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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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First, a man is said then to be fervent, when 1he puts all his strength to prayer, when he is very earnest, and importunate with the Lord, when he strives, and contends with him, though he find many difficulties, and impediments, yet he breaks through all, this is to be fervent in prayer, to be Importunate with the Lord. For example, when a man comes to pray, and finds many discouragements, and finds himself guilty of many sins, and finds little holiness, he hath but feeble faith to his own sense, he finds much deadness of spirit, yet he continues instant notwithstanding, and when likewise he doth, not only find these impediments in himself, but he finds the Lord exceeding backward to the thing, either giving no answer, turning the deaf ear to him, or, it may be, giving a contrary answer, as to the woman of Canaan.
First, a man is said then to bee servent, when 1he puts all his strength to prayer, when he is very earnest, and importunate with the Lord, when he strives, and contends with him, though hee finde many difficulties, and impediments, yet he breakes through all, this is to be fervent in prayer, to be Importunate with the Lord. For example, when a man comes to pray, and findes many discouragements, and findes himselfe guilty of many sinnes, and findes little holinesse, he hath but feeble faith to his owne sense, hee findes much deadnesse of spirit, yet hee continues instant notwithstanding, and when likewise hee doth, not onely finde these impediments in himselfe, but he findes the Lord exceeding backward to the thing, either giving no answere, turning the deafe eare to him, or, it may be, giving a contrary answer, as to the woman of Canaan.
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As for example, when a man comes to pray for 1health, it may be, his sickness increaseth upon him more: when he praye to overcome such a lust or temptation, it may be, it is doubled upon him; when he prays for such a deliverance, it may be, the oppression grows more, and more, as it was upon the Israelites, when they sought for deliverance, the oppression grew greater: