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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE FIFTH SERMON.
1. TH•S. 5. 17. Pray continually.
THE next condition required in 1prayer is fervency; you know the place, the prayer of the righteous prevails much, if it be fervent. The Lord requires this qualification in prayer; because it puts the heart into a holy, and spiritual disposition: for it is not simply the making of the request, that God looks for at our hands, but such a working upon our hearts by prayer, such a bringing of them to a good frame of grace, by that duty, that thereby we are more fitted to receive the mercy, ⟨p. 116⟩that before we were not. When a man is fervent in prayer, it sets all the wheels of the soul the right way, it puts the heart into a holy, and spiritual disposition, and temper; so that the Lord sees it now fit to bestow mercy upon such a man that before was unfit, by reason of his untowardness, and stubbornness of heart, by reason of that unclean and unholy disposition, that he saw in him. And therefore he will have prayer fervent, not so much, because the very fervency of prayer it self i• respected, but because, by virtue of tha• fervency, the […] is made better: when a man comes to God with a request, like the request of the patient to the physician; it may be the physician denies long, when the patient a es