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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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Now the Lord requires faith; partly, for his 1own sake, he would not otherwise be acknowledged, if you did not trust him, when you come to seek him, if you did not rest upon him. Besides, 2he should loose his glory: for in this we glorify him, when we trust him, and we dishonour him, when we distrust him; when we come, and seek to him, and do not rest upon him, we dishonour him.
Now the Lord requires faith; partly, for his 1owne sake, he would not otherwise be acknow ledged, if you did not trust him, when you come to seeke him, if you did not rest vpon him. Besides, 2he should loose his glorie: for in this wee glorifie him, when we trust him, and wee dishonour him, when we distrust him; when we come, and seeke to him, and doe not rest vpon him, we dishonour him.
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Besides in regard of us he requires saith, and will not hear us without it; because, as it is, 1James 1. 6. in the same place, where faith is required, 2there is good reason why it is required; for, saith the Apostle there, he that believes not, or be that wavers, he is like the wave of the Sea: that is, sometimes in his prayer, he is very earnest as a wave that swells high, sometimes again, he will be nothing at all; yea, saith the Apostle, he is not only uneven in the business in prayer, sometimes earnest and forward, and sometimes giving over again, off and on, but such a man is unstable in all his ways; for he that trusts in God, will be careful, not only in prayer, but to keep all his ways right, but he that trusts him not, wavers in every thing; he is (it may be) diligent in prayer, he will look to his ways for a time, but he rests not upon God, he rests upon other things; He is like a wave, he is not constant, and therefore faith is required Now, when I say, faith is required, know this, that there is a double faith required in our prayers to God.