, he withholds his spirit, he gives us not that enlargement of heart: only this distinction must be carefully remembered; you may be sometime very earnest, (the Parent may be very earnest 3for his child, as David was for his, And Moses, for ought we see, was earnest to have gone into the land of Canaan, they were things that they desired) and yet that may be an expression of natural desires.
For answere to this we will giue you this one rule, (and that is as farre as wee can goe) that those prayers that are made by the •ssistance of 1Gods holy spirit, it is certaine, they are alwayes heard. If you finde, that at any time, you neede make no question, but that God heares it, and will doe the thing, observing the Cautions, that we haue gives you •ofore, that is, for the